2019 European Parliament election in Ireland

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2019 European Parliament election in Ireland
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13 Irish seats to the European Parliament
(2 of which were post-Brexit seats)
Opinion polls
Turnout 49.7%
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Leo Varadkar Micheál Martin Eamon Ryan
Party Fine Gael Fianna Fáil Green Party
Alliance European People's Party group Renew Greens–European Free Alliance
Leader since 2 June 2017 26 January 2011 27 May 2011
Last election 22.3%, 4 seats 22.3%, 1 seat 4.9%, 0 seats
Seats won
5 / 13
[nb 1]
2 / 13
[nb 2]
2 / 13
Seat change Increase 1 Increase 2 Increase 2
Popular vote 496,459 277,705 190,755
Percentage 29.6% 16.6% 11.4%
Swing Increase 7.3 pp Decrease 5.7 pp Increase 6.5 pp
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Collective leadership [lower-alpha 1] Mary Lou McDonald Brendan Howlin
Party Independents 4 Change Sinn Féin Labour Party
Alliance EUL–NGL EUL–NGL S&D
Leader since n/a 10 February 2018 20 May 2016
Last election New Party 19.5%, 3 seats 5.3%, 0 seats
Seats won
2 / 13
1 / 13
0 / 13
Seat change Increase 2 Decrease 2 Steady
Popular vote 124,085 196,001 52,753
Percentage 7.4% 11.7% 3.1%
Swing n/a Decrease 7.8 pp Decrease 2.2 pp
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Members of the
European Parliament
for Ireland
1st delegation (1973)
2nd delegation (1973–77)
3rd delegation (1977–79)
1st term (1979)
2nd term (1984)
3rd term (1989)
4th term (1994)
5th term (1999)
6th term (2004)
7th term (2009)
8th term (2014)
File:Ireland-European-Parliament-Constituencies-2019.svg
2019 European Parliament Ireland constituencies

The 2019 European Parliament election in Ireland is the Irish component of the 2019 European Parliament election and was held on Friday, 24 May 2019, on the same day as the 2019 local elections and a referendum easing restrictions on divorce.[1] The election was conducted in three constituencies under the single transferable vote (STV). Thirteen MEPs were elected, but the last candidate elected in both Dublin and South did not take their seats until after Brexit on 31 January 2020.

Constituency changes

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See also: Apportionment in the European Parliament § 2019 election

The United Kingdom invoked Article 50 to withdraw from the European Union on 29 March 2017 following the 2016 referendum to leave the European Union. As Article 50 has a two-year period for withdrawal, the United Kingdom would not be part of the 2019 European Parliament election scheduled for May 2019. In July 2018, the European Council made a decision to redistribute a number of the seats from the United Kingdom to other member states. The allocation of MEPs from Ireland increased from 11 to 13; however, this change would not take effect until the United Kingdom has left the EU, which took place on 31 January 2020. As the United Kingdom was still a member of the EU at the beginning of the 2019–2024 parliamentary term, the allocation of seats will remain as it was in the previous parliament, until its withdrawal becomes legally effective.[2][3][4]

A Constituency Commission chaired by High Court judge Robert Haughton was established by the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government in July 2018 to redraw constituencies in line with the change in seats.[5][6] The Commission's report was published on 24 September 2018 and proposed the following changes:[7][8]

  • Dublin gains an extra seat from 3 to 4; with no boundary changes. Full electorate is 884,118, giving electorate of 221,029.5 per seat.
  • South gains an extra seat from 4 to 5, and gains counties Laois and Offaly from Midlands–North-West. Full electorate is 1,417,017, giving electorate of 283,403.4 per seat.
  • Midlands–North-West loses Laois and Offaly to South, but remains a 4 seater. Full electorate is 1,224,888, giving electorate of 306,222 per seat.

The European Parliament Elections (Amendment) Act 2019 enacted the changes recommended by the Constituency Commission.[9]

It also provided for the situation that Ireland's representation remained at 11 with an amendment to the rules, "For the purpose of the European elections held in the year 2019, the return made by the chief returning officer […] shall declare that the last candidate deemed to be elected […] in each of the constituencies of Dublin and South as specified in the Third Schedule, shall not take up their seats in the European Parliament until such time as a date has been specified by the Parliament for the taking up of such seats".[10]

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar had incorrectly suggested that the votes would be counted twice in the constituencies which had an increased number of seats, to account for either contingency. However, Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government Eoghan Murphy later clarified that there would be only one count for each constituency, and that the final candidate to be deemed elected in Dublin and South would not take their seats until the withdrawal of the United Kingdom.[11]

Retiring incumbents

The following MEPs did not seek re-election:

Constituency Departing MEP Party EP Group First elected Date announced
Dublin Nessa Childers style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Independent politicians in Ireland/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Independent politicians in Ireland" | [[Independent politicians in Ireland|Template:Independent politicians in Ireland/meta/shortname]] style="width: 5px; background-color: #FF0000;" data-sort-value="Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats" | S&D 2009 18 July 2017[12]
South Brian Crowley style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Independent politicians in Ireland/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Independent politicians in Ireland" | [[Independent politicians in Ireland|Template:Independent politicians in Ireland/meta/shortname]] style="width: 5px; background-color: #0000FF;" data-sort-value="European Conservatives and Reformists" | ECR 1994 17 January 2019[13]
Dublin Brian Hayes style="width: 5px; background-color: #6699FF;" data-sort-value="Fine Gael" | Fine Gael style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:European People's Party group/meta/color;" data-sort-value="European People's Party group" | [[European People's Party group|Template:European People's Party group/meta/shortname]] 2014 6 November 2018[14]
Midlands–North-West Marian Harkin style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Independent politicians in Ireland/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Independent politicians in Ireland" | [[Independent politicians in Ireland|Template:Independent politicians in Ireland/meta/shortname]] style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group" | [[Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group|Template:Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group/meta/shortname]] 2004 1 April 2019[15]

Candidates

Nominations closed at midday on 15 April 2019, with 59 candidates in total: 19 in Dublin (4 seats), 17 in Midlands–North-West (4 seats) and 23 in South (5 seats).[16]

European alliances

Party/Independent candidate Euro party EP group[17]
style="width: 5px; background-color: #6699FF;" data-sort-value="Fine Gael" | Fine Gael style="width: 5px; background-color: #3399FF;" data-sort-value="European People's Party" | EPP style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:European People's Party group/meta/color;" data-sort-value="European People's Party group" | [[European People's Party group|Template:European People's Party group/meta/shortname]]
style="width: 5px; background-color: #66BB66;" data-sort-value="Fianna Fáil" | Fianna Fáil style="width: 5px; background-color: gold;" data-sort-value="Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party" | ALDE style="width: 5px; background-color: #FFFF00;" data-sort-value="Renew Europe" | Renew EU
style="width: 5px; background-color: #008800;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" | Sinn Féin style="width: 5px; background-color: #990000;" data-sort-value="European United Left–Nordic Green Left" | EUL–NGL
style="width: 5px; background-color: #99CC33;" data-sort-value="Green Party (Ireland)" | Green Party style="width: 5px; background-color: #99CC33;" data-sort-value="European Green Party" | Green style="width: 5px; background-color: #009900;" data-sort-value="Greens–European Free Alliance" | [[Greens–European Free Alliance|Template:Greens–European Free Alliance/meta/shortname]]
style="width: 5px; background-color: #FFC0CB;" data-sort-value="Independents 4 Change" | Independents 4 Change style="width: 5px; background-color: #990000;" data-sort-value="European United Left–Nordic Green Left" | EUL–NGL
style="width: 5px; background-color: #CC0000;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (Ireland)" | Labour Party style="width: 5px; background-color: #F0001C;" data-sort-value="Party of European Socialists" | PES style="width: 5px; background-color: #FF0000;" data-sort-value="Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats" | S&D
style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Solidarity–People Before Profit/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Solidarity–People Before Profit" | [[Solidarity–People Before Profit|Template:Solidarity–People Before Profit/meta/shortname]] style="width: 5px; background-color: red;" data-sort-value="European Anti-Capitalist Left" | EACL style="width: 5px; background-color: #990000;" data-sort-value="European United Left–Nordic Green Left" | EUL–NGL
Luke 'Ming' Flanagan style="width: 5px; background-color: #990000;" data-sort-value="European United Left–Nordic Green Left" | EUL–NGL

Independents 4 Change was not affiliated to a parliamentary group at the time of the election, but joined European United Left–Nordic Green Left group.[18]

Results

2019 Election to the European Parliament in Ireland
Party Euro party Euro group Party Leader Votes  % +/– Seats +/– Brexit seats
style="width: 5px; background-color: #6699FF;" data-sort-value="Fine Gael" | Fine Gael style="width: 5px; background-color: #3399FF;" data-sort-value="European People's Party" | EPP style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:European People's Party group/meta/color;" data-sort-value="European People's Party group" | [[European People's Party group|Template:European People's Party group/meta/shortname]] Leo Varadkar 496,459 29.6 +7.3
5 / 13
Increase 1 +1
style="width: 5px; background-color: #66BB66;" data-sort-value="Fianna Fáil" | Fianna Fáil style="width: 5px; background-color: gold;" data-sort-value="Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party" | ALDE style="width: 5px; background-color: #FFFF00;" data-sort-value="Renew Europe" | Renew EU Micheál Martin 277,705 16.6 –5.7
2 / 13
Increase 1 +1
style="width: 5px; background-color: #99CC33;" data-sort-value="Green Party (Ireland)" | Green Party style="width: 5px; background-color: #99CC33;" data-sort-value="European Green Party" | Green style="width: 5px; background-color: #009900;" data-sort-value="Greens–European Free Alliance" | [[Greens–European Free Alliance|Template:Greens–European Free Alliance/meta/shortname]] Eamon Ryan 190,755 11.4 +6.5
2 / 13
Increase 2
style="width: 5px; background-color: #FFC0CB;" data-sort-value="Independents 4 Change" | Independents 4 Change None style="width: 5px; background-color: #990000;" data-sort-value="European United Left–Nordic Green Left" | EUL–NGL Collective leadership 124,085 7.4 new
2 / 13
Increase 2
style="width: 5px; background-color: #008800;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" | Sinn Féin None style="width: 5px; background-color: #990000;" data-sort-value="European United Left–Nordic Green Left" | EUL–NGL Mary Lou McDonald 196,001 11.7 –7.8
1 / 13
Decrease 2
style="width: 5px; background-color: #CC0000;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (Ireland)" | Labour Party style="width: 5px; background-color: #F0001C;" data-sort-value="Party of European Socialists" | PES style="width: 5px; background-color: #FF0000;" data-sort-value="Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats" | S&D Brendan Howlin 52,753 3.1 –2.2
0 / 13
Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Solidarity–People Before Profit/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Solidarity–People Before Profit" | [[Solidarity–People Before Profit|Template:Solidarity–People Before Profit/meta/shortname]] style="width: 5px; background-color: red;" data-sort-value="European Anti-Capitalist Left" | EACL style="width: 5px; background-color: #990000;" data-sort-value="European United Left–Nordic Green Left" | EUL–NGL Collective leadership 38,771 2.3 –1.0
0 / 13
Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #752F8B;" data-sort-value="Social Democrats (Ireland)" | Social Democrats None None Catherine Murphy
Róisín Shortall		 20,331 1.2 new
0 / 13
Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: Yellow;" data-sort-value="Renua" | [[Renua|Template:Renua/meta/shortname]] None None John Leahy 6,897 0.4 new
0 / 13
Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #D73D3D;" data-sort-value="Workers' Party of Ireland" | Workers' Party INITIATIVE None Michael Donnelly 3,701 0.2 new
0 / 13
Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Identity Ireland/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Identity Ireland" | [[Identity Ireland|Template:Identity Ireland/meta/shortname]] None None Peter O'Loughlin 3,685 0.2 new
0 / 13
Steady
style="width: 5px; background-color: #87CEFA;" data-sort-value="Direct Democracy Ireland" | Direct Democracy None None Pat Greene 2,773 0.2 –1.3
0 / 13
Steady
Independent 264,087 15.7 –4.1
1 / 13
Decrease 2
Valid votes 1,678,003 95.8
Blank and invalid votes 73,870 4.2
Totals 1,751,873 100.0
13 / 13
+2
Electorate (eligible voters) and voter turnout 3,526,023 49.7 –2.7
Source: RTÉ News

MEPs elected

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Main article: List of members of the European Parliament for Ireland, 2019–2024
Constituency Name Party EP group
Midlands–North-West[19] Mairead McGuinness style="width: 5px; background-color: #6699FF;" data-sort-value="Fine Gael" | Fine Gael style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:European People's Party group/meta/color;" data-sort-value="European People's Party group" | [[European People's Party group|Template:European People's Party group/meta/shortname]]
Luke 'Ming' Flanagan style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Independent politicians in Ireland/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Independent politicians in Ireland" | [[Independent politicians in Ireland|Template:Independent politicians in Ireland/meta/shortname]] style="width: 5px; background-color: #990000;" data-sort-value="European United Left–Nordic Green Left" | EUL–NGL
Matt Carthy style="width: 5px; background-color: #008800;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" | Sinn Féin style="width: 5px; background-color: #990000;" data-sort-value="European United Left–Nordic Green Left" | EUL–NGL
Maria Walsh style="width: 5px; background-color: #6699FF;" data-sort-value="Fine Gael" | Fine Gael style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:European People's Party group/meta/color;" data-sort-value="European People's Party group" | [[European People's Party group|Template:European People's Party group/meta/shortname]]
Dublin[20] Ciarán Cuffe style="width: 5px; background-color: #99CC33;" data-sort-value="Green Party (Ireland)" | Green Party style="width: 5px; background-color: #009900;" data-sort-value="Greens–European Free Alliance" | [[Greens–European Free Alliance|Template:Greens–European Free Alliance/meta/shortname]]
Frances Fitzgerald style="width: 5px; background-color: #6699FF;" data-sort-value="Fine Gael" | Fine Gael style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:European People's Party group/meta/color;" data-sort-value="European People's Party group" | [[European People's Party group|Template:European People's Party group/meta/shortname]]
Clare Daly style="width: 5px; background-color: #FFC0CB;" data-sort-value="Independents 4 Change" | Independents 4 Change style="width: 5px; background-color: #990000;" data-sort-value="European United Left–Nordic Green Left" | EUL–NGL
Barry Andrews style="width: 5px; background-color: #66BB66;" data-sort-value="Fianna Fáil" | Fianna Fáil style="width: 5px; background-color: #FFFF00;" data-sort-value="Renew Europe" | Renew EU
South Seán Kelly style="width: 5px; background-color: #6699FF;" data-sort-value="Fine Gael" | Fine Gael style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:European People's Party group/meta/color;" data-sort-value="European People's Party group" | [[European People's Party group|Template:European People's Party group/meta/shortname]]
Billy Kelleher style="width: 5px; background-color: #66BB66;" data-sort-value="Fianna Fáil" | Fianna Fáil style="width: 5px; background-color: #FFFF00;" data-sort-value="Renew Europe" | Renew EU
Mick Wallace style="width: 5px; background-color: #FFC0CB;" data-sort-value="Independents 4 Change" | Independents 4 Change style="width: 5px; background-color: #990000;" data-sort-value="European United Left–Nordic Green Left" | EUL–NGL
Grace O'Sullivan style="width: 5px; background-color: #99CC33;" data-sort-value="Green Party (Ireland)" | Green Party style="width: 5px; background-color: #009900;" data-sort-value="Greens–European Free Alliance" | [[Greens–European Free Alliance|Template:Greens–European Free Alliance/meta/shortname]]
Deirdre Clune style="width: 5px; background-color: #6699FF;" data-sort-value="Fine Gael" | Fine Gael style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:European People's Party group/meta/color;" data-sort-value="European People's Party group" | [[European People's Party group|Template:European People's Party group/meta/shortname]]

Opinion polls

Party opinion polling

Nationwide

Last date
of polling		 Polling firm / Commissioner Constituency Sample
size		 FG FF SF Lab GP S–PBP SD RI IA O/I[nb 3]
17 April 2019 Red C/The Sunday Business Post[21] Dublin, Midlands-North-West, South 1,000 33 21 16 4 4 0 1 0 2 21[nb 4]

Dublin

Last date
of polling		 Polling firm / Commissioner Sample
size		 FG SF FF GP I4C S–PBP Lab SD O/I
16 May 2019 Red C/The Sunday Business Post[22] 553 25 13 12 11 9 7 5 4 15[nb 4]
10 May 2019 Ipsos MRBI/The Irish Times[23] 500 29 13 18 9 10 6 8 1 6[nb 4]

Midlands-North-West

Last date
of polling		 Polling firm / Commissioner Sample
size		 FG FF SF GP Lab O/I
16 May 2019 Red C/The Sunday Business Post[24] 646 37 15 14 4 3 27[nb 4]
10 May 2019 Ipsos MRBI/The Irish Times[23] 500 37 13 14 3 2 31[nb 4]

South

Last date
of polling		 Polling firm / Commissioner Sample
size		 FG FF SF I4C GP Lab S–PBP O/I
16 May 2019 Red C/The Sunday Business Post[25] 825 30 23 15 8 8 3 3 10[nb 4]
10 May 2019 Ipsos MRBI/The Irish Times[23] 500 37 23 14 8 5 5 1 6[nb 4]

Candidate polling

Dublin

Last date
of polling		 Polling firm / Commissioner Sample
size		 Fitzgerald (FG) Boylan (SF) Andrews (FF) Cuffe (GP) Daly (I4C) Durkan (FG) White (Lab) Harrold (S–PBP) Gannon (SD) Brien (S–PBP) Higgins (Ind) O/I
16 May 2019 Red C/The Sunday Business Post[22] 553 17 13 12 11 9 8 5 4 4 3 2 13[nb 4]
10 May 2019 Ipsos MRBI/The Irish Times[23] 500 22 13 18 9 10 7 8 3 1 3 2 4[nb 4]

Midlands-North-West

Last date
of polling		 Polling firm / Commissioner Sample
size		 McGuinness (FG) Carthy (SF) Flanagan (Ind) Walsh (FG) Casey (Ind) Smith (FF) Rabbitte (FF) McHugh (GP) Hannigan (Lab) O'Dowd (RI) O/I
16 May 2019 Red C/The Sunday Business Post[24] 646 27 14 12 10 10 9 6 4 3 2 3[nb 4]
10 May 2019 Ipsos MRBI/The Irish Times[23] 500 26 14 16 11 9 8 5 3 2 1 4[nb 4]

South

Last date
of polling		 Polling firm / Commissioner Sample
size		 Kelly (FG) Ní Riada (SF) Kelleher (FF) Byrne (FF) Wallace (I4C) O'Sullivan (GP) Clune (FG) Doyle (FG) Nunan (Lab) Wallace (S–PBP) O/I
16 May 2019 Red C/The Sunday Business Post[25] 825 17 15 13 10 8 8 7 6 3 3 10[nb 4]
10 May 2019 Ipsos MRBI/The Irish Times[23] 500 18 14 13 10 8 5 10 9 5 1 7[nb 4]

See also

Footnotes

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