South (European Parliament constituency)

South
European Parliament constituency
Location among the 2014 constituencies
South shown within Ireland
Member state	Ireland
Created	2004
MEPs	3 (2004–14) 4 (2014–)
Sources

South is a constituency of the European Parliament in Ireland. It elects 4 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) using the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).

History and boundaries

The constituency was created in 2004 as a successor to the Munster constituency, with County Clare being moved to the North-West constituency. It comprised the counties of Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary and Waterford; and the cities of Cork, Limerick and Waterford.^[1]

For the 2014 European Parliament election, the constituency was increased in size by the addition of counties Carlow, Clare, Kilkenny, Wexford and Wicklow; and the number of seats was increased to 4.^[2][3]

MEPs

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) for South 2004–
Key to parties    FF = Fianna Fáil   FG = Fine Gael   Ind = Independent   Lab = Labour Party   SF = Sinn Féin
Parl.	Election	Member (Party)		Member (Party)		Member (Party)		Member (Party)
6th	2004[4]		Brian Crowley (FF)		Simon Coveney (FG)		Kathy Sinnott (Ind)	3 seats until 2014
	2007[5]				Colm Burke (FG)
7th	2009[6]				Seán Kelly (FG)		Alan Kelly (Lab)
	2011[7]						Phil Prendergast (Lab)
8th	2014[8]						Liadh Ní Riada (SF)		Deirdre Clune (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.

2014 election

2014 European Parliament election: South[8]
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10	Count 11	Count 12
	Fianna Fáil	Brian Crowley	27.4	180,329
	Sinn Féin	Liadh Ní Riada	19.1	125,309	129,957	130,840	132,590
	Fine Gael	Seán Kelly	12.7	83,520	92,042	92,355	92,758	93,106	94,266	95,683	95,736	98,646	106,068	113,311	121,566
	Fine Gael	Deirdre Clune	7.2	47,453	51,850	52,097	52,295	52,798	54,081	55,293	55,340	58,311	64,889	69,009	74,370
	Fine Gael	Simon Harris	7.8	51,483	53,912	54,161	54,511	55,273	56,050	56,691	56,738	59,056	63,536	66,061	70,808
	Fianna Fáil	Kieran Hartley	4.6	29,987	50,349	50,653	50,953	51,475	52,481	54,475	54,559	56,746	59,722	64,357
	Independent	Diarmuid O'Flynn	4.6	30,323	31,649	33,311	34,840	36,198	38,960	43,628	44,023	48,125	51,387
	Labour Party	Phil Prendergast	4.6	30,317	32,360	32,664	33,147	33,560	34,150	34,874	34,939	42,213
	Green Party	Grace O'Sullivan	4.2	27,860	29,360	29,999	31,075	31,962	32,829	34,443	34,607
	Catholic Democrats	Theresa Heaney	2.1	13,569	14,677	15,159	15,655	17,016	19,114
	Independent	Richard Cahill	1.6	10,719	11,661	12,408	13,152	15,310
	Independent	Jillian Godsil	1.4	9,179	9,829	10,607	11,531
	Direct Democracy	Jan van de Ven	1.4	9,255	9,586	10,125
	Independent	Peter O'Loughlin	1.0	6,561	7,000
	Fís Nua	Dónal Ó Ríordáin	0.2	1,634	1,766
Electorate: 1,221,683   Valid: 657,498   Spoilt: 21,798 (3.2%)   Quota: 131,500   Turnout: 679,296 (55.6%)

2009 election

2009 European Parliament election: South[6][9]
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8
	Fianna Fáil	Brian Crowley	23.7	118,258	119,625	122,404	132,410
	Fine Gael	Seán Kelly	18.6	92,579	94,430	96,153	97,482	98,394	134,712
	Labour Party	Alan Kelly[7]	12.9	64,152	66,121	69,683	70,309	70,991	78,651	83,921	105,597
	Independent	Kathy Sinnott	11.7	58,485	62,057	64,295	65,518	66,920	71,349	75,168	95,134
	Sinn Féin	Toiréasa Ferris	13.0	64,671	65,861	67,304	68,296	69,295	73,389	74,480
	Fine Gael	Colm Burke	10.8	53,721	54,617	57,190	57,884	58,654
	Fianna Fáil	Ned O'Keeffe	3.3	16,596	16,896	17,124
	Green Party	Dan Boyle	3.1	15,499	16,250
	Independent	Alexander Stafford	2.3	11,692
	Independent	Maurice Sexton	0.5	2,474
Electorate: 861,727   Valid: 498,127   Spoilt: 11,836 (2.3%)   Quota: 124,532   Turnout: 509,963 (59.2%)

2004 election

2004 European Parliament election: South[4]
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6
	Fianna Fáil	Brian Crowley	25.9	125,539
	Fine Gael	Simon Coveney[5]	24.6	118,937	120,261	120,537	121,332
	Independent	Kathy Sinnott	18.4	89,127	89,872	90,175	92,010	97,057	120,600
	Fianna Fáil	Gerry Collins	15.1	73,131	74,991	75,246	75,577	78,367	87,658
	Sinn Féin	David Cullinane	6.7	32,643	32,848	32,977	33,561	35,385
	Labour Party	Brendan Ryan	4.1	19,975	20,086	20,170	20,576	24,406
	Green Party	Chris O'Leary	2.3	10,896	10,980	11,056	11,478
	Independent	Gerry Hannan	1.3	6,394	6,428	6,551	6,934
	Independent	Lily Moynihan	1.2	5,831	5,914	6,048
	Independent	Anthony O'Connor	0.4	1,797	1,822
Electorate: 802,359   Valid: 484,270   Spoilt: 14,124 (2.8%)   Quota: 121,068   Turnout: 498,394 (62.1%)

See also

• European Parliament constituencies in the Republic of Ireland

References

1. "Electoral (Amendment) Act 2009". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 28 September 2010.
2. "European Parliament Elections (Amendment) Act 2014". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
3. "Report on European Parliament Constituencies 2013" (PDF). Constituency Commission. 25 September 2013. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
4. "2004 European Parliament election – South". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 22 March 2009.
5. Simon Coveney was substituted by Colm Burke (FG / EPP-ED) on 19 June 2007.
6. "2009 European Parliament election – South". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 21 April 2009.
7. Alan Kelly was substituted by Phil Prendergast (Lab / S&D) on 21 April 2011.
8. "2014 European Parliament election – South". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 29 April 2014.
9. "Nominations close for Europe elections". RTÉ News. 11 May 2009. Retrieved 12 May 2009.

External links

• South MEPs – European Parliament Office in Ireland