The Overall Yes vote in the Marriage Vote in Wexford was 63.6% – some 1.5%
Below is the general map of the vote with the highest Yes votes being cast in around the four larger towns.
MAP 1 – YES VOTE IN COUNTY WEXFORD
Continue reading The Marriage Equality vote in Wexford in 2015
Veteran Dublin Inner City activist and politician Christy Burke has been contesting national elections for the past forty years, but the closest the former IRA man and Concerned Parents Against Drugs activist came to being elected was in 2020 on his tenth attempt when he was beaten on the last count by 220 votes.
As a young man, Christy Burke was in the IRA and sided with the Provisionals in the 1970 split. He later spent some time in Portlaoise prison as a consequence.
His first electoral outing in Dublin Central for Sinn Féin was in February 1982, when he took 1,458 (3%) of the vote and was eliminated on the 6th count after only gaining 47 votes in the intervening counts. It has to be said by way of mitigation that he was fishing out of the same pond as the late Tony Gregory (who won a seat for the first time at this election taking 4,703 votes) and Michael White of Sinn Féin the Workers’ Party (who took 1,672 votes). Nearly 60% of his transferred votes went to Gregory (36%) and White (23%)
Continue reading Christy Burke – If at first you don’t succeed….
Neasa Hourigan has – at least temporarily – departed the Green Party fold and now represents Dublin Central as an Independent. This means the total number of years that Dublin Central has hosted a Green TD is just over two – it remains to be seen whether Hourigan will come back under the party whip to augment that total.
Dublin Central wouldn’t hitherto have been considered natural territory for the Greens as it historically has a strongly working-class population in the Inner City and in Cabra, but in the last two decades there has been an increasing younger middle-class presence.
Recently the Phoenix published an article about the possible ramifications of the census – in particular population growth – on the redrawing of boundaries when figures become available. This is particularly pertinent because of the current constitutional requirement that there be that ratio of TDs to population be no more than 1:30,000 – which limit we were only just under in 2016. The population growth since then probably means that up to 10 extras seats will be required.
I’m going to take – roughly – the possible redrawing of boundaries proscribed by the Phoenix article, and look at the possible outcomes in the two putative constituencies – which I’m calling Dublin North Central and Dublin Fingal South – that would arise from the ashes of Dublin Bay North.
Continue reading Dublin Bay North – What a (possible) Carve-Up!
The Dun Laoghaire poll-toppers in 2016.
Sitting TD Mary Mitchell-O’Connor of Fine Gael mainly to the east, Maria Bailey mainly to the west and Richard Boyd-Barrett in the working-class areas running down the middle of the constituency.
Blast from the past….
The Poll-toppers in Clare in 2002 – Tony Killen, Sile De Valera (FF), Pat Breen (FG) and James Breen (Independent, ex-FF) were all elected. Notice how intertwined Sile De Valera’s and Tony Killeen’s support bases were – you could say “indiscrete” if there were such a word.
Blast From The Past….
The Fine Gael vote in Cavan in 2002 – as can be seen their vote was strongest between Baileborough and Cavan town. Despite their two Cavan candidates polling over 9,500 votes between them compared to 6,113 for Monaghan-based Seymour Crawford, Crawford edged out Andrew Boylan by 121 votes on the last count.
Blast From The Past….
The Fianna Fail vote in Carlow in 1997 (unfortunately we don’t have the Kilkenny tallies). As can be seen, Fianna Fail were strongest in Bagenalstown (which was the base of the Nolan family, although MJ actually lived in Carlow town) and the areas to the south of it.
Tally Maps for the Donegal Constituency are now for sale on www.tallyrifficmaps.com
Each package contains a map – an example of which is shown below (Tim Jackson’s share of the Vote)
