| North-West European Parliament constituency |
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| North-West shown within Ireland | |
| Created | 2004 |
| MEP(s) | 3 |
| Member State | Ireland |
| Source(s) | [1] |
North-West is a constituency of the European Parliament in Ireland. It elects 3 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) using the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).
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The constituency was created in 2004 and is a successor to the old Connacht–Ulster constituency. For 2004 election, County Clare was moved from the Munster constituency to the new North-West constituency. For the 2009 election the counties of Longford and Westmeath were transferred from the East constituency to North-West.
It comprises the counties of Cavan, Clare, Donegal, Galway, Leitrim, Longford, Mayo, Monaghan, Roscommon, Sligo and Westmeath; and the city of Galway.[1]
| Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) for North-West 2004– | |||||||
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Key to parties
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| Parl. | Election | Member (Party) |
Member (Party) |
Member (Party) |
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| 6th | 2004[2] | Marian Harkin (Ind) |
Jim Higgins (FG) |
Seán Ó Neachtain (FF) |
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| 7th | 2009[3] | Pat the Cope Gallagher (FF) |
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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.
| 2009 European Parliament election: North-West[3][4] | |||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | % 1st Pref | Count 1 | Count 2 | Count 3 | Count 4 | Count 5 | Count 6 | |
| Independent | Marian Harkin | 17.1 | 84,813 | 89,938 | 99,561 | 103,942 | 112,210 | 121,672 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Pat the Cope Gallagher | 16.7 | 82,643 | 84,680 | 85,842 | 87,714 | 112,622 | 120,930 | |
| Fine Gael | Jim Higgins | 16.2 | 80,093 | 82,457 | 86,597 | 111,133 | 113,810 | 120,185 | |
| Libertas | Declan Ganley | 14.3 | 67,638 | 69,925 | 72,475 | 73,994 | 75,705 | 84,277 | |
| Sinn Féin | Pádraig Mac Lochlainn | 9.2 | 45,515 | 47,413 | 50,225 | 52,384 | 54,737 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Paschal Mooney | 8.7 | 42,985 | 44,719 | 45,687 | 47,702 | |||
| Fine Gael | Joe O'Reilly | 7.6 | 37,564 | 38,854 | 42,350 | ||||
| Labour Party | Susan O'Keeffe | 5.8 | 28,658 | 31,176 | |||||
| Independent | Michael McNamara | 2.6 | 12,744 | ||||||
| Independent | Fiachra Ó Luain | 1.3 | 6,510 | ||||||
| Independent | John Francis Higgins | 0.6 | 3,030 | ||||||
| Independent | Noel McCullagh | 0.4 | 1,940 | ||||||
| Independent | Thomas King | 0.2 | 1,124 | ||||||
| Electorate: 805,626 Valid: 495,257 Spoilt: 15,675 (3.1%) Quota: 123,815 Turnout: 510,932 (63.4%) | |||||||||
| 2004 European Parliament election: North-West[2] | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | % 1st Pref | Count 1 | Count 2 | Count 3 | Count 4 | Count 5 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Seán Ó Neachtain | 14.7 | 62,085 | 62,855 | 66,130 | 90,830 | 102,384 | |
| Independent | Marian Harkin | 15.8 | 66,664 | 71,458 | 76,195 | 81,610 | 100,522 | |
| Fine Gael | Jim Higgins | 14.1 | 56,396 | 61,262 | 78,938 | 81,623 | 92,657 | |
| Sinn Féin | Pearse Doherty | 15.5 | 65,321 | 68,412 | 70,309 | 76,315 | 85,996 | |
| Independent | Dana Rosemary Scallon | 13.5 | 56,992 | 58,774 | 66,739 | 72,889 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Jim McDaid | 12.4 | 52,139 | 52,938 | 54,654 | |||
| Fine Gael | Madeleine Taylor-Quinn | 9.9 | 41,570 | 43,093 | ||||
| Labour Party | Hughie Baxter | 3.3 | 13,948 | |||||
| Independent | Mary Hainsworth | 0.8 | 3,308 | |||||
| Electorate: 688,804 Valid: 421,423 Spoilt: 14,487 (3.3%) Quota: 105,356 Turnout: 435,910 (63.3%) | ||||||||
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