East was a European Parliament constituency in Ireland. It elected 3 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).
| East | |
|---|---|
| European Parliament constituency | |
  Location within Europe | |
 East shown within Ireland (2009–2014 boundaries) | |
| Member state | Ireland |
| Created | 2004 |
| Dissolved | 2014 |
| MEPs | 3 |
| Sources | |
| [1] | |
History and boundaries edit
The constituency was created for the 2004 election and was a successor to the constituency of Leinster. From 2004 to 2009, it comprised the Leinster counties excluding the Dublin constituency. For the 2009 election, the counties of Longford and Westmeath were transferred from East to the North-West constituency. It then comprised the counties Carlow, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Louth, Meath, Offaly, Wexford and Wicklow.[1]
For the 2014 European Parliament election the constituency was abolished, with the northern part (Kildare, Laois, Louth, Meath, Offaly) transferred to the new Midlands–North-West constituency, and the southern part (Carlow, Kilkenny, Wexford, Wicklow) transferred to the South constituency.[2]
MEPs edit
| Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) for East 2004–2014 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Key to parties
| |||||||
| Parl. | Election | Member (Party) | Member (Party) | Member (Party) | |||
| 6th | 2004[3] | Mairead McGuinness (FG) | Liam Aylward (FF) | Avril Doyle (FG) | |||
| 7th | 2009[4] | Nessa Childers (Lab) | |||||
| 8th | 2014 | Constituency abolished. See Midlands–North-West and South. | |||||
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 edit
^ *: Outgoing MEP elected at the previous election.
2009 election edit
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Mairead McGuinness[*] | 25.7 | 110,366 | |||||||
| Labour | Nessa Childers | 18.3 | 78,338 | 78,914 | 80,145 | 84,198 | 86,654 | 89,355 | 102,220 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Liam Aylward[*] | 17.4 | 74,666 | 74,866 | 75,124 | 76,295 | 77,044 | 99,236 | 103,605 | |
| Fine Gael | John Paul Phelan | 14.4 | 61,851 | 63,590 | 64,169 | 67,972 | 69,608 | 70,846 | 76,960 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Thomas Byrne | 7.2 | 31,112 | 31,264 | 31,480 | 32,276 | 33,383 | |||
| Sinn Féin | Kathleen Funchion | 6.2 | 26,567 | 26,647 | 27,132 | 29,305 | 43,085 | 44,422 | ||
| Sinn Féin | Tomás Sharkey | 4.9 | 20,932 | 21,034 | 21,461 | 23,954 | ||||
| Libertas | Raymond O'Malley | 4.3 | 18,557 | 18,728 | 19,396 | |||||
| Independent | Paddy Garvey | 0.7 | 2,934 | 2,945 | ||||||
| Independent | Jim Tallon | 0.6 | 2,412 | 2,425 | ||||||
| Independent | Micheál E. Grealy | 0.4 | 1,514 | 1,523 | ||||||
| Electorate: 778,502 Valid: 429,249 Spoilt: 13,042 (2.9%) Quota: 107,313 Turnout: 442,291 (56.8%) | ||||||||||
2004 election edit
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Mairead McGuinness | 25.2 | 114,249 | |||||||
| Fine Gael | Avril Doyle[*] | 15.3 | 69,511 | 70,056 | 71,159 | 74,429 | 80,523 | 86,220 | 91,046 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Liam Aylward | 15.1 | 68,206 | 68,271 | 68,756 | 70,735 | 73,217 | 78,126 | 110,758 | |
| Labour | Peter Cassells | 13.1 | 59,158 | 59,264 | 60,231 | 63,119 | 70,509 | 79,901 | 83,981 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Séamus Kirk | 10.0 | 45,454 | 45,514 | 46,173 | 47,869 | 49,629 | 53,933 | ||
| Sinn Féin | John Dwyer | 8.7 | 39,356 | 39,386 | 40,258 | 43,021 | 46,547 | |||
| Green | Mary White | 5.6 | 25,576 | 25,644 | 27,093 | 30,437 | ||||
| Independent | Justin Barrett | 2.4 | 10,997 | 11,019 | 12,023 | |||||
| Independent | Clifford T. Reid | 2.4 | 10,692 | 10,718 | 12,032 | |||||
| Fathers Rights | Liam Ó Gógáin | 0.8 | 3,407 | 3,418 | ||||||
| Independent | Seanán Ó Coistín | 0.7 | 3,130 | 3,141 | ||||||
| Independent | Eoin Dubsky | 0.4 | 1,955 | 1,960 | ||||||
| Independent | Joe Neal | 0.3 | 1,487 | 1,492 | ||||||
| Electorate: 806,598 Valid: 453,178 Spoilt: 18,717 (3.9%) Quota: 113,295 Turnout: 471,895 (58.5%) | ||||||||||
References edit
- ^ Electoral (Amendment) Act 2009, s. 8 (No. 4 of 2009, s. 8). Act of the Oireachtas. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 28 September 2010.
- ^ "Report on European Parliament Constituencies 2013" (PDF). Constituency Commission. 25 September 2013. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 January 2021. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
- ^ a b "2004 European Parliament election – East constituency". ElectionsIreland.org. Archived from the original on 17 December 2007. Retrieved 22 March 2009.
- ^ a b "2009 European Parliament election – East constituency". ElectionsIreland.org. Archived from the original on 22 January 2021. Retrieved 21 April 2009.
- ^ "Nominations close for Europe elections". RTÉ News. 11 May 2009. Archived from the original on 23 May 2014. Retrieved 12 May 2009.