Donegal South-West

Donegal South-West

  • No of Seats: 3
  • No of Male Candidates: 7
  • No of Female Candidates: 2
  • Total number of GE11 candidates: 9
  • No of sitting TDs: 3
  • No of sitting Senators: 1
  • No of sitting Councillors: 2
  • No of sitting MEPs: 0
  • Population (2006) 73390
  • Population per TD* 24463.33333
  • Average Population per TD* 25541
  • Variance (from average) -1077.666667
  • % Variance -4.22%

Candidates

  • Independent candidates, ULA and other small parties: Cllr. Thomas Pringle, Anne Sweeney, Stephen McCahill
  • Green Party Candidates: John Duffy
  • Labour Candidates: Cllr. Frank McBrearty
  • Sinn Fein Candidates: Pearse Doherty TD
  • Fianna Fail Candidates: Mary Coughlan TD, Senator Brian Ó'Domhnaill
  • Fine Gael Candidates: Dinny McGinley TD
  • Independent Candidates who previously ran for another party: Thomas Pringle SF
  • Young Candidates (21-35):
  • Retired/Retiring TDs: Pat The Cope Gallagher (FF) gave up his seat in the Dail when he was elected to the European Parliament in June 2009

Polls

Red C-Sunday Business Post Poll (published 20-02-2011, adjusted to this constituency)

  • FF: 20.20%
  • FG: 34.10%
  • Lab: 4.90%
  • Green Party: 0.70%
  • Sinn Fein: 38.10%
  • Other: 2.10%

This translates to seats as follows (according to Adrian Kavanagh of http://geographyspecialinterestgroup.wordpress.com):

  • FF: 1
  • FG: 1
  • Lab: 0
  • Green Party: 0
  • Sinn Fein: 1
  • Other: 0

Sunday Independent Milward Brown Poll (published 20-02-2011 - adjusted to this constituency)

  • FF: 20.40%
  • FG: 32.70%
  • Lab: 5.80%
  • Green Party: 0.30%
  • Sinn Fein: 38.60%
  • Other: 2.20%

This translates to seats as follows (according to Adrian Kavanagh of http://geographyspecialinterestgroup.wordpress.com):

  • FF: 1
  • FG: 1
  • Lab: 0
  • Green Party: 0
  • Sinn Fein: 1
  • Other: 0

2007 Election Stats for Donegal South-West

  • Size of Electorate: 60,829
  • Total No. Votes: 40,274
  • No. of Valid votes: 39,853
  • No. of spoiled votes: 421
  • Quota: 9,964

Credits: Thanks to Adrian Kavanagh of NUI Maynooth who has created an excellent resource at this website. Other data is drawn from Oireachtas.ie, the Central Statistics Office and ElectionsIreland.org

Demographics, socio-economic indicators and other statistics based on
2006 Census (via CSO and Oireachtas.ie):

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