Leinster (European Parliament constituency) (original) (raw)

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Former constituency of the European Parliament

Leinster
European Parliament constituency
Shown within Ireland
Member state Ireland
Created 1979
Dissolved 2004
MEPs 3 (1979–1994)4 (1994–2004)
Sources
[1]

Leinster was a European Parliament constituency in Ireland between 1979 and 2004. It elected 3 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) in the 1979, 1984 and 1989 elections and 4 MEPs in the elections of 1994 and 1999 using the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).

History and boundaries

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The constituency was created in 1979 for the first direct elections to the European Parliament. It comprised the counties of Carlow, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Longford, Louth, Meath, Offaly, Westmeath, Wexford and Wicklow from the historic province of Leinster excluding the County Dublin area.[1] It was abolished under the European Parliament Elections (Amendment) Act 2004 and succeeded by the new East constituency.[2]

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) for Leinster 1979–2009
Key to parties FF = Fianna Fáil FG = Fine Gael GP = Green Lab = Labour
Parl. Election Member(Party) Member(Party) Member(Party) Member(Party)
1st 1979[3] Mark Clinton(FG) Patrick Lalor(FF) Liam Kavanagh(Lab) 3 seatsuntil 1994
1981[a] Séamus Pattison(Lab)
1983[b] Justin Keating(Lab)
2nd 1984[4] Jim Fitzsimons(FF)
3rd 1989[5] Patrick Cooney(FG)
4th 1994[6] Alan Gillis(FG) Liam Hyland(FF) Nuala Ahern(GP)
5th 1999[7] Avril Doyle(FG)
6th 2004 Constituency abolished. See East.

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.

  1. ^ Liam Kavanagh resigned on 7 July 1981 on his appointment as Minister for Labour and was substituted by Séamus Pattison (LAB / PES) on 9 July 1981.
  2. ^ Séamus Pattison resigned on 15 December 1983 on his appointment as a Minister of State and was substituted by Justin Keating (LAB / PES) on 8 February 1984.

^ *: Outgoing MEP elected at the previous election.
^ †: Outgoing MEP coopted subsequent to the previous election.

1999 European Parliament election: Leinster (4 seats)[7]

Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3
Fine Gael Avril Doyle 19.8 67,881 69,495
Fianna Fáil Jim Fitzsimons[*] 17.2 58,750 61,439
Fianna Fáil Liam Hyland[*] 17.1 58,477 61,931
Fine Gael Alan Gillis[*] 14.2 48,729 50,040
Green Nuala Ahern[*] 13.8 47,184 52,618
Labour Seán Butler 11.1 38,112 40,849
Sinn Féin Arthur Morgan 5.9 20,015
Natural Law Desmond Garrett 0.9 3,191
Electorate: 706,200 Valid: 342,339 Spoilt: 14,725 (4.1%) Quota: 68,468 Turnout: 357,064 (50.6%)

1994 European Parliament election: Leinster (4 seats)[8][9]

Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Fianna Fáil Liam Hyland 17.7 46,448 46,737 47,255 48,238 49,236 51,543
Fine Gael Alan Gillis 16.3 42,826 43,156 43,346 43,793 47,112 48,309
Fianna Fáil Jim Fitzsimons[*] 15.8 41,375 41,611 42,516 43,684 44,802 45,626
Green Nuala Ahern 11.8 30,997 32,302 33,849 35,712 37,946 39,297
Fine Gael Monica Barnes 11.4 29,958 30,235 30,448 30,949 33,692 35,070
Labour Michael Bell 8.8 22,987 23,186 23,815 24,442 25,366 34,926
Labour Séamus Pattison 6.7 17,580 17,869 18,140 18,478 18,953
Progressive Democrats John Dardis 4.8 12,591 12,919 13,052 13,472
Independent Jack Fitzsimons 2.6 6,752 7,262 7,802
Sinn Féin Lucilita Bhreatnach 2.5 6,523 6,627
Independent Peter Sweetman 1.2 3,228
Natural Law Tom Mullins 0.5 1,180
Electorate: 624,561 Valid: 262,445 Spoilt: 6,599 (2.5%) Quota: 52,490 Turnout: 269,044 (43.1%)

1989 European Parliament election: Leinster (3 seats)[10][11]

Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Fianna Fáil Patrick Lalor[*] 20.0 75,627 75,715 75,856 76,198 76,370 76,914 78,753 81,555 85,090 88,868
Fine Gael Patrick Cooney 17.4 65,775 65,926 65,962 66,430 66,504 66,733 67,963 71,289 82,701 112,060
Fianna Fáil Jim Fitzsimons[*] 16.9 63,797 63,906 63,994 64,344 64,528 65,214 66,474 69,639 72,739 74,004
Labour Michael Bell 13.2 49,766 49,870 49,954 50,298 50,537 51,104 55,754 61,606 65,668 68,015
Fine Gael Charles McDonald 9.5 35,792 35,863 35,944 36,063 36,168 36,367 37,910 39,962 46,931
Progressive Democrats John Dardis 8.4 31,623 31,730 31,789 32,159 32,194 32,393 33,703 37,490
Green Seán English 6.3 23,724 23,922 23,992 24,309 24,401 25,162 27,199
Workers' Party Michael Enright 2.5 9,451 9,731 9,797 9,982 10,093 10,703
Workers' Party Catherine Murphy 1.9 7,089 7,125 7,321 7,413 7,684 8,155
Sinn Féin Kevin Dunphy 1.2 4,534 4,620 5,036 5,329 7,393
Independent Kevin Boland 0.9 3,362 3,462 3,496
Sinn Féin Pearse McGeough 0.8 3,001 3,009 3,863 3,930
Sinn Féin Terry Moore 0.6 2,424 2,438
Independent Cornelius de Groot 0.4 1,626
Electorate: 571,694 Valid: 377,591 Spoilt: 14,106 (3.6%) Quota: 94,398 Turnout: 391,697 (68.5%)

Mark Clinton stepped down and was replaced by his party colleague Patrick Cooney.

1984 European Parliament election: Leinster (3 seats)[12][13]

Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4
Fine Gael Mark Clinton[*] 23.8 61,669 63,159 92,091
Fianna Fáil Jim Fitzsimons 22.1 57,321 60,028 60,994
Fianna Fáil Patrick Lalor[*] 21.7 56,191 59,180 59,928
Fine Gael Deirdre Bolger 12.8 33,208 34,570
Labour Justin Keating[†] 11.9 30,773 35,308 37,756
Workers' Party Liz McManus 3.5 8,943
Sinn Féin Martin Sharkey 1.8 4,548
Sinn Féin John Carroll 1.7 4,396
Sinn Féin James Dwyer 0.9 2,245
Electorate: 545,878 Valid: 259,294 Spoilt: 9,197 (3.4%) Quota: 64,824 Turnout: 268,491 (49.2%)

1979 European Parliament election: Leinster (3 seats)[14][15]

Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5
Fine Gael Mark Clinton 25.7 78,762
Fianna Fáil Patrick Lalor 20.2 62,094 63,538 65,267 77,790
Labour Liam Kavanagh 13.1 40,072 43,704 47,801 49,187
Fianna Fáil Tom Nolan 11.2 34,210 35,502 36,048 48,375
Fianna Fáil Paddy Power 10.1 31,023 32,119 32,668
Fine Gael Charles McDonald 8.1 24,875 25,637 37,841 38,794
Fine Gael Monica Barnes 7.0 21,384 22,461
Sinn Féin The Workers' Party Donnchadha MacRaghnaill 2.7 8,414
Sinn Féin The Workers' Party Sean Walsh 2.0 6,062
Electorate: 486,248 Valid: 306,896 Spoilt: 15,416 (4.8%) Quota: 76,725 Turnout: 322,312 (66.3%)
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  2. ^ "European Parliament Elections (Amendment) Act 2004: Schedule (Constituencies)". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 22 November 2011.
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  4. ^ "1984 European Parliament election – Leinster constituency". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 22 March 2009.
  5. ^ "1989 European Parliament election – Leinster constituency". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 22 March 2009.
  6. ^ "1994 European Parliament election – Leinster constituency". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 22 March 2009.
  7. ^ a b "1999 European Parliament election – Leinster constituency". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 22 March 2009.
  8. ^ "Leinster: 1994 European Election Results, Counts, Transfers".
  9. ^ "1994 European Elections Results". 26 April 2024.
  10. ^ "1989 European Elections Results". 26 April 2024.
  11. ^ "Leinster: 1989 European Election Results, Counts, Transfers".
  12. ^ "1984 European Elections Results". 26 April 2024.
  13. ^ "Leinster: 1984 European Election Results, Counts, Transfers".
  14. ^ "1979 European Elections Results". 26 April 2024.
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