Tipperary South
Tipperary South
- No of Seats: 3
- No of Male Candidates: 7
- No of Female Candidates: 1
- Total number of GE11 candidates: 8
- No of TDs standing: 3
- No of Senators standing: 1
- No of Councillors standing: 3
- No of MEPs standing: 0
- No of Seats: 3
- Population (2006): 74748
- Population per TD: 24916
- Average Population per TD: 25541
- Variance (from average): -625
- % Variance: -2.45%
Candidates
- Independent candidates, ULA and other small parties: Mattie McGrath TD, Cllr. Seamus Healy (WUAG-ULA)
- Green Party candidates: Paul McNally
- Labour Party candidates: Sen. Phil Prendergast
- Sinn Fein candidates: Michael Brown TC
- Fianna Fail candidates: Martin Mansergh TD
- Fine Gael candidates: Tom Hayes TD, Cllr. Michael Murphy
- Independent candidates who previously ran for another party: Mattie McGrath FF
- Young candidates (21-35):
- Retired/Retiring TDs: none
Opinion Polls
Red C-Sunday Business Post Poll (published 20-02-2011, adjusted to this constituency):
- FF: 7.40%
- FG: 21.60%
- Lab: 10.50%
- Green Party: 0.50%
- Sinn Fein: 3.80%
- Other: 56.30%
This translates to seats as follows (according to Adrian Kavanagh of http://geographyspecialinterestgroup.wordpress.com):
- FF: 0
- FG: 1
- Lab: 0
- Green Party: 0
- Sinn Fein: 0
- Other: 2
Sunday Independent Milward Brown Poll (published 20-02-2011 - adjusted to this constituency):
- FF: 7.30%
- FG: 20.40%
- Lab: 12.30%
- Green Party: 0.20%
- Sinn Fein: 3.80%
- Other: 56.00%
This translates to seats as follows (according to Adrian Kavanagh of http://geographyspecialinterestgroup.wordpress.com):
- FF: 0
- FG: 1
- Lab: 0
- Green Party: 0
- Sinn Fein: 0
- Other: 2
Constituency Poll:
- Séamus Healy IND (ULA) 26%
- Tom Hayes FG 25%
- Mattie McGrath IND 14%
- Phil Prendergast Lab 14%
- Martin Mansergh FF 10%
- Michael Murphy FG 6%
- Michael Brown SF 5%
- Paul McNally GP 0%
(Source: Ipsos/MRBI - Irish Times)
2007 Election Stats
- Size of Electorate: 54,637
- Total No. Votes: 39,112
- No. of valid votes: 38,782
- No. of spoiled votes: 330
- Quota: 9,696
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):