Kildare South (Dáil Éireann constituency)

Kildare South
Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Constituency
Location of Kildare South within Ireland
Current constituency
Created	1997
Seats	3
TDs	Martin Heydon (FG) Seán Ó Fearghaíl (FF) Fiona O'Loughlin (FF)
County council	Kildare County Council
EP constituency	Midlands–North-West

Kildare South is a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency elects 3 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs). The method of election is the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).

History and boundaries

The constituency was created for the 1997 general election, when the former 5 seat Kildare constituency was divided into Kildare South and Kildare North.

The Kildare South constituency spans the more rural southern and western areas of County Kildare, taking in the towns of Newbridge, Kildare, Athy, Caragh and many other areas.^[1]

The Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013 defines the constituency as:^[1]

"The county of Kildare, except the part thereof which is comprised in the constituency of Kildare North and the part thereof which is comprised in the constituency of Laois."

TDs

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Kildare South 1997–
Key to parties FF = Fianna Fáil FG = Fine Gael Lab = Labour Party
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
28th	1997^[2]		Alan Dukes (FG)		Seán Power (FF)		Jack Wall (Lab)
29th	2002^[3]		Seán Ó Fearghaíl (FF)
30th	2007^[4]
31st	2011^[5]				Martin Heydon (FG)
32nd	2016^[6]				Martin Heydon (FG)		Fiona O'Loughlin (FF)

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

2016 general election

2016 general election: Kildare South^[6]
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6
	Fine Gael	Martin Heydon	21.3%	7,851	8,048	8,297	10,321
	Fianna Fáil	Fiona O'Loughlin	18.8%	6,906	7,073	7,373	7,905	8,149	8,974
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Ó Fearghaíl	17.6%	6,469	6,583	6,891	7,166	7,343	8,220
	Labour Party	Mark Wall	11.6%	4,277	4,504	4,764	5,154	5,806	6,864
	Sinn Féin	Patricia Ryan	11.6%	4,267	4,459	5,294	5,434	5,485
	Fine Gael	Fiona McLoughlin Healy	8.8%	3,250	3,416	3,554
	Independent	Declan Crowe	5.8%	2,143	2,609
	Green Party	Suzanne McEneaney	2.3%	836
	Renua Ireland	Mary Kennedy	2.1%	787
Electorate: 59,162 Valid: 36,786 Spoilt: 386 Quota: 9,197 Turnout: 37,172 (62.83%)

2011 general election

2011 general election: Kildare South^[5]
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
	Fine Gael	Martin Heydon	33.3	12,755
	Labour Party	Jack Wall	27.8	10,645
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Ó Fearghaíl	11.8	4,514	4,961	5,097	5,177	5,315	5,552	8,707
	Independent	Paddy Kennedy	7.3	2,806	3,825	4,081	4,387	5,156	6,841	7,710
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Power	9.9	3,793	4,307	4,445	4,542	4,650	4,888
	Sinn Féin	Jason Turner	6.0	2,308	2,610	2,882	2,905	3,253
	Independent	Clifford T. Reid	2.4	926	1,410	1,644	1,873
	Green Party	Vivian Cummins	1.4	523	944	1,045
Electorate: 58,867 Valid: 38,270 Spoilt: 353 (0.9%) Quota: 9,568 Turnout: 38,623 (65.6%)

2007 general election

2007 general election: Kildare South^[4]
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Ó Fearghaíl	25.2	8,731
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Power	25.1	8,694
	Labour Party	Jack Wall	20.7	7,154	7,712	9,145
	Fine Gael	Richard Daly	9.7	3,353	3,654	4,039
	Fine Gael	Alan Gillis	7.5	2,586	2,861	3,178
	Green Party	J. J. Power	6.2	2,136	2,658
	Progressive Democrats	Jane Mullins	4.4	1,513
	Independent	Tom Doyle	1.2	424
Electorate: 56,670 Valid: 34,591 Spoilt: 347 (1.0%) Quota: 8,648 Turnout: 34,938 (61.7%)

2002 general election

2002 general election: Kildare South^[3]
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Power	23.9	7,782	7,817	7,860	9,169
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Ó Fearghaíl	22.6	7,370	7,458	7,501	8,426
	Labour Party	Jack Wall	18.5	6,043	6,148	6,264	7,443	7,849	7,977
	Fine Gael	Alan Dukes	15.2	4,967	5,040	5,546	7,170	7,650	7,790
	Progressive Democrats	John Dardis	11.9	3,887	3,946	4,058
	Green Party	J. J. Power	3.7	1,208	1,335	1,351
	Fine Gael	Rainsford Hendy	2.5	828	850
	Independent	Ger Fitzgibbon	1.7	546
Electorate: 58,354 Valid: 32,631 Spoilt: 501 (1.5%) Quota: 8,158 Turnout: 33,132 (56.8%)

1997 general election

1997 general election: Kildare South^[2]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	Alan Dukes	6,260	21.7	1	3
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Power	5,665	19.7	2	4
	Labour Party	Jack Wall	5,834	20.3	3	5
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Ó Fearghaíl	4,503	15.6
	Progressive Democrats	John Dardis	3,895	13.5
	Fine Gael	Rainsford Hendy	1,371	4.8
	Fianna Fáil	Christy Walsh	662	2.3
	Independent	Francis Browne	618	2.1
Electorate: 47,852 Valid: 28,808 Spoilt: 365 (1.3%) Quota: 7,203 Turnout: 29,173 (60.9%)

References

1 2 "Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013: Schedule". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
1 2 "General election 1997: Kildare South". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 17 February 2009.
1 2 "General election 2002: Kildare South". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 17 February 2009.
1 2 "General election 2007: Kildare South". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 17 February 2009.
1 2 "General election 2011: Kildare South". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 4 March 2010.
1 2 "General election 2016: Kildare South". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 20 February 2016.

External links

Oireachtas Members Database

Current Parliamentary constituencies in the Republic of Ireland

Parliamentary constituencies in County Kildare

Parliament of Ireland to 1800	Athy (1614–1800) Harristown (1684–1800) Kildare Borough (????–1800) Kildare County (????–1800) Naas (1570–1800)

Westminster 1801–1922 and First Dáil 1918	Kildare (1801–85) North Kildare (1885–1922) South Kildare (1885–1922)

Dáil Éireann 1918–present	Kildare–Wicklow (1921–23) Kildare (1923–37, 1948–2002) Carlow–Kildare (1937–48) Kildare North (2002–) Kildare South (2002–)

European Parliament 1979–present	Leinster (1979–2004) East (2004–14) Midlands–North-West (2014–)

Irish counties: Carlow Cavan Clare Cork Donegal Dublin Galway Kerry Kildare Kilkenny Laois Leitrim Limerick Longford Louth Mayo Meath Monaghan Offaly Roscommon Sligo Tipperary Waterford Westmeath Wexford Wicklow

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