Dublin (European Parliament constituency)

Dublin is a constituency of the European Parliament in Ireland. It elects 4 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) using proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (STV).

Dublin
European Parliament constituency
Location among the current constituencies
Dublin shown within Ireland
Member state	Ireland
Created	1979
MEPs	4 (1979–2009) 3 (2009–2020) 4 (2020–)
Sources

History and boundaries

The constituency was created in 1979 for the first direct elections to the European Parliament.[1] From 1979 to 1994, it comprised County Dublin and the city of Dublin. Since 1994 it comprises the same area redefined as the counties of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Fingal, South Dublin and the city of Dublin.[2]

From 1979 to 2004, it elected 4 MEPs; this was reduced to 3 for the 2009 election. For the 2019 European Parliament election, a reapportionment following Brexit and the loss of 73 MEPs from the United Kingdom gave two additional seats to Ireland. Following a recommendation of the Constituency Commission, Dublin gained an extra seat, from 3 to 4. However, the last candidate elected will not take their seat until after the United Kingdom has withdrawn from the European Union.[3][4][5][2][6]

Elections	Seats
1979, 1984, 1989, 1994, 1999, 2004	4[1][7][8]
2009, 2014	3[9][10]
2019	4[nb 1]

MEPs

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) for Dublin 1979–
Key to parties   DL = Democratic Left   FF = Fianna Fáil   FG = Fine Gael   GP = Green Party   I4C = Inds. 4 Change   Lab = Labour Party   SF = Sinn Féin   SP = Socialist Party   WP = Workers' Party
Parl.	Election	Member (Party)		Member (Party)		Member (Party)		Member (Party)
1st	1979[11]		John O'Connell (Lab)		Richie Ryan (FG)		Michael O'Leary (Lab)		Síle de Valera (FF)
	1981[nb 2]		John Horgan (Lab)
	1981[nb 3]						Frank Cluskey (Lab)
	1983[nb 2]		Flor O'Mahony (Lab)
	1983[nb 3]						Brendan Halligan (Lab)
2nd	1984[12]		Eileen Lemass (FF)				Mary Banotti (FG)		Niall Andrews (FF)
	1986[nb 4]				Chris O'Malley (FG)
3rd	1989[13]		Proinsias De Rossa (WP)		Barry Desmond (Lab)
	1992[nb 5]		Des Geraghty (DL)
4th	1994[14]		Patricia McKenna (GP)		Bernie Malone (Lab)
5th	1999[15]				Proinsias De Rossa (Lab)
6th	2004[16]		Mary Lou McDonald (SF)				Gay Mitchell (FG)		Eoin Ryan (FF)
7th	2009[17]		Joe Higgins (SP)					3 seats 2009–2020
	2011[nb 6]		Paul Murphy (SP)
	2012[nb 7]				Emer Costello (Lab)
8th	2014[18]		Lynn Boylan (SF)		Nessa Childers (Ind)		Brian Hayes (FG)
9th	2019[19]		Ciarán Cuffe (GP)		Clare Daly (I4C)		Frances Fitzgerald (FG)		Barry Andrews[nb 1] (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

2019 election

2019 European Parliament election: Dublin[20][21]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10	Count 11	Count 12	Count 13	Count 14	Count 15	Count 16
	Green Party	Ciarán Cuffe	17.5	63,849	63,895	63,997	64,314	64,406	64,588	64,853	65,291	65,683	66,370	69,282	71,255	73,028
	Fine Gael	Frances Fitzgerald	16.2	59,067	59,089	59,135	59,250	59,317	59,375	59,448	59,575	59,724	60,062	61,528	61,880	72,446	78,580
	Fianna Fáil	Barry Andrews[nb 1]	14.1	51,420	51,446	51,506	51,599	51,708	51,913	51,997	52,078	52,451	53,159	53,980	54,418	56,110	59,619	63,177	68,952
	Inds. 4 Change	Clare Daly	11.6	42,305	42,344	42,391	42,533	42,673	42,744	43,400	44,159	45,570	46,850	48,559	52,382	52,930	55,752	65,683	87,770
	Sinn Féin	Lynn Boylan	10.8	39,387	39,428	39,457	39,526	39,646	39,701	40,045	40,470	41,786	42,317	42,873	45,216	45,552	46,704	51,632
	Social Democrats	Gary Gannon	5.6	20,331	20,360	20,398	20,507	20,578	20,647	21,002	21,561	22,054	22,426	24,051	25,502	25,915	29,720
	Labour Party	Alex White	5.0	18,293	18,312	18,350	18,414	18,445	18,513	18,942	19,088	19,226	19,661	20,905	21,303	22,205
	Fine Gael	Mark Durkan	4.5	16,473	16,488	16,534	16,562	16,637	16,704	16,733	16,778	16,875	17,144	17,480	17,649
	People Before Profit	Gillian Brien	3.0	10,864	10,896	10,918	10,968	11,006	11,036	11,370	13,134	13,584	13,912	14,358
	Independent	Alice Mary Higgins	3.0	10,846	10,867	10,907	11,045	11,129	11,228	11,434	11,751	12,039	12,887
	Independent	Ben Gilroy	2.1	7,594	7,627	7,648	7,689	8,051	8,450	8,511	8,609
	Independent	Gemma O'Doherty	1.8	6,659	6,689	6,782	6,867	7,594	8,451	8,661	8,768	10,622
	Solidarity	Rita Harrold	1.4	4,967	4,999	5,028	5,088	5,125	5,171	5,607
	Workers' Party	Éilis Ryan	1.0	3,701	3,722	3,745	3,784	3,817	3,895
	Independent	Eamonn Murphy	0.7	2,519	2,575	2,666	2,750	2,915
	Independent	Hermann Kelly	0.7	2,441	2,473	2,506	2,539
	Independent	Aisling McNiffe	0.4	1,572	1,641	1,690
	Independent	Mark Mullan	0.3	932	969
	Independent	Tony Bosco Lowth	0.2	727
Electorate: 884,118   Valid: 363,947   Spoilt: 15,345 (4.1%)   Quota: 72,790   Turnout: 379,292 (42.9%)

The count was suspended overnight after count 14 to clarify whether Lynn Boylan's votes should be redistributed between the two continuing candidates, Barry Andrews and Clare Daly.[23][24] The usual count rules had been amended so the practice of deeming candidates elected without reaching the quota would not apply.[25] This gives a more precise ordering between the final candidates to be elected, which is important in 2019 because the last candidate elected could not take their seat until the reallocation of seats in the European Parliament which took place when Brexit had taken effect and the MEPs elected for the United Kingdom vacated their seats on 31 January 2020.[22]

2014 election

2014 European Parliament election: Dublin[18]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
	Sinn Féin	Lynn Boylan	23.6	83,264	84,289	89,764
	Fine Gael	Brian Hayes	15.5	54,676	55,132	55,656	63,591	65,132	73,317	73,405
	Fianna Fáil	Mary Fitzpatrick	12.6	44,283	44,954	45,779	48,360	50,585
	Green Party	Eamon Ryan	12.5	44,078	45,173	47,256	53,179	59,803	71,909	72,256
	Independent	Nessa Childers	10.2	35,939	37,706	41,787	46,531	59,955	72,413	73,598
	Socialist Party	Paul Murphy	8.5	29,953	31,310	39,313	41,373
	Labour Party	Emer Costello	7.4	25,961	26,232	27,194
	People Before Profit	Bríd Smith	6.8	23,875	25,539
	Direct Democracy	Tom D'Arcy	1.1	4,022
	Direct Democracy	Raymond Whitehead	0.9	3,133
	Independent	Jim Tallon	0.6	2,244
	Fís Nua	Damon Wise	0.3	1,147
Electorate: 820,668   Valid: 352,575   Spoilt: 6,368 (1.8%)   Quota: 88,144   Turnout: 358,943 (43.7%)

2009 election

Posters in Upper Leeson Street for candidates in the Euro and local elections

2009 European Parliament election: Dublin[17][26]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
	Fine Gael	Gay Mitchell	23.8	96,715	99,098	100,810	104,413
	Labour Party	Proinsias De Rossa[nb 7]	20.5	83,471	85,217	87,274	94,306	95,636	103,225
	Fianna Fáil	Eoin Ryan	13.6	55,346	56,317	66,205	68,517	69,122	71,530	76,956
	Socialist Party	Joe Higgins[nb 6]	12.4	50,510	52,457	53,038	55,116	55,351	60,165	82,366
	Sinn Féin	Mary Lou McDonald	11.8	47,928	50,097	50,980	52,447	52,529	55,429
	Green Party	Déirdre de Búrca	4.7	19,086	20,226	21,991
	Fianna Fáil	Eibhlin Byrne	4.7	18,956	19,448
	Independent	Patricia McKenna	4.3	17,521	21,523	22,380	25,213	25,636
	Libertas	Caroline Simons	3.3	13,514
	Independent	Emmanuel Sweeney	0.9	3,583
Electorate: 812,465   Valid: 406,630   Spoilt: 6,054 (1.5%)   Quota: 101,658   Turnout: 412,684 (50.8%)

For the 2009 election, the constituency was reduced from 4 seats to 3.

2004 election

2004 European Parliament election: Dublin[16]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6
	Fine Gael	Gay Mitchell	21.5	90,749
	Fianna Fáil	Eoin Ryan	14.6	61,681	62,939	64,876	65,923	85,810
	Sinn Féin	Mary Lou McDonald	14.3	60,395	60,689	62,030	68,355	72,153	76,543
	Labour Party	Proinsias De Rossa	12.9	54,344	56,243	57,466	62,424	66,570	96,094
	Labour Party	Ivana Bacik	9.7	40,707	41,703	42,624	45,413	47,520
	Green Party	Patricia McKenna	9.6	40,445	41,506	44,684	49,101	51,892	59,543
	Fianna Fáil	Royston Brady	8.6	36,269	36,593	37,423	38,324
	Socialist Party	Joe Higgins	5.5	23,218	23,460	24,541
	Christian Solidarity	Barry Despard	1.3	5,352	5,443
	Independent	Brendan Price	1.1	4,813	4,931
	Independent	Tom Prendeville	0.5	2,071	2,124
	Independent	Paul Doonan	0.4	1,853	1,886
Electorate: 821,723   Valid: 421,897   Spoilt: 13,239 (3.0%)   Quota: 84,380   Turnout: 435,136 (52.9%)

1999 election

1999 European Parliament election: Dublin[15]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8
	Fine Gael	Mary Banotti	20.2	56,593
	Fianna Fáil	Niall Andrews	15.7	44,176	44,731	45,967	46,481	47,931	50,439	71,423
	Green Party	Patricia McKenna	12.7	35,659	37,988	39,818	43,662	48,299	54,883	56,992
	Labour Party	Proinsias De Rossa	10.2	28,748	29,522	29,882	31,849	37,820	41,605	43,536	47,018
	Fine Gael	Jim Mitchell	9.9	27,873	28,483	30,402	31,296	33,845	34,942	37,051	41,489
	Fianna Fáil	Ben Briscoe	8.9	25,065	25,457	26,917	27,322	27,727	29,616
	Sinn Féin	Seán Crowe	6.6	18,633	19,070	19,735	21,147	21,703
	Labour Party	Bernie Malone	5.7	15,890	16,570	16,982	18,272
	Socialist Party	Joe Higgins	3.8	10,619	11,360	11,697
	Christian Solidarity	Gerard Casey	3.4	9,425	9,867
	Independent	Ciaran Goulding	2.0	5,546
	Independent	Adam Goodwin	0.5	1,438
	Natural Law	John Burns	0.4	1,006
Electorate: 793,200   Valid: 280,671   Spoilt: 6,013 (2.1%)   Quota: 56,135   Turnout: 286,684 (36.1%)

1994 election

1994 European Parliament election: Dublin[27][28]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10	Count 11	Count 12
	Green Party	Patricia McKenna	14.5	40,388	40,928	42,548	45,348	46,058	47,551	49,999	50,879	54,933	57,749
	Fine Gael	Mary Banotti	13.7	38,053	38,160	38,898	38,984	39,857	41,999	42,461	42,965	43,839	46,521	47,032	53,897
	Fianna Fáil	Niall Andrews	13.3	36,877	36,935	37,553	38,133	41,272	41,771	42,795	53,466	54,778	56,904
	Fine Gael	Jim Mitchell	10.1	28,116	28,180	28,827	28,981	29,243	30,704	32,199	33,037	35,006	36,037	36,210	42,112
	Democratic Left	Pat Rabbitte	8.7	24,133	24,219	24,645	25,206	25,460	26,636	27,054	27,532	31,500	33,677	34,210
	Labour Party	Bernie Malone	8.1	22,419	22,510	22,878	23,393	24,088	24,813	25,257	26,269	28,748	36,724	37,352	47,696
	Labour Party	Orla Guerin	6.0	16,674	16,765	16,962	17,303	17,977	18,311	18,527	18,929	20,225
	Workers' Party	Tomás Mac Giolla	5.7	15,830	15,965	16,249	17,338	17,547	17,763	18,211	18,579
	Fianna Fáil	John Stafford	4.6	12,811	12,838	13,178	13,661	14,959	15,170	16,349
	Independent	Eamonn Murphy	3.4	9,296	9,385	9,968	10,360	10,431	10,567
	Fianna Fáil	Olive Braiden	3.0	8,237	8,274	8,419	8,573
	Progressive Democrats	Stephen O'Byrnes	3.0	8,212	8,254	8,739	8,828	8,939
	Sinn Féin	Larry O'Toole	3.0	8,190	8,228	8,356
	Independent	Paddy Madigan	2.5	6,903	7,106
	Natural Law	John Burns	0.6	1,705
Electorate: 755,486   Valid: 277,844   Spoilt: 2,917 (1.0%)   Quota: 55,569   Turnout: 280,761 (37.2%)

1989 election

1989 European Parliament election: Dublin[29][30]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6
	Fianna Fáil	Niall Andrews	16.1	72,057	73,032	74,007	76,866	80,010	85,561
	Workers' Party	Proinsias De Rossa[nb 5]	15.8	71,041	73,856	74,921	80,475	85,343	97,001
	Fianna Fáil	Eileen Lemass	13.0	58,345	59,181	59,892	62,096	65,760	70,917
	Labour Party	Barry Desmond	12.8	57,225	58,185	60,550	64,322	72,096	82,264
	Fine Gael	Mary Banotti	11.3	50,666	50,952	66,176	68,973	83,489	93,420
	Green Party	Trevor Sargent	8.3	37,317	39,602	40,767	46,912	51,199
	Progressive Democrats	Mary Harney	8.1	36,402	36,773	40,229	42,371
	Fine Gael	Chris O'Malley	5.9	26,574	26,895
	Independent	Raymond Crotty	5.7	25,525	27,854	28,413
	Sinn Féin	Ann Speed	2.6	11,582
	Independent	Tim Cahill	0.4	1,668
Electorate: 711,416   Valid: 448,402   Spoilt: 7,137 (1.6%)   Quota: 89,681   Turnout: 455,539 (64.0%)

1984 election

1984 European Parliament election: Dublin[31][32]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8
	Fine Gael	Richie Ryan[nb 4]	16.6	47,014	47,386	47,785	49,572	49,814	53,043	54,432	55,758
	Fine Gael	Mary Banotti	15.1	42,660	43,271	44,064	46,654	46,921	50,569	52,559	53,314
	Fianna Fáil	Niall Andrews	11.5	32,512	32,692	32,836	33,836	34,639	36,673	38,862	51,945
	Fianna Fáil	Eileen Lemass	11.1	31,350	31,483	31,590	31,890	33,011	34,902	36,834	53,903
	Fianna Fáil	Jim Tunney	10.8	30,488	30,588	30,641	30,845	31,969	33,492	35,305
	Labour Party	Frank Cluskey	10.0	28,384	28,846	29,834	30,902	31,984	35,685	47,051	48,454
	Workers' Party	Des Geraghty	6.9	19,590	20,080	21,096	21,732	26,135	29,300
	Independent	Seán Dublin Bay Loftus	6.2	17,385	18,498	19,796	21,576	23,295
	Sinn Féin	John Noonan	5.2	14,604	14,730	14,844	14,959
	Independent	Shane Ross	2.9	8,099	8,702	9,605
	Democratic Socialist	John de Courcy Ireland	1.9	5,350	6,122
	Green Party	Christopher Fettes	1.9	5,242
Electorate: 704,873   Valid: 282,678   Spoilt: 6,153 (2.1%)   Quota: 56,536   Turnout: 288,831 (41.0%)

1979 election

1979 European Parliament election: Dublin[33][34]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10
	Fine Gael	Richie Ryan	16.4	48,411	48,434	48,591	48,907	49,279	49,969	55,818	59,642
	Labour Party	John O'Connell[nb 2]	15.2	44,832	44,896	48,028	48,428	52,880	53,399	54,757	60,855
	Fianna Fáil	Síle de Valera	14.0	41,357	41,439	41,703	45,052	45,638	51,699	52,251	54,838	79,172
	Labour Party	Michael O'Leary[nb 3]	11.7	34,511	34,548	35,981	36,306	38,353	38,760	39,946	43,598	44,687	47,085
	Fine Gael	Nuala Fennell	9.1	26,951	27,032	28,052	28,229	28,679	29,047	34,064	38,980	39,974	42,824
	Independent	Seán Dublin Bay Rockall Loftus	7.4	21,769	21,994	22,644	22,870	24,655	25,164	25,991
	Fianna Fáil	Ruairí Brugha	7.4	21,758	21,798	21,876	23,066	23,326	28,403	28,555	30,099
	Fine Gael	Maurice Manning	4.8	14,296	14,326	14,575	14,764	15,142	15,464
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Yeats	4.3	12,715	12,729	12,779	14,402	14,543
	Sinn Féin - The Workers' Party	Tomás Mac Giolla	4.0	11,915	11,986	12,444	12,563
	Fianna Fáil	Joe Fox	2.8	8,178	8,199	8,365
	Labour Party	Jane Dillon Byrne	2.6	7,807	7,968
	Independent	Kevin Clear	0.3	915
Electorate: 618,454   Valid: 295,415   Spoilt: 8,653 (2.9%)   Quota: 59,084   Turnout: 304,068 (49.2%)

See also

• European Parliament constituencies in the Republic of Ireland

Notes

1. Barry Andrews, the fourth candidate elected in 2019, did not take his seat until the UK left the EU and its MEPs vacated their seats on 31 January 2020.[22][23]
2. John O'Connell was substituted by John Horgan (LAB / PES) on 21 October 1981. John Horgan resigned on 1 January 1983 and was substituted by Flor O'Mahony (LAB / PES) on 2 March 1983.
3. Michael O'Leary was substituted by Frank Cluskey (LAB / PES) on 1 July 1981. Frank Cluskey was substituted by Brendan Halligan (LAB / PES) on 2 March 1983.
4. Richie Ryan was substituted by Chris O'Malley (FG / EPP) on 3 June 1986.
5. Proinsias De Rossa was substituted by Des Geraghty (DL / EUL) on 18 February 1992.
6. Joe Higgins was substituted by Paul Murphy (SP / GUE/NGL) on 1 April 2011.
7. Proinsias De Rossa was substituted by Emer Costello (LAB / S&D) in February 2012.

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External links

• Dublin MEPs – European Parliament Office in Ireland
• https://www.europarl.europa.eu/ireland/en/your-meps/irish-meps-1973-2019