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Dublin European Parliament constituency

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Created	1979
MEP(s)	3 (4 from 1979–2009)
Member State	Ireland
Source(s)	[1][2]

Dublin is a constituency of the European Parliament in Ireland. It elects three MEPs using the single transferable vote system. The constituency comprises Dublin city and the administrative counties of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Fingal, South Dublin and has a population of 1.1m.

[edit] 2009 Election

2009 European Election: Dublin^[1]^[2]
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
	Fine Gael	*Gay Mitchell	23.8	96,715	99,098	100,810	104,413
	Labour Party	*Proinsias De Rossa	20.5	83,471	85,217	87,274	94,306	95,636	103,225
	Fianna Fáil	*Eoin Ryan	13.6	55,346	56,317	66,205	68,517	69,122	71,530	76,956
	Socialist Party	Joe Higgins	12.4	50,510	52,457	53,038	55,116	55,351	60,165	82,366
	Sinn Féin	*Mary Lou McDonald	11.8	47,928	50,097	50,980	52,447	52,529	55,429
	Green Party	Déirdre de Búrca	4.7	19,086	20,226	21,991
	Fianna Fáil	Eibhlin Byrne	4.7	18,956	19,448
	Independent	Patricia McKenna	4.3	17,521	21,523	22,380	25,213	25,636
	Libertas	Caroline Simons	3.3	13,514
	Independent	Emmanuel Sweeney	0.9	3,583
Electorate: 812,465 Valid: 406,630 Spoilt: 6,054 (1.5%) Quota: 101,658 Turnout: 50.8%

For the 2009 election, the constituency was reduced from 4 seats to 3.

[edit] 2004 Election result

2004 European Election: Dublin^[3]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	Gay Mitchell	90,749	21.51	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Eoin Ryan	61,681	14.62	2	5
	Labour Party	*Proinsias De Rossa	54,344	12.88	3	5
	Sinn Féin	Mary Lou McDonald	60,395	14.32	4	5
	Green Party	*Patricia McKenna	40,445	9.59	Not elected	6
	Labour Party	Ivana Bacik	40,707	9.65	Excluded	5
	Fianna Fáil	Royston Brady	36,269	8.60	Excluded	4
	Socialist Party	Joe Higgins	23,218	5.50	Excluded	3
	Christian Solidarity	Barry Despard	5,352	1.27	Excluded	2
	Independent	Brendan Price	4,813	1.14	Excluded	2
	Independent	Tom Prendeville	2,071	0.49	Excluded	2
	Independent	Paul Doonan	1,853	0.44	Excluded	2
Electorate: 821,723 Valid: 421,897 Spoilt: 13,239 Quota: 84,380 Turnout: 52.95%

[edit] 1999 Election result

1999 European Election: Dublin
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	*Mary Banotti	56,593	20.16	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	*Niall Andrews	44,176	15.74	2	7
	Green Party	*Patricia McKenna	35,659	12.70	3	6
	Labour Party	Proinsias De Rossa	28,748	10.24	4	8
	Fine Gael	Jim Mitchell	27,873	9.93	Not elected	8
	Fianna Fáil	Ben Briscoe	25,065	8.93	Excluded	6
	Sinn Féin	Seán Crowe	18,633	6.64	Excluded	5
	Labour Party	*Bernie Malone	15,890	5.66	Excluded	4
	Socialist Party	Joe Higgins	10,619	3.78	Excluded	3
	Christian Solidarity	Gerard Casey	9,425	3.36	Excluded	2
	Independent	Ciaran Goulding	5,546	1.98	Excluded	1
	Independent	Adam Goodwin	1,438	0.51	Excluded	1
	Independent	John Burns	1,006	0.36	Excluded	1
Electorate: 793,200 Valid: 280,671 Spoilt: 6,013 Quota: 56,135 Turnout: 36.14%

[edit] 1994 Election result

1994 European Election: Dublin
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Green Party	Patricia McKenna	40,388	14.54	1	10
	Fianna Fáil	*Niall Andrews	36,877	13.27	2	10
	Fine Gael	*Mary Banotti	38,053	13.70	3	12
	Labour Party	Bernie Malone	22,419	8.07	4	12
	Fine Gael	Jim Mitchell	28,116	10.12	Not elected	12
	Democratic Left	Pat Rabbitte	24,133	8.69	Excluded	11
	Labour Party	Orla Guerin	16,674	6.00	Excluded	9
	Workers Party	Tomás Mac Giolla	15,830	5.70	Excluded	8
	Fianna Fáil	John Stafford	12,811	4.61	Excluded	7
	Independent	Eamonn Murphy	9,296	3.35	Excluded	6
	Progressive Democrats	Stephen O'Byrnes	8,212	2.96	Excluded	5
	Fianna Fáil	Olive Braiden	8,237	2.96	Excluded	4
	Sinn Féin	Larry O'Toole	8,190	2.95	Excluded	3
	Independent	Paddy Madigan	6,903	2.48	Excluded	2
	Independent	John Burns	1,705	0.61	Excluded	1
Electorate: 755,486 Valid: 277,844 Spoilt: 2,917 Quota: 55,569 Turnout: 37.16%

[edit] 1989 Election result

1989 European Election: Dublin
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Workers Party	Proinsias De Rossa^†	71,041	15.84	1	6
	Fine Gael	*Mary Banotti	50,666	11.30	2	6
	Fianna Fáil	*Niall Andrews	72,057	16.07	3	6
	Labour Party	Barry Desmond	57,225	12.76	4	12
	Fianna Fáil	*Eileen Lemass	58,345	13.01	Not elected	6
	Green Party	Trevor Sargent	37,317	8.32	Excluded	5
	Progressive Democrats	Mary Harney	36,402	8.12	Excluded	4
	Independent	Raymond Crotty	25,525	5.69	Excluded	3
	Fine Gael	*Chris O'Malley	26,574	5.93	Excluded	2
	Sinn Féin	Ann Speed	11,582	2.58	Excluded	1
	Independent	Tim Cahill	1,668	0.37	Excluded	1
Electorate: 711,416 Valid: 448,402 Spoilt: 7,137 Quota: 89,681 Turnout: 64.03%

^†Proinsias De Rossa was substituted by Des Geraghty (DL / EUL) in 1992.

[edit] 1984 Election result

1984 European Election: Dublin
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	*Richie Ryan^†	47,014	16.63	1	8
	Fianna Fáil	Eileen Lemass	31,350	11.09	2	8
	Fine Gael	Mary Banotti	42,660	15.09	3	8
	Fianna Fáil	Niall Andrews	32,512	11.50	4	8
	Labour Party	Frank Cluskey	28,384	10.04	Not elected	8
	Fianna Fáil	Jim Tunney	30,488	10.79	Excluded	7
	Workers Party	Des Geraghty	19,590	6.93	Excluded	6
	Independent	Seán Loftus	17,385	6.15	Excluded	5
	Sinn Féin	John Noonan	14,604	5.17	Excluded	4
	Independent	Shane Ross	8,099	2.87	Excluded	3
	Democratic Socialist Party	John de Courcy Ireland	5,350	1.89	Excluded	2
	Green Party	Christopher Fettes	5,242	1.85	Excluded	1
Electorate: 704,873 Valid: 282,678 Spoilt: 6,153 Quota: 56,536 Turnout: 40.98%

^†Richie Ryan was substituted by Chris O'Malley (FG / EPP) in 1986.

[edit] 1979 Election result

1979 European Election: Dublin
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Labour Party	John O'Connell^†	44,832	15.18	1	8
	Fine Gael	*Richie Ryan	48,411	16.39	2	8
	Labour Party	Michael O'Leary	34,511	11.68	3	10
	Fianna Fáil	Síle de Valera	41,357	14.00	4	10
	Fine Gael	Nuala Fennell	26,951	9.12	Not elected	10
	Fianna Fáil	*Ruairí Brugha	21,758	7.37	Excluded	8
	Independent	Seán Loftus	21,769	7.37	Excluded	7
	Fine Gael	Maurice Manning	14,296	4.84	Excluded	6
	Fianna Fáil	*Michael Yeats	12,715	4.30	Excluded	5
	Sinn Féin (Workers Party)	Tomás Mac Giolla	11,915	4.03	Excluded	4
	Fianna Fáil	Joe Fox	8,178	2.77	Excluded	3
	Labour Party	Jane Dillon Byrne	7,807	2.64	Excluded	2
	Independent	Kevin Clear	915	0.31	Excluded	1
Electorate: 618,454 Valid: 295,415 Spoilt: 8,653 Quota: 59,084 Turnout: 49.17%

^†John O'Connell was substituted by John Horgan (LAB / PES) on 21 October 1981. John Horgan resigned on 1 January 1983 and was replaced by Flor O'Mahony (LAB / PES) on 2 March 1983.

*Denotes outgoing MEP

[edit] References

^ "2009 European Parliament election – Dublin constituency". ElectionsIreland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=2009E&cons=524. Retrieved 21 April 2009.
^ "Nominations close for Europe elections". RTÉ News. 11 May 2009. http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0511/euelection.html. Retrieved 12 May 2009.
^ "2004 European Parliament election result – Dublin constituency". ElectionsIreland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=2004E&cons=524. Retrieved 22 March 2009.

[0] "2009 European Parliament election – Dublin constituency". ElectionsIreland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=2009E&cons=524. Retrieved 21 April 2009.

[1] "Nominations close for Europe elections". RTÉ News. 11 May 2009. http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0511/euelection.html. Retrieved 12 May 2009.

[2] "2004 European Parliament election result – Dublin constituency". ElectionsIreland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=2004E&cons=524. Retrieved 22 March 2009.

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