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):