Dublin West

Dublin West

  • No of Seats: 4
  • No of Male Candidates: 9
  • No of Female Candidates: 1
  • Total number of GE11 candidates: 10
  • No of sitting TDs: 3
  • No of sitting Senators: 0
  • No of sitting Councillors: 3
  • No of sitting MEPs: 1
  • Population (2006) 105668
  • Population per TD* 26417
  • Average Population per TD* 25541
  • Variance (from average) 876
  • % Variance 3.43%

Candidates

  • Independent candidates, ULA and other small parties: Joe Higgins MEP (SP-ULA),  Clement Esebamen
  • Green Party Candidates: Roderic O'Gorman
  • Labour Candidates: Joan Burton TD, Cllr. Patrick Nulty
  • Sinn Fein Candidates: Paul Donnelly
  • Fianna Fail Candidates: Brian Lenihan TD. Cllr. David McGuinness
  • Fine Gael Candidates: Leo Varadkar TD, Cllr. Kieran Dennison
  • Independent Candidates who previously ran for another party:
  • Young Candidates (21-35):
  • Retired/Retiring TDs: 

Polls

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

  • FF: 12.70%
  • FG: 25.60%
  • Lab: 25.20%
  • Green Party: 1.40%
  • Sinn Fein: 7.30%
  • Other: 27.70%

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

  • FF: 0
  • FG: 2
  • Lab: 1
  • Green Party: 0
  • Sinn Fein: 0
  • Other: 1

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

  • FF: 12.40%
  • FG: 23.70%
  • Lab: 29.00%
  • Green Party: 0.70%
  • Sinn Fein: 7.10%
  • Other: 27.10%

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

  • FF: 0
  • FG: 1
  • Lab: 2
  • Green Party: 0
  • Sinn Fein: 0
  • Other: 1

2007 Election Stats for Dublin West

  • Size of Electorate: 52,193
  • Total No. Votes: 34,188
  • No. of Valid votes: 33,982
  • No. of spoiled votes: 206
  • Quota: 8,496

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):