Limerick East (Dáil Éireann constituency)

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Limerick East Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Constituency
Limerick East shown within Ireland
Created:	1948
TDs:	5
Counties:	County Limerick
EP constituency:	South

Limerick East is a constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency has an electorate of 80,593 and at present is served by 5 Teachtaí Dála (TDs). The method of election is the Single Transferable Vote.

The constituency encompasses the whole of Limerick City Council, together with the Castleconnell electoral area and part of the Bruff electoral area of Limerick County Council and the Ballyglass electoral area of Clare County Council. It is a largely urban constituency, and contains small parts of County Clare.

The constituency has long been considered a bastion of the Progressive Democrats, having had at least one PD TD from 1987 until 2007.

Contents 1 2007 Constituency commission 2 2007 Election 3 2002 Election results 4 November 1982 - 1997 full election results 5 1977 full election result 6 Former TDs 7 See also 8 References

[edit] 2007 Constituency commission

The report of the Constituency commission published its final recommendations on October 24th, 2007. As a result of population decline, Limerick East is to be reduced to four seats and will be renamed Limerick City. [1]

[edit] 2007 Election

2007 General Election: Limerick East
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Willie O'Dea	19,082	38.65	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Peter Power	3.569	7.23	2	2
	Fine Gael	Michael Noonan	7,507	15.20	3	2
	Labour Party	Jan O'Sullivan	5,098	10.33	4	8
	Fine Gael	Kieran O'Donnell	5,094	10.32	5	8
	Progressive Democrats	Tim O'Malley	3,354	6.79
	Sinn Féin	Maurice Quinlivan	2,081	4.21
	Fianna Fáil	Noreen Ryan	1,391	2.82
	Green Party	Trish Forde Brennan	1,296	2.62
	Independent	John Devane	330	0.67
	Independent	Cathal McCarthy	188	0.38
	Independent	Denis Riordan	186	0.38
	Christian Solidarity	Conor O'Donoghue	171	0.35
	Independent	Patrick Moore	28	0.06

[edit] 2002 Election results

2002 General Election: Limerick East
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Willie O'Dea	13,174	26.35	1	1
	Fine Gael	Michael Noonan	9,451	18.90	2	1
	Fianna Fáil	Peter Power	3,881	7.76	3	10
	Progressive Democrats	Tim O'Malley	4,885	15.47	4	11
	Labour Party	Jan O'Sullivan	3,442	9.13	5	11
	Fine Gael	Mary Jackman	4,468	8.94
	Fianna Fáil	Eddie Wade	2,918	5.84
	Independent	Pat Kennedy	2,092	4.18
	Independent	John Gilligan	1,176	2.35
	Independent	Tom Ryan	1,148	2.30
	Green Party	Timothy Hourigan	917	1.83
	Independent	Michael Kelly	677	1.35
	Independent	Nora Bennis	479	0.96
	Christian Solidarity	Conor O'Donoghue	86	0.17
	Independent	Aidan Ryan	19	0.04

[edit] November 1982 - 1997 full election results

Online at [2]

[edit] 1977 full election result

Electorate=57023, Valid votes =44903, spoiled votes=217, quota=8981 ^[1]

	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10
Des O'Malley, (Fianna Fáil)	8762	8765	8788	8860	8900	8994	8994	8994	8994	8994
Tom O'Donnell, (Fine Gael)	6571	6573	6585	6692	7302	7374	7636	10169	10169
Michael Herbert, (Fianna Fáil)	6293	6306	6321	6377	6405	6474	6640	6786	7105	7342
Peadar Clohessy, (Fianna Fáil)	5488	5497	5512	5540	5572	5610	5722	5778	6090	6249
Michael Lipper, (Democratic Labour)	5224	5257	5322	5429	5575	6023	7608	8049	9775	9775
Stephen Coughlan, (Labour)	3553	3555	3565	3618	3693	3786	4008	4380
Edward Russell, (Fine Gael)	3022	3024	3030	3097	3403	3521	3684
Jim Kemmy, (Socialist)	2333	2348	2413	2476	2530	2920
Michael Crowe, (Independent)	1325	1335	1358	1408	1447
Pat Kennedy, (Fine Gael)	1302	1303	1307	1357
Win Harington, (Independent)	646	657	677
Fergus Reynolds, (Sinn Fein, The Workers Party)	262	280
Joseph Harrington, (Socialist)	122

[edit] Former TDs

• Tom O'Donnell
• Des O'Malley
• Donagh O'Malley

[edit] See also

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

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[edit] References