Mayo (Dáil Éireann constituency)
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| Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Constituency |
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Location of Mayo within Ireland
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| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1997 |
| Seats | 5 (1997–2016) 4 (2016–) |
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| County council | County Mayo |
| EP constituency | Midlands–North-West |
Mayo is a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency elects five deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs). The method of election is the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).
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History and boundaries
The constituency was created by combining the former constituencies of Mayo East and Mayo West, and used for the first time at the 1997 general election. It spans the entire area of County Mayo.[1] This area includes Castlebar, Westport and Ballina. Mayo is the largest Dáil constituency in Ireland by area.
At the 2011 general election, this was the constituency of Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny, who subsequently became Taoiseach. Fine Gael won four out of five seats in Mayo at that election. This was the first time in the modern era that any party won four seats in a Dáil Éireann constituency; the last such time was in the era of six- and seven-seat constituencies. It was the first time that any party won four seats in any five-seat Dáíl Éireann constituency. At the 2002 general election Fine Gael suffered its worst electoral performance ever, losing 23 seats nationally, a figure larger than expected and with its overall vote down 5%. Kenny himself came close to losing his seat and even went so far as to prepare a concession speech. In the end he won the third seat in the five-seat constituency.
The Electoral (Amendment) Act 2009 defines the constituency as:
- "The county of Mayo."
TDs
| Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Mayo 1997– | |||||||||||
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Key to parties
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| Dáil | Election | Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
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| 28th | 1997[2] | Michael Ring (FG) |
Jim Higgins (FG) |
Enda Kenny (FG) |
Beverley Flynn (FF) |
Tom Moffatt (FF) |
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| 29th | 2002[3] | Jerry Cowley (Ind) |
John Carty (FF) |
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| 30th | 2007[4] | John O'Mahony (FG) |
Beverley Flynn[5] (Ind) |
Dara Calleary (FF) |
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| 31st | 2011[6] | Michelle Mulherin (FG) |
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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
2016 general election
| 2016 general election: Mayo | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | % 1st Pref | Count 1 | |
| Independent | Gerry Boyle | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Dara Calleary | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Lisa Chambers | |||
| Renua Ireland | Michael Farrington | |||
| Fine Gael | Enda Kenny | |||
| AAA–PBP | Tom Moran | |||
| Fine Gael | Michelle Mulherin | |||
| Fine Gael | Michael Ring | |||
| Green Party | Margaret Sheehan | |||
| Sinn Féin | Rose Conway Walsh | |||
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| 2011 general election: Mayo[6] | |||||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | % 1st Pref | Count 1 | Count 2 | Count 3 | Count 4 | Count 5 | Count 6 | Count 7 | Count 8 | |
| Fine Gael | Enda Kenny | 23.6 | 17,472 | ||||||||
| Fine Gael | Michael Ring | 17.8 | 13,180 | ||||||||
| Fine Gael | Michelle Mulherin | 11.9 | 8,851 | 10,814 | 11,110 | 11,434 | 11,577 | 11,672 | 12,162 | 13,303 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Dara Calleary | 11.6 | 8,577 | 8,745 | 8,775 | 8,969 | 9,063 | 11,602 | 12,222 | 12,997 | |
| Fine Gael | John O'Mahony | 11.7 | 8,667 | 10,290 | 10,511 | 10,688 | 10,864 | 11,004 | 11,340 | 12,111 | |
| Independent | Michael Kilcoyne | 5.4 | 3,996 | 4,641 | 4,715 | 4,947 | 5,128 | 5,462 | 6,137 | 7,379 | |
| Labour Party | Jerry Cowley | 4.9 | 3,644 | 3,955 | 4,037 | 4,294 | 4,529 | 4,714 | 5,899 | ||
| Sinn Féin | Rose Conway-Walsh | 3.6 | 2,660 | 2,752 | 2,813 | 2,939 | 4,367 | 4,527 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Lisa Chambers | 4.5 | 3,343 | 3,464 | 3,491 | 3,552 | 3,619 | ||||
| Sinn Féin | Thérèse Ruane | 2.9 | 2,142 | 2,260 | 2,277 | 2,438 | |||||
| New Vision | Martin Daly | 1.2 | 893 | 919 | 926 | ||||||
| Green Party | John Carey | 0.4 | 266 | 280 | 282 | ||||||
| Independent | Dermot McDonnell | 0.3 | 216 | 237 | 238 | ||||||
| Independent | Loretta Clarke | 0.3 | 218 | 226 | 228 | ||||||
| Independent | Seán Forkin | 29 | 31 | 31 | |||||||
| Electorate: 99,504 Valid: 74,154 Spoilt: 641 (0.9%) Quota: 12,360 Turnout: 74,795 (75.2%) | |||||||||||
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| 2007 general election: Mayo[4] | |||||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | % 1st Pref | Count 1 | Count 2 | Count 3 | Count 4 | Count 5 | Count 6 | Count 7 | Count 8 | |
| Fine Gael | Enda Kenny | 20.6 | 14,717 | ||||||||
| Fine Gael | Michael Ring | 16.0 | 11,412 | 12,441 | |||||||
| Fine Gael | John O'Mahony | 9.6 | 6,869 | 7,544 | 7,759 | 8,003 | 8,717 | 8,855 | 9,587 | 13,736 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Dara Calleary | 10.1 | 7,225 | 7,248 | 7,251 | 7,438 | 7,699 | 8,803 | 9,345 | 11,269 | |
| Independent | Beverley Flynn | 9.5 | 6,779 | 7,131 | 7,212 | 7,387 | 8,043 | 9,322 | 10,684 | 11,250 | |
| Fianna Fáil | John Carty | 8.2 | 5,889 | 5,926 | 5,937 | 5,991 | 6,519 | 7,825 | 8,214 | 8,303 | |
| Fine Gael | Michelle Mulherin | 7.6 | 5,428 | 5,877 | 6,016 | 6,416 | 6,681 | 6,763 | 7,644 | ||
| Independent | Jerry Cowley | 4.8 | 3,407 | 3,487 | 3,529 | 3,910 | 4,784 | 5,342 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Frank Chambers | 6.1 | 4,345 | 4,386 | 4,406 | 4,499 | 4,705 | ||||
| Sinn Féin | Gerry Murray | 5.1 | 3,608 | 3,660 | 3,668 | 3,845 | |||||
| Labour Party | Harry Barrett | 1.2 | 831 | 896 | 917 | ||||||
| Green Party | Peter Enright | 0.8 | 580 | 594 | 597 | ||||||
| Progressive Democrats | Tommy Cooke | 0.4 | 296 | 298 | 298 | ||||||
| Electorate: 98,696 Valid: 71,386 Spoilt: 700 (1.0%) Quota: 11,898 Turnout: 72,086 (73.0%) | |||||||||||
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| 2002 general election: Mayo[3] | |||||||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | % 1st Pref | Count 1 | Count 2 | Count 3 | Count 4 | Count 5 | Count 6 | Count 7 | Count 8 | Count 9 | Count 10 | |
| Independent | Jerry Cowley | 13.7 | 8,709 | 9,213 | 9,808 | 10,573 | 11,128 | ||||||
| Fine Gael | Michael Ring | 15.6 | 9,880 | 10,045 | 10,384 | 10,576 | 10,907 | ||||||
| Fine Gael | Enda Kenny | 9.2 | 5,834 | 5,954 | 6,045 | 6,142 | 6,478 | 6,576 | 6,707 | 7,307 | 11,922 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | John Carty | 10.2 | 6,457 | 6,512 | 6,555 | 6,756 | 6,817 | 6,822 | 6,824 | 8,284 | 9,531 | 10,157 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Beverley Flynn | 10.5 | 6,661 | 6,741 | 6,886 | 7,123 | 7,167 | 7,178 | 7,187 | 9,517 | 9,749 | 9,910 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Tom Moffatt | 10.3 | 6,536 | 6,749 | 6,892 | 7,084 | 7,521 | 7,661 | 7,697 | 8,625 | 8,878 | 9,187 | |
| Fine Gael | Jim Higgins | 9.2 | 5,858 | 5,971 | 6,035 | 6,155 | 6,833 | 6,998 | 7,100 | 7,220 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Frank Chambers | 9.0 | 5,726 | 5,792 | 6,045 | 6,266 | 6,307 | 6,315 | 6,319 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Ernie Caffrey | 3.6 | 2,290 | 2,419 | 2,486 | 2,558 | |||||||
| Sinn Féin | Vincent Wood | 3.3 | 2,085 | 2,181 | 2,274 | ||||||||
| Independent | Michael Holmes | 2.8 | 1,754 | 1,873 | |||||||||
| Progressive Democrats | Billy Heffron | 1.5 | 919 | ||||||||||
| Green Party | Ann Crowley | 1.1 | 669 | ||||||||||
| Independent | Thomas King | 0.2 | 102 | ||||||||||
| Electorate: 94,854 Valid: 63,480 Spoilt: 790 (1.2%) Quota: 10,581 Turnout: 64,270 (67.8%) | |||||||||||||
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| 1997 general election: Mayo[2] | ||||||
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| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
| Fine Gael | Michael Ring | 10,066 | 16.3 | 1 | 3 | |
| Fine Gael | Jim Higgins | 6,945 | 11.2 | 2 | 7 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Beverley Flynn | 8,353 | 13.5 | 3 | 7 | |
| Fine Gael | Enda Kenny | 8,568 | 13.9 | 4 | 7 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Tom Moffatt | 5,735 | 9.3 | 5 | 8 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Séamus Hughes | 6,791 | 11.0 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | P. J. Morley | 5,692 | 9.2 | |||
| Fine Gael | Ernie Caffrey | 4,579 | 7.4 | |||
| Independent | Richard Finn | 1,683 | 2.7 | |||
| Independent | Gerry Ginty | 1,656 | 2.7 | |||
| Green Party | Ann Crowley | 938 | 1.5 | |||
| National Party | Ciaran Sherry | 733 | 1.2 | |||
| Independent | Cormac Cullen | 119 | 0.2 | |||
| Electorate: 87,719 Valid: 61,858 Spoilt: 614 (1.0%) Quota: 10,310 Turnout: 62,472 (71.2%) | ||||||
See also
- Parliamentary constituencies in the Republic of Ireland
- Politics of the Republic of Ireland
- List of political parties in the Republic of Ireland
- List of Irish by-elections
- Elections in the Republic of Ireland
References
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