Dublin South
Dublin South
- No of Seats: 5
- No of Male Candidates: 11
- No of Female Candidates: 5
- Total number of GE11 candidates: 16
- No of sitting TDs: 3
- No of sitting Senators: 3
- No of sitting Councillors: 1
- No of sitting MEPs: 0
- Population (2006) 130377
- Population per TD* 26075.4
- Average Population per TD* 25541
- Variance (from average) 534.4
- % Variance 2.09%
Candidates
- Independent candidates, ULA and other small parties: Sen. Shane Ross, Nicola Curry (PBPA-ULA), Jane Murphy (CSP), Buhidma Hussein Hamed, Gerard P. Dolan, Raymond Patrick Whitehead, Éamonn Zaidan, John Anthony Doyle
- Green Party Candidates: Eamon Ryan TD
- Labour Candidates: Sen. Alex White, Cllr. Aidan Culhane
- Sinn Fein Candidates: Sorcha Nic Cormaic
- Fianna Fail Candidates: Sen. Maria Corrigan
- Fine Gael Candidates: Olivia Mitchell TD, Alan Shatter TD, Peter Matthews
- Independent Candidates who previously ran for another party: Shane Ross (FG)
- Young Candidates (21-35):
- Retired/Retiring TDs: Dublin South: Tom Kitt (FF)
Polls
Red C-Sunday Business Post Poll (published 20-02-2011, adjusted to this constituency)
- FF: 19.20%
- FG: 47.00%
- Lab: 21.10%
- Green Party: 5.70%
- Sinn Fein: 6.30%
- Other: 0.70%
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: 19.50%
- FG: 45.20%
- Lab: 25.20%
- Green Party: 2.90%
- Sinn Fein: 6.40%
- Other: 0.80%
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 for Dublin South
- Size of Electorate: 89,464
- Total No. Votes: 61,622
- No. of Valid votes: 61,204
- No. of spoiled votes: 418
- Quota: 10,201
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):