Sentences with phrase «dail seats»

Adrian Kavanagh, 1st June 2011 The Labour Party made significant gains in the February 2011 election, almost doubling their share of the vote nationally and increasing their number of Dail seats from 20 to 37.

This seeks to ask the following question in relation to different opinion poll results — what do these poll figures mean in terms of the likely number of Dail seats that could be won by the different parties and groupings on those national support levels?

The Labour Party made significant gains in the February 2011 election, almost doubling their share of the vote nationally and increasing their number of Dail seats from 20 to 37.

The three seat Roscommon - Galway, with an average of 1,115.3 km2 territory per Dail seat, and the four seat Sligo - Leitrim, with an average of 1,085.2 km2 territory per council seat, have the next highest levels.

However, the fractured political landscape (in particular relating to the likely level of Fine Gael and Labour seat losses) and the favourable impact of the boundary changes associated with the 2012 Constituency Commission report means that Fianna Fail would achieve more success in translating these support levels into Dail seat numbers than they had at the 2011 contest.

The party also had a relatively strong degree of support in Offaly, but in particular the Tullamore area, during the 1990s, during which time Pat Gallagher held a Dail seat for the party in the Laois - Offaly constituency.

This posts follows on the previous posts in this series which updates the analysis carried out previously for 154 - Dail seat and 160 - Dail seat scenarios to consider what options the Constituency Commission might face if they decide to opt for a 158 - seat Dail Eireann.

So what do these population figures mean in terms of which constituencies may, or may not, be likely to have their election boundaries changed following on the upcoming Consituency Commission report, especially given that this body effectively will have eight different options in terms of total Dail seat numbers to choose from?

Election boundary changes (for general and European elections) will be made on the basis of these, but this time are taking place in the context of a decision by government to advise a reduction in Dail seat numbers by between 6 (160 seats) and 13 (153 seats).

One of the candidates listed above, Maureen O'Sullivan, won a Dail seat (at the 2009 Dublin Central by - election) on the same day as she won her seat in the Council elections and subsequently never actually took up her seat in Dublin City Council.

Not exact matches

Despite this, further small swings to the party in a number of Dail constituencies could see further seat gains being made by Labour, as the map above suggests.

This post will consider what might happen our current constituency configurations if a 156 seat tally was agreed on for the next Dail.

The same applies in the case of Joe Higgins, though he won a European Parliament seat on the same day as winning his Council seat; subsequently he won a seat in Dublin West at the Dail election of 2011.