Seán Canney

Seán Canney TD

Teachta Dála
Incumbent
Assumed office February 2016
Constituency	Galway East
Galway County Councillor
Incumbent
Assumed office 2004
Constituency	Tuam
Personal details
Nationality	Irish
Political party	Independent
Website	www.seancanney.com

Seán Canney is an Irish politician representing the Independent Alliance as a Teachta Dála (TD) for Galway East since 2016.

A native of Belclare, Tuam, Canney was campaign manager for his brother-in-law, Paddy McHugh, in the 2002 general election in which McHugh successfully gained a seat in the Galway East constituency.

As an Independent, Canney was elected to Galway County Council in 2004 on his first attempt. He was re-elected in each of the subsequent local elections in 2009 and 2014. In both the 2009 and 2014 elections he topped the poll in the Tuam electoral area - receiving 3,273 first preference votes (1.39 quota) in 2009^[1] and 3,171 first preference votes (1.70 quota) in 2014.^[2]

He was an unsuccessful candidate in the 2011 general election in the Galway East constituency, receiving 5,567^[3] first preference votes (0.47 quota).

He served as Mayor of County Galway for the term 2007-08, and served on a number of boards and committees. He joined the Independent Alliance in advance of the 2016 general election and was elected as a Teachta Dála (TD) for Galway East. Then he voted Enda Kenny as Taoiseach.^[4]

References

↑ "ElectionsIreland.org: 2009 Local - Tuam First Preference Votes". electionsireland.org. Retrieved 2016-01-12.
↑ "ElectionsIreland.org: 2014 Local - Tuam First Preference Votes". electionsireland.org. Retrieved 2016-01-12.
↑ "ElectionsIreland.org: 31st Dáil - Galway East First Preference Votes". electionsireland.org. Retrieved 2016-01-12.
↑ "Enda Kenny is re-elected as Taoiseach in the Dáil". Newstalk. 6 May 2016.

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Current members of Dáil Éireann

As elected to the 32nd Dáil in 2016 Ceann Comhairle: Seán Ó Fearghaíl

Fine Gael (50)	Bailey Barrett Breen Brophy Bruton Burke C. Byrne Cannon Carey Corcoran Kennedy Coveney Creed J. Daly D'Arcy Deasy Deering R. Doherty Donohoe Doyle Durkan English Farrell Fitzgerald Fitzpatrick Flanagan Griffin Harris Heydon Humphreys Kehoe E. Kenny§ Kyne Madigan McEntee McHugh McLoughlin Mitchell O'Connor D. Murphy Eoghan Murphy H. Naughton Neville Noonan O'Connell O'Donovan O'Dowd Phelan Ring Rock Stanton Varadkar

Fianna Fáil (43)	Aylward Brassil Breathnach Browne Butler T. Byrne Cahill Calleary Casey Cassells L. Chambers J. Chambers N. Collins Cowen Curran Dooley Fleming Gallagher Haughey Kelleher Lahart Lawless M. Martin§ McConalogue Michael McGrath McGuinness A. Moynihan M. Moynihan Murphy O'Mahony Eugene Murphy D. O'Brien O'Callaghan Ó Cuív O'Dea O'Keeffe O'Loughlin O'Rourke Rabbitte Scanlon Brendan Smith Smyth Troy

Sinn Féin (23)	Adams§ Brady Buckley Crowe Cullinane P. Doherty Ellis M. Ferris Funchion M. Kenny McDonald Mitchell Munster Nolan J. O'Brien Ó Broin Ó Caoláin Ó Laoghaire O'Reilly Ó Snodaigh Quinlivan Stanley Tóibín

Labour Party (7)	Burton§ Howlin Kelly J. O'Sullivan Penrose B. Ryan Sherlock

AAA–PBP (6)	Barry Boyd Barrett Coppinger G. Kenny P. Murphy Bríd Smith

Independents 4 Change (4)	Broughan J. Collins C. Daly Wallace

Social Democrats (3)	Donnelly§ C. Murphy§ Shortall§

Green Party (2)	C. Martin E. Ryan§

Workers and Unemployed Action (1)	Healy

Independent (18)	Canney^† M. Collins Connolly Fitzmaurice^† Grealish Halligan^† Harty D. Healy-Rae M. Healy-Rae Lowry F. McGrath^† Mattie McGrath Moran^† D. Naughten M. O'Sullivan Pringle Ross^† Zappone

§Party leaders Italics = Ministers ^†Ind. Alliance

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