Cork South-West

Cork South-West

  • No of Seats: 3
  • No of Male Candidates: 13
  • No of Female Candidates: 0
  • Total number of GE11 candidates: 13
  • No of sitting TDs: 1
  • No of sitting Senators: 2
  • No of sitting Councillors: 3
  • No of sitting MEPs: 0
  • Population (2006): 76,949
  • Population per TD*: 25,649.66667
  • Average Population per TD*: 25,541
  • Variance (from average): 108.6666667
  • % Variance: 0.43%

Candidates

  • Independent candidates, ULA and other small parties: Dave McInerney (NV), Paul Doonan (NV), John Kearney, Michael "Miney" O'Sullivan, Edmund Butler
  • Green Party Candidates: Kevin McCaughey
  • Labour Candidates: Sen. Michael McCarthy
  • Sinn Fein Candidates: Paul Hayes
  • Fianna Fail Candidates: Christy O'Sullivan TD, Sen. Dennis O'Donovan
  • Fine Gael Candidates: Cllr. Jim Daly, Cllr. Noel Harrington, Cllr. Kevin Murphy
  • Independent Candidates who previously ran for another party:
  • Young Candidates (21-35):
  • Retired/Retiring TDs: PJ Sheehan (FG), Jim O'Keeffe (FG)

Polls

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

  • FF: 17.20%
  • FG: 53.80%
  • Lab: 16.90%
  • Green Party: 3.00%
  • Sinn Fein: 9.20%
  • 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: 17.40%
  • FG: 51.70%
  • Lab: 20.20%
  • Green Party: 1.50%
  • Sinn Fein: 9.30%
  • Other: 0.00%

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

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

2007 Election Stats for Cork South-West

  • Size of Electorate: 61,577
  • Total No. Votes: 42,907
  • No. of Valid votes: 42,497
  • No. of spoiled votes: 410
  • Quota: 10,625

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):