| Clare Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Constituency |
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| Created | 1921 |
| TDs | 4 |
| Counties | County Clare |
| EP constituency | North–West |
Clare is a parliamentary constituency in County Clare, Ireland. It is represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas and at currently elects 4 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known in English as TDs). The method of election is the Single Transferable Vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).
The constituency's boundaries have varied widely since its formation in 1921, but the boundaries in use for the 2007 general election span almost the entire area of the county, taking in Ennis, Shannon, Kilrush, Newmarket-on-Fergus and Ennistymon. A small part of the south-east of the county around Ballyglass is in the Limerick East constituency[1]
Clare is historically a Fianna Fáil stronghold. The party founder, former Taoiseach and former President Eamon de Valera served the constituency for many decades. His granddaughter recently retired as TD for the area. Other notable former deputies include the former President Patrick Hillery, the long-serving Ceann Comhairle (chair of the Dáil) Patrick Hogan, the former Cabinet Minister Brendan Daly, and Moosajee Bhamjee who was the first muslim member of the Oireachtas.
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Note: The columns in this table are used only for presentational purposes, and no significance should be attached to the order of columns. For details of the order in which seats were won at each election, see the detailed results of that election.
Election results
2007 general election
| 2007 General Election: Clare[10] | ||||||
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| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
| Fianna Fáil | Timmy Dooley | 10,791 | 19.1% | 1 | 4 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Tony Killeen | 8,321 | 14.8% | 2 | 7 | |
| Fine Gael | Pat Breen | 7,036 | 12.5% | 3 | 8 | |
| Fine Gael | Joe Carey | 5,818 | 10.3% | 4 | 9 | |
| Independent | James Breen | 5,218 | 9.3% | Not Elected | (9) | |
| Fianna Fáil | Brendan Daly | 5,712 | 10.1% | Excluded | (6) | |
| Fine Gael | Madeleine Taylor-Quinn | 3,592 | 6.4% | Excluded | (5) | |
| Fine Gael | Tony Mulcahy | 3,408 | 6.0% | Excluded | (4) | |
| Green Party | Brian Meaney | 2,858 | 5.1% | Excluded | (3) | |
| Sinn Féin | Anna Prior | 1,929 | 3.4% | Excluded | (2) | |
| Labour Party | Pascal Fitzgerald | 892 | 1.6% | Excluded | (1) | |
| Progressive Democrats | Murt Collins | 810 | 1.4% | Excluded | (1) | |
2002 general election
| 2002 General Election: Clare[9] | ||||||
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| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
| Independent | James Breen | 9,721 | 19.52 | 1 | 2 | |
| Fine Gael | Pat Breen | 4,541 | 9.12 | 2 | 5 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Tony Killeen | 8,130 | 16.32 | 3 | 5 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Síle de Valera | 7,755 | 15.57 | 4 | 5 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Brendan Daly | 6,717 | 13.49 | |||
| Fine Gael | Madeleine Taylor-Quinn | 4,124 | 8.28 | |||
| Fine Gael | Donal Carey | 4,015 | 8.06 | |||
| Green Party | Brian Meaney | 2,903 | 5.83 | |||
| Labour Party | Michael Corley | 1,720 | 3.45 | |||
| Christian Solidarity | Derek Whelan | 176 | 0.35 | |||
February 1982 general election
| 23rd Irish General Election – 18 February 1982 | ||||||||
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| Candidate | Party | Count 1 | Count 2 | Count 3 | Count 4 | Count 5 | Count 6 | |
| Brendan Daly | Fianna Fáil | 9819 | ||||||
| William Loughnane | Fianna Fáil | 8840 | 8840 | 8840 | 8840 | 8840 | 8840 | |
| Donal Carey | Fine Gael | 7570 | 7635 | 7660 | 7680 | 7855 | 8778 | |
| Sylvester Barrett | Fianna Fáil | 7216 | 8078 | 8111 | 8031 | 8511 | 8855 | |
| Madeleine Taylor | Fine Gael | 6602 | 6718 | 6729 | 6741 | 6952 | 7662 | |
| Agnes McCarthy | Labour Party | 1957 | 1985 | 2001 | 2048 | 2214 | ||
| Joe O'Connell | Sinn Féin | 1233 | 1255 | 1262 | 1378 | |||
| Brigid Makowski | Irish Republican Socialist Party | 232 | 238 | 243 | ||||
| Frank McTigue | Independent Fianna Fáil | 100 | 106 | |||||
| Electorate=58727, valid=43569, spoiled=347, quota=8714 | ||||||||
References
- ^ "Electoral (Amendment) Act, 2005: Schedule". Irish Statute Book database. http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/2005/en/act/pub/0016/sched.html#sched. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
- ^ Walker, Brian M, ed (1992). Parliamentary election results in Ireland, 1918-92. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0 901714 96 8.
- ^ The 1945 by-election was caused by the death of the Fine Gael TD Patrick Burke
- ^ Hogan was Ceann Comhairle of the Dáil from 1951 to 1967. As the outgoing Ceann Comhairle, Hogan was automatically re-elected at the 1954, 1957, 1961 and 1965 general elections.
- ^ The 1959 by-election was caused by the election of Éamon de Valera as President of Ireland.
- ^ The 1968 by-election was caused by the death of the Fine Gael TD William Murphy.
- ^ "General election 1992: Clare". ElectionsIreland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=1992&cons=42. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
- ^ "General election 1997: Clare". ElectionsIreland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=1997&cons=42. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
- ^ a b "General election 2002: Clare". ElectionsIreland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=2002&cons=42. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
- ^ a b "General election 2007: Clare". ElectionsIreland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=2007&cons=42. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
See also
- Parliamentary constituencies in the Republic of Ireland
- Politics of the Republic of Ireland
- List of political parties in the Republic of Ireland
- List of Irish by-elections
- Elections in the Republic of Ireland
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