Meath West (Dáil constituency)
| Meath West | |
|---|---|
| Dáil Constituency | |
 Location of Meath West within Ireland | |
| Major settlements | |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 2007 |
| Seats | 3 |
| TDs | |
| County council | Meath County Council Westmeath County Council |
| EP constituency | Midlands–North-West |
Meath West 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[]
The constituency was created under 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. The town of Kells was moved to Meath East for the 2011 general election.
Boundaries[]
It spans the western portions of County Meath, including the towns of Trim and Navan, along with the north-eastern part of County Westmeath.[2]
The Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2017 defines the constituency as:[3]
- "The county of Meath, except the parts thereof which are comprised in the constituencies of Cavan–Monaghan, Louth and Meath East,
- and the county of Westmeath, except the part thereof which is comprised in the constituency of Longford–Westmeath."
TDs[]
| Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Meath West 2007– | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Key to parties
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| Dáil | Election | Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) | |||
| 30th | 2007[4] | Johnny Brady (FF) |
Noel Dempsey (FF) |
Damien English (FG) | |||
| 31st | 2011[5] | Peadar Tóibín[note 1] (SF) |
Ray Butler (FG) | ||||
| 32nd | 2016[6] | Shane Cassells (FF) | |||||
| 33rd | 2020 | Peadar Tóibín (Aontú) |
Johnny Guirke (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 | ||||
| Sinn Féin | Johnny Guirke | 30.5 | 12,652 | ||||||
| Aontú | Peadar Tóibín | 17.6 | 7,322 | 8,249 | 8,616 | 9,075 | 9,714 | 11,410 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Shane Cassells | 16.2 | 6,742 | 6,926 | 7,117 | 7,311 | 7,644 | 8,224 | |
| Fine Gael | Damien English | 13.2 | 5,499 | 5,604 | 6,513 | 6,802 | 8,699 | 9,558 | |
| Fine Gael | Noel French | 7.1 | 2,952 | 3,006 | 3,361 | 3,534 | |||
| Social Democrats | Ronan Moore | 5.7 | 2,376 | 2,931 | 3,045 | 4,141 | 4,569 | ||
| Green | Séamus McMenamin | 4.7 | 1,935 | 2,224 | 2,380 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Sarah Reilly | 4.4 | 1,817 | 1,897 | |||||
| Renua | John Malone | 0.5 | 209 | 290 | |||||
| Electorate: 67,982 Valid: 41,504 Spoilt: 320 Quota: 10,377 Turnout: 61.5% | |||||||||
2016 general election[]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Shane Cassells | 27.4 | 10,585 | ||||||
| Sinn Féin | Peadar Tóibín | 24.5 | 9,442 | 9,713 | |||||
| Fine Gael | Damien English | 21.0 | 8,123 | 8,333 | 8,376 | 8,785 | 8,880 | 10,371 | |
| Fine Gael | Ray Butler | 11.5 | 4,432 | 4,519 | 4,552 | 4,853 | 4,904 | 5,841 | |
| Independent | Trevor Golden | 4.5 | 1,718 | 1,844 | 1,984 | 2,137 | 2,616 | ||
| Green | Séamus McMenamin | 3.7 | 1,421 | 1,519 | 1,587 | 1,807 | 2,178 | ||
| Direct Democracy | Alan Lawes | 3.3 | 1,279 | 1,310 | 1,380 | 1,440 | |||
| Labour | Tracy McElhinney | 3.0 | 1,166 | 1,229 | 1,241 | ||||
| Independent | John Malone | 1.1 | 439 | 486 | |||||
| Electorate: 64,600 Valid: 38,605 Spoilt: 315 Quota: 9,652 Turnout: 38,920 (60.25%) | |||||||||
2011 general election[]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Damien English | 23.1 | 9,290 | 9,609 | 10,122 | |||
| Sinn Féin | Peadar Tóibín | 17.4 | 6,989 | 7,421 | 7,711 | 8,155 | 9,112 | |
| Labour | Jenny McHugh | 13.5 | 5,432 | 5,852 | 6,040 | 6,794 | 7,798 | |
| Fine Gael | Ray Butler | 13.1 | 5,262 | 5,414 | 5,574 | 7,879 | 8,926 | |
| Fine Gael | Catherine Yore | 9.7 | 3,898 | 4,072 | 4,208 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Johnny Brady | 9.4 | 3,789 | 3,874 | 6,065 | 6,437 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Shane Cassells | 8.7 | 3,496 | 3,631 | ||||
| Green | Fiona Irwin | 1.2 | 479 | |||||
| Independent | Stephen Ball | 1.2 | 475 | |||||
| Independent | Dáithí Stephens | 1.0 | 387 | |||||
| Independent | Ronan Carolan | 0.6 | 258 | |||||
| Christian Solidarity | Manus MacMeanmain | 0.6 | 234 | |||||
| Workers' Party | Séamus McDonagh | 0.5 | 189 | |||||
| Electorate: 62,776 Valid: 40,178 Spoilt: 413 (1.0%) Quota: 10,045 Turnout: 40,591 (64.7%) | ||||||||
2007 general election[]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Noel Dempsey | 29.7 | 12,006 | |||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Johnny Brady | 21.9 | 8,868 | 10,178 | ||||||
| Fine Gael | Damien English | 17.9 | 7,227 | 7,427 | 7,566 | 7,856 | 8,527 | 9,548 | 12,934 | |
| Sinn Féin | Joe Reilly | 11.3 | 4,567 | 4,697 | 4,803 | 5,024 | 5,187 | 5,588 | 6,015 | |
| Fine Gael | Peter Higgins | 8.0 | 3,234 | 3,335 | 3,424 | 3,534 | 3,960 | 4,379 | ||
| Labour | Brian Collins | 4.0 | 1,634 | 1,663 | 1,734 | 2,097 | 2,181 | |||
| Fine Gael | Graham Geraghty | 3.2 | 1,284 | 1,326 | 1,360 | 1,420 | ||||
| Green | Brian Flanagan | 2.5 | 1,011 | 1,047 | 1,194 | |||||
| Independent | Phil Cantwell | 1.3 | 506 | 544 | ||||||
| Fathers Rights | Paul Coleman | 0.3 | 127 | 130 | ||||||
| Electorate: 56,267 Valid: 40,464 Spoilt: 388 (0.9%) Quota: 10,117 Turnout: 40,852 (72.6%) | ||||||||||
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 West". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 27 April 2010.
- ^ a b "General election 2011: Meath West". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 27 February 2011.
- ^ a b "General election 2016: Meath West". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
- ^ "General Election 2020 Results – Meath West". RTÉ News. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
- ^ "Meath West: 2020 General Election". Irelandelection.com. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
- ^ Walsh, Louise (10 February 2020) [9 February 2020]. "Meath West results: Surprise at Fianna Fáil loss as seismic shift to left". The Irish Times. Dublin. Archived from the original on 8 June 2021. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
- ^ "Election 2020: Meath West". The Irish Times. Dublin. 10 February 2020. Archived from the original on 9 June 2021. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
- ^ "Meath West Results 2016". Irelandelection.com. Irelandelection.com.
- ^ "Meath West 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