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| Louth Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Constituency |
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| Louth shown within Ireland | |
| Created: | 1923 |
| TDs: | 4 |
| Counties: | County Louth |
| EP constituency: | East |
Louth is a constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency has an electorate of 81,952 (2006) and at present is served by 4 Teachtaí Dála (TDs). The constituency boundaries were amended in October 2007 to include an area of County Meath adjacent to the town of Drogheda, and in the next general election 5 TDs will be returned.12 The method of election is the Single Transferable Vote. The constituency spans the entire area of the smallest county in Ireland and a portion of County Meath, taking in Drogheda, Dundalk and Ardee.
Louth was a constituency in the first Dáil election in December 1918 when Sinn Féin won by 255 votes, it's narrowest margin of victory in that election. John J. O'Kelly, a native of Kerry, resident in Glasnevin (Dublin), was Louth's first TD. The constituency was merged with Meath to form the 5 seat Louth-Meath constituency for the 2nd and 3rd Dála. In 1923 Louth became a 3 seat constituency.
Presently, the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Dermot Ahern is one of the most high profile TDs representing the constituency.
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2007 Election result
| 2007 General Election: Louth | ||||||
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| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
| Fianna Fáil | Séamus Kirk | 10,190 | 18.5 | 1 | 5 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Dermot Ahern | 9,982 | 18.1 | 2 | 5 | |
| Fine Gael | Fergus O'Dowd | 8,387 | 15.2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Sinn Féin | Arthur Morgan | 8,274 | 15.0 | 4 | 6 | |
| Fine Gael | Mairead McGuinness | 5,199 | 9.5 | |||
| Green Party | Mark Dearey | 4,172 | 7.6 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Frank Maher | 3,009 | 5.5 | |||
| Labour Party | Gerald Nash | 2,739 | 5.0 | |||
| Fine Gael | Jim D'Arcy | 2,573 | 4.7 | |||
| Workers' Party | Peter Short | 193 | 0.4 | |||
| Fathers Rights | Luke Martin | 169 | 0.3 | |||
| Independent | Dermot Duke | 127 | 0.2 | |||
2002 Election result
| 2002 General Election: Louth | ||||||
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| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
| Fianna Fáil | Dermot Ahern | 9,603 | 20.16 | 1 | 1 | |
| Fine Gael | Fergus O'Dowd | 5,505 | 11.56 | 2 | 8 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Séamus Kirk | 6,495 | 13.64 | 3 | 8 | |
| Sinn Féin | Arthur Morgan | 7,121 | 14.95 | 4 | 8 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Frank Maher | 4,653 | 9.77 | |||
| Fine Gael | Terry Brennan | 4,130 | 8.67 | |||
| Labour Party | Michael Bell | 3,185 | 6.69 | |||
| Independent | Mary Grehan | 2,384 | 5.01 | |||
| Green Party | Bernadette Martin | 1,979 | 4.16 | |||
| Independent | Martin Bellew | 1,307 | 2.74 | |||
| Independent | Frank Godfrey | 473 | 0.99 | |||
| Independent | Aidan Mahon | 294 | 0.62 | |||
| Independent | Liam Ó Gogain | 239 | 0.50 | |||
| Workers' Party | Peter Short | 176 | 0.37 | |||
| Christian Solidarity | Michael Maguire | 79 | 0.17 | |||
November 1982 - 2002 full election results
Online at [1]
February 1982 full result
| 23rd Irish General Election – 18th February, 1982 | ||||||||
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| Candidate | Party | Count 1 | Count 2 | Count 3 | Count 4 | Count 5 | Count 6 | |
| Padraig Faulkner | Fianna Fáil | 8083 | 8492 | 9016 | ||||
| Bernard Markey | Fine Gael | 7928 | 8237 | 8543 | 8562 | 10197 | ||
| Thomas Bellew | Fianna Fáil | 6305 | 6427 | 7143 | 7219 | 7961 | 8050 | |
| Edward Filgate | Fianna Fáil | 6109 | 6204 | 6862 | 7055 | 7391 | 7428 | |
| Brendan McGahon | Fine Gael | 5311 | 5406 | 5629 | 5635 | 6001 | 7177 | |
| Francis Browne | Sinn Féin | 3714 | 4117 | |||||
| Michael Bell | Labour Party | 3474 | 4422 | 4928 | 4947 | |||
| Frank Godfrey | Independent | 1662 | ||||||
| Donnchadha Mac Raghnaill | Sinn Féin the Workers Party | 742 | ||||||
| Helen Corcoran | Republican Labour | 183 | ||||||
| Electorate=57075, valid=43511, spoiled=451, quota=8703 | ||||||||
1981 full result
| 22nd Irish General Election – 11th June, 1981 | |||||||||
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| Candidate | Party | Count 1 | Count 2 | Count 3 | Count 4 | Count 5 | Count 6 | Count 7 | |
| Padraig Faulkner | Ceann Comhairle | ||||||||
| Paddy Agnew | Anti H-Block | 8368 | 8846 | 8998 | 9525 | 9841 | 10409 | 10814 | |
| Edward Filgate | Fianna Fáil | 5823 | 5914 | 7235 | 7308 | 7553 | 11076 | 11325 | |
| Thomas Bellew | Fianna Fáil | 5314 | 5413 | 5672 | 5794 | 6059 | |||
| John Connor | Fianna Fáil | 4920 | 5276 | 6047 | 6791 | 6812 | 8190 | 8829 | |
| Bernard Markey | Fine Gael | 4694 | 4810 | 5007 | 5258 | 8316 | 8513 | 13315 | |
| Brendan McGahon | Fine Gael | 4612 | 4723 | 4770 | 4932 | ||||
| Dick Branigan | Fine Gael | 4372 | 4624 | 4687 | 5548 | 6463 | 6651 | ||
| Nicholas McCabe | Fianna Fáil | 2804 | 2887 | ||||||
| Michael Bell | Labour Party | 2515 | 3128 | 3147 | |||||
| Frank Godfrey | Independent | 1210 | |||||||
| Donnchadha Mac Raghnaill | Sinn Féin the Workers Party | 785 | |||||||
| James McArdle | Labour Party | 346 | |||||||
| Electorate=57075, valid=45763, spoiled=514, quota=11441 | |||||||||
As Ceann Comhairle, Faulkner was returned automatically
Former TDs
- Frank Aiken
- Paddy Donegan
- John J. O'Kelly (An Sceilg)
See also
- Politics of the Republic of Ireland
- List of political parties in Ireland
- List of Irish by-elections
- Elections in Ireland
References
- ^ http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/1023/dail.html New Boundaries for Dáil Constituencies
- ^ http://www.constituency-commission.ie/docs%5Ccon2007.pdf Constituency Commission Report 2007
