Mayo (Dáil constituency)
Dáil constituency (1997–present)
Mayo is a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann , the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas . The constituency elects 4 deputies (Teachtaí Dála , commonly known as TDs) on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).
History
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%. Enda Kenny 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.
At the 2011 general election , this was the constituency of Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny, who would become Taoiseach after the election. Fine Gael won four out of five seats in Mayo at that election. This was the first time any party won four seats in any five-seat Dáíl constituency; the last time any party had won four seats in a Dáil constituency was in the era of six- and seven-seat constituencies.
Boundaries
The constituency includes Castlebar , Westport and Ballina . Mayo is the largest Dáil constituency in Ireland by area.
The Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2017 defines the current constituency as:[ 1]
"The county of Mayo, except the part thereof which is comprised in the constituency of
Galway West ."
The constituency was used for the first time at the 1997 general election and replaced the former constituencies of Mayo East and Mayo West .
In the Constituency Review Report 2023, the Electoral Commission recommended that the electoral divisions of Mayo that were in the Galway West constituency should be transferred to the Mayo constituency, thereby making the constituency comprise the entire county of Mayo. It was also allocated an extra seat and become a five seat constituency.[ 2]
For the next general election , the Electoral (Amendment) Act 2023 defines the constituency as:[ 3]
"The county of Mayo."
Changes to the Mayo constituency
Years
TDs
Boundaries
Notes
1997–2016
5
The county of Mayo.[ 4] [ 5] [ 6] [ 7]
Created from Mayo East and Mayo West .
2016–2020
4
The county of Mayo, except the part in the constituency of Galway West .[ 8] [ 1]
Electoral divisions of Ballinrobe, Cong, Dalgan, Houndswood, Kilcommon, Kilmaine, Neale, Shrule, in the former Rural District of Ballinrobe, and Garrymore in the former Rural District of Claremorris, transferred to Galway West.[ 9]
2020–
4
Electoral divisions of Ballinrobe, Kilcommon and Garrymore transferred from Galway West.[ 10]
TDs
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
2020 general election
2020 general election : Mayo[ 17] [ 18] [ 19]
Party
Candidate
FPv%
Count
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Fine Gael
Michael Ring
23.0
14,796
Sinn Féin
Rose Conway-Walsh
22.7
14,633
Fianna Fáil
Dara Calleary
14.2
9,163
9,377
9,671
9,874
10,429
11,130
13,636
Fine Gael
Alan Dillon
8.1
5,198
5,823
5,944
6,115
6,553
7,648
10,977
Fianna Fáil
Lisa Chambers
9.9
6,373
6,647
6,855
7,062
7,375
8,363
8,911
Fine Gael
Michelle Mulherin
8.4
5,435
5,929
6,045
6,285
6,596
7,427
Green
Saoirse McHugh
6.5
4,177
4,321
4,630
5,385
6,036
Aontú
Paul Lawless
4.0
2,574
2,662
2,854
3,375
Solidarity–PBP
Joe Daly[ a]
1.1
721
751
1,072
Independent
Gerry Loftus
0.9
574
595
670
Labour
Kamal Uddin
0.4
255
272
308
Irish Freedom
Daithí Ó Fallamháin
0.4
246
252
279
Independent
Gráinne de Barra
0.1
84
89
119
Independent
Stephen Manning
0.1
65
68
82
Independent
Seán Forkin
0.1
59
63
82
Electorate: 98,165 Valid: 64,353 Spoilt: 553 Quota: 12,871 Turnout: 64,906 (66.1%)
2016 general election
2016 general election : Mayo[ 20] [ 21] [ 16]
Party
Candidate
FPv%
Count
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Fine Gael
Enda Kenny
20.9
13,318
Fine Gael
Michael Ring
17.7
11,275
11,533
11,534
11,545
11,558
11,567
11,613
12,034
13,149
Fianna Fáil
Dara Calleary
14.8
9,402
9,417
9,419
9,432
9,441
9,450
9,495
9,933
10,425
12,150
Fianna Fáil
Lisa Chambers
12.9
8,231
8,265
8,266
8,280
8,296
8,307
8,354
8,718
9,503
11,686
Fine Gael
Michelle Mulherin
12.3
7,841
8,084
8,088
8,094
8,123
8,131
8,182
8,496
8,900
9,593
Sinn Féin
Rose Conway-Walsh
10.1
6,414
6,423
6,423
6,445
6,453
6,485
6,548
7,022
7,853
Independent
Jerry Cowley
5.5
3,479
3,495
3,504
3,513
3,523
3,553
3,668
4,375
Renua
Michael Farrington
2.5
1,574
1,579
1,582
1,590
1,600
1,608
1,659
Green
Margaret Sheehan
1.0
629
631
632
636
651
665
680
AAA–PBP
Tom Moran
0.9
576
577
582
587
597
626
664
Independent
George O'Malley
0.4
262
263
263
276
284
301
Independent
Peter Jordan
0.3
176
176
181
189
192
197
Independent
Stephen Manning
0.2
157
158
159
166
174
Independent
Mohammad Kamal Uddin
0.2
144
146
149
150
Independent
Gerry O'Boyle
0.2
126
127
130
Independent
Seán Forkin
0.1
42
42
Electorate: 92,958 Valid: 63,646 Spoilt: 600 Quota: 12,730 Turnout: 69.1%
2011 general election
2011 general election : Mayo[ 15]
Party
Candidate
FPv%
Count
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
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
Fine Gael
John O'Mahony
11.7
8,667
10,290
10,511
10,688
10,864
11,004
11,340
12,111
Fianna Fáil
Dara Calleary
11.6
8,577
8,745
8,775
8,969
9,063
11,602
12,222
12,997
Independent
Michael Kilcoyne
5.4
3,996
4,641
4,715
4,947
5,128
5,462
6,137
7,379
Labour
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
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
0.0
29
31
31
Electorate: 99,504 Valid: 74,154 Spoilt: 641 (0.9%) Quota: 12,360 Turnout: 74,795 (75.2%)
2007 general election
2007 general election : Mayo[ 13]
Party
Candidate
FPv%
Count
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
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
Fianna Fáil
Frank Chambers
6.1
4,345
4,386
4,406
4,499
4,705
Independent
Jerry Cowley
4.8
3,407
3,487
3,529
3,910
4,784
5,342
Sinn Féin
Gerry Murray
5.1
3,608
3,660
3,668
3,845
Labour
Harry Barrett
1.2
831
896
917
Green
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%)
2002 general election
2002 general election : Mayo[ 12]
Party
Candidate
FPv%
Count
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
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
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%)
1997 general election
1997 general election : Mayo[ 22]
Party
Candidate
FPv%
Count
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Fine Gael
Michael Ring
16.3
10,066
10,143
10,350
Fine Gael
Jim Higgins
11.2
6,945
7,006
7,069
7,671
7,801
9,974
11,163
Fianna Fáil
Beverley Cooper-Flynn
13.5
8,353
8,418
8,511
8,653
8,766
8,944
11,087
Fine Gael
Enda Kenny
13.9
8,568
8,626
8,797
8,989
9,083
10,210
10,428
Fianna Fáil
Tom Moffatt
9.3
5,735
5,765
5,801
5,820
6,384
7,861
9,453
9,676
Fianna Fáil
Séamus Hughes
11.0
6,791
6,859
6,953
7,008
7,092
7,151
8,169
8,395
Fianna Fáil
P. J. Morley
9.2
5,692
5,795
5,847
6,378
6,458
6,497
Fine Gael
Ernie Caffrey
7.4
4,579
4,608
4,673
4,701
5,407
Independent
Gerry Ginty
2.7
1,656
1,842
1,941
2,079
Independent
Richard Finn
2.7
1,683
1,729
1,800
Green
Ann Crowley
1.5
938
1,022
National Party
Ciarán Sherry
1.2
733
Independent
Cormac Connie Cullen
0.2
119
Electorate: 87,719 Valid: 61,858 Spoilt: 614 (1.0%) Quota: 10,310 Turnout: 62,472 (71.2%)
See also
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