Donegal South-West
Donegal South-West
- No of Seats: 3
- No of Male Candidates: 7
- No of Female Candidates: 2
- Total number of GE11 candidates: 9
- No of sitting TDs: 3
- No of sitting Senators: 1
- No of sitting Councillors: 2
- No of sitting MEPs: 0
- Population (2006) 73390
- Population per TD* 24463.33333
- Average Population per TD* 25541
- Variance (from average) -1077.666667
- % Variance -4.22%
Candidates
- Independent candidates, ULA and other small parties: Cllr. Thomas Pringle, Anne Sweeney, Stephen McCahill
- Green Party Candidates: John Duffy
- Labour Candidates: Cllr. Frank McBrearty
- Sinn Fein Candidates: Pearse Doherty TD
- Fianna Fail Candidates: Mary Coughlan TD, Senator Brian Ó'Domhnaill
- Fine Gael Candidates: Dinny McGinley TD
- Independent Candidates who previously ran for another party: Thomas Pringle SF
- Young Candidates (21-35):
- Retired/Retiring TDs: Pat The Cope Gallagher (FF) gave up his seat in the Dail when he was elected to the European Parliament in June 2009
Polls
Red C-Sunday Business Post Poll (published 20-02-2011, adjusted to this constituency)
- FF: 20.20%
- FG: 34.10%
- Lab: 4.90%
- Green Party: 0.70%
- Sinn Fein: 38.10%
- Other: 2.10%
This translates to seats as follows (according to Adrian Kavanagh of http://geographyspecialinterestgroup.wordpress.com):
- FF: 1
- FG: 1
- Lab: 0
- Green Party: 0
- Sinn Fein: 1
- Other: 0
Sunday Independent Milward Brown Poll (published 20-02-2011 - adjusted to this constituency)
- FF: 20.40%
- FG: 32.70%
- Lab: 5.80%
- Green Party: 0.30%
- Sinn Fein: 38.60%
- Other: 2.20%
This translates to seats as follows (according to Adrian Kavanagh of http://geographyspecialinterestgroup.wordpress.com):
- FF: 1
- FG: 1
- Lab: 0
- Green Party: 0
- Sinn Fein: 1
- Other: 0
2007 Election Stats for Donegal South-West
- Size of Electorate: 60,829
- Total No. Votes: 40,274
- No. of Valid votes: 39,853
- No. of spoiled votes: 421
- Quota: 9,964
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):