| Louth Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Constituency |
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| Louth shown within Ireland | |
| Created | 1923 |
| TDs | 4 |
| Counties | County Louth |
| EP constituency | East |
Louth is a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency has an electorate of 81,952 (2006) and at present is served by 4 Teachtaí Dála (TDs). The constituency boundaries were amended in October 2007 to include an area of County Meath adjacent to the town of Drogheda, and in the next general election 5 TDs will be returned.[1][2] The method of election is the Single Transferable Vote. The constituency spans the entire area of the smallest county in Ireland and a portion of County Meath, taking in Drogheda, Dundalk and Ardee.
Presently, the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Dermot Ahern is one of the most high profile TDs representing the constituency.
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TDs
| Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Louth 1923–[3] | |||||||||
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| Dáil | Election | Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
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| 4th | 1923 | Frank Aiken (SF) |
Peter Hughes (CnaG) |
James Murphy (CnaG) |
3 seats until 1977 |
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| 5th | 1927 (Jun) | Frank Aiken (FF) |
James Coburn (NL) |
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| 6th | 1927 (Sep) | ||||||||
| 7th | 1932 | James Coburn (Ind) |
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| 8th | 1933 | ||||||||
| 9th | 1937 | James Coburn (FG) |
Laurence Walsh (FF) |
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| 10th | 1938 | ||||||||
| 11th | 1943 | Roddy Connolly (Lab) |
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| 12th | 1944 | Laurence Walsh (FF) |
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| 13th | 1948 | Roddy Connolly (Lab) |
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| 14th | 1951 | Laurence Walsh (FF) |
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| 1954 by-election | George Coburn (FG) |
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| 15th | 1954 | Paddy Donegan (FG) |
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| 16th | 1957 | Pádraig Faulkner (FF) |
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| 17th | 1961 | Paddy Donegan (FG) |
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| 18th | 1965 | ||||||||
| 19th | 1969 | ||||||||
| 20th | 1973 | Joseph Farrell (FF) |
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| 21st | 1977 | Eddie Filgate (FF) |
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| 22nd | 1981 | Paddy Agnew (AHB) |
Bernard Markey (FG) |
Pádraig Faulkner (CC) |
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| 23rd | 1982 (Feb) | Thomas Bellew (FF) |
Pádraig Faulkner (FF) |
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| 24th | 1982 (Nov) | Séamus Kirk (FF) |
Brendan McGahon (FG) |
Michael Bell (Lab) |
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| 25th | 1987 | Dermot Ahern (FF) |
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| 26th | 1989 | ||||||||
| 27th | 1992 | ||||||||
| 28th | 1997 | ||||||||
| 29th | 2002 | Fergus O'Dowd (FG) |
Arthur Morgan (SF) |
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| 30th | 2007 | ||||||||
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.
Elections
2007 general election
| 2007 General Election: Louth[4] | ||||||
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| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
| Fianna Fáil | Séamus Kirk | 10,190 | 18.5 | 1 | 5 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Dermot Ahern | 9,982 | 18.1 | 2 | 5 | |
| Fine Gael | Fergus O'Dowd | 8,387 | 15.2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Sinn Féin | Arthur Morgan | 8,274 | 15.0 | 4 | 6 | |
| Fine Gael | Mairead McGuinness | 5,199 | 9.5 | |||
| Green Party | Mark Dearey | 4,172 | 7.6 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Frank Maher | 3,009 | 5.5 | |||
| Labour Party | Gerald Nash | 2,739 | 5.0 | |||
| Fine Gael | Jim D'Arcy | 2,573 | 4.7 | |||
| [[Workers Party (Ireland)| | Peter Short | 193 | 0.4 | |||
| Fathers Rights | Luke Martin | 169 | 0.3 | |||
| Independent | Dermot Duke | 127 | 0.2 | |||
2002 general election
| 2002 General Election: Louth[4] | ||||||
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| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
| Fianna Fáil | Dermot Ahern | 9,603 | 20.16 | 1 | 1 | |
| Fine Gael | Fergus O'Dowd | 5,505 | 11.56 | 2 | 8 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Séamus Kirk | 6,495 | 13.64 | 3 | 8 | |
| Sinn Féin | Arthur Morgan | 7,121 | 14.95 | 4 | 8 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Frank Maher | 4,653 | 9.77 | |||
| Fine Gael | Terry Brennan | 4,130 | 8.67 | |||
| Labour Party | Michael Bell | 3,185 | 6.69 | |||
| Independent | Mary Grehan | 2,384 | 5.01 | |||
| Green Party | Bernadette Martin | 1,979 | 4.16 | |||
| Independent | Martin Bellew | 1,307 | 2.74 | |||
| Independent | Frank Godfrey | 473 | 0.99 | |||
| Independent | Aidan Mahon | 294 | 0.62 | |||
| Independent | Liam Ó Gogain | 239 | 0.50 | |||
| Workers Party | Peter Short | 176 | 0.37 | |||
| Christian Solidarity | Michael Maguire | 79 | 0.17 | |||
February 1982 general election
| 23rd Irish General Election – 18 February 1982[5] | ||||||||
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| Candidate | Party | Count 1 | Count 2 | Count 3 | Count 4 | Count 5 | Count 6 | |
| Pádraig Faulkner | Fianna Fáil | 8083 | 8492 | 9016 | ||||
| Bernard Markey | Fine Gael | 7928 | 8237 | 8543 | 8562 | 10197 | ||
| Thomas Bellew | Fianna Fáil | 6305 | 6427 | 7143 | 7219 | 7961 | 8050 | |
| Edward Filgate | Fianna Fáil | 6109 | 6204 | 6862 | 7055 | 7391 | 7428 | |
| Brendan McGahon | Fine Gael | 5311 | 5406 | 5629 | 5635 | 6001 | 7177 | |
| Francis Browne | Sinn Féin | 3714 | 4117 | |||||
| Michael Bell | Labour Party | 3474 | 4422 | 4928 | 4947 | |||
| Frank Godfrey | Independent | 1662 | ||||||
| Donnchadha Mac Raghnaill | Sinn Féin the Workers Party | 742 | ||||||
| Helen Corcoran | Republican Labour | 183 | ||||||
| Electorate=57075, valid=43511, spoiled=451, quota=8703 | ||||||||
1981 general election
| 22nd Irish General Election – 11 June, 1981[6] | |||||||||
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| Candidate | Party | Count 1 | Count 2 | Count 3 | Count 4 | Count 5 | Count 6 | Count 7 | |
| Pádraig Faulkner | Ceann Comhairle | ||||||||
| Paddy Agnew | Anti H-Block | 8368 | 8846 | 8998 | 9525 | 9841 | 10409 | 10814 | |
| Edward Filgate | Fianna Fáil | 5823 | 5914 | 7235 | 7308 | 7553 | 11076 | 11325 | |
| Thomas Bellew | Fianna Fáil | 5314 | 5413 | 5672 | 5794 | 6059 | |||
| John Connor | Fianna Fáil | 4920 | 5276 | 6047 | 6791 | 6812 | 8190 | 8829 | |
| Bernard Markey | Fine Gael | 4694 | 4810 | 5007 | 5258 | 8316 | 8513 | 13315 | |
| Brendan McGahon | Fine Gael | 4612 | 4723 | 4770 | 4932 | ||||
| Dick Branigan | Fine Gael | 4372 | 4624 | 4687 | 5548 | 6463 | 6651 | ||
| Nicholas McCabe | Fianna Fáil | 2804 | 2887 | ||||||
| Michael Bell | Labour Party | 2515 | 3128 | 3147 | |||||
| Frank Godfrey | Independent | 1210 | |||||||
| Donnchadha Mac Raghnaill | Sinn Féin the Workers Party | 785 | |||||||
| James McArdle | Labour Party | 346 | |||||||
| Electorate=57075, valid=45763, spoiled=514, quota=11441 | |||||||||
As Ceann Comhairle, Faulkner was returned automatically
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
References
- ^ http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/1023/dail.html New Boundaries for Dáil Constituencies
- ^ http://www.constituency-commission.ie/docs%5Ccon2007.pdf Constituency Commission Report 2007
- ^ Walker, Brian M, ed (1992). Parliamentary election results in Ireland, 1918-92. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0 901714 96 8.
- ^ a b "General election 2007: Louth". ElectionsIreland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=2007&cons=167. Retrieved 2009-02-18.
- ^ "General election February 1982: Louth". ElectionsIreland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=1982feb&cons=167. Retrieved 2009-02-18.
- ^ "General election 1981: Louth". ElectionsIreland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=1981&cons=167. Retrieved 2009-02-18.
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