Galway East (Dáil Éireann constituency)

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Galway East Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Constituency
Galway East shown within Ireland
Created:	1918
TDs:	4
Counties:	County Galway
EP constituency:	North-West

Galway East is a constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency has an electorate of 73,659 and at present is served by 4 Teachtaí Dála (TDs). The method of election is the Single Transferable Vote. The constituency spans the entire area of the eastern half of County Galway, taking in the towns of Ballinasloe, Tuam and Loughrea and many other areas.

Contents 1 Election Results 1.1 Elections in the 2000s 1.2 Elections in the 1990s 1.3 Elections in the 1980s 2 November 1982 - 2002 full election results 3 1982 full result 3.1 1981 3.2 Elections in the 1970s 3.2.1 1977 3.3 Elections in the 1960s 3.4 Elections in the 1940s 3.5 Elections in the 1930s 3.6 Elections in the 1910s 4 See also 5 External links 6 References

[edit] Election Results

[edit] Elections in the 2000s

2007 General Election: Galway East
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	Paul Connaughton	6,886	12.3	1	8
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Kitt	8,796	15.8	2	8
	Fine Gael	Ulick Burke	5,149	9.2	3	9
	Fianna Fáil	Noel Treacy	7,524	13.5	4	9
	Fianna Fáil	Joe Callanan	5,817	10.4
	Fine Gael	John Barton	4,916	8.8
	Fine Gael	Tom McHugh	4,881	8.7
	Progressive Democrats	Ciarán Cannon	3,321	6.0
	Independent	Paddy McHugh	3,224	5.8
	Sinn Féin	Jason Devlin	1,789	3.2
	Labour Party	Colm Keavney	1,747	3.1
	Green Party	Maíread Ní Chroínín	1,057	1.9
	Independent	Adrian Feeney	397	0.7
	Independent	Clare Flynn	290	0.5

2002 General Election: Galway East
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	Paul Connaughton	8,635	17.47	1	5
	Fianna Fáil	Joe Callanan	7,898	15.98	2	5
	Independent	Paddy McHugh	7,786	15.75	3	5
	Fianna Fáil	Noel Treacy	7,765	15.71	4	5
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Kitt	7,454	15.08
	Fine Gael	Ulick Burke	6,941	14.04
	Sinn Féin	Daithí Mac an Bháird	1,828	3.70
	Green Party	Úna Ní Bhroin	1,022	2.07
	Christian Solidarity	Manus Mac Meanamáin	93	0.19

[edit] Elections in the 1990s

1997 General Election: Galway East
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	Paul Connaughton	6,445	15.02	1	5
	Fine Gael	Ulick Burke	6,931	16.15	2	5
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Kitt	5,436	12.67	5	3
	Fianna Fáil	Noel Treacy	6,531	15.22	5	4
	Fianna Fáil	Joe Callanan	7,898	15.98	N/E	5
	Labour Party	Colm Keavney	3,400	7.92	E	4
	Progressive Democrats	Joe Burke	3,182		E	3
	Fine Gael	Patrick Finnegan	2,670	6.22	E	2
	Independent	Pat Hynes	1,298	3.02	L/D	1
	Independent	Sheila Ganly	705	1.64	L/D	1
	Natural Law	Paul Campbell	98	0.23	L/D	1

1992 General Election: Galway East
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Kitt	6,062	20.85	1	4
	Fine Gael	Paul Connaughton	6,339	21.81	2	2
	Fianna Fáil	Noel Treacy	5,834	20.07	3	6
	Progressive Democrats	Joe Burke	3,882	13.35		E
	Fine Gael	Michael Mullins	2,864	9.85		E
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Finnegan	2,198	7.56		E
	Labour Party	Pat Hynes	1,586	5.46		L/D
	Sinn Féin	Dermot Connolly	306	1.05		L/D

[edit] Elections in the 1980s

1989 General Election: Galway East
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	Paul Connaughton	8,593	29.50	1
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Kitt	7,573	26.00	2
	Fianna Fáil	Noel Treacy	7,030	24.13	3
	Fine Gael	Michael Finnerty	2,800	9.61		N/E
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Finnegan	2,721	9.34		N/E
	Independent	Pádraig Ó Ceallaigh	412	1.41		N/E

1987 General Election: Galway East
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Kitt	6,831	20.74	1
	Fianna Fáil	Noel Treacy	6,762	20.53	3
	Fine Gael	Paul Connaughton	6,719	20.40	2
	Progressive Democrats	Joe Burke	5,463	16.59
	Fine Gael	Ulick Burke	3,700	11.23
	Fianna Fáil	Thomas Hussey	3,463	10.51

November 1982 General Election: Galway East
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Kitt	6,208	18.92	1
	Fine Gael	Paul Connaughton	6,563	20.00	2
	Fianna Fáil	Noel Treacy	5,785	17.63	3
	Fine Gael	Ulick Burke	5,220	11.23
	Fianna Fáil	Thomas Hussey	4,909	14.96
	Progressive Democrats	Joe Burke	3,040	9.26
	Labour Party	Kevin Dwyer	926	2.82
	Independent	Brian Parker	164	0.50

1982 Galway East by-election, 20 July 1982: Galway East
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Noel Treacy	16,337	50.21	1	1
	Fine Gael	Ulick Burke	13,610	41.83
	Labour Party	Kevin Dwyer	1,741	5.35
	Independent	Norman Morgan	675	2.07	L/D
	Independent	Brian Parker	177	0.54	L/D

[edit] November 1982 - 2002 full election results

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[edit] 1982 full result

23rd Irish General Election – 18th February, 1982
Candidate		Party	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5
	Paul Connaughton	Fine Gael	7014	7303	8250	8250	8250
	Michael Kitt	Fianna Fáil	6182	6305	6386	6786	11167
	Johnny Callanan	Fianna Fáil	6015	6042	6257	7466	8788
	Thomas Hussey	Fianna Fáil	5500	5689	5743	6212
	Ulick Burke	Fine Gael	4037	4150	5383
	Joseph Brennan	Fine Gael	2403	2566
	Kevin Dwyer	Labour Party	946
Electorate=41655, Valid=32097, spoiled=250, quota=8025

[edit] 1981

Electorate=41666, Valid votes =33090, spoiled votes=272, quota=8273 ^[1]

1981 General Election

Name	Party	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5
Paul Connaughton	Fine Gael	7487	9287
Johnny Callanan	Fianna Fáil	6326	6441	6457	7582	9370
Michael Kitt	Fianna Fáil	5681	5890	5951	10185
Thomas Hussey	Fianna Fáil	5502	5850	5929
Ulick Burke	Fine Gael	4301	5559	6420	6709	6833
Joe Burke	Fine Gael	3793

[edit] Elections in the 1970s

[edit] 1977

Electorate=56064, Valid votes =44608, spoiled votes=304, quota=8922 ^[2]

1977 General Election

Name	Party	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
Johnny Callanan	Fianna Fáil	8835	8849	9487
Thomas Hussey	Fianna Fáil	6345	6398	6641	6737	6959	9881
John Donnellan	Fine Gael	5985	6156	6415	8855	8911	9082
Paul Connaughton	Fine Gael	5914	6241	6499	7477	7534	7960	8010
Mark Killilea, Jnr	Fianna Fáil	5714	5855	5928	5962	6021	7963	8872
Michael Kitt	Fianna Fáil	5361	5389	5571	5640	5780
Brigid Hogan-O'Higgins	Fine Gael	3353	3401	3867
Norman Morgan	Independent	2225	2281
Kevin Dwyer	Labour	876

[edit] Elections in the 1960s

1965 General Election: Galway East
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	John Donnellan	11,109	26.64	1
	Fine Gael	Brigid Hogan-O'Higgins	4,309	10.33	2
	Fianna Fáil	Michael F. Kitt	5,458	13.09	3
	Fianna Fáil	Anthony Millar	5,790	13.88	4
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Carty	4,656	11.16	5
	Fianna Fáil	Thomas Hussey	4,276	10.25
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Fahey	2,468	5.92
	Independent	Pádraig Ó Ceallaigh	1,607	3.85
	Fine Gael	Sean Purcell	1,381	3.31
	Fine Gael	Gus Hynes	650	1.56

1964 Galway East by-election, 3 December 1964: Galway East
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	John Donnellan			1

1961 General Election: Galway East
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Michael F. Kitt	5,750	14.38	1
	Clann na Talmhan	Michael Donnellan	5,903	14.76	2
	Fianna Fáil	Anthony Millar	6,325	15.82	3
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Carty	6,266	15.67	4
	Fine Gael	Brigid Hogan-O'Higgins	4,988	12.47	5
	Fine Gael	Sean Purcell	3,729	9.33
	Fianna Fáil	Mark Killilea, Snr	5,714	12.81
	Sinn Féin	Pádraig Ó Ceallaigh	3,478	8.70

[edit] Elections in the 1940s

1944 General Election: Galway East
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Ceann Comhairle	Frank Fahy			1
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Beegan	11,475	35.15	2
	Independent	Michael Donnellan	10,235	31.35	3
	Fianna Fáil	Mark Killilea, Snr	8,449	25.88	4
	Independent	Edward Stunkerd	2,484	7.61

1943 General Election: Galway East
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Ceann Comhairle	Frank Fahy			1
	Independent	Michael Donnellan	9,226	25.61	2
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Beegan	8,638	23.98	3
	Fianna Fáil	Mark Killilea, Snr	7,424	20.61	4
	Labour Party	Robert Burke	5,029	13.96
	Fianna Fáil	Stephen Jordan	1,745	4.84
	Fine Gael	Seán Broderick	1,729	4.80
	Fine Gael	Patrick Cawley	1,127	3.13
	Independent	Sean O'Kelly	1,101	3.06

[edit] Elections in the 1930s

1938 General Election: Galway East
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Ceann Comhairle	Frank Fahy			1
	Fianna Fáil	Mark Killilea, Snr	9,526	27.19	2
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Beegan	8,804	25.13	3
	Fine Gael	Seán Broderick	6,339	18.10
	Fine Gael	Patrick Cawley	4,140	11.82
	Fianna Fáil	Martin Regan	3,468	9.90
	Labour Party	Robert Burke	2,753	7.86

1937 General Election: Galway East
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Ceann Comhairle	Frank Fahy			1
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Beegan	7,978	23.54	2
	Fianna Fáil	Mark Killilea, Snr	8,067	23.80	3
	Fine Gael	Seán Broderick	5,867	17.31	4
	Fine Gael	Patrick Cawley	4,275	12.61
	Fianna Fáil	Stephen Jordan	4,033	11.90
	Labour Party	Robert Burke	3,672	10.83

[edit] Elections in the 1910s

1918 General Election: Galway East
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Sinn Féin	Liam Mellows	Unopposed		1

[edit] See also

• Politics of the Republic of Ireland
• List of political parties in Ireland
• List of Irish by-elections
• Elections in Ireland

[edit] External links

• Full 2007 results

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