Dublin | |
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European Parliament constituency | |
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![]() Dublin shown within Ireland | |
Member state | Ireland |
Created | 1979 |
MEPs | 4 (1979–2009) 3 (2009–2020) 4 (2020–) |
Sources | |
[1][2] |
Dublin is a constituency of the European Parliament in Ireland. It elects 4 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) using proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (STV).
The constituency was created in 1979 for the first direct elections to the European Parliament.[3] From 1979 to 1994, it comprised County Dublin and the city of Dublin. Since 1994 it comprises the same area redefined as the counties of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Fingal, South Dublin and the city of Dublin.[4]
From 1979 to 2004, it elected 4 MEPs; this was reduced to 3 for the 2009 election. For the 2019 European Parliament election, a reapportionment following Brexit and the loss of 73 MEPs from the United Kingdom gave two additional seats to Ireland. Following a recommendation of the Constituency Commission, Dublin gained an extra seat, from 3 to 4. However, the last candidate elected did not take his seat until after the United Kingdom withdrew from the European Union.[5][6][7][4][8]
Elections | Seats |
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1979, 1984, 1989, 1994, 1999, 2004 | 4[3][9][10] |
2009, 2014 | 3[11][12] |
2019, 2024 | 4[nb 1] |
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.
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | ||||
Green | Ciarán Cuffe | 17.5 | 63,849 | 63,895 | 63,997 | 64,314 | 64,406 | 64,588 | 64,853 | 65,291 | 65,683 | 66,370 | 69,282 | 71,255 | 73,028 | ||||
Fine Gael | Frances Fitzgerald | 16.2 | 59,067 | 59,089 | 59,135 | 59,250 | 59,317 | 59,375 | 59,448 | 59,575 | 59,724 | 60,062 | 61,528 | 61,880 | 72,446 | 78,580 | |||
Fianna Fáil | Barry Andrews[nb 1] | 14.1 | 51,420 | 51,446 | 51,506 | 51,599 | 51,708 | 51,913 | 51,997 | 52,078 | 52,451 | 53,159 | 53,980 | 54,418 | 56,110 | 59,619 | 63,177 | 68,952 | |
Inds. 4 Change | Clare Daly | 11.6 | 42,305 | 42,344 | 42,391 | 42,533 | 42,673 | 42,744 | 43,400 | 44,159 | 45,570 | 46,850 | 48,559 | 52,382 | 52,930 | 55,752 | 65,683 | 87,770 | |
Sinn Féin | Lynn Boylan | 10.8 | 39,387 | 39,428 | 39,457 | 39,526 | 39,646 | 39,701 | 40,045 | 40,470 | 41,786 | 42,317 | 42,873 | 45,216 | 45,552 | 46,704 | 51,632 | ||
Social Democrats | Gary Gannon | 5.6 | 20,331 | 20,360 | 20,398 | 20,507 | 20,578 | 20,647 | 21,002 | 21,561 | 22,054 | 22,426 | 24,051 | 25,502 | 25,915 | 29,720 | |||
Labour | Alex White | 5.0 | 18,293 | 18,312 | 18,350 | 18,414 | 18,445 | 18,513 | 18,942 | 19,088 | 19,226 | 19,661 | 20,905 | 21,303 | 22,205 | ||||
Fine Gael | Mark Durkan | 4.5 | 16,473 | 16,488 | 16,534 | 16,562 | 16,637 | 16,704 | 16,733 | 16,778 | 16,875 | 17,144 | 17,480 | 17,649 | |||||
People Before Profit | Gillian Brien | 3.0 | 10,864 | 10,896 | 10,918 | 10,968 | 11,006 | 11,036 | 11,370 | 13,134 | 13,584 | 13,912 | 14,358 | ||||||
Independent | Alice-Mary Higgins | 3.0 | 10,846 | 10,867 | 10,907 | 11,045 | 11,129 | 11,228 | 11,434 | 11,751 | 12,039 | 12,887 | |||||||
Independent | Ben Gilroy | 2.1 | 7,594 | 7,627 | 7,648 | 7,689 | 8,051 | 8,450 | 8,511 | 8,609 | |||||||||
Independent | Gemma O'Doherty | 1.8 | 6,659 | 6,689 | 6,782 | 6,867 | 7,594 | 8,451 | 8,661 | 8,768 | 10,622 | ||||||||
Solidarity | Rita Harrold | 1.4 | 4,967 | 4,999 | 5,028 | 5,088 | 5,125 | 5,171 | 5,607 | ||||||||||
Workers' Party | Éilis Ryan | 1.0 | 3,701 | 3,722 | 3,745 | 3,784 | 3,817 | 3,895 | |||||||||||
Independent | Eamonn Murphy | 0.7 | 2,519 | 2,575 | 2,666 | 2,750 | 2,915 | ||||||||||||
Independent | Hermann Kelly | 0.7 | 2,441 | 2,473 | 2,506 | 2,539 | |||||||||||||
Independent | Aisling McNiffe | 0.4 | 1,572 | 1,641 | 1,690 | ||||||||||||||
Independent | Mark Mullan | 0.3 | 932 | 969 | |||||||||||||||
Independent | Tony Bosco Lowth | 0.2 | 727 | ||||||||||||||||
Electorate: 884,118 Valid: 363,947 Spoilt: 15,345 (4.1%) Quota: 72,790 Turnout: 379,292 (42.9%) |
The count was suspended overnight after count 14 to clarify whether Lynn Boylan's votes should be redistributed between the two continuing candidates, Barry Andrews and Clare Daly.[25][26] The usual count rules had been amended so the practice of deeming candidates elected without reaching the quota would not apply.[27] This gives a more precise ordering between the final candidates to be elected, which is important in 2019 because the last candidate elected could not take their seat until the reallocation of seats in the European Parliament which took place when Brexit had taken effect and the MEPs elected for the United Kingdom vacated their seats on 31 January 2020.[24]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
Sinn Féin | Lynn Boylan | 23.6 | 83,264 | 84,289 | 89,764 | |||||
Fine Gael | Brian Hayes | 15.5 | 54,676 | 55,132 | 55,656 | 63,591 | 65,132 | 73,317 | 73,405 | |
Fianna Fáil | Mary Fitzpatrick | 12.6 | 44,283 | 44,954 | 45,779 | 48,360 | 50,585 | |||
Green | Eamon Ryan | 12.5 | 44,078 | 45,173 | 47,256 | 53,179 | 59,803 | 71,909 | 72,256 | |
Independent | Nessa Childers | 10.2 | 35,939 | 37,706 | 41,787 | 46,531 | 59,955 | 72,413 | 73,598 | |
Socialist Party | Paul Murphy | 8.5 | 29,953 | 31,310 | 39,313 | 41,373 | ||||
Labour | Emer Costello | 7.4 | 25,961 | 26,232 | 27,194 | |||||
People Before Profit | Bríd Smith | 6.8 | 23,875 | 25,539 | ||||||
Direct Democracy | Tom D'Arcy | 1.1 | 4,022 | |||||||
Direct Democracy | Raymond Whitehead | 0.9 | 3,133 | |||||||
Independent | Jim Tallon | 0.6 | 2,244 | |||||||
Fís Nua | Damon Wise | 0.3 | 1,147 | |||||||
Electorate: 820,668 Valid: 352,575 Spoilt: 6,368 (1.8%) Quota: 88,144 Turnout: 358,943 (43.7%) |
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
Fine Gael | Gay Mitchell | 23.8 | 96,715 | 99,098 | 100,810 | 104,413 | ||||
Labour | Proinsias De Rossa[nb 7] | 20.5 | 83,471 | 85,217 | 87,274 | 94,306 | 95,636 | 103,225 | ||
Fianna Fáil | Eoin Ryan | 13.6 | 55,346 | 56,317 | 66,205 | 68,517 | 69,122 | 71,530 | 76,956 | |
Socialist Party | Joe Higgins[nb 6] | 12.4 | 50,510 | 52,457 | 53,038 | 55,116 | 55,351 | 60,165 | 82,366 | |
Sinn Féin | Mary Lou McDonald | 11.8 | 47,928 | 50,097 | 50,980 | 52,447 | 52,529 | 55,429 | ||
Green | Déirdre de Búrca | 4.7 | 19,086 | 20,226 | 21,991 | |||||
Fianna Fáil | Eibhlin Byrne | 4.7 | 18,956 | 19,448 | ||||||
Independent | Patricia McKenna | 4.3 | 17,521 | 21,523 | 22,380 | 25,213 | 25,636 | |||
Libertas | Caroline Simons | 3.3 | 13,514 | |||||||
Independent | Emmanuel Sweeney | 0.9 | 3,583 | |||||||
Electorate: 812,465 Valid: 406,630 Spoilt: 6,054 (1.5%) Quota: 101,658 Turnout: 412,684 (50.8%) |
For the 2009 election, the constituency was reduced from 4 seats to 3.
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
Fine Gael | Gay Mitchell | 21.5 | 90,749 | ||||||
Fianna Fáil | Eoin Ryan | 14.6 | 61,681 | 62,939 | 64,876 | 65,923 | 85,810 | ||
Sinn Féin | Mary Lou McDonald | 14.3 | 60,395 | 60,689 | 62,030 | 68,355 | 72,153 | 76,543 | |
Labour | Proinsias De Rossa | 12.9 | 54,344 | 56,243 | 57,466 | 62,424 | 66,570 | 96,094 | |
Labour | Ivana Bacik | 9.7 | 40,707 | 41,703 | 42,624 | 45,413 | 47,520 | ||
Green | Patricia McKenna | 9.6 | 40,445 | 41,506 | 44,684 | 49,101 | 51,892 | 59,543 | |
Fianna Fáil | Royston Brady | 8.6 | 36,269 | 36,593 | 37,423 | 38,324 | |||
Socialist Party | Joe Higgins | 5.5 | 23,218 | 23,460 | 24,541 | ||||
Christian Solidarity | Barry Despard | 1.3 | 5,352 | 5,443 | |||||
Independent | Brendan Price | 1.1 | 4,813 | 4,931 | |||||
Independent | Tom Prendeville | 0.5 | 2,071 | 2,124 | |||||
Independent | Paul Doonan | 0.4 | 1,853 | 1,886 | |||||
Electorate: 821,723 Valid: 421,897 Spoilt: 13,239 (3.0%) Quota: 84,380 Turnout: 435,136 (52.9%) |
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
Fine Gael | Mary Banotti | 20.2 | 56,593 | ||||||||
Fianna Fáil | Niall Andrews | 15.7 | 44,176 | 44,731 | 45,967 | 46,481 | 47,931 | 50,439 | 71,423 | ||
Green | Patricia McKenna | 12.7 | 35,659 | 37,988 | 39,818 | 43,662 | 48,299 | 54,883 | 56,992 | ||
Labour | Proinsias De Rossa | 10.2 | 28,748 | 29,522 | 29,882 | 31,849 | 37,820 | 41,605 | 43,536 | 47,018 | |
Fine Gael | Jim Mitchell | 9.9 | 27,873 | 28,483 | 30,402 | 31,296 | 33,845 | 34,942 | 37,051 | 41,489 | |
Fianna Fáil | Ben Briscoe | 8.9 | 25,065 | 25,457 | 26,917 | 27,322 | 27,727 | 29,616 | |||
Sinn Féin | Seán Crowe | 6.6 | 18,633 | 19,070 | 19,735 | 21,147 | 21,703 | ||||
Labour | Bernie Malone | 5.7 | 15,890 | 16,570 | 16,982 | 18,272 | |||||
Socialist Party | Joe Higgins | 3.8 | 10,619 | 11,360 | 11,697 | ||||||
Christian Solidarity | Gerard Casey | 3.4 | 9,425 | 9,867 | |||||||
Independent | Ciaran Goulding | 2.0 | 5,546 | ||||||||
Independent | Adam Goodwin | 0.5 | 1,438 | ||||||||
Natural Law | John Burns | 0.4 | 1,006 | ||||||||
Electorate: 793,200 Valid: 280,671 Spoilt: 6,013 (2.1%) Quota: 56,135 Turnout: 286,684 (36.1%) |
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | ||||
Green | Patricia McKenna | 14.5 | 40,388 | 40,928 | 42,548 | 45,348 | 46,058 | 47,551 | 49,999 | 50,879 | 54,933 | 57,749 | |||
Fine Gael | Mary Banotti | 13.7 | 38,053 | 38,160 | 38,898 | 38,984 | 39,857 | 41,999 | 42,461 | 42,965 | 43,839 | 46,521 | 47,032 | 53,897 | |
Fianna Fáil | Niall Andrews | 13.3 | 36,877 | 36,935 | 37,553 | 38,133 | 41,272 | 41,771 | 42,795 | 53,466 | 54,778 | 56,904 | |||
Fine Gael | Jim Mitchell | 10.1 | 28,116 | 28,180 | 28,827 | 28,981 | 29,243 | 30,704 | 32,199 | 33,037 | 35,006 | 36,037 | 36,210 | 42,112 | |
Democratic Left | Pat Rabbitte | 8.7 | 24,133 | 24,219 | 24,645 | 25,206 | 25,460 | 26,636 | 27,054 | 27,532 | 31,500 | 33,677 | 34,210 | ||
Labour | Bernie Malone | 8.1 | 22,419 | 22,510 | 22,878 | 23,393 | 24,088 | 24,813 | 25,257 | 26,269 | 28,748 | 36,724 | 37,352 | 47,696 | |
Labour | Orla Guerin | 6.0 | 16,674 | 16,765 | 16,962 | 17,303 | 17,977 | 18,311 | 18,527 | 18,929 | 20,225 | ||||
Workers' Party | Tomás Mac Giolla | 5.7 | 15,830 | 15,965 | 16,249 | 17,338 | 17,547 | 17,763 | 18,211 | 18,579 | |||||
Fianna Fáil | John Stafford | 4.6 | 12,811 | 12,838 | 13,178 | 13,661 | 14,959 | 15,170 | 16,349 | ||||||
Independent | Eamonn Murphy | 3.4 | 9,296 | 9,385 | 9,968 | 10,360 | 10,431 | 10,567 | |||||||
Fianna Fáil | Olive Braiden | 3.0 | 8,237 | 8,274 | 8,419 | 8,573 | |||||||||
Progressive Democrats | Stephen O'Byrnes | 3.0 | 8,212 | 8,254 | 8,739 | 8,828 | 8,939 | ||||||||
Sinn Féin | Larry O'Toole | 3.0 | 8,190 | 8,228 | 8,356 | ||||||||||
Independent | Paddy Madigan | 2.5 | 6,903 | 7,106 | |||||||||||
Natural Law | John Burns | 0.6 | 1,705 | ||||||||||||
Electorate: 755,486 Valid: 277,844 Spoilt: 2,917 (1.0%) Quota: 55,569 Turnout: 280,761 (37.2%) |
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
Fianna Fáil | Niall Andrews | 16.1 | 72,057 | 73,032 | 74,007 | 76,866 | 80,010 | 85,561 | |
Workers' Party | Proinsias De Rossa[nb 5] | 15.8 | 71,041 | 73,856 | 74,921 | 80,475 | 85,343 | 97,001 | |
Fianna Fáil | Eileen Lemass | 13.0 | 58,345 | 59,181 | 59,892 | 62,096 | 65,760 | 70,917 | |
Labour | Barry Desmond | 12.8 | 57,225 | 58,185 | 60,550 | 64,322 | 72,096 | 82,264 | |
Fine Gael | Mary Banotti | 11.3 | 50,666 | 50,952 | 66,176 | 68,973 | 83,489 | 93,420 | |
Green | Trevor Sargent | 8.3 | 37,317 | 39,602 | 40,767 | 46,912 | 51,199 | ||
Progressive Democrats | Mary Harney | 8.1 | 36,402 | 36,773 | 40,229 | 42,371 | |||
Fine Gael | Chris O'Malley | 5.9 | 26,574 | 26,895 | |||||
Independent | Raymond Crotty | 5.7 | 25,525 | 27,854 | 28,413 | ||||
Sinn Féin | Ann Speed | 2.6 | 11,582 | ||||||
Independent | Tim Cahill | 0.4 | 1,668 | ||||||
Electorate: 711,416 Valid: 448,402 Spoilt: 7,137 (1.6%) Quota: 89,681 Turnout: 455,539 (64.0%) |
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
Fine Gael | Richie Ryan[nb 4] | 16.6 | 47,014 | 47,386 | 47,785 | 49,572 | 49,814 | 53,043 | 54,432 | 55,758 | |
Fine Gael | Mary Banotti | 15.1 | 42,660 | 43,271 | 44,064 | 46,654 | 46,921 | 50,569 | 52,559 | 53,314 | |
Fianna Fáil | Niall Andrews | 11.5 | 32,512 | 32,692 | 32,836 | 33,836 | 34,639 | 36,673 | 38,862 | 51,945 | |
Fianna Fáil | Eileen Lemass | 11.1 | 31,350 | 31,483 | 31,590 | 31,890 | 33,011 | 34,902 | 36,834 | 53,903 | |
Fianna Fáil | Jim Tunney | 10.8 | 30,488 | 30,588 | 30,641 | 30,845 | 31,969 | 33,492 | 35,305 | ||
Labour | Frank Cluskey | 10.0 | 28,384 | 28,846 | 29,834 | 30,902 | 31,984 | 35,685 | 47,051 | 48,454 | |
Workers' Party | Des Geraghty | 6.9 | 19,590 | 20,080 | 21,096 | 21,732 | 26,135 | 29,300 | |||
Independent | Seán Dublin Bay Loftus | 6.2 | 17,385 | 18,498 | 19,796 | 21,576 | 23,295 | ||||
Sinn Féin | John Noonan | 5.2 | 14,604 | 14,730 | 14,844 | 14,959 | |||||
Independent | Shane Ross | 2.9 | 8,099 | 8,702 | 9,605 | ||||||
Democratic Socialist | John de Courcy Ireland | 1.9 | 5,350 | 6,122 | |||||||
Green | Christopher Fettes | 1.9 | 5,242 | ||||||||
Electorate: 704,873 Valid: 282,678 Spoilt: 6,153 (2.1%) Quota: 56,536 Turnout: 288,831 (41.0%) |
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||||
Fine Gael | Richie Ryan | 16.4 | 48,411 | 48,434 | 48,591 | 48,907 | 49,279 | 49,969 | 55,818 | 59,642 | |||
Labour | John O'Connell[nb 2] | 15.2 | 44,832 | 44,896 | 48,028 | 48,428 | 52,880 | 53,399 | 54,757 | 60,855 | |||
Fianna Fáil | Síle de Valera | 14.0 | 41,357 | 41,439 | 41,703 | 45,052 | 45,638 | 51,699 | 52,251 | 54,838 | 79,172 | ||
Labour | Michael O'Leary[nb 3] | 11.7 | 34,511 | 34,548 | 35,981 | 36,306 | 38,353 | 38,760 | 39,946 | 43,598 | 44,687 | 47,085 | |
Fine Gael | Nuala Fennell | 9.1 | 26,951 | 27,032 | 28,052 | 28,229 | 28,679 | 29,047 | 34,064 | 38,980 | 39,974 | 42,824 | |
Independent | Seán Dublin Bay Rockall Loftus | 7.4 | 21,769 | 21,994 | 22,644 | 22,870 | 24,655 | 25,164 | 25,991 | ||||
Fianna Fáil | Ruairí Brugha | 7.4 | 21,758 | 21,798 | 21,876 | 23,066 | 23,326 | 28,403 | 28,555 | 30,099 | |||
Fine Gael | Maurice Manning | 4.8 | 14,296 | 14,326 | 14,575 | 14,764 | 15,142 | 15,464 | |||||
Fianna Fáil | Michael Yeats | 4.3 | 12,715 | 12,729 | 12,779 | 14,402 | 14,543 | ||||||
Sinn Féin The Workers' Party | Tomás Mac Giolla | 4.0 | 11,915 | 11,986 | 12,444 | 12,563 | |||||||
Fianna Fáil | Joe Fox | 2.8 | 8,178 | 8,199 | 8,365 | ||||||||
Labour | Jane Dillon Byrne | 2.6 | 7,807 | 7,968 | |||||||||
Community Democrats | Kevin Clear | 0.3 | 915 | ||||||||||
Electorate: 618,454 Valid: 295,415 Spoilt: 8,653 (2.9%) Quota: 59,084 Turnout: 304,068 (49.2%) |