Wexford
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Wexford
- No of Seats: 5
- No of Male Candidates: 13
- No of Female Candidates: 1
- Total number of GE11 candidates: 14
- No of TDs standing: 5
- No of Senators standing: 1
- No of Councillors standing: 3
- No of MEPs standing: 0
- Population (2006): 131749
- Population per TD: 26349.8
- Average Population per TD: 25541
- Variance (from average): 808.8
- % Variance: 3.17%
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: Seamus O'Brien (PBPA-ULA), John Dwyer TC, Mick Wallace, Ruairi De Valera, Siobhain Roseingrave
- Green Party candidates:Danny Forde
- Labour Party candidates: Brendan Howlin TD, Cllr. Pat Cody
- Sinn Fein candidates:Anthony Kelly TC
- Fianna Fail candidates:Sean Connick TD, John Browne TD
- Fine Gael Candidates: Paul Kehoe TD, Michael D'Arcy TD, Sen. Liam Twomey
- Independent Candidates who previously ran for another party: Seamus O'Brien LB, John Dwyer SF
- 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: 16.40%
- FG: 45.40%
- Lab: 23.30%
- Green Party: 0.50%
- Sinn Fein: 12.90%
- Other: 1.60%
This translates to seats as follows (according to Adrian Kavanagh of http://geographyspecialinterestgroup.wordpress.com):
- FF: 1
- FG: 3
- Lab: 1
- Green Party: 0
- Sinn Fein: 0
- Other: 0
Sunday Independent Milward Brown Poll (published 20-02-2011 - adjusted to this constituency):
- FF: 16.10%
- FG: 42.40%
- Lab: 27.00%
- Green Party: 0.20%
- Sinn Fein: 12.70%
- Other: 1.60%
This translates to seats as follows (according to Adrian Kavanagh of http://geographyspecialinterestgroup.wordpress.com):
- FF: 1
- FG: 3
- Lab: 1
- Green Party: 0
- Sinn Fein: 0
- Other: 0
2007 Election Stats
- Size of electorate: 103,562
- Total no. votes: 69,443
- No. of valid votes: 68,616
- No. of spoiled votes: 827
- Quota: 11,437
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):