Leinster (European Parliament constituency)

Leinster
European Parliament constituency
Shown within Ireland
Member state	Ireland
Created	1979
Dissolved	2004
MEPs	3 (1979–94) 4 (1994–2004)
Sources

Leinster was a constituency of the European Parliament 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 FF = Fianna Fáil FG = Fine Gael GP = Green Party Lab = Labour Party
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^[4]						Séamus Pattison (Lab)
	1983^[4]						Justin Keating (Lab)
2nd	1984^[5]						Jim Fitzsimons (FF)
3rd	1989^[6]		Patrick Cooney (FG)
4th	1994^[7]		Alan Gillis (FG)		Liam Hyland (FF)				Nuala Ahern (GP)
5th	1999^[8]		Avril Doyle (FG)		Liam Hyland (FF)				Nuala Ahern (GP)
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.

1999 election

1999 European Parliament election: Leinster^[8]
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3
	Fine Gael	Avril Doyle	19.8	67,881	69,495
	Green Party	Nuala Ahern	13.8	47,184	52,618	66,808
	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
	Labour Party	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%)

Alan Gillis lost his seat to his party running mate Avril Doyle.

1994 election

1994 European Parliament election: Leinster^[7]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Liam Hyland	46,448	17.7	1	7
	Fine Gael	Alan Gillis	42,826	16.3	2	7
	Fianna Fáil	Jim Fitzsimons	41,375	15.8	3	7
	Green Party	Nuala Ahern	30,997	11.8	4	7
	Fine Gael	Monica Barnes	29,958	11.4
	Labour Party	Michael Bell	22,987	8.8
	Labour Party	Séamus Pattison	17,580	6.7
	Progressive Democrats	John Dardis	12,591	4.8
	Independent	Jack Fitzsimons	6,752	2.6
	Sinn Féin	Lucilita Bhreatnach	6,523	2.5
	Independent	Peter Sweetman	3,228	1.2
	Natural Law	Tom Mullins	1,180	0.5
Electorate: 624,561 Valid: 262,445 Spoilt: 6,599 (2.5%) Quota: 52,490 Turnout: 269,044 (43.1%)

Alan Gillis replaced his party colleague Patrick Cooney who had stepped down. The Green Party gained the additional seat.

1989 election

1989 European Parliament election: Leinster^[6]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	Patrick Cooney	65,775	17.4	3	7
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Lalor	75,627	20.0	3	7
	Fianna Fáil	Jim Fitzsimons	63,797	16.9	3	11
	Labour Party	Michael Bell	49,766	13.2
	Fine Gael	Charles McDonald	35,792	9.5
	Progressive Democrats	John Dardis	31,623	8.4
	Green Party	Seán English	23,724	6.3
	Workers' Party	Michael Enright	9,451	2.5
	Workers' Party	Catherine Murphy	7,089	1.9
	Sinn Féin	Kevin Dunphy	4,534	1.2
	Sinn Féin	Pearse McGeough	3,001	0.8
	Independent	Kevin Boland	3,362	0.9
	Sinn Féin	Terry Moore	2,424	0.6
	Independent	Cornelius de Groot	1,626	0.4
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^[5]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	Mark Clinton	61,669	23.8	1	2
	Fianna Fáil	Jim Fitzsimons	57,321	22.1	2	4
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Lalor	56,191	21.7	3	4
	Labour Party	Justin Keating	30,773	11.9
	Fine Gael	Deirdre Bolger	33,208	12.8
	Workers' Party	Liz McManus	8,943	3.5
	Sinn Féin	Martin Sharkey	4,548	1.8
	Sinn Féin	John Carroll	4,396	1.7
	Sinn Féin	James Dwyer	2,245	0.9
Electorate: 545,878 Valid: 259,294 Spoilt: 9,197 (3.4%) Quota: 64,824 Turnout: 268,491 (49.2%)

Justin Keating lost his seat to Jim Fitzsimmons of Fianna Fáil.

1979 election

1979 European Parliament election: Leinster^[3]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	Mark Clinton	78,762	25.7	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Lalor	62,094	20.2	2	4
	Labour Party	Liam Kavanagh^[4]	40,072	13.1	3	5
	Fianna Fáil	Tom Nolan	34,210	11.2
	Fine Gael	Charles McDonald	24,875	8.1
	Fianna Fáil	Paddy Power	31,023	10.1
	Fine Gael	Monica Barnes	21,384	7.0
	Sinn Féin (Workers' Party)	Donnchadha MacRaghnaill	8,414	2.7
	Sinn Féin (Workers' Party)	Sean Walsh	6,062	2.0
Electorate: 486,248 Valid: 306,896 Spoilt: 15,416 (4.8%) Quota: 61,380 Turnout: 322,312 (66.3%)

References

↑ "European Assembly Elections Act, 1977: Schedule (Constituencies)". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 22 November 2011.
↑ "European Parliament Elections (Amendment) Act 2004: Schedule (Constituencies)". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 22 November 2011.
1 2 "1979 European Parliament election – Leinster constituency". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 22 March 2009.
1 2 3 Liam Kavanagh resigned on 7 July 1981 after becoming Minister for Labour and was substituted by Séamus Pattison (LAB / PES) on 9 July 1981. Séamus Pattison resigned on 15 December 1983 and was substituted by Justin Keating (LAB / PES) on 8 February 1984.
1 2 "1984 European Parliament election – Leinster constituency". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 22 March 2009.
1 2 "1989 European Parliament election – Leinster constituency". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 22 March 2009.
1 2 "1994 European Parliament election – Leinster constituency". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 22 March 2009.
1 2 "1999 European Parliament election – Leinster constituency". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 22 March 2009.

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