Leinster (European Parliament constituency)

Leinster
European Parliament constituency
Shown within Ireland
Member stateIreland
Created1979
Dissolved2004
MEPs3 (1979–1994)
4 (1994–2004)
Sources
[1]

Leinster was a European Parliament constituency in Ireland between 1979 and 2004. It elected 3 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) in the 1979, 1984 and 1989 elections and 4 MEPs in the elections of 1994 and 1999 using the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).

History and boundaries

The constituency was created in 1979 for the first direct elections to the European Parliament. It comprised the counties of Carlow, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Longford, Louth, Meath, Offaly, Westmeath, Wexford and Wicklow from the historic province of Leinster excluding the County Dublin area.[1] It was abolished under the European Parliament Elections (Amendment) Act 2004 and succeeded by the new East constituency.[2]

MEPs

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) for Leinster 1979–2009
Key to parties
Parl. Election Member
(Party)		 Member
(Party)		 Member
(Party)		 Member
(Party)
1st 1979[3] Mark Clinton
(FG) 		Patrick Lalor
(FF) 		Liam Kavanagh
(Lab) 		3 seats
until 1994
1981[a] Séamus Pattison
(Lab)
1983[b] Justin Keating
(Lab)
2nd 1984[4] Jim Fitzsimons
(FF)
3rd 1989[5] Patrick Cooney
(FG)
4th 1994[6] Alan Gillis
(FG) 		Liam Hyland
(FF) 		Nuala Ahern
(GP)
5th 1999[7] Avril Doyle
(FG)
6th 2004 Constituency abolished. See East.

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.

  1. ^ Liam Kavanagh resigned on 7 July 1981 on his appointment as Minister for Labour and was substituted by Séamus Pattison (LAB / PES) on 9 July 1981.
  2. ^ Séamus Pattison resigned on 15 December 1983 on his appointment as a Minister of State and was substituted by Justin Keating (LAB / PES) on 8 February 1984.

Elections

^ *: Outgoing MEP elected at the previous election.
^ †: Outgoing MEP coopted subsequent to the previous election.

1999 election

1999 European Parliament election: Leinster (4 seats)[7]
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3
Fine Gael Avril Doyle 19.8 67,881 69,495  
Fianna Fáil Jim Fitzsimons[*] 17.2 58,750 61,439 66,117
Fianna Fáil Liam Hyland[*] 17.1 58,477 61,931 65,496
Fine Gael Alan Gillis[*] 14.2 48,729 50,040 56,881
Green Nuala Ahern[*] 13.8 47,184 52,618 66,808
Labour Seán Butler 11.1 38,112 40,849  
Sinn Féin Arthur Morgan 5.9 20,015    
Natural Law Desmond Garrett 0.9 3,191    
Electorate: 706,200   Valid: 342,339   Spoilt: 14,725 (4.1%)   Quota: 68,468   Turnout: 357,064 (50.6%)  

1994 election

1994 European Parliament election: Leinster (4 seats)[8][9]
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Fianna Fáil Liam Hyland 17.7 46,448 46,737 47,255 48,238 49,236 51,543 54,161
Fine Gael Alan Gillis 16.3 42,826 43,156 43,346 43,793 47,112 48,309 50,896
Fianna Fáil Jim Fitzsimons[*] 15.8 41,375 41,611 42,516 43,684 44,802 45,626 50,263
Green Nuala Ahern 11.8 30,997 32,302 33,849 35,712 37,946 39,297 45,821
Fine Gael Monica Barnes 11.4 29,958 30,235 30,448 30,949 33,692 35,070 39,518
Labour Michael Bell 8.8 22,987 23,186 23,815 24,442 25,366 34,926  
Labour Séamus Pattison 6.7 17,580 17,869 18,140 18,478 18,953    
Progressive Democrats John Dardis 4.8 12,591 12,919 13,052 13,472      
Independent Jack Fitzsimons 2.6 6,752 7,262 7,802        
Sinn Féin Lucilita Bhreatnach 2.5 6,523 6,627          
Independent Peter Sweetman 1.2 3,228            
Natural Law Tom Mullins 0.5 1,180            
Electorate: 624,561   Valid: 262,445   Spoilt: 6,599 (2.5%)   Quota: 52,490   Turnout: 269,044 (43.1%)  

1989 election

1989 European Parliament election: Leinster (3 seats)[10][11]
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Fianna Fáil Patrick Lalor[*] 20.0 75,627 75,715 75,856 76,198 76,370 76,914 78,753 81,555 85,090 88,868 90,473
Fine Gael Patrick Cooney 17.4 65,775 65,926 65,962 66,430 66,504 66,733 67,963 71,289 82,701 112,060  
Fianna Fáil Jim Fitzsimons[*] 16.9 63,797 63,906 63,994 64,344 64,528 65,214 66,474 69,639 72,739 74,004 75,249
Labour Michael Bell 13.2 49,766 49,870 49,954 50,298 50,537 51,104 55,754 61,606 65,668 68,015 75,239
Fine Gael Charles McDonald 9.5 35,792 35,863 35,944 36,063 36,168 36,367 37,910 39,962 46,931    
Progressive Democrats John Dardis 8.4 31,623 31,730 31,789 32,159 32,194 32,393 33,703 37,490      
Green Seán English 6.3 23,724 23,922 23,992 24,309 24,401 25,162 27,199        
Workers' Party Michael Enright 2.5 9,451 9,731 9,797 9,982 10,093 10,703          
Workers' Party Catherine Murphy 1.9 7,089 7,125 7,321 7,413 7,684 8,155          
Sinn Féin Kevin Dunphy 1.2 4,534 4,620 5,036 5,329 7,393            
Independent Kevin Boland 0.9 3,362 3,462 3,496                
Sinn Féin Pearse McGeough 0.8 3,001 3,009 3,863 3,930              
Sinn Féin Terry Moore 0.6 2,424 2,438                  
Independent Cornelius de Groot 0.4 1,626                    
Electorate: 571,694   Valid: 377,591   Spoilt: 14,106 (3.6%)   Quota: 94,398   Turnout: 391,697 (68.5%)  

Mark Clinton stepped down and was replaced by his party colleague Patrick Cooney.

1984 election

1984 European Parliament election: Leinster (3 seats)[12][13]
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4
Fine Gael Mark Clinton[*] 23.8 61,669 63,159 92,091  
Fianna Fáil Jim Fitzsimons 22.1 57,321 60,028 60,994 63,935
Fianna Fáil Patrick Lalor[*] 21.7 56,191 59,180 59,928 61,277
Fine Gael Deirdre Bolger 12.8 33,208 34,570    
Labour Justin Keating[†] 11.9 30,773 35,308 37,756 53,552
Workers' Party Liz McManus 3.5 8,943      
Sinn Féin Martin Sharkey 1.8 4,548      
Sinn Féin John Carroll 1.7 4,396      
Sinn Féin James Dwyer 0.9 2,245      
Electorate: 545,878   Valid: 259,294   Spoilt: 9,197 (3.4%)   Quota: 64,824   Turnout: 268,491 (49.2%)  

1979 election

1979 European Parliament election: Leinster (3 seats)[14][15]
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5
Fine Gael Mark Clinton 25.7 78,762        
Fianna Fáil Patrick Lalor 20.2 62,094 63,538 65,267 77,790  
Labour Liam Kavanagh 13.1 40,072 43,704 47,801 49,187 58,576
Fianna Fáil Tom Nolan 11.2 34,210 35,502 36,048 48,375 51,343
Fianna Fáil Paddy Power 10.1 31,023 32,119 32,668    
Fine Gael Charles McDonald 8.1 24,875 25,637 37,841 38,794  
Fine Gael Monica Barnes 7.0 21,384 22,461      
Sinn Féin The Workers' Party Donnchadha MacRaghnaill 2.7 8,414        
Sinn Féin The Workers' Party Sean Walsh 2.0 6,062        
Electorate: 486,248   Valid: 306,896   Spoilt: 15,416 (4.8%)   Quota: 76,725   Turnout: 322,312 (66.3%)  

References

  1. ^ "European Assembly Elections Act, 1977: Schedule (Constituencies)". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 22 November 2011.
  2. ^ "European Parliament Elections (Amendment) Act 2004: Schedule (Constituencies)". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 22 November 2011.
  3. ^ "1979 European Parliament election – Leinster constituency". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 22 March 2009.
  4. ^ "1984 European Parliament election – Leinster constituency". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 22 March 2009.
  5. ^ "1989 European Parliament election – Leinster constituency". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 22 March 2009.
  6. ^ "1994 European Parliament election – Leinster constituency". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 22 March 2009.
  7. ^ a b "1999 European Parliament election – Leinster constituency". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 22 March 2009.
  8. ^ "Leinster: 1994 European Election Results, Counts, Transfers".
  9. ^ "1994 European Elections Results". 26 April 2024.
  10. ^ "1989 European Elections Results". 26 April 2024.
  11. ^ "Leinster: 1989 European Election Results, Counts, Transfers".
  12. ^ "1984 European Elections Results". 26 April 2024.
  13. ^ "Leinster: 1984 European Election Results, Counts, Transfers".
  14. ^ "1979 European Elections Results". 26 April 2024.
  15. ^ "Leinster: 1979 European Election Results, Counts, Transfers".