Dublin Mid-West (Dáil constituency)

Dublin Mid-West 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).

Dublin Mid-West
Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Constituency
Location of Dublin Mid-West within County Dublin
Current constituency
Created	2002
Seats	3 (2002–2007) 4 (2007–)
TDs	Gino Kenny (S–PBP)      Emer Higgins (FG)      Eoin Ó Broin (SF)      Mark Ward (SF)
County council	South Dublin County Council
EP constituency	Dublin

History and boundaries

The constituency was created for the 2002 general election, composed of parts of the Dublin South-West and Dublin West constituencies. It contains the areas of Clondalkin, Lucan, Rathcoole and Saggart.[1] The constituency review of 2004 recommended that the town of Palmerstown was incorporated into Dublin Mid-West (having been in Dublin West), and this was implemented in the Electoral (Amendment) Act 2005.[2] The constituency elected 3 TDs in 2002, and gained a fourth seat at the 2007 general election.

The Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013 defines the constituency as:[3]

"In the county of South Dublin the electoral divisions of:

Clondalkin-Cappaghmore, Clondalkin-Dunawley, Clondalkin-Moorfield, Clondalkin-Rowlagh, Clondalkin Village, Lucan-Esker, Lucan Heights, Lucan-St. Helens, Newcastle, Palmerston Village, Palmerston West, Rathcoole, Saggart;

and that part of the electoral division of Clondalkin-Monastery situated west of a line drawn along the M50 Western Parkway."

TDs

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Dublin Mid-West 2002–
Key to parties   AAA–PBP = AAA–PBP   FF = Fianna Fáil   FG = Fine Gael   GP = Green Party   Lab = Labour Party   PD = Progressive Democrats   SF = Sinn Féin   S–PBP = Solidarity–PBP
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
29th	2002[4]		Paul Gogarty (GP)	3 seats 2002–2007		John Curran (FF)		Mary Harney (PD)
30th	2007[5]								Joanna Tuffy (Lab)
31st	2011[6]		Robert Dowds (Lab)			Frances Fitzgerald (FG)		Derek Keating (FG)
32nd	2016[7]		Gino Kenny (AAA–PBP)				Eoin Ó Broin (SF)		John Curran (FF)
	2019 by-election[8]					Mark Ward (SF)
33rd	2020		Gino Kenny (S–PBP)						Emer Higgins (FG)

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

2020 general election

2020 general election: Dublin Mid-West[9][10]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9
	Sinn Féin	Eoin Ó Broin	26.1	11,842
	Sinn Féin	Mark Ward	16.7	7,621	9,808
	Fianna Fáil	John Curran	10.8	4,931	4,980	4,997	5,449	5,555	5,704	6,049	6,454	7,383
	Fine Gael	Emer Higgins	9.9	4,487	4,514	4,526	4,571	4,651	4,879	5,370	8,230	9,735
	Solidarity–PBP	Gino Kenny[n 1]	7.9	3,572	3,819	4,228	4,416	4,871	5,115	6,153	6,302	8,089
	Fine Gael	Vicki Casserly	7.7	3,501	3,518	3,529	3,582	3,616	3,835	4,208
	Independent	Paul Gogarty	6.5	2,950	2,994	3,049	3,186	3,427	3,784	4,836	5,412
	Green Party	Peter Kavanagh	6.1	2,785	2,855	2,924	3,031	3,229	3,669
	Labour Party	Joanna Tuffy	3.4	1,541	1,573	1,599	1,679	1,751
	Independent	Francis Timmons	2.4	1,103	1,160	1,238	1,299
	Fianna Fáil	Catriona McClean	1.5	667	674	677
	Workers' Party	David Gardiner	1.0	452	466	503
Electorate: 74,506   Valid: 45,452   Spoilt: 480 (1.0%)   Quota: 9,091   Turnout: 45,932 (61.5%)

1. People Before Profit, Solidarity and RISE contested this election as Solidarity–People Before Profit, so candidates appeared on the ballot under this name. Kenny was a member of People Before Profit.

2019 by-election

A by-election was held in the constituency on 29 November 2019, to fill the seat vacated by Frances Fitzgerald on her election to the European Parliament in May 2019.[11]

2019 by-election: Dublin Mid-West [12]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9
	Sinn Féin	Mark Ward	24.0	4,622	4,729	4,812	5,228	5,426	5,616	6,293	6,652	7,669
	Fine Gael	Emer Higgins	18.6	3,576	3,603	3,703	3,748	3,959	4,362	4,583	5,287	7,144
	Independent	Paul Gogarty	12.7	2,435	2,557	2,680	2,840	3,176	3,731	4,099	5,063
	Fianna Fáil	Shane Moynihan	11.8	2,264	2,304	2,360	2,394	2,564	2,758	2,894
	Independent	Francis Timmons	6.8	1,299	1,365	1,442	1,590	1,807	1,929
	Labour Party	Joanna Tuffy	6.7	1,294	1,333	1,442	1,547	1,775
	Green Party	Peter Kavanagh	6.4	1,222	1,268	1,393	1,544
	Solidarity–PBP	Kellie Sweeney	5.1	983	1,138	1,281
	Social Democrats	Anne-Marie McNally	4.1	788	845
	Workers' Party	David Gardiner	1.6	317
	Inds. 4 Change	Ruth Nolan	1.4	271
	Independent	Charlie Keddy	0.5	95
	Independent	Peter Madden	0.4	71
Electorate: 73,152   Valid: 19,237   Spoilt: 210 (0.3%)   Quota: 9,619   Turnout: 19,447 (26.6%)

2016 general election

2016 general election: Dublin Mid-West[13][14][7]
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
	Sinn Féin	Eoin Ó Broin	22.7	9,782
	Fine Gael	Frances Fitzgerald	20.9	9,028
	Fianna Fáil	John Curran	16.2	6,971	7,054	7,109	7,114	7,145	7,180	7,218	7,274	7,383	7,685	8,287	9,497
	People Before Profit	Gino Kenny	10.7	4,629	5,257	5,270	5,321	5,331	5,397	5,474	5,791	6,331	6,542	7,498	7,911
	Social Democrats	Anne-Marie McNally	6.1	2,633	2,730	2,747	2,766	2,773	2,804	2,867	3,048	3,235	3,679	4,460	5,320
	Independent	Paul Gogarty	5.9	2,522	2,593	2,623	2,646	2,658	2,700	2,741	2,863	3,164	3,505
	Fine Gael	Derek Keating	5.4	2,337	2,356	2,549	2,559	2,603	2,636	2,653	2,696	2,725	3,640	4,179
	Labour Party	Joanna Tuffy	5.0	2,146	2,175	2,252	2,259	2,311	2,342	2,355	2,475	2,515
	Independent	Francis Timmons	2.5	1,085	1,195	1,200	1,210	1,214	1,233	1,318	1,422
	Workers' Party	Lorraine Hennessey	1.2	502	553	555	568	570	584	613
	Green Party	Tom Kivlehan	0.9	388	405	410	413	417	430	443
	Independent	Clare Leonard	0.8	358	379	383	398	403	422
	Independent	Patrick Akpoveta	0.7	288	307	311	318	343
	Independent	Haroon Khan	0.6	268	272	273	275
	Direct Democracy	Christopher Healy	0.4	167	179	180
Electorate: 69,388   Valid: 43,104   Spoilt: 446 (1.0%)   Quota: 8,621   Turnout: 43,550 (62.8%)

2011 general election

2011 general election: Dublin Mid-West[15][6]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9
	Labour Party	Joanna Tuffy	17.5	7,495	7,513	7,533	7,553	7,633	7,827	8,948
	Fine Gael	Frances Fitzgerald	17.0	7,281	7,285	7,303	7,323	7,424	7,493	7,903	9,213
	Fine Gael	Derek Keating	13.9	5,933	5,938	5,945	5,964	5,992	6,072	6,503	7,244	7,703
	Labour Party	Robert Dowds	13.2	5,643	5,645	5,661	5,695	5,734	5,870	6,519	7,934	8,112
	Sinn Féin	Eoin Ó Broin	11.8	5,060	5,066	5,088	5,117	5,164	5,399	6,628	7,120	7,151
	Fianna Fáil	John Curran	11.8	5,043	5,047	5,068	5,095	5,130	5,193	5,513
	People Before Profit	Gino Kenny[16]	5.8	2,471	2,481	2,513	2,536	2,597	3,059
	Green Party	Paul Gogarty	3.5	1,484	1,490	1,498	1,509	1,534	1,605
	Workers' Party	Mick Finnegan	1.6	694	700	712	722	735
	Socialist Party	Robert Connolly[17]	1.5	622	624	634	637	649
	Independent	Michael Ryan	0.9	375	397	429	514
	Independent	Jim McHale	0.6	255	269	319
	Independent	Colm McGrath	0.6	253	264
	Independent	Niall Smith	0.3	113
Electorate: 64,880   Valid: 42,722   Spoilt: 471 (1.1%)   Quota: 8,545   Turnout: 43,193 (66.6%)

2007 general election

2007 general election: Dublin Mid-West[5]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6
	Fianna Fáil	John Curran	23.2	8,650
	Progressive Democrats	Mary Harney	12.5	4,663	4,956	5,066	5,454	5,668	7,786
	Fine Gael	Frances Fitzgerald	12.0	4,480	4,532	4,680	4,975	5,344	5,664
	Labour Party	Joanna Tuffy	10.9	4,075	4,145	4,440	4,895	6,004	6,672
	Green Party	Paul Gogarty	10.8	4,043	4,123	4,393	5,557	6,700	7,920
	Fianna Fáil	Luke Moriarty	9.8	3,671	4,200	4,333	4,666	5,185
	Sinn Féin	Joanne Spain	9.3	3,462	3,529	3,970	4,138
	Independent	Derek Keating	7.2	2,701	2,729	2,907
	People Before Profit	Gino Kenny	2.8	1,058	1,099
	Workers' Party	Mick Finnegan	1.0	366	378
	Independent	Jim McHale	0.5	170	180
Electorate: 61,347   Valid: 37,339   Spoilt: 319 (0.9%)   Quota: 7,468   Turnout: 37,658 (61.4%)

2002 general election

2002 general election: Dublin Mid-West[4]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10
	Fianna Fáil	John Curran	20.7	5,904	5,928	5,979	6,112	6,292	6,508	6,909	7,086	9,350
	Progressive Democrats	Mary Harney	20.0	5,706	5,719	5,732	5,812	5,953	6,196	6,348	6,924	7,524
	Green Party	Paul Gogarty	12.3	3,508	3,523	3,541	3,627	3,870	3,947	4,594	5,260	5,645	6,345
	Fianna Fáil	Des Kelly	11.3	3,218	3,232	3,237	3,290	3,381	3,434	3,625	3,737
	Labour Party	Joanna Tuffy	9.0	2,563	2,566	2,602	2,744	2,891	3,199	3,594	4,495	4,808	5,371
	Fine Gael	Austin Currie	7.1	2,008	2,017	2,023	2,051	2,100	2,573	2,687
	Sinn Féin	Tony Flannery	6.5	1,855	1,861	1,912	2,031	2,244	2,326
	Fine Gael	Therese Ridge	4.5	1,268	1,271	1,314	1,419	1,536
	Independent	David Green	3.8	1,078	1,092	1,170	1,313
	Independent	Colm McGrath	1.7	487	488	521
	Workers' Party	Andrew McGuinness	1.4	393	393	407
	Independent	Michael O'Mara	1.3	361	362
	Christian Solidarity	Colm Callanan	0.4	107
Electorate: 55,184   Valid: 28,456   Spoilt: 237 (0.8%)   Quota: 7,115   Turnout: 28,693 (52.0%)

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

1. "Electoral (Amendment) Act 2009: Schedule". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 29 September 2010.
2. "Electoral (Amendment) Act, 2005: Schedule". Irish Statute Book. Retrieved 5 March 2009.
3. "Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013: Schedule". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
4. "General election 2002: Dublin Mid-West". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 10 February 2009.
5. "General election 2007: Dublin Mid-West". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 10 February 2009.
6. "General election 2011: Dublin Mid-West". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 2 March 2011.
7. "General election 2016: Mid-West". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
8. "Sinn Féin wins by-election in Dublin Mid-West". RTE News. 30 November 2019. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
9. "General Election 2020 Results – Dublin Mid-West". RTÉ News. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
10. "Dublin Mid–West: 2020 General Election". Irelandelection.com. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
11. "Writs moved for four Dáil by-elections". RTÉ News. 7 November 2019.
12. Friday's byelections: All you need to know about candidates, constituencies and issues by Jennifer Bray, Irish Times, November 26, 2019.
13. "Dublin Midwest Results 2016". Irelandelection.com. Irelandelection,com. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
14. "Dublin Midwest Results 2016". RTÉ. Archived from the original on 15 March 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
15. "Dublin Midwest Results 2011". Irelandelection.com. Irelandelection.com. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
16. Kenny campaigned as a member of the United Left Alliance.
17. Connolly campaigned as a member of the United Left Alliance.

External links

• Oireachtas Members Database