Dublin Mid-West (Dáil constituency)

Dublin Mid-West is a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency elects five deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs) on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).

Dublin Mid-West
Dáil constituency
Location of Dublin Mid-West within County Dublin
Major settlements	Clondalkin Lucan Palmerstown Rathcoole Saggart
Current constituency
Created	2002
Seats	3 (2002–2007) 4 (2007–2024) 5 (2024–)
TDs	Paul Gogarty (Ind)   Emer Higgins (FG)   Shane Moynihan (FF)   Eoin Ó Broin (SF)   Mark Ward (SF)
Local government area	South Dublin
Created from	Dublin South-West Dublin West
EP constituency	Dublin

History and boundaries

Dublin Mid-West contains the areas of Clondalkin, Lucan, Palmerstown, Rathcoole, Newcastle and Saggart. The constituency was created by the Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1998 as a three-seat constituency, composed of areas which had previously been in the constituencies of Dublin South-West and Dublin West, and came into operation at the 2002 general election.^[1] Under the Electoral (Amendment) Act 2005, the town of Palmerstown was incorporated into Dublin Mid-West (having been in Dublin South-West), with an increase to 4 seats, taking effect at the 2007 general election.^[2] It has retained these boundaries since 2007.

The Constituency Review Report 2023 of the Electoral Commission recommended that at the next general election Dublin Mid-West become a five-seat constituency, with transfers of territory from Dublin South-West and Dublin South-Central.^[3]

The Electoral (Amendment) Act 2023 defines the constituency as:^[4]

In the county of South Dublin, the electoral divisions of:

Clondalkin-Cappaghmore, Clondalkin-Dunawley, Clondalkin-Monastery, Clondalkin-Moorfield, Clondalkin-Rowlagh, Clondalkin Village, Lucan-Esker, Lucan Heights, Lucan-St. Helens, Newcastle, Palmerston Village, Palmerston West, Rathcoole, Saggart, Tallaght-Fettercairn.

Changes to the Dublin Mid-West constituency

Years	TDs	Boundaries	Notes
2002–2007	3	In the county of South Dublin[1] the electoral divisions of Clondalkin-Cappaghmore, Clondalkin-Dunawley, Clondalkin-Moorfield, Clondalkin-Rowlagh, Clondalkin Village, Lucan-Esker, Lucan Heights, Lucan-St. Helens, Newcastle, Rathcoole, Saggart; and that part of the electoral division of Clondalkin-Monastery situated west of a line drawn along the M50 Western Parkway.	Created from Dublin South-West and Dublin West.
2007–	4	In the county of South Dublin[2][5][6][7] the electoral divisions of Clondalkin-Cappaghmore, Clondalkin-Dunawley, Clondalkin-Moorfield, Clondalkin-Rowlagh, Clondalkin Village, Lucan-Esker, Lucan Heights, Lucan-St. Helens, Newcastle, Palmerston Village, Palmerston West, Rathcoole, Saggart; and that part of the electoral division of Clondalkin-Monastery situated west of a line drawn along the M50 Western Parkway.	Territory added from Dublin South-West.

TDs

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Dublin Mid-West 2002–
Key to parties   AAA–PBP = AAA–PBP   FF = Fianna Fáil   FG = Fine Gael   GP = Green   Ind = Independent   Lab = Labour   PDs = Progressive Democrats   SF = Sinn Féin   S–PBP = Solidarity–PBP
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
29th	2002[8]		Paul Gogarty (GP)	3 seats 2002–2007			Mary Harney (PDs)		John Curran (FF)	4 seats 2002–2024
30th	2007[9]				Joanna Tuffy (Lab)
31st	2011[10]		Robert Dowds (Lab)				Frances Fitzgerald (FG)		Derek Keating (FG)
32nd	2016[11]		Gino Kenny (AAA–PBP)		Eoin Ó Broin (SF)				John Curran (FF)
	2019 by-election[12][13]						Mark Ward (SF)
33rd	2020[14]		Gino Kenny (S–PBP)						Emer Higgins (FG)
34th	2024[15]		Paul Gogarty (Ind)								Shane Moynihan (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

^ *: Outgoing TD

2024 general election

2024 general election: Dublin Mid-West^[15][16]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
	Sinn Féin	Eoin Ó Broin[*][a]	20.8	9,892
	Sinn Féin	Mark Ward[*]	11.2	5,323	6,817	6,853	6,871	6,893	6,976	7,171	7,517	7,923
	Fine Gael	Emer Higgins[*]	10.1	4,798	4,817	4,820	4,884	5,036	5,101	5,154	5,175	5,506	5,630	5,809	8,580
	Fianna Fáil	Shane Moynihan	10.0	4,746	4,767	4,775	4,822	5,276	5,431	5,549	5,574	5,803	5,944	6,203	6,791	7,231
	Fine Gael	Vicki Casserly	7.9	3,723	3,740	3,750	3,822	3,893	3,951	4,000	4,021	4,190	4,301	4,442
	Independent	Paul Gogarty	7.7	3,646	3,683	3,739	3,837	3,851	4,076	4,245	4,448	4,682	5,130	6,274	6,940	7,106
	Social Democrats	Eoin Ó Broin[a]	6.1	2,907	3,017	3,025	3,151	3,184	3,255	3,339	3,382	4,051	5,638	6,006	6,154	6,215
	PBP–Solidarity	Gino Kenny[*][b]	5.5	2,608	2,730	2,748	2,783	2,801	2,863	2,943	3,030	3,359
	Labour	Francis Timmons	4.8	2,270	2,322	2,345	2,451	2,500	2,552	2,625	2,698
	Independent Ireland	Linda de Courcy	3.9	1,823	1,846	1,968	1,984	2,007	2,048	2,416	3,279	3,427	3,691
	Aontú	Colm Quinn	3.1	1,492	1,527	1,552	1,561	1,569	1,601
	Irish Freedom	Glen Moore	3.0	1,435	1,448	1,566	1,573	1,575	1,605	1,935
	Independent	Alan Hayes	1.8	855	865	899	920	923
	Fianna Fáil	Lynda Prendergast	1.8	850	858	858	879
	Green	Karla Doran	1.3	637	643	650
	The Irish People	Robert Coyle	0.7	348	356
	Independent	Seanan Ó Coistín	0.3	123	127
Electorate: 85,769   Valid: 47,476   Spoilt: 454   Quota: 7,913   Turnout: 55.9%

1. The outgoing Sinn Féin TD and the Social Democrats councillor are both named Eoin Ó Broin.
2. Kenny is a member of People Before Profit.

2020 general election

2020 general election: Dublin Mid-West^{[14][17][18][19][20]}

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Sinn Féin	Eoin Ó Broin[*]	26.1	11,842
	Sinn Féin	Mark Ward[*]	16.7	7,621	9,808
	Fianna Fáil	John Curran[*]	10.8	4,931	4,980	4,997	5,449	5,555	5,704	6,049	6,454	7,383
	Fine Gael	Emer Higgins	9.9	4,487	4,514	4,526	4,571	4,651	4,879	5,370	8,230	9,735
	Solidarity–PBP	Gino Kenny[*][a]	7.9	3,572	3,819	4,228	4,416	4,871	5,115	6,153	6,302	8,089
	Fine Gael	Vicki Casserly	7.7	3,501	3,518	3,529	3,582	3,616	3,835	4,208
	Independent	Paul Gogarty	6.5	2,950	2,994	3,049	3,186	3,427	3,784	4,836	5,412
	Green	Peter Kavanagh	6.1	2,785	2,855	2,924	3,031	3,229	3,669
	Labour	Joanna Tuffy	3.4	1,541	1,573	1,599	1,679	1,751
	Independent	Francis Timmons	2.4	1,103	1,160	1,238	1,299
	Fianna Fáil	Catriona McClean	1.5	667	674	677
	Workers' Party	David Gardiner	1.0	452	466	503
Electorate: 74,506   Valid: 45,452   Spoilt: 480 (1.0%)   Quota: 9,091   Turnout: 45,932 (61.5%)

1. Kenny was a member of People Before Profit.

2019 by-election

A by-election was held in the constituency on 29 November 2019 to fill the seat vacated by Frances Fitzgerald on her election to the European Parliament in May 2019.^[21]

2019 by-election: Dublin Mid-West^[12][22][23]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Sinn Féin	Mark Ward	24.0	4,622	4,729	4,812	5,228	5,426	5,616	6,293	6,652	7,669
	Fine Gael	Emer Higgins	18.6	3,576	3,603	3,703	3,748	3,959	4,362	4,583	5,287	7,144
	Independent	Paul Gogarty	12.7	2,435	2,557	2,680	2,840	3,176	3,731	4,099	5,063
	Fianna Fáil	Shane Moynihan	11.8	2,264	2,304	2,360	2,394	2,564	2,758	2,894
	Independent	Francis Timmons	6.8	1,299	1,365	1,442	1,590	1,807	1,929
	Labour	Joanna Tuffy	6.7	1,294	1,333	1,442	1,547	1,775
	Green	Peter Kavanagh	6.4	1,222	1,268	1,393	1,544
	Solidarity–PBP	Kellie Sweeney	5.1	983	1,138	1,281
	Social Democrats	Anne-Marie McNally	4.1	788	845
	Workers' Party	David Gardiner	1.6	317
	Inds. 4 Change	Ruth Nolan	1.4	271
	Independent	Charlie Keddy	0.5	95
	Independent	Peter Madden	0.4	71
Electorate: 73,152   Valid: 19,237   Spoilt: 210 (0.3%)   Quota: 9,619   Turnout: 19,447 (26.6%)

2016 general election

2016 general election: Dublin Mid-West^[24][25][11]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
	Sinn Féin	Eoin Ó Broin	22.7	9,782
	Fine Gael	Frances Fitzgerald[*]	20.9	9,028
	Fianna Fáil	John Curran	16.2	6,971	7,054	7,109	7,114	7,145	7,180	7,218	7,274	7,383	7,685	8,287	9,497
	AAA–PBP	Gino Kenny	10.7	4,629	5,257	5,270	5,321	5,331	5,397	5,474	5,791	6,331	6,542	7,498	7,911
	Social Democrats	Anne-Marie McNally	6.1	2,633	2,730	2,747	2,766	2,773	2,804	2,867	3,048	3,235	3,679	4,460	5,320
	Independent	Paul Gogarty	5.9	2,522	2,593	2,623	2,646	2,658	2,700	2,741	2,863	3,164	3,505
	Fine Gael	Derek Keating[*]	5.4	2,337	2,356	2,549	2,559	2,603	2,636	2,653	2,696	2,725	3,640	4,179
	Labour	Joanna Tuffy[*]	5.0	2,146	2,175	2,252	2,259	2,311	2,342	2,355	2,475	2,515
	Independent	Francis Timmons	2.5	1,085	1,195	1,200	1,210	1,214	1,233	1,318	1,422
	Workers' Party	Lorraine Hennessey	1.2	502	553	555	568	570	584	613
	Green	Tom Kivlehan	0.9	388	405	410	413	417	430	443
	Independent	Clare Leonard	0.8	358	379	383	398	403	422
	Independent	Patrick Akpoveta	0.7	288	307	311	318	343
	Independent	Haroon Khan	0.6	268	272	273	275
	Direct Democracy	Christopher Healy	0.4	167	179	180
Electorate: 69,388   Valid: 43,104   Spoilt: 446 (1.0%)   Quota: 8,621   Turnout: 43,550 (62.8%)

2011 general election

2011 general election: Dublin Mid-West^[26][10]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Labour	Joanna Tuffy[*]	17.5	7,495	7,513	7,533	7,553	7,633	7,827	8,948
	Fine Gael	Frances Fitzgerald	17.0	7,281	7,285	7,303	7,323	7,424	7,493	7,903	9,213
	Fine Gael	Derek Keating	13.9	5,933	5,938	5,945	5,964	5,992	6,072	6,503	7,244	7,703
	Labour	Robert Dowds	13.2	5,643	5,645	5,661	5,695	5,734	5,870	6,519	7,934	8,112
	Sinn Féin	Eoin Ó Broin	11.8	5,060	5,066	5,088	5,117	5,164	5,399	6,628	7,120	7,151
	Fianna Fáil	John Curran[*]	11.8	5,043	5,047	5,068	5,095	5,130	5,193	5,513
	People Before Profit	Gino Kenny[a]	5.8	2,471	2,481	2,513	2,536	2,597	3,059
	Green	Paul Gogarty[*]	3.5	1,484	1,490	1,498	1,509	1,534	1,605
	Workers' Party	Mick Finnegan	1.6	694	700	712	722	735
	Socialist Party	Robert Connolly[b]	1.5	622	624	634	637	649
	Independent	Michael Ryan	0.9	375	397	429	514
	Independent	Jim McHale	0.6	255	269	319
	Independent	Colm McGrath	0.6	253	264
	Independent	Niall Smith	0.3	113
Electorate: 64,880   Valid: 42,722   Spoilt: 471 (1.1%)   Quota: 8,545   Turnout: 43,193 (66.6%)

1. Kenny campaigned as a member of the United Left Alliance.
2. Connolly campaigned as a member of the United Left Alliance.

2007 general election

2007 general election: Dublin Mid-West^[9]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Fianna Fáil	John Curran[*]	23.2	8,650
	Progressive Democrats	Mary Harney[*]	12.5	4,663	4,956	5,066	5,454	5,668	7,786
	Fine Gael	Frances Fitzgerald	12.0	4,480	4,532	4,680	4,975	5,344	5,664
	Labour	Joanna Tuffy	10.9	4,075	4,145	4,440	4,895	6,004	6,672
	Green	Paul Gogarty[*]	10.8	4,043	4,123	4,393	5,557	6,700	7,920
	Fianna Fáil	Luke Moriarty	9.8	3,671	4,200	4,333	4,666	5,185
	Sinn Féin	Joanne Spain	9.3	3,462	3,529	3,970	4,138
	Independent	Derek Keating	7.2	2,701	2,729	2,907
	People Before Profit	Gino Kenny	2.8	1,058	1,099
	Workers' Party	Mick Finnegan	1.0	366	378
	Independent	Jim McHale	0.5	170	180
Electorate: 61,347   Valid: 37,339   Spoilt: 319 (0.9%)   Quota: 7,468   Turnout: 37,658 (61.4%)

2002 general election

2002 general election: Dublin Mid-West^[8]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	Fianna Fáil	John Curran	20.7	5,904	5,928	5,979	6,112	6,292	6,508	6,909	7,086	9,350
	Progressive Democrats	Mary Harney[*]	20.0	5,706	5,719	5,732	5,812	5,953	6,196	6,348	6,924	7,524
	Green	Paul Gogarty	12.3	3,508	3,523	3,541	3,627	3,870	3,947	4,594	5,260	5,645	6,345
	Fianna Fáil	Des Kelly	11.3	3,218	3,232	3,237	3,290	3,381	3,434	3,625	3,737
	Labour	Joanna Tuffy	9.0	2,563	2,566	2,602	2,744	2,891	3,199	3,594	4,495	4,808	5,371
	Fine Gael	Austin Currie[*]	7.1	2,008	2,017	2,023	2,051	2,100	2,573	2,687
	Sinn Féin	Tony Flannery	6.5	1,855	1,861	1,912	2,031	2,244	2,326
	Fine Gael	Therese Ridge	4.5	1,268	1,271	1,314	1,419	1,536
	Independent	David Green	3.8	1,078	1,092	1,170	1,313
	Independent	Colm McGrath	1.7	487	488	521
	Workers' Party	Andrew McGuinness	1.4	393	393	407
	Independent	Michael O'Mara	1.3	361	362
	Christian Solidarity	Colm Callanan	0.4	107
Electorate: 55,184   Valid: 28,456   Spoilt: 237 (0.8%)   Quota: 7,115   Turnout: 28,693 (52.0%)

See also

• Dáil constituencies
• Elections in the Republic of Ireland
• Politics of the Republic of Ireland
• List of Dáil by-elections
• List of political parties in the Republic of Ireland

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External links

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