Waterford

Waterford

  • No of Seats: 4
  • No of Male Candidates: 14
  • No of Female Candidates: 1
  • Total number of GE11 candidates: 15
  • No of TDs standing: 2
  • No of Senators standing: 1
  • No of Councillors standing: 6
  • No of MEPs standing: 0
  • No of Seats: 4
  • Population (2006): 106530
  • Population per TD: 26633
  • Average Population per TD: 25541
  • Variance (from average): 1092
  • % Variance: 4.27%

Candidates

  • Independent candidates, ULA and other small parties: Cllr. John Halligan, Cllr. Joe Conway, Joe Tobin (WP), Ben Nutty (FN), Justin Collery,  Tom Higgins, Declan Waters, Gerard Kiersey
  • Green Party candidates: Jody Power
  • Labour Party candidates: Cllr. Seamus Ryan, Ciara Conway TC
  • Sinn Fein candidates: Cllr. David Cullinane
  • Fianna Fail candidates: Brendan Kenneally TD
  • Fine Gael candidates: John Deasy TD, Sen. Paudie Coffey
  • Independent candidates who previously ran for another party: Ben Nutty GP, Tom Higgins FG, John Halligan WP
  • Young candidates (21-35):
  • Retired/Retiring TDs: Waterford: Martin Cullen FF, Brian O'Shea LB

Opinion Polls

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

  • FF: 17.70%
  • FG: 38.60%
  • Lab: 18.80%
  • Green Party: 0.90%
  • Sinn Fein: 11.50%
  • Other: 12.50%

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

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

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

  • FF: 17.50%
  • FG: 36.30%
  • Lab: 21.90%
  • Green Party: 0.40%
  • Sinn Fein: 11.40%
  • Other: 12.40%

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

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

2007 Election Stats

  • Size of Electorate: 73,434
  • Total No. Votes: 49,958
  • No. of valid votes: 49,528
  • No. of spoiled votes: 430
  • Quota: 9,906

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):