Dún Laoghaire (Dáil Éireann constituency)

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Dún Laoghaire Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Constituency
Dún Laoghaire shown within County Dublin
Created:	1977
TDs:	5
Counties:	Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown
EP constituency:	Dublin

Dún Laoghaire is a constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency has an electorate of 91,522 and is served by 5 Teachtaí Dála (TDs). The method of election is the Single Transferable Vote. The constituency is located in the eastern area of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown county, Ireland, consisting of the area around the town of Dún Laoghaire.

Some of the more high profile TD's in the constituency is the current [[Minister for Social and Family Affairs[[1]] (Ireland)|, Mary Hanafin along with the leader of the Labour Party TD Eamon Gilmore. Others re-elected in the 2007 general election, were Barry Andrews of Fianna Fáil Minister of State for Children, ^[1], Ciaran Cuffe of the Green Party and Fine Gael's Seán Barrett ^[2]

Contents 1 Members of Dáil Éireann 2 2007 Election result 3 2002 Election result 4 November 1982 - 2002 full election results 5 1977 full election result 6 Former TDs 7 See also 8 References

[edit] Members of Dáil Éireann

Election	1st Member (Party)		2nd Member (Party)		3rd Member (Party)		4th Member (Party)		5th Member (Party)
21st Dáil (1977)		David Andrews (Fianna Fáil)		Liam Cosgrave (Fine Gael)		Barry Desmond (Labour Party)		Martin O'Donoghue (Fianna Fáil)
22nd Dáil (1981)				Liam T. Cosgrave (Fine Gael)						Seán Barrett (Fine Gael)
23rd Dáil (Feb 1982)
24th Dáil (Nov 1982)								Monica Barnes (Fine Gael)
25th Dáil (1987)				Geraldine Kennedy (PD)
26th Dáil (1989)				Brian Hillery (Fianna Fáil)		Eamon Gilmore (Workers Party)
27th Dáil (1992)				Helen Keogh (PD)		Niamh Bhreathnach (Labour Party)		Eamon Gilmore (Democratic Left)
28th Dáil (1997)				Mary Hanafin (Fianna Fáil)		Eamon Gilmore (Labour Party)		Monica Barnes (Fine Gael)
29th Dáil (2002)		Barry Andrews (Fianna Fáil)						Ciarán Cuffe (Green Party)		Fiona O'Malley (PD)
30th Dáil (2007)										Seán Barrett (Fine Gael)

[edit] 2007 Election result

2007 General Election: Dún Laoghaire
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Mary Hanafin	11,884	20.24	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Barry Andrews	8,587	14.62	2	2
	Labour Party	Eamon Gilmore	7,127	12.14	3	7
	Fine Gael	Seán Barrett	5,361	9.13	4	9
	Green Party	Ciarán Cuffe	4,534	7.72	5	10
	People Before Profit	Richard Boyd Barrett	5,233	8.91
	Fine Gael	Eugene Regan	4,162	7.09
	Fine Gael	John Bailey	4,309	7.34
	Progressive Democrats	Fiona O'Malley	3,959	6.74
	Labour Party	Oisín Quinn	2,265	3.86
	Sinn Féin	Eoin Ó Broin	1,292	2.20

[edit] 2002 Election result

2002 General Election: Dún Laoghaire
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Mary Hanafin	8,818	16.44	1	4
	Labour Party	Eamon Gilmore	8,271	15.42	2	8
	Progressive Democrats	Fiona O'Malley	7,166	13.36	3	11
	Fianna Fáil	Barry Andrews	7,425	13.84	4	11
	Green Party	Ciarán Cuffe	5,002	9.33	5	11
	Labour Party	Niamh Bhreathnach	3,893	7.26
	Fine Gael	Helen Keogh	3,229	6.02
	Fine Gael	Liam T. Cosgrave	3,135	5.85
	Sinn Féin	Michael O'Brien	2,159	4.03
	Fine Gael	John Bailey	1,705	3.18
	Socialist Workers	Richard Boyd Barrett	876	1.63
	Independent	Patrick O'Keefe	593	1.11
	Independent	Denis O'Buachalla	346	0.65
	Independent	Vincent MacDowell	345	0.64
	Independent	Heather Williams	319	0.59
	Christian Solidarity	Michael Redmond	265	0.49
	Independent	Barbara Hyland	86	0.16

[edit] November 1982 - 2002 full election results

Online at [2]

[edit] 1977 full election result

Quota=7,612 ^[3]

	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
Liam Cosgrave, (Fine Gael)	11024
David Andrews, (Fianna Fáil)	8754	8754
Barry Desmond, (Labour)	4642	5235	5296	6001	6081	6503	8115
Martin O'Donoghue, (Fianna Fáil)	4099	4140	4555	4593	6897	6946	7936
Una O'Higgins-O'Malley, (Independent)	3305	3412	3438	3561	3681	3884
John O'Connor, (Fianna Fáil)	1984	2017	2606	2649
Michael Carroll, (Fine Gael)	1791	2964	2993	3048	3096	5316	6117
Percy Dockrell, (Fine Gael)	1472	2886	2896	2950	2986
John Loughran, (Labour)	898	948	960
Frank Stein, (Independent)	86	87	87

[edit] Former TDs

• David Andrews (Retired 2002)
• Monica Barnes (Retired 2002)
• Seán Brady, (Retired 1965)
• Joseph Brennan (Defeated 1951)
• Lionel Booth (Retired 1969)
• Niamh Bhreathnach (Defeated 1997)
• Liam Cosgrave (Retired 1981)
• Liam T. Cosgrave (Defeated 1987)
• Barry Desmond (Retired 1989)
• Henry Percy Dockrell (Defeated 1977)
• Brian Hillery (Defeated 1992)
• Geraldine Kennedy (Defeated 1989)
• Helen Keogh (Defeated 1997)
• Martin O'Donoghue (Defeated 1982)

[edit] See also

• Politics of the Republic of Ireland
• List of political parties in Ireland
• List of Irish by-elections
• Elections in Ireland

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[edit] References