Dublin Fingal was a parliamentary constituency which was represented in Dáil Éireann, the house of representatives of the Oireachtas (the legislature of Ireland), from 2016 to 2024. The constituency elected five deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs) on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).
| Dublin Fingal | |
|---|---|
| Former Dáil constituency | |
  Dublin Fingal is outlined in red. | |
| Major settlements | |
| Former constituency | |
| Created | 2016 |
| Abolished | 2024 |
| Seats | 5 |
| Local government area | Fingal |
| Created from |
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| EP constituency | Dublin |
History and boundaries
editThe constituency was established by the Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013.[1] It incorporated all of the old Dublin North, Swords-Forrest and Kilsallaghan from Dublin West, and Balgriffin and Turnapin from Dublin North-East. The name Dublin Fingal for the constituency that became Dublin North had been proposed by John Boland in 1980.[2]
The Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2017 defined the constituency as:[3]
"In the county of Fingal the electoral divisions of:
- Balbriggan Rural, Balbriggan Urban, Balgriffin, Ballyboghil, Balscadden, Clonmethan, Donabate, Garristown, Hollywood, Holmpatrick, Kilsallaghan, Kinsaley, Lusk, Malahide East, Malahide West, Portmarnock North, Portmarnock South, Rush, Skerries, Swords-Forrest, Swords-Glasmore, Swords-Lissenhall, Swords-Seatown, Swords Village;
- and those parts of the electoral divisions of Airport, Dubber and Turnapin situated north of a line drawn along the Northern Cross Route (M50), passing in a clockwise direction around and excluding roundabout No. 3 at the junction of the Northern Cross Route (M50) with the M1 Motorway."
In August 2023, the Electoral Commission published its review of constituency boundaries in Ireland, which recommended that the constituency of Dublin Fingal be abolished, with the creation of two new three-seat constituencies: Dublin Fingal East and Dublin Fingal West.[4] Each new constituency would elect 3 deputies. These changes commenced at the 2024 general election under the Electoral (Amendment) Act 2023.
TDs
edit| Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Dublin Fingal 2016–2024 | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Key to parties
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| Dáil | Election | Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) | |||||
| 32nd | 2016[5] | Louise O'Reilly (SF) |
Clare Daly (I4C) |
Brendan Ryan (Lab) |
Darragh O'Brien (FF) |
Alan Farrell (FG) | |||||
| 2019 by-election[6] | Joe O'Brien (GP) | ||||||||||
| 33rd | 2020[7] | Duncan Smith (Lab) | |||||||||
| 34th | 2024 | Constituency abolished. See Dublin Fingal East and Dublin Fingal West. | |||||||||
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
edit^ *: Outgoing TD
2020 general election
edit| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | ||||
| Sinn Féin | Louise O'Reilly[*] | 24.9 | 15,792 | ||||||||||||
| Green | Joe O'Brien[*] | 13.2 | 8,400 | 9,067 | 9,104 | 9,181 | 9,289 | 9,428 | 9,680 | 10,720 | |||||
| Fianna Fáil | Darragh O'Brien[*] | 15.9 | 10,111 | 10,306 | 10,323 | 10,354 | 10,365 | 10,503 | 10,530 | 10,652 | |||||
| Fine Gael | Alan Farrell[*] | 9.8 | 6,213 | 6,278 | 6,283 | 6,312 | 6,329 | 6,385 | 6,406 | 6,492 | 8,732 | 9,754 | 10,577 | ||
| Labour | Duncan Smith | 7.1 | 4,513 | 4,898 | 4,936 | 4,988 | 5,052 | 5,138 | 5,222 | 5,691 | 6,126 | 7,135 | 8,258 | 8,340 | |
| Inds. 4 Change | Dean Mulligan | 4.0 | 2,529 | 3,700 | 3,762 | 3,882 | 3,985 | 4,202 | 4,979 | 5,862 | 5,972 | 6,447 | 8,088 | 8,152 | |
| Independent | Tony Murphy | 5.7 | 3,622 | 4,135 | 4,183 | 4,262 | 4,347 | 4,768 | 4,920 | 5,133 | 5,346 | 5,838 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Lorraine Clifford-Lee | 5.6 | 3,523 | 3,668 | 3,681 | 3,732 | 3,748 | 3,841 | 3,868 | 4,020 | 4,275 | ||||
| Fine Gael | James Reilly | 5.2 | 3,280 | 3,347 | 3,366 | 3,377 | 3,403 | 3,433 | 3,450 | 3,503 | |||||
| Social Democrats | Paul Mulville | 3.5 | 2,206 | 2,628 | 2,656 | 2,729 | 2,804 | 2,879 | 3,226 | ||||||
| Solidarity–PBP | Terry Kelleher[a] | 1.1 | 674 | 1,391 | 1,424 | 1,513 | 1,800 | 1,883 | |||||||
| Independent | Gemma O'Doherty[b] | 2.0 | 1,252 | 1,462 | 1,538 | 1,573 | 1,614 | ||||||||
| Solidarity–PBP | John Uwhumiakpor[c] | 0.8 | 487 | 845 | 875 | 895 | |||||||||
| Independent | Sandra Sweetman | 0.4 | 259 | 376 | |||||||||||
| United People | Alistair Smith | 0.1 | 43 | 97 | |||||||||||
| Electorate: 101,045 Valid: 63,440 Spoilt: 451 (0.7%) Quota: 10,574 Turnout: 63,891 (63.2%) | |||||||||||||||
- ^ Kelleher was a member of Solidarity.
- ^ O'Doherty contested this election as member of Anti Corruption Ireland. It is not registered as a political party, so candidates appeared on the ballot as non-party.
- ^ Uwhumiakpor was a member of People Before Profit.
2019 by-election
editA by-election was held in the constituency on 29 November 2019, to fill the seat vacated by Clare Daly on her election to the European Parliament in May 2019.[12][13]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Green | Joe O'Brien | 22.9 | 5,744 | 5,837 | 5,965 | 6,091 | 6,784 | 7,984 | 9,183 | 12,315 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Lorraine Clifford-Lee | 18.5 | 4,631 | 4,672 | 4,766 | 4,929 | 5,252 | 5,648 | 6,547 | 7,754 | |
| Labour | Duncan Smith | 15.2 | 3,821 | 3,866 | 3,926 | 4,008 | 4,347 | 4,999 | 6,300 | ||
| Fine Gael | James Reilly | 14.8 | 3,707 | 3,753 | 3,803 | 3,882 | 3,992 | 4,200 | |||
| Inds. 4 Change | Dean Mulligan | 10.2 | 2,550 | 2,606 | 2,745 | 2,909 | 3,754 | ||||
| Sinn Féin | Ann Graves | 5.3 | 1,327 | 1,361 | 1,402 | 1,481 | |||||
| Social Democrats | Tracey Carey | 4.4 | 1,106 | 1,125 | 1,214 | 1,273 | |||||
| Independent | Gemma O'Doherty | 4.1 | 1,026 | 1,088 | 1,149 | ||||||
| Independent | Glenn Brady | 2.7 | 670 | 726 | |||||||
| Independent | Peadar O'Kelly | 1.4 | 350 | ||||||||
| Independent | Charlie Keddy | 0.4 | 112 | ||||||||
| Independent | Cormac McKay | 0.2 | 46 | ||||||||
| Electorate: 99,039 Valid: 25,090 Spoilt: 254 (1.0%) Quota: 12,546 Turnout: 25,344 (25.6%) | |||||||||||
2016 general election
edit| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Darragh O'Brien | 17.9 | 10,826 | ||||||||||
| Inds. 4 Change | Clare Daly[*] | 15.7 | 9,480 | 9,552 | 9,827 | 10,566 | |||||||
| Fine Gael | Alan Farrell[*] | 12.4 | 7,514 | 7,563 | 7,627 | 7,664 | 7,672 | 8,082 | 8,244 | 8,709 | 8,969 | 9,965 | |
| Labour | Brendan Ryan[*] | 10.0 | 6,009 | 6,054 | 6,125 | 6,193 | 6,210 | 6,358 | 6,800 | 7,794 | 8,424 | 9,406 | |
| Sinn Féin | Louise O'Reilly | 8.7 | 5,228 | 5,246 | 5,314 | 5,621 | 5,719 | 5,858 | 6,193 | 6,465 | 7,911 | 8,771 | |
| Fine Gael | James Reilly[*] | 7.7 | 4,666 | 4,699 | 4,735 | 4,767 | 4,769 | 4,955 | 5,259 | 5,549 | 5,756 | 6,215 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Lorraine Clifford-Lee | 5.6 | 3,359 | 3,788 | 3,871 | 3,937 | 3,953 | 4,339 | 4,705 | 5,099 | 5,595 | ||
| Inds. 4 Change | Barry Martin | 4.0 | 2,412 | 2,424 | 2,694 | 3,126 | 3,404 | 3,649 | 4,298 | 5,077 | |||
| Green | Joe O'Brien | 4.6 | 2,783 | 2,802 | 2,964 | 3,105 | 3,125 | 3,430 | 3,758 | ||||
| Independent Alliance | Tony Murphy | 4.1 | 2,503 | 2,520 | 2,679 | 2,863 | 2,896 | 3,104 | |||||
| Renua | Gerry Molloy | 3.5 | 2,091 | 2,139 | 2,219 | 2,326 | 2,355 | ||||||
| AAA–PBP | Terry Kelleher | 3.4 | 2,067 | 2,076 | 2,210 | ||||||||
| Independent | Roslyn Fuller | 1.3 | 772 | 775 | |||||||||
| Independent | Marcus de Brun | 1.0 | 627 | 633 | |||||||||
| Independent | Fergal O'Connell | 0.1 | 51 | 52 | |||||||||
| Electorate: 93,486 Valid: 60,388 Spoilt: 462 Quota: 10,065 Turnout: 65.1% | |||||||||||||
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013, Schedule (No. 7 of 2013, Schedule). Enacted on 20 March 2013. Act of the Oireachtas. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 5 October 2021.
- ^ "Electoral (Amendment) Bill, 1980: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages". Dáil Debates – Vol. 322 No. 9. 24 June 1980. Archived from the original on 9 November 2021. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
- ^ Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2017, Schedule (No. 39 of 2017, Schedule). Enacted on 23 December 2017. Act of the Oireachtas. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 5 October 2021.
- ^ "Constituency Review Report 2023" (PDF). Electoral Commission. p. 104.
- ^ a b "General election 2016: Dublin Fingal". ElectionsIreland.org. Archived from the original on 20 September 2016. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
- ^ a b "By election 2019: Dublin Fingal". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
- ^ a b "General election 2020: Dublin Fingal". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
- ^ "General Election 2020 Results – Dublin Fingal". RTÉ News. Archived from the original on 13 February 2020. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
- ^ "Dublin Fingal: 2020 General Election". Irelandelection.com. Archived from the original on 24 May 2020. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
- ^ Wall, Martin. "Dublin Fingal results: SF wave results in high-profile Fine Gael casualty". Irish Times. Dublin. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
- ^ "Election 2020: Dublin Fingal". Irish Times. Dublin. 10 February 2020. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
- ^ "Writs moved for four Dáil by-elections". RTÉ News. 7 November 2019. Archived from the original on 14 November 2019. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
- ^ Friday's byelections: All you need to know about candidates, constituencies and issues Archived 29 November 2019 at the Wayback Machine by Jennifer Bray, Irish Times, November 26, 2019.
- ^ "Dublin Fingal Results 2016". Irelandelection.com. Irelandelection.com. Archived from the original on 20 January 2020. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
- ^ "Dublin Fingal Results 2016". RTÉ. Archived from the original on 15 March 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2020.