Meath East (Dáil constituency)
| Meath East | |
|---|---|
| Dáil Constituency | |
 Location of Meath East within Ireland | |
| Major settlements | |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 2007 |
| Seats | 3 |
| TDs | |
| County council | Meath County Council |
| EP constituency | Midlands–North-West |
Meath East is a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency elects 3 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs) on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).
History[]
It was established by the Electoral (Amendment) Act 2005[1] when the previous 5-seat Meath constituency was divided into two 3-seat constituencies of Meath East and Meath West. It was first used at the 2007 general election electing members of the 30th Dáil.
Boundaries[]
It spans the eastern portions of County Meath. It includes Nobber, Slane, Dunboyne, Kells and Ashbourne, the constituency's biggest town.[2]
The Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2017 defines the constituency as:[3]
- "In the county of Meath the electoral divisions of:
- Grangegeeth, Killary, in the former Rural District of Ardee No. 2;
- Culmullin, Donaghmore, Dunboyne, Dunshaughlin, Kilbrew, Killeen, Kilmore, Rathfeigh, Ratoath, Rodanstown, Skreen, in the former Rural District of Dunshaughlin;
- Ceanannas Mór Rural, Cruicetown, Maperath, Moynalty, Newcastle, Newtown, Nobber, Staholmog, in the former Rural District of Kells;
- Ardcath, Duleek, Mellifont, Stamullin, in the former Rural District of Meath;
- Ardmulchan, Castletown, Domhnach Phádraig, Kentstown, Painestown, Rathkenny, Slane, Stackallan, Tara, in the former Rural District of Navan;
- and Ceannanas Mór Urban."
TDs[]
| Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Meath East 2007– | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Key to parties
| |||||||
| Dáil | Election | Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) | |||
| 30th | 2007[4] | Thomas Byrne (FF) |
Mary Wallace (FF) |
Shane McEntee (FG) | |||
| 31st | 2011[5] | Dominic Hannigan (Lab) |
Regina Doherty (FG) | ||||
| 2013 by-election[6] | Helen McEntee (FG) | ||||||
| 32nd | 2016[7] | Thomas Byrne (FF) | |||||
| 33rd | 2020[8] | Darren O'Rourke (SF) | |||||
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[]
2020 general election[]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Sinn Féin | Darren O'Rourke | 24.4 | 10,223 | 10,617 | ||||||
| Fine Gael | Helen McEntee | 18.3 | 7,691 | 7,856 | 8,123 | 8,333 | 8,937 | 9,416 | 12,984 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Thomas Byrne | 14.4 | 6,039 | 6,095 | 6,348 | 7,637 | 8,222 | 8,999 | 9,622 | |
| Fine Gael | Regina Doherty | 10.0 | 4,180 | 4,272 | 4,330 | 4,505 | 4,643 | 5,122 | ||
| Green | Seán McCabe | 7.8 | 3,251 | 3,756 | 4,036 | 4,167 | 4,677 | 5,999 | 6,547 | |
| Independent | Joe Bonner | 7.0 | 2,934 | 3,053 | 3,240 | 3,338 | 4,037 | |||
| Independent | Sharon Keogan | 5.9 | 2,475 | 2,570 | 2,939 | 3,024 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Deirdre Geraghty-Smith | 4.6 | 1,941 | 1,977 | 2,047 | |||||
| Aontú | Emer Tóibín | 3.9 | 1,634 | 1,705 | ||||||
| Labour | Annie Hoey | 2.1 | 874 | |||||||
| PBP/Solidarity | Andrew Keegan[n 1] | 1.4 | 569 | |||||||
| Workers' Party | Seamus McDonagh | 0.3 | 134 | |||||||
| Electorate: 66,507 Valid: 41,945 Spoilt: 253 Quota: 10,487 Turnout: 42,198 (63.4%) | ||||||||||
- ^ People Before Profit, Solidarity and RISE contested this election as Solidarity–People Before Profit, so candidates appeared on the ballot under this name. Keegan was a member of People Before Profit.
2016 general election[]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Thomas Byrne | 26.1 | 10,818 | |||||||||
| Fine Gael | Helen McEntee | 18.3 | 7,556 | 7,656 | 7,671 | 7,749 | 7,841 | 7,887 | 8,237 | 8,435 | 9,958 | |
| Fine Gael | Regina Doherty | 16.5 | 6,830 | 6,889 | 6,899 | 6,979 | 7,064 | 7,109 | 7,247 | 7,477 | 9,612 | |
| Sinn Féin | Darren O'Rourke | 14.0 | 5,780 | 5,860 | 5,970 | 6,017 | 6,096 | 6,341 | 6,637 | 7,236 | 8,556 | |
| Independent | Joe Bonner | 6.0 | 2,482 | 2,527 | 2,545 | 2,600 | 2,665 | 2,857 | 3,215 | 3,825 | ||
| Labour | Dominic Hannigan | 5.5 | 2,270 | 2,307 | 2,325 | 2,350 | 2,494 | 2,525 | 2,680 | 3,084 | ||
| Social Democrats | Aisling O'Neill | 4.1 | 1,715 | 1,740 | 1,801 | 1,885 | 2,148 | 2,300 | 2,463 | |||
| Independent | Sharon Keogan | 3.7 | 1,528 | 1,579 | 1,600 | 1,663 | 1,709 | 1,805 | ||||
| Direct Democracy | Ben Gilroy | 1.9 | 794 | 809 | 841 | 876 | 899 | |||||
| Green | Seán Ó Buachalla | 1.9 | 766 | 784 | 801 | 853 | ||||||
| Renua | Sarah Tyrrell | 1.3 | 523 | 554 | 563 | |||||||
| Workers' Party | Seamus McDonagh | 0.8 | 326 | 335 | ||||||||
| Electorate: 65,588 Valid: 41,388 Spoilt: 240 Quota: 10,348 Turnout: 63.5% | ||||||||||||
2013 by-election[]
Following the death of Fine Gael TD Shane McEntee, a by-election was held on 27 March 2013, the seat was won by his daughter Helen McEntee.
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Helen McEntee | 38.5 | 9,356 | 9,547 | 11,473 | |
| Fianna F��il | Thomas Byrne | 32.9 | 8,002 | 8,106 | 9,582 | |
| Sinn Féin | Darren O'Rourke | 13.0 | 3,165 | 3,370 | ||
| Direct Democracy | Ben Gilroy | 6.5 | 1,568 | 1,793 | ||
| Labour | Eoin Holmes | 4.6 | 1,112 | 1,245 | ||
| Green | Seán Ó Buachalla | 1.7 | 423 | |||
| Workers' Party | Seamus McDonagh | 1.1 | 263 | |||
| Independent | Mick Martin | 0.8 | 190 | |||
| Independent | Charlie Keddy | 0.5 | 110 | |||
| Independent | Gerard O'Brien | 0.3 | 73 | |||
| Independent | Jim Tallon | 0.2 | 47 | |||
| Electorate: 64,164 Valid: 24,309 Spoilt: 259 Quota: 12,155 Turnout: 38.3% | ||||||
2011 general election[]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| Labour | Dominic Hannigan | 21.0 | 8,994 | 9,383 | 9,669 | 12,382 | |
| Fine Gael | Shane McEntee | 20.6 | 8,794 | 8,994 | 9,142 | 10,143 | |
| Fine Gael | Regina Doherty | 20.3 | 8,677 | 8,858 | 9,305 | 10,447 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Thomas Byrne | 13.4 | 5,715 | 5,892 | 7,354 | 8,173 | |
| Sinn Féin | Michael Gallagher | 8.9 | 3,795 | 3,958 | 4,025 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Nick Killian | 6.2 | 2,669 | 2,719 | |||
| Independent | Joe Bonner | 5.8 | 2,479 | 2,866 | 3,074 | ||
| New Vision | Sharon Keogan | 2.7 | 1,168 | ||||
| Green | Seán Ó Buachalla | 1.1 | 461 | ||||
| Electorate: 64,873 Valid: 42,752 Spoilt: 346 (0.8%) Quota: 10,689 Turnout: 43,098 (66.4%) | |||||||
2007 general election[]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Mary Wallace | 25.3 | 10,901 | ||||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Thomas Byrne | 18.2 | 7,834 | 7,866 | 8,267 | 8,469 | 8,628 | 9,079 | 9,770 | 10,077 | |
| Fine Gael | Shane McEntee | 15.7 | 6,766 | 6,789 | 6,877 | 6,941 | 7,106 | 7,351 | 7,870 | 11,619 | |
| Labour | Dominic Hannigan | 11.9 | 5,136 | 5,193 | 5,337 | 5,575 | 6,095 | 6,554 | 7,247 | 8,596 | |
| Fine Gael | Regina Doherty | 10.1 | 4,363 | 4,377 | 4,508 | 4,764 | 4,992 | 5,164 | 5,972 | ||
| Independent | Brian FitzGerald | 6.0 | 2,586 | 2,617 | 2,659 | 2,816 | 3,008 | 3,334 | |||
| Sinn Féin | Joanne Finnegan | 3.9 | 1,695 | 1,723 | 1,762 | 1,859 | 2,008 | ||||
| Green | Seán Ó Buachalla | 3.1 | 1,330 | 1,355 | 1,417 | 1,547 | |||||
| Independent | Joseph Bonner | 2.7 | 1,170 | 1,195 | 1,223 | ||||||
| Progressive Democrats | Sirena Campbell | 2.2 | 957 | 983 | |||||||
| Independent | A. J. Cahill | 0.6 | 269 | ||||||||
| Electorate: 67,443 Valid: 43,007 Spoilt: 359 (0.8%) Quota: 10,752 Turnout: 43,366 (64.3%) | |||||||||||
See also[]
- Dáil constituencies
- Elections in the Republic of Ireland
- Politics of the Republic of Ireland
- List of Dáil by-elections
- List of political parties in the Republic of Ireland
References[]
- ^ "Electoral (Amendment) Act 2005: Schedule". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 24 September 2010.
- ^ "Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013: Schedule". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
- ^ "Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2017: Schedule". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
- ^ a b "General election 2007: Meath East". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 26 April 2010.
- ^ a b "General election 2011: Meath East". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 27 February 2011.
- ^ a b "By-election 2013: Meath East". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 28 March 2013.
- ^ a b "General election 2016: Meath East". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
- ^ "General election 2020: Meath East". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
- ^ "General Election 2020 Results – Meath East". RTÉ News. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
- ^ "Meath East: 2020 General Election". Irelandelection.com. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
- ^ Bowers, Shauna (10 February 2020) [9 February 2020]. "Meath East results: SF tops the poll while FG's Regina Doherty loses seat; Minister for Social Protection comes in fifth in three-seater". The Irish Times. Dublin. Archived from the original on 8 June 2021. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
- ^ "Election 2020: Meath East". The Irish Times. Dublin. 10 February 2020. Archived from the original on 8 June 2021. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
- ^ "Meath East Results 2016". Irelandelection.com. Irelandelection.com.
- ^ "Meath East Results 2016". RTÉ. Archived from the original on 15 March 2019. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
Categories:
- Dáil constituencies
- Politics of County Meath
- 2007 establishments in Ireland
- Constituencies established in 2007