Clare is a parliamentary constituency in County Clare, Ireland. It is represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas and at currently elects 4 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known in English as TDs). The method of election is the Single Transferable Vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).
The constituency's boundaries have varied widely since its formation in 1921, but the boundaries in use for the 2007 general election span almost the entire area of the county, taking in Ennis, Shannon, Kilrush, Newmarket-on-Fergus and Ennistymon. A small part of the south-east of the county around Ballyglass is in the Limerick East constituency[1]
Clare is historically a Fianna Fáil stronghold. The party founder, former Taoiseach and former President Eamon de Valera served the constituency for many decades. His granddaughter recently retired as TD for the area. Other notable former deputies include the former President Patrick Hillery, the long-serving Ceann Comhairle (chair of the Dáil) Patrick Hogan, the former Cabinet Minister Brendan Daly, and Moosajee Bhamjee who was the first muslim member of the Oireachtas.
[edit] Boundaries
Note: The columns in this table are used only for presentational purposes, and no significance should be attached to the order of columns. For details of the order in which seats were won at each election, see the detailed results of that election.
[edit] Election results
[edit] 2007 general election
| 2007 General Election: Clare[10] |
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count |
| Fianna Fáil | Timmy Dooley | 10,791 | 19.1% | 1 | 4 |
| Fianna Fáil | Tony Killeen | 8,321 | 14.8% | 2 | 7 |
| Fine Gael | Pat Breen | 7,036 | 12.5% | 3 | 8 |
| Fine Gael | Joe Carey | 5,818 | 10.3% | 4 | 9 |
| Independent | James Breen | 5,218 | 9.3% | Not Elected | (9) |
| Fianna Fáil | Brendan Daly | 5,712 | 10.1% | Excluded | (6) |
| Fine Gael | Madeleine Taylor-Quinn | 3,592 | 6.4% | Excluded | (5) |
| Fine Gael | Tony Mulcahy | 3,408 | 6.0% | Excluded | (4) |
| Green Party | Brian Meaney | 2,858 | 5.1% | Excluded | (3) |
| Sinn Féin | Anna Prior | 1,929 | 3.4% | Excluded | (2) |
| Labour Party | Pascal Fitzgerald | 892 | 1.6% | Excluded | (1) |
| Progressive Democrats | Murt Collins | 810 | 1.4% | Excluded | (1) |
[edit] 2002 general election
[edit] February 1982 general election
[edit] References
[edit] See also
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