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):