Kildare North (Dáil constituency)
| Kildare North | |
|---|---|
Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Constituency | |
 Location of Kildare North within Ireland | |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1997 |
| Seats | 3 (1997–2007) 4 (2007–present) |
| TDs |
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| County council | Kildare County Council |
| EP constituency | Midlands–North-West |
Kildare North is a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency elects 4 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs). The method of election is the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).
Contents
1 History and boundaries
2 TDs
3 Elections
3.1 2016 general election
3.2 2011 general election
3.3 2007 general election
3.4 2005 by-election
3.5 2002 general election
3.6 1997 general election
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
History and boundaries
The constituency was created for the 1997 general election, when the former 5 seat Kildare constituency was divided into Kildare North and Kildare South. At the 1997 and 2002 elections, Kildare North was a 3-seat constituency, but it was allocated an extra seat for the 2007 general election
The Kildare North constituency spans the more densely populated north-eastern corner of County Kildare, taking in the towns of Celbridge, Clane, Leixlip, Maynooth and Naas.[1]
The Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2017 defines the constituency as:[2]
- "In the county of Kildare the electoral divisions of:
- Balraheen, Celbridge, Cloncurry, Donadea, Donaghcumper, Kilcock, Leixlip, Maynooth, Straffan, in the former Rural District of Celbridge No. 1;
- Ballynadrumny, Cadamstown, Dunfierth, in the former Rural District of Edenderry No. 2;
- Bodenstown, Clane, Downings, Kill, Kilteel, Naas Rural, Newtown, Oughterard, Rathmore, Timahoe North, in the former Rural District of Naas No. 1;
- and Naas Urban."
TDs
Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Kildare North 1997– | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Key to parties
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| Dáil | Election | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | ||||
| 28th | 1997[3] | Emmet Stagg (Lab) | Charlie McCreevy (FF) | Bernard Durkan (FG) | 3 seats until 2007 | ||||
| 29th | 2002[4] | ||||||||
2005 by-election[5] | Catherine Murphy (Ind) | ||||||||
| 30th | 2007[6] | Áine Brady (FF) | Michael Fitzpatrick (FF) | ||||||
| 31st | 2011[7] | Catherine Murphy (Ind) | Anthony Lawlor (FG) | ||||||
| 32nd | 2016[8] | James Lawless (FF) | Catherine Murphy (SD) | Frank O'Rourke (FF) | |||||
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.
Elections
2016 general election
2016 general election: Kildare North[8] | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | % 1st Pref | Count 1 | Count 2 | Count 3 | Count 4 | Count 5 | Count 6 | Count 7 | Count 8 | Count 9 | |
Social Democrats | Catherine Murphy | 22.70% | 11,108 | | | | | | | | | |
Fianna Fáil | James Lawless | 15.25% | 7,461 | 7,592 | 7,696 | 7,737 | 7,919 | 8,003 | 8,256 | 8,850 | 9,444 | |
Fine Gael | Bernard Durkan | 12.56% | 6,147 | 6,268 | 6,302 | 6,322 | 6,472 | 6,531 | 6,740 | 6,974 | 8,890 | |
Fianna Fáil | Frank O'Rourke | 12.96% | 6,341 | 6,486 | 6,528 | 6,562 | 6,711 | 6,879 | 7,138 | 7,684 | 8,479 | |
Fine Gael | Anthony Lawlor | 11.05% | 5,406 | 5,490 | 5,544 | 5,572 | 5,714 | 5,767 | 6,046 | 6,213 | 7,402 | |
Labour Party | Emmet Stagg | 8.35% | 4,087 | 4,288 | 4,349 | 4,408 | 4,488 | 4,632 | 5,181 | 5,775 | | |
Sinn Féin | Réada Cronin | 6.55% | 3,205 | 3,323 | 3,390 | 3,621 | 3,708 | 4,146 | 4,497 | | | |
Green Party | Maebh Ní Fhallúin | 3.03% | 1,485 | 1,649 | 1,715 | 1,804 | 2,020 | 2,419 | | | | |
Independent | Brendan Young | 2.45% | 1,200 | 1,323 | 1,467 | 1,737 | 1,858 | | | | | |
Renua | Shane Fitzgerald | 2.03% | 994 | 1,086 | 1,154 | 1,236 | | | | | | |
AAA–PBP | Ashling Merriman | 1.60% | 781 | 873 | 943 | | | | | | | |
Independent | Michael Beirne | 0.76% | 372 | 389 | | | | | | | | |
Independent | Gerard Dunne | 0.51% | 249 | 261 | | | | | | | | |
Independent | Elizabeth O'Sullivan | 0.20% | 99 | 119 | | | | | | | | |
Electorate: 77,609 Valid: 48,935 Spoilt: 291 (0.59%) Quota: 9,788 Turnout: 49,226 (63.43%) | ||||||||||||
2011 general election
2011 general election: Kildare North[7] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | % 1st Pref | Count 1 | Count 2 | Count 3 | Count 4 | Count 5 | |
Fine Gael | Bernard Durkan | 19.9 | 10,168 | 10,420 | | | | |
Labour Party | Emmet Stagg | 19.0 | 9,718 | 9,976 | 10,264 | | | |
Independent | Catherine Murphy | 13.5 | 6,911 | 7,474 | 7,696 | 8,716 | 11,639 | |
Fine Gael | Anthony Lawlor | 13.4 | 6,882 | 7,074 | 7,283 | 7,667 | 9,088 | |
Fianna Fáil | Áine Brady | 9.3 | 4,777 | 4,910 | 6,627 | 6,821 | 7,288 | |
Labour Party | John McGinley | 10.3 | 5,261 | 5,489 | 5,590 | 6,449 | | |
Sinn Féin | Martin Kelly | 5.7 | 2,896 | 3,043 | 3,111 | | | |
Fianna Fáil | Michael Fitzpatrick | 5.2 | 2,659 | 2,714 | | | | |
Green Party | Shane Fitzgerald | 1.8 | 905 | | | | | |
Independent | Eric Doyle-Higgins | 0.8 | 423 | | | | | |
Independent | Michael Beirne | 0.8 | 422 | | | | | |
Independent | Bart Murphy | 0.4 | 200 | | | | | |
Electorate: 76,773 Valid: 51,222 Spoilt: 388 (0.8%) Quota: 10,245 Turnout: 51,610 (67.2%) | ||||||||
2007 general election
2007 general election: Kildare North[6] | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | % 1st Pref | Count 1 | Count 2 | Count 3 | Count 4 | Count 5 | Count 6 | |
Fianna Fáil | Áine Brady | 24.9 | 11,245 | | | | | | |
Labour Party | Emmet Stagg | 17.4 | 7,882 | 8,063 | 8,107 | 8,468 | 9,220 | | |
Fianna Fáil | Michael Fitzpatrick | 14.6 | 6,606 | 8,113 | 8,151 | 8,817 | 9,097 | | |
Fine Gael | Bernard Durkan | 11.8 | 5,340 | 5,427 | 5,471 | 5,663 | 5,912 | 9,229 | |
Independent | Catherine Murphy | 11.5 | 5,188 | 5,339 | 5,474 | 5,881 | 6,733 | 7,652 | |
Fine Gael | Darren Scully | 9.4 | 4,250 | 4,306 | 4,332 | 4,489 | 4,832 | | |
Green Party | Shane Fitzgerald | 4.9 | 2,215 | 2,289 | 2,342 | 2,668 | | | |
Sinn Féin | Cristin McCauley | 2.4 | 1,103 | 1,135 | 1,154 | | | | |
Progressive Democrats | Jeff Aherne | 2.1 | 983 | 1,083 | 1,103 | | | | |
Independent | John Corish | 0.5 | 234 | 244 | | | | | |
Independent | Gerry Browne | 0.3 | 145 | 153 | | | | | |
Electorate: 71,311 Valid: 45,191 Spoilt: 232 (0.5%) Quota: 9,039 Turnout: 45,423 (63.7%) | |||||||||
2005 by-election
2005 by-election: Kildare North[5] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | % 1st Pref | Count 1 | Count 2 | Count 3 | Count 4 | Count 5 | |
Independent | Catherine Murphy | 23.6 | 5,985 | 6,189 | 7,176 | 8,809 | 12,256 | |
Fianna Fáil | Áine Brady | 24.5 | 6,201 | 6,255 | 7,265 | 8,133 | 9,818 | |
Fine Gael | Darren Scully | 18.3 | 4,630 | 4,660 | 5,382 | 7,421 | | |
Labour Party | Paddy MacNamara | 17.8 | 4,507 | 4,545 | 5,199 | | | |
Progressive Democrats | Kate Walsh | 7.9 | 2,006 | 2,023 | | | | |
Green Party | J. J. Power | 6.1 | 1,547 | 1,621 | | | | |
Independent | Gerry Browne | 0.9 | 226 | | | | | |
Independent | Seanán Ó Coistín | 0.8 | 211 | | | | | |
Electorate: 65,080 Valid: 25,313 Spoilt: 211 (0.8%) Quota: 12,657 Turnout: 25,524 (39.2%) | ||||||||
2002 general election
2002 general election: Kildare North[4] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | % 1st Pref | Count 1 | Count 2 | Count 3 | Count 4 | Count 5 | |
Fianna Fáil | Charlie McCreevy | 27.5 | 9,082 | | | | | |
Labour Party | Emmet Stagg | 21.4 | 7,051 | 7,168 | 8,005 | 9,472 | | |
Fine Gael | Bernard Durkan | 17.5 | 5,786 | 5,859 | 6,177 | 7,341 | 8,025 | |
Fianna Fáil | Paul Kelly | 15.7 | 5,168 | 5,681 | 5,923 | 7,382 | 7,890 | |
Progressive Democrats | Kate Walsh | 11.9 | 3,919 | 4,027 | 4,473 | | | |
Green Party | Anne Kelly McCormack | 6.0 | 1,974 | 1,999 | | | | |
Electorate: 60,094 Valid: 32,980 Spoilt: 291 (0.9%) Quota: 8,246 Turnout: 33,271 (55.4%) | ||||||||
1997 general election
1997 general election: Kildare North[3] | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
Fine Gael | Bernard Durkan | 6,653 | 21.2 | 1 | 3 | |
Fianna Fáil | Charlie McCreevy | 6,905 | 21.9 | 2 | 4 | |
Labour Party | Emmet Stagg | 5,964 | 19.0 | 3 | 5 | |
Fianna Fáil | Paul Kelly | 4,039 | 12.9 | |||
Democratic Left | Catherine Murphy | 2,762 | 8.8 | |||
Progressive Democrats | Timmy Conway | 2,101 | 6.7 | |||
Fine Gael | Mary French | 1,569 | 5.0 | |||
Green Party | Sean English | 1,403 | 4.5 | |||
Electorate: 52,388 Valid: 31,396 Spoilt: 295 (0.9%) Quota: 7,850 Turnout: 31,691 (60.5%) | ||||||
See also
- Dáil constituencies
- Elections in the Republic of Ireland
- Politics of the Republic of Ireland
- List of Dáil by-elections
- List of political parties in the Republic of Ireland
References
^ "Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013: Schedule". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 4 February 2016..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output .citation qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-maintdisplay:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em
^ "Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2017: Schedule". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
^ ab "General election 1997: Kildare North". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 17 February 2009.
^ ab "General election 2002: Kildare North". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 17 February 2009.
^ ab "By-election 2005: Kildare North". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 17 February 2009.
^ ab "General election 2007: Kildare North". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 17 February 2009.
^ ab "General election 2011: Kildare North". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
^ ab "General election 2016: Kildare North". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
External links
- Oireachtas Members Database
