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Revision as of 20:41, 17 February 2009 by BrownHairedGirl (talk | contribs) (→TDs 1921–1937: incomplete table, will finish later)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Template:Dáil Éireann constituency infobox Longford-Westmeath is a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas since the 2007 general election. The constituency returns 4 Teachtaí Dála (TDs), elected by the Single Transferable Vote method of proportional representation (PR-STV).
The constituency previously existed from 1921 to 1937 and from 1948 to 1992, but was abolished for the 1992 general election. It was re-created by the Electoral (Amendment) Act 2005 which gave effect to the 2004 Constituency Commission Report on Dáil Constituencies, and was first used in its current form in the 2007 general election. It succeeded the County Longford part of the Longford-Roscommon constituency and most of the Westmeath constituency apart from the north-eastern area around Castlepollard and Delvin which became part of the new Meath West constituency.
TDs
TDs 1921–1937
| Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Longford-Westmeath 1921–1937 | |||||||||||
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| Dáil | Election | Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) | |||||
| 2nd | 1921 | Laurence Ginnell (SF) |
Seán Mac Eoin (SF) |
Joseph McGuinness (SF) |
Laurence Robbins (SF) |
4 seats 1921–1923 | |||||
| 3rd | 1922 | Laurence Ginnell (AT-SF) |
Seán Mac Eoin (PT-SF) |
Francis McGuinness (PT-SF) |
John Lyons (Lab) | ||||||
| 4th | 1923 | Conor Byrne (SF) |
Patrick Shaw (CnaG) |
Patrick McKenna (FP) |
John Lyons (Ind. Lab) |
James Killane (SF) | |||||
| 5th | 1927 (Jun) | Michael Kennedy (FF) |
Hugh Garahan (FP) |
Henry Broderick (Lab) |
James Victory (FF) | ||||||
| 6th | 1927 (Sep) | Michael J. Connolly (CnaG) |
James Killane (FF) | ||||||||
| 1930 by-election | James Geoghegan (FF) | ||||||||||
| 7th | 1932 | ||||||||||
| 8th | 1933 | ||||||||||
| 9th | 1937 | constituency abolished: see Athlone-Longford and Meath-Westmeath | |||||||||
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.
TDs 1948–1992
TDs 2007—
Elections
2007 general election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | % | Seat | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Willie Penrose | 9,692 | 17.6 | 1 | 5 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Mary O'Rourke | 8,215 | 15.0 | 2 | 7 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Peter Kelly | 7,720 | 14.1 | 3 | 7 | |
| Fine Gael | James Bannon | 7,652 | 13.9 | 4 | 7 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Donie Cassidy | 6,664 | 12.1 | |||
| Fine Gael | Nicky McFadden | 5,359 | 9.8 | |||
| Fine Gael | Peter Burke | 3,988 | 7.3 | |||
| Progressive Democrats | Mae Sexton | 2,298 | 4.2 | |||
| Sinn Féin | Paul Hogan | 2,136 | 3.9 | |||
| Green | Betty Doran | 960 | 1.7 | |||
| Christian Solidarity | Colm Callanan | 124 | 0.2 | |||
| Independent | Noel O'Gara | 84 | 0.2 | |||
| Independent | Seamus Cunningham | 24 | 0.0 | |||
1977 general election
Electorate=56,421, Valid votes =45,950, spoiled votes=262, quota=9,191
| Canidate | Party | Count 1 | Count 2 | Count 3 | Count 4 | Count 5 | Count 6 | Count 7 | |
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| style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | | Joe Sheridan | Independent | 7461 | 7601 | 8023 | 8283 | 8601 | 8694 | 8913 |
| style="background-color: Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color" | | Albert Reynolds | Fianna Fáil | 7064 | 7187 | 7219 | 7536 | 8802 | 10491 | |
| style="background-color: Template:Fine Gael/meta/color" | | Gerry L'Estrange | Fine Gael | 6873 | 7349 | 8457 | 8652 | 8769 | 8798 | 8816 |
| style="background-color: Template:Fine Gael/meta/color" | | Patrick Cooney | Fine Gael | 6590 | 7002 | 7507 | 7663 | 8397 | 8450 | 8524 |
| style="background-color: Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color" | | Sean Keegan | Fianna Fáil | 5493 | 5502 | 5760 | 7236 | 11015 | ||
| style="background-color: Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color" | | Sean Fallon | Fianna Fáil | 5189 | 5201 | 5289 | 6392 | |||
| style="background-color: Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color" | | Henry Abbott | Fianna Fáil | 3366 | 3382 | 3576 | ||||
| style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color" | | James Bennett | Labour | 2687 | 2716 | |||||
| style="background-color: Template:Fine Gael/meta/color" | | Philomena Kelly | Fine Gael | 1227 | ||||||
References
- Walker, Brian M, ed. (1992). Parliamentary election results in Ireland, 1918-92. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0 901714 96 8. ISSN 0332-0286.
- Irish Times, 20-6-1977, p7-10
See also
- Parliamentary constituencies in the Republic of Ireland
- Politics of the Republic of Ireland
- List of political parties in Ireland
- List of Irish by-elections
- Elections in Ireland
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