Limerick
Limerick
- No of Seats: 3
- No of Male Candidates: 10
- No of Female Candidates: 0
- Total number of GE11 candidates: 10
- No of TDs standing: 2
- No of Senators standing: 0
- No of Councillors standing: 2
- No of MEPs standing: 0
- No of Seats: 3
- Population (2006): 75295
- Population per TD: 25098
- Average Population per TD: 25541
- Variance (from average): -443
- % Variance: -1.73%
Sources of data: CSO, Oireachtas.ie, Dr Adrian Kavanagh (NUI Maynooth), ElectionsIreland.org, Electoral Commission, Ipsos/MRBI - Irish Times, Red C.
Candidates
- Independent candidates, ULA and other small parties: John Dillon, Seamus Sherlock, Patrick O'Doherty, Con Cremin
- Green Party candidates: Stephen Wall
- Labour Party candidates: Cllr. James Heffernan
- Sinn Fein candidates: Not contesting
- Fianna Fail candidates: Niall Collins TD
- Fine Gael candidates: Dan Neville TD, Cllr. Patrick O'Donovan, Cllr. William O'Donnell
- Independent candidates who previously ran for another party: Patrick O'Doherty GP
- Young candidates (21-35):
- Retired/Retiring TDs: John Cregan FF
Opinion Polls
Red C-Sunday Business Post Poll (published 20-02-2011, adjusted to this constituency):
- FF: 21.20%
- FG: 66.60%
- Lab: 11.00%
- Green Party: 1.20%
- Sinn Fein: 0.00%
- Other: 0.00%
This translates to seats as follows (according to Adrian Kavanagh of http://geographyspecialinterestgroup.wordpress.com):
- FF: 1
- FG: 2
- Lab: 0
- Green Party: 0
- Sinn Fein: 0
- Other: 0
Sunday Independent Milward Brown Poll (published 20-02-2011 - adjusted to this constituency):
- FF: 21.70%
- FG: 64.50%
- Lab: 13.30%
- Green Party: 0.60%
- Sinn Fein: 0.00%
- Other: 0.00%
This translates to seats as follows (according to Adrian Kavanagh of http://geographyspecialinterestgroup.wordpress.com):
- FF: 1
- FG: 2
- Lab: 0
- Green Party: 0
- Sinn Fein: 0
- Other: 0
2007 Election Stats (Limerick West)
- Size of Electorate: 58,712
- Total No. Votes: 40,812
- No. of valid votes: 40,431
- No. of spoiled votes: 381
- Quota: 10,108