Kildare North (Dáil constituency)

Kildare North
Kildare North
	Dáil Éireann; Parliamentary Constituency
	Location of Kildare North within Ireland
Current constituency
Created	1997
Seats	3 (1997–2007); 4 (2007–present)
TDs	Bernard Durkan (FG); James Lawless (FF); Catherine Murphy (SD); Réada Cronin (SF);
County council	Kildare County Council
EP constituency	Midlands–North-West

Kildare North is a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency elects 4 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs). The method of election is the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).

History and boundaries

The constituency was created for the 1997 general election, when the former 5 seat Kildare constituency was divided into Kildare North and Kildare South. At the 1997 and 2002 elections, Kildare North was a 3-seat constituency, but it was allocated an extra seat for the 2007 general election

The Kildare North constituency spans the more densely populated north-eastern corner of County Kildare, taking in the towns of Celbridge, Clane, Leixlip, Maynooth and Naas.[1]

The Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2017 defines the constituency as:[2]

"In the county of Kildare the electoral divisions of:

Balraheen, Celbridge, Cloncurry, Donadea, Donaghcumper, Kilcock, Leixlip, Maynooth, Straffan, in the former Rural District of Celbridge No. 1;

Ballynadrumny, Cadamstown, Dunfierth, in the former Rural District of Edenderry No. 2;

Bodenstown, Clane, Downings, Kill, Kilteel, Naas Rural, Newtown, Oughterard, Rathmore, Timahoe North, in the former Rural District of Naas No. 1;

and Naas Urban."

TDs

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Kildare North 1997–
Key to parties FF = Fianna Fáil FG = Fine Gael Ind = Independent Lab = Labour Party SD = Social Democrats SF = Sinn Féin
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
28th	1997[3]		Emmet Stagg (Lab)		Charlie McCreevy (FF)		Bernard Durkan (FG)	3 seats until 2007
29th	2002[4]				Charlie McCreevy (FF)
29th	2005 by-election[5]				Catherine Murphy (Ind)
30th	2007[6]				Áine Brady (FF)				Michael Fitzpatrick (FF)
31st	2011[7]				Catherine Murphy (Ind)				Anthony Lawlor (FG)
32nd	2016[8]		Frank O'Rourke (FF)		Catherine Murphy (SD)				James Lawless (FF)
33rd	2020[9]		Réada Cronin (SF)		Catherine Murphy (SD)				James Lawless (FF)

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

2020 general election

2020 general election: Kildare North[10][11]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6
	Social Democrats	Catherine Murphy	19.3	9,808	10,180	11,008
	Sinn Féin	Réada Cronin	17.1	8,705	9,192	9,508	9,623	9,732	11,079
	Fianna Fáil	James Lawless	13.8	7,029	7,146	7,357	7,417	7,909	9,357
	Fianna Fáil	Frank O'Rourke	12.4	6,336	6,596	6,945	7,035	7,238	7,956
	Fine Gael	Bernard Durkan	10.7	5,447	5,522	5,910	6,006	8,521	10,258
	Green Party	Vincent P. Martin	10.0	5,100	5,473	5,901	6,211	6,674
	Fine Gael	Anthony Lawlor	7.1	3,621	3,693	3,871	3,920
	Labour Party	Emmet Stagg	5.4	2,751	2,853
	Renua	Séamus Ó Riain	1.9	967
	Solidarity–PBP	Paul Mahon[n 1]	1.7	861
	Independent	David Monaghan	0.4	197
	Independent	Wayne Swords	0.2	123
Electorate: 81,884 Valid: 50,945 Spoilt: 382 (0.74%) Quota: 10,190 Turnout: 51,327 (62.68%)

People Before Profit, Solidarity and RISE contested this election as Solidarity–People Before Profit, so candidates appeared on the ballot under this name. Mahon was a member of People Before Profit.

2016 general election

2016 general election: Kildare North[12][13][8]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9
	Social Democrats	Catherine Murphy	22.7	11,108
	Fianna Fáil	James Lawless	15.3	7,461	7,592	7,696	7,737	7,919	8,003	8,256	8,850	9,444
	Fianna Fáil	Frank O'Rourke	12.9	6,341	6,486	6,528	6,562	6,711	6,879	7,138	7,684	8,479
	Fine Gael	Bernard Durkan	12.6	6,147	6,268	6,302	6,322	6,472	6,531	6,740	6,974	8,890
	Fine Gael	Anthony Lawlor	11.1	5,406	5,490	5,544	5,572	5,714	5,767	6,046	6,213	7,402
	Labour Party	Emmet Stagg	8.4	4,087	4,288	4,349	4,408	4,488	4,632	5,181	5,775
	Sinn Féin	Réada Cronin	6.5	3,205	3,323	3,390	3,621	3,708	4,146	4,497
	Green Party	Maebh Ní Fhallúin	3.0	1,485	1,649	1,715	1,804	2,020	2,419
	Independent	Brendan Young	2.4	1,200	1,323	1,467	1,737	1,858
	Renua	Shane Fitzgerald	2.0	994	1,086	1,154	1,236
	AAA–PBP	Ashling Merriman	1.6	781	873	943
	Independent	Michael Beirne	0.7	372	389
	Independent	Gerard Dunne	0.5	249	261
	Independent	Elizabeth O'Sullivan	0.2	99	119
Electorate: 77,609 Valid: 48,935 Spoilt: 291 (0.6%) Quota: 9,788 Turnout: 49,226 (63.4%)

2011 general election

2011 general election: Kildare North[14][7]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5
	Fine Gael	Bernard Durkan	19.9	10,168	10,420
	Labour Party	Emmet Stagg	19.0	9,718	9,976	10,264
	Independent	Catherine Murphy	13.5	6,911	7,474	7,696	8,716	11,639
	Fine Gael	Anthony Lawlor	13.4	6,882	7,074	7,283	7,667	9,088
	Labour Party	John McGinley	10.3	5,261	5,489	5,590	6,449
	Fianna Fáil	Áine Brady	9.3	4,777	4,910	6,627	6,821	7,288
	Sinn Féin	Martin Kelly	5.7	2,896	3,043	3,111
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Fitzpatrick	5.2	2,659	2,714
	Green Party	Shane Fitzgerald	1.8	905
	Independent	Eric Doyle-Higgins	0.8	423
	Independent	Michael Beirne	0.8	422
	Independent	Bart Murphy	0.4	200
Electorate: 76,773 Valid: 51,222 Spoilt: 388 (0.8%) Quota: 10,245 Turnout: 51,610 (67.2%)

2007 general election

2007 general election: Kildare North[6]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6
	Fianna Fáil	Áine Brady	24.9	11,245
	Labour Party	Emmet Stagg	17.4	7,882	8,063	8,107	8,468	9,220
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Fitzpatrick	14.6	6,606	8,113	8,151	8,817	9,097
	Fine Gael	Bernard Durkan	11.8	5,340	5,427	5,471	5,663	5,912	9,229
	Independent	Catherine Murphy	11.5	5,188	5,339	5,474	5,881	6,733	7,652
	Fine Gael	Darren Scully	9.4	4,250	4,306	4,332	4,489	4,832
	Green Party	Shane Fitzgerald	4.9	2,215	2,289	2,342	2,668
	Sinn Féin	Cristin McCauley	2.4	1,103	1,135	1,154
	Progressive Democrats	Jeff Aherne	2.1	983	1,083	1,103
	Independent	John Corish	0.5	234	244
	Independent	Gerry Browne	0.3	145	153
Electorate: 71,311 Valid: 45,191 Spoilt: 232 (0.5%) Quota: 9,039 Turnout: 45,423 (63.7%)

2005 by-election

2005 by-election: Kildare North[5]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5
	Fianna Fáil	Áine Brady	24.5	6,201	6,255	7,265	8,133	9,818
	Independent	Catherine Murphy	23.6	5,985	6,189	7,176	8,809	12,256
	Fine Gael	Darren Scully	18.3	4,630	4,660	5,382	7,421
	Labour Party	Paddy MacNamara	17.8	4,507	4,545	5,199
	Progressive Democrats	Kate Walsh	7.9	2,006	2,023
	Green Party	J. J. Power	6.1	1,547	1,621
	Independent	Gerry Browne	0.9	226
	Independent	Seanán Ó Coistín	0.8	211
Electorate: 65,080 Valid: 25,313 Spoilt: 211 (0.8%) Quota: 12,657 Turnout: 25,524 (39.2%)

2002 general election

2002 general election: Kildare North[4]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5
	Fianna Fáil	Charlie McCreevy	27.5	9,082
	Labour Party	Emmet Stagg	21.4	7,051	7,168	8,005	9,472
	Fine Gael	Bernard Durkan	17.5	5,786	5,859	6,177	7,341	8,025
	Fianna Fáil	Paul Kelly	15.7	5,168	5,681	5,923	7,382	7,890
	Progressive Democrats	Kate Walsh	11.9	3,919	4,027	4,473
	Green Party	Anne Kelly McCormack	6.0	1,974	1,999
Electorate: 60,094 Valid: 32,980 Spoilt: 291 (0.9%) Quota: 8,246 Turnout: 33,271 (55.4%)

1997 general election

1997 general election: Kildare North[3]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Charlie McCreevy	6,905	21.9	2	4
	Fine Gael	Bernard Durkan	6,653	21.2	1	3
	Labour Party	Emmet Stagg	5,964	19.0	3	5
	Fianna Fáil	Paul Kelly	4,039	12.9
	Democratic Left	Catherine Murphy	2,762	8.8
	Progressive Democrats	Timmy Conway	2,101	6.7
	Fine Gael	Mary French	1,569	5.0
	Green Party	Sean English	1,403	4.5
Electorate: 52,388 Valid: 31,396 Spoilt: 295 (0.9%) Quota: 7,850 Turnout: 31,691 (60.5%)

References

"Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013: Schedule". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
"Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2017: Schedule". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
"General election 1997: Kildare North". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 17 February 2009.
"General election 2002: Kildare North". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 17 February 2009.
"By-election 2005: Kildare North". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 17 February 2009.
"General election 2007: Kildare North". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 17 February 2009.
"General election 2011: Kildare North". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
"General election 2016: Kildare North". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
"General election 2020: Kildare North". Retrieved 9 February 2020.
"General Election 2020 Candidates – Kildare North". RTÉ News. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
"Kildare North: 2020 General Election". Irelandelection.com. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
"Kildare North Results 2016". Irelandelection.com. Irelandelection.com. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
"Kildare North Results 2016". RTÉ. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
"Kildare North Results 2011". Irelandelection.com. Irelandelection.com. Retrieved 21 January 2020.

External links

Oireachtas Members Database

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