Mayo | |
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Dáil constituency | |
![]() Location of Mayo within Ireland | |
Major settlements | |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1997 |
Seats |
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TDs | |
Local government area | County Mayo |
Created from | |
EP constituency | Midlands–North-West |
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."
Years | TDs | Boundaries | Notes |
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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
Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Mayo 1997– | |||||||||||
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Key to parties
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Dáil | Election | Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) | |||||
28th | 1997[11] | Beverley Flynn (FF) |
Tom Moffatt (FF) |
Enda Kenny (FG) |
Michael Ring (FG) |
Jim Higgins (FG) | |||||
29th | 2002[12] | John Carty (FF) |
Jerry Cowley (Ind) | ||||||||
30th | 2007[13][14] | Beverley Flynn (Ind) |
Dara Calleary (FF) |
John O'Mahony (FG) | |||||||
31st | 2011[15] | Michelle Mulherin (FG) | |||||||||
32nd | 2016[16] | Lisa Chambers (FF) |
4 seats from 2016 | ||||||||
33rd | 2020[17] | Rose Conway-Walsh (SF) |
Alan Dillon (FG) |
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
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
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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%) |
- ^ Daly was a member of People Before Profit.
2016 general election
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||
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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
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
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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
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
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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
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||
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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
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
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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
- Dáil constituencies
- Elections in the Republic of Ireland
- Politics of the Republic of Ireland
- List of Dáil by-elections
- List of political parties in the Republic of Ireland
References
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