ConnachtâUlster | |
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European Parliament constituency | |
Member state | Ireland |
Created | 1979 |
Dissolved | 2004 |
MEPs | 3 |
Sources | |
[1] |
ConnachtâUlster was a constituency of the European Parliament in Ireland between 1979 and 2004. Throughout its history, it elected 3 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) using the single transferable vote (STV) system.
The constituency was created in 1979 for the first direct elections to the European Parliament. It comprised the counties of Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon and Sligo from the historic province of Connacht together with the Ulster counties of Cavan, Donegal, and Monaghan. [2] It was abolished under the European Parliament Elections (Amendment) Act 2004 and succeeded by the new North-West constituency. [3]
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) for ConnachtâUlster 1979–2009 | |||||||||
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Key to parties
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Parl. | Election | Member (Party) |
Member (Party) |
Member (Party) | |||||
1st | 1979 [4] |
Neil Blaney (IFF) |
SeĂĄn Flanagan (FF) |
Joe McCartin (FG) | |||||
2nd | 1984 [5] |
Ray MacSharry (FF) | |||||||
1987 [6] |
Mark Killilea (FF) | ||||||||
3rd | 1989 [7] |
Neil Blaney (IFF) | |||||||
4th | 1994 [8] |
Pat "the Cope" Gallagher (FF) | |||||||
5th | 1999 [9] |
Dana Rosemary Scallon (Ind) | |||||||
2002 [10] |
SeĂĄn Ă Neachtain (FF) | ||||||||
6th | 2004 | Constituency abolished. See North-West. |
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.
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
Fianna FĂĄil | Pat "the Cope" Gallagher [10] | 20.6 | 66,055 | 66,381 | 66,902 | 72,673 | 98,258 | ||
Fine Gael | Joe McCartin | 19.9 | 63,632 | 63,811 | 64,506 | 68,388 | 72,764 | 75,275 | |
Independent | Dana Rosemary Scallon | 16.0 | 51,086 | 51,366 | 52,802 | 59,444 | 67,887 | 72,855 | |
Fianna FĂĄil | Noel Treacy | 15.0 | 47,933 | 48,060 | 48,470 | 51,544 | |||
Independent | Marian Harkin | 14.8 | 47,372 | 47,712 | 48,632 | 56,141 | 60,316 | 64,152 | |
Sinn FĂ©in | SeĂĄn MacManus | 6.4 | 20,457 | 20,571 | 20,801 | ||||
Labour | Gerard Gibbons | 3.3 | 10,522 | 10,827 | 10,972 | ||||
Independent | Liam Sharkey | 1.7 | 5,334 | 5,404 | |||||
Independent | Luke 'Ming' Flanagan | 1.6 | 5,000 | 5,539 | 5,650 | ||||
Natural Law | Paul Campbell | 0.6 | 1,920 | ||||||
Independent | Paul Raymond | 0.3 | 840 | ||||||
Electorate: 541,552 Valid: 320,151 Spoilt: 12,085 (3.6%) Quota: 80,038 Turnout: 332,236 (61.4%) |
Mark Killilea retired and his seat was gained by Independent Dana Rosemary Scallon.
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
Fianna FĂĄil | Pat "the Cope" Gallagher | 22.9 | 53,171 | 54,122 | 57,657 | 59,372 | ||
Fianna FĂĄil | Mark Killilea | 19.6 | 45,638 | 46,445 | 47,500 | 53,030 | 59,773 | |
Fine Gael | Joe McCartin | 16.4 | 38,039 | 38,861 | 39,461 | 43,896 | 49,371 | |
Fine Gael | Jim Higgins | 13.3 | 30,947 | 32,100 | 32,768 | 37,135 | 42,153 | |
Progressive Democrats | Bobby Molloy | 9.1 | 21,219 | 22,784 | 23,538 | |||
Labour | Ann Gallagher | 8.5 | 19,826 | 22,195 | 25,303 | 27,875 | ||
Sinn FĂ©in | Pat Doherty | 6.0 | 13,939 | 14,665 | ||||
Green | Richard Douthwaite | 3.7 | 8,628 | |||||
Natural Law | Mary Louise Lacey | 0.5 | 1,223 | |||||
Electorate: 496,352 Valid: 232,630 Spoilt: 4,971 (2.1%) Quota: 58,158 Turnout: 237,601 (47.9%) |
Pat "the Cope" Gallagher of Fianna FĂĄil gained the seat vacated by Neil Blaney.
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
Fianna FĂĄil | Mark Killilea | 17.2 | 53,842 | 53,950 | 54,122 | 54,395 | 54,668 | 55,095 | 57,686 | 58,795 | 67,246 | |
Independent Fianna FĂĄil | Neil Blaney | 16.9 | 52,852 | 53,075 | 53,922 | 54,425 | 55,981 | 56,940 | 59,954 | 63,193 | 69,857 | |
Fianna FĂĄil | SeĂĄn Doherty | 15.5 | 48,288 | 48,367 | 48,569 | 48,725 | 49,186 | 49,474 | 50,694 | 51,562 | 53,641 | |
Fine Gael | Joe McCartin | 14.9 | 46,523 | 46,579 | 46,694 | 47,045 | 47,328 | 47,589 | 52,737 | 71,091 | 84,697 | |
Progressive Democrats | Bobby Molloy | 13.0 | 40,476 | 40,564 | 40,754 | 41,613 | 41,804 | 43,254 | 45,621 | 48,227 | ||
Fine Gael | Paddy Harte | 9.8 | 30,745 | 30,798 | 31,225 | 31,559 | 31,715 | 32,137 | 34,663 | |||
Fine Gael | Angela Lupton | 3.3 | 10,165 | 10,212 | 10,254 | 10,553 | 10,615 | 11,154 | ||||
Sinn FĂ©in | Pat Doherty | 2.5 | 7,716 | 8,119 | 8,237 | 8,315 | 10,668 | 11,094 | ||||
Sinn FĂ©in | CaoimhghĂn Ă CaolĂĄin | 2.0 | 6,173 | 6,441 | 6,553 | 6,656 | ||||||
Labour | Ivan McPhillips | 1.6 | 4,969 | 5,012 | 5,306 | |||||||
Workers' Party | Jimmy Brick | 1.5 | 4,759 | 4,840 | 5,333 | 6,710 | 6,841 | |||||
Workers' Party | Seamus Rodgers | 1.3 | 4,097 | 4,112 | ||||||||
Sinn FĂ©in | Dermot Guy | 0.5 | 1,697 | |||||||||
Electorate: 464,661 Valid: 312,302 Spoilt: 10,362 (3.2%) Quota: 78,076 Turnout: 322,664 (69.4%) |
Neil Blaney regained his seat at the expense of Fianna FĂĄil.
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
Fianna FĂĄil | Ray MacSharry [6] | 24.1 | 56,803 | 56,955 | 57,252 | 57,718 | 57,896 | 58,740 | 59,448 | |||
Fine Gael | Joe McCartin | 21.7 | 51,164 | 51,293 | 51,545 | 51,752 | 54,991 | 57,247 | 57,761 | 76,674 | ||
Fianna FĂĄil | SeĂĄn Flanagan | 17.3 | 40,760 | 41,017 | 41,424 | 41,615 | 41,788 | 42,657 | 43,021 | 43,915 | 46,010 | |
Independent Fianna FĂĄil | Neil Blaney | 13.8 | 32,504 | 32,875 | 33,622 | 35,379 | 35,610 | 37,340 | 40,415 | 42,324 | 44,430 | |
Fine Gael | Joseph Murrin | 8.5 | 20,107 | 20,204 | 20,415 | 20,568 | 23,190 | 25,154 | 25,459 | |||
Labour | Michael D. Higgins | 3.5 | 8,337 | 9,205 | 9,401 | 9,587 | 9,988 | |||||
Fine Gael | PĂłl Ă Foighil | 3.0 | 7,144 | 7,214 | 7,282 | 7,323 | ||||||
Sinn FĂ©in | CaoimhghĂn Ă CaolĂĄin | 2.6 | 6,103 | 6,158 | 7,167 | 10,043 | 10,159 | 10,417 | ||||
Sinn FĂ©in | Eddie Fullerton | 2.5 | 5,771 | 5,896 | 6,706 | |||||||
Sinn FĂ©in | Mary McGing | 1.8 | 4,176 | 4,294 | ||||||||
Workers' Party | Jimmy Brick | 1.1 | 2,612 | |||||||||
Electorate: 471,577 Valid: 235,481 Spoilt: 5,763 (2.4%) Quota: 58,871 Turnout: 241,244 (51.2%) |
Neil Blaney lost his seat to Ray MacSharry of Fianna FĂĄil.
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
Independent Fianna FĂĄil | Neil Blaney | 26.6 | 81,522 | |||||||
Fine Gael | Joe McCartin | 15.5 | 47,519 | 47,989 | 49,697 | 50,474 | 51,696 | 65,471 | 66,901 | |
Fianna FĂĄil | SeĂĄn Flanagan | 12.5 | 38,233 | 38,653 | 39,478 | 40,732 | 52,409 | 54,826 | 82,209 | |
Fine Gael | Patrick Cooney | 10.9 | 33,360 | 34,142 | 36,596 | 37,281 | 38,006 | 50,025 | 51,267 | |
Fine Gael | Myles Staunton | 10.6 | 32,485 | 32,773 | 35,343 | 35,746 | 36,189 | |||
Fianna FĂĄil | Jim Doolan | 9.1 | 27,739 | 28,263 | 29,781 | 30,606 | 37,781 | 38,576 | ||
Fianna FĂĄil | Sean McEniff | 8.4 | 25,774 | 26,267 | 26,782 | 27,818 | ||||
Labour | Michael D. Higgins | 4.3 | 13,062 | 14,013 | ||||||
Sinn FĂ©in The Workers' Party | Tony Coffey | 1.1 | 3,329 | |||||||
Sinn FĂ©in The Workers' Party | SĂ©amus Rodgers | 0.9 | 2,696 | |||||||
Community Democrats | Christopher Morris | 0.2 | 447 | |||||||
Electorate: 442,471 Valid: 306,166 Spoilt: 14,547 (4.5%) Quota: 76,542 Turnout: 320,713 (72.5%) |
ConnachtâUlster | |
---|---|
European Parliament constituency | |
Member state | Ireland |
Created | 1979 |
Dissolved | 2004 |
MEPs | 3 |
Sources | |
[1] |
ConnachtâUlster was a constituency of the European Parliament in Ireland between 1979 and 2004. Throughout its history, it elected 3 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) using the single transferable vote (STV) system.
The constituency was created in 1979 for the first direct elections to the European Parliament. It comprised the counties of Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon and Sligo from the historic province of Connacht together with the Ulster counties of Cavan, Donegal, and Monaghan. [2] It was abolished under the European Parliament Elections (Amendment) Act 2004 and succeeded by the new North-West constituency. [3]
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) for ConnachtâUlster 1979–2009 | |||||||||
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Key to parties
| |||||||||
Parl. | Election | Member (Party) |
Member (Party) |
Member (Party) | |||||
1st | 1979 [4] |
Neil Blaney (IFF) |
SeĂĄn Flanagan (FF) |
Joe McCartin (FG) | |||||
2nd | 1984 [5] |
Ray MacSharry (FF) | |||||||
1987 [6] |
Mark Killilea (FF) | ||||||||
3rd | 1989 [7] |
Neil Blaney (IFF) | |||||||
4th | 1994 [8] |
Pat "the Cope" Gallagher (FF) | |||||||
5th | 1999 [9] |
Dana Rosemary Scallon (Ind) | |||||||
2002 [10] |
SeĂĄn Ă Neachtain (FF) | ||||||||
6th | 2004 | Constituency abolished. See North-West. |
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.
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
Fianna FĂĄil | Pat "the Cope" Gallagher [10] | 20.6 | 66,055 | 66,381 | 66,902 | 72,673 | 98,258 | ||
Fine Gael | Joe McCartin | 19.9 | 63,632 | 63,811 | 64,506 | 68,388 | 72,764 | 75,275 | |
Independent | Dana Rosemary Scallon | 16.0 | 51,086 | 51,366 | 52,802 | 59,444 | 67,887 | 72,855 | |
Fianna FĂĄil | Noel Treacy | 15.0 | 47,933 | 48,060 | 48,470 | 51,544 | |||
Independent | Marian Harkin | 14.8 | 47,372 | 47,712 | 48,632 | 56,141 | 60,316 | 64,152 | |
Sinn FĂ©in | SeĂĄn MacManus | 6.4 | 20,457 | 20,571 | 20,801 | ||||
Labour | Gerard Gibbons | 3.3 | 10,522 | 10,827 | 10,972 | ||||
Independent | Liam Sharkey | 1.7 | 5,334 | 5,404 | |||||
Independent | Luke 'Ming' Flanagan | 1.6 | 5,000 | 5,539 | 5,650 | ||||
Natural Law | Paul Campbell | 0.6 | 1,920 | ||||||
Independent | Paul Raymond | 0.3 | 840 | ||||||
Electorate: 541,552 Valid: 320,151 Spoilt: 12,085 (3.6%) Quota: 80,038 Turnout: 332,236 (61.4%) |
Mark Killilea retired and his seat was gained by Independent Dana Rosemary Scallon.
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
Fianna FĂĄil | Pat "the Cope" Gallagher | 22.9 | 53,171 | 54,122 | 57,657 | 59,372 | ||
Fianna FĂĄil | Mark Killilea | 19.6 | 45,638 | 46,445 | 47,500 | 53,030 | 59,773 | |
Fine Gael | Joe McCartin | 16.4 | 38,039 | 38,861 | 39,461 | 43,896 | 49,371 | |
Fine Gael | Jim Higgins | 13.3 | 30,947 | 32,100 | 32,768 | 37,135 | 42,153 | |
Progressive Democrats | Bobby Molloy | 9.1 | 21,219 | 22,784 | 23,538 | |||
Labour | Ann Gallagher | 8.5 | 19,826 | 22,195 | 25,303 | 27,875 | ||
Sinn FĂ©in | Pat Doherty | 6.0 | 13,939 | 14,665 | ||||
Green | Richard Douthwaite | 3.7 | 8,628 | |||||
Natural Law | Mary Louise Lacey | 0.5 | 1,223 | |||||
Electorate: 496,352 Valid: 232,630 Spoilt: 4,971 (2.1%) Quota: 58,158 Turnout: 237,601 (47.9%) |
Pat "the Cope" Gallagher of Fianna FĂĄil gained the seat vacated by Neil Blaney.
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
Fianna FĂĄil | Mark Killilea | 17.2 | 53,842 | 53,950 | 54,122 | 54,395 | 54,668 | 55,095 | 57,686 | 58,795 | 67,246 | |
Independent Fianna FĂĄil | Neil Blaney | 16.9 | 52,852 | 53,075 | 53,922 | 54,425 | 55,981 | 56,940 | 59,954 | 63,193 | 69,857 | |
Fianna FĂĄil | SeĂĄn Doherty | 15.5 | 48,288 | 48,367 | 48,569 | 48,725 | 49,186 | 49,474 | 50,694 | 51,562 | 53,641 | |
Fine Gael | Joe McCartin | 14.9 | 46,523 | 46,579 | 46,694 | 47,045 | 47,328 | 47,589 | 52,737 | 71,091 | 84,697 | |
Progressive Democrats | Bobby Molloy | 13.0 | 40,476 | 40,564 | 40,754 | 41,613 | 41,804 | 43,254 | 45,621 | 48,227 | ||
Fine Gael | Paddy Harte | 9.8 | 30,745 | 30,798 | 31,225 | 31,559 | 31,715 | 32,137 | 34,663 | |||
Fine Gael | Angela Lupton | 3.3 | 10,165 | 10,212 | 10,254 | 10,553 | 10,615 | 11,154 | ||||
Sinn FĂ©in | Pat Doherty | 2.5 | 7,716 | 8,119 | 8,237 | 8,315 | 10,668 | 11,094 | ||||
Sinn FĂ©in | CaoimhghĂn Ă CaolĂĄin | 2.0 | 6,173 | 6,441 | 6,553 | 6,656 | ||||||
Labour | Ivan McPhillips | 1.6 | 4,969 | 5,012 | 5,306 | |||||||
Workers' Party | Jimmy Brick | 1.5 | 4,759 | 4,840 | 5,333 | 6,710 | 6,841 | |||||
Workers' Party | Seamus Rodgers | 1.3 | 4,097 | 4,112 | ||||||||
Sinn FĂ©in | Dermot Guy | 0.5 | 1,697 | |||||||||
Electorate: 464,661 Valid: 312,302 Spoilt: 10,362 (3.2%) Quota: 78,076 Turnout: 322,664 (69.4%) |
Neil Blaney regained his seat at the expense of Fianna FĂĄil.
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
Fianna FĂĄil | Ray MacSharry [6] | 24.1 | 56,803 | 56,955 | 57,252 | 57,718 | 57,896 | 58,740 | 59,448 | |||
Fine Gael | Joe McCartin | 21.7 | 51,164 | 51,293 | 51,545 | 51,752 | 54,991 | 57,247 | 57,761 | 76,674 | ||
Fianna FĂĄil | SeĂĄn Flanagan | 17.3 | 40,760 | 41,017 | 41,424 | 41,615 | 41,788 | 42,657 | 43,021 | 43,915 | 46,010 | |
Independent Fianna FĂĄil | Neil Blaney | 13.8 | 32,504 | 32,875 | 33,622 | 35,379 | 35,610 | 37,340 | 40,415 | 42,324 | 44,430 | |
Fine Gael | Joseph Murrin | 8.5 | 20,107 | 20,204 | 20,415 | 20,568 | 23,190 | 25,154 | 25,459 | |||
Labour | Michael D. Higgins | 3.5 | 8,337 | 9,205 | 9,401 | 9,587 | 9,988 | |||||
Fine Gael | PĂłl Ă Foighil | 3.0 | 7,144 | 7,214 | 7,282 | 7,323 | ||||||
Sinn FĂ©in | CaoimhghĂn Ă CaolĂĄin | 2.6 | 6,103 | 6,158 | 7,167 | 10,043 | 10,159 | 10,417 | ||||
Sinn FĂ©in | Eddie Fullerton | 2.5 | 5,771 | 5,896 | 6,706 | |||||||
Sinn FĂ©in | Mary McGing | 1.8 | 4,176 | 4,294 | ||||||||
Workers' Party | Jimmy Brick | 1.1 | 2,612 | |||||||||
Electorate: 471,577 Valid: 235,481 Spoilt: 5,763 (2.4%) Quota: 58,871 Turnout: 241,244 (51.2%) |
Neil Blaney lost his seat to Ray MacSharry of Fianna FĂĄil.
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
Independent Fianna FĂĄil | Neil Blaney | 26.6 | 81,522 | |||||||
Fine Gael | Joe McCartin | 15.5 | 47,519 | 47,989 | 49,697 | 50,474 | 51,696 | 65,471 | 66,901 | |
Fianna FĂĄil | SeĂĄn Flanagan | 12.5 | 38,233 | 38,653 | 39,478 | 40,732 | 52,409 | 54,826 | 82,209 | |
Fine Gael | Patrick Cooney | 10.9 | 33,360 | 34,142 | 36,596 | 37,281 | 38,006 | 50,025 | 51,267 | |
Fine Gael | Myles Staunton | 10.6 | 32,485 | 32,773 | 35,343 | 35,746 | 36,189 | |||
Fianna FĂĄil | Jim Doolan | 9.1 | 27,739 | 28,263 | 29,781 | 30,606 | 37,781 | 38,576 | ||
Fianna FĂĄil | Sean McEniff | 8.4 | 25,774 | 26,267 | 26,782 | 27,818 | ||||
Labour | Michael D. Higgins | 4.3 | 13,062 | 14,013 | ||||||
Sinn FĂ©in The Workers' Party | Tony Coffey | 1.1 | 3,329 | |||||||
Sinn FĂ©in The Workers' Party | SĂ©amus Rodgers | 0.9 | 2,696 | |||||||
Community Democrats | Christopher Morris | 0.2 | 447 | |||||||
Electorate: 442,471 Valid: 306,166 Spoilt: 14,547 (4.5%) Quota: 76,542 Turnout: 320,713 (72.5%) |