North-West (European Parliament constituency)

Not to be confused with North West England (European Parliament constituency), North-West France (European Parliament constituency), North-West Italy (European Parliament constituency), or Midlands–North-West (European Parliament constituency).

North-West was a constituency of the European Parliament in Ireland between 2004 and 2014. It elected 3 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) using the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).

North-West
European Parliament constituency
Location within Europe
North-West shown within Ireland (2009–2014 boundaries)
Member state	Ireland
Created	2004
Dissolved	2014
MEPs	3
Sources

History and boundaries

The constituency was created in 2004 and was a successor to the Connacht–Ulster constituency. For 2004 election, County Clare was moved from the Munster constituency to the new North-West constituency. For the 2009 election the counties of Longford and Westmeath were transferred from the East constituency to North-West.

From 2009 it comprised the counties of Cavan, Clare, Donegal, Galway, Leitrim, Longford, Mayo, Monaghan, Roscommon, Sligo and Westmeath; and the city of Galway.^[1]

For the 2014 European Parliament election the constituency was abolished. All of its area became part of the new Midlands–North-West constituency;^[2] with the exception of County Clare which was transferred to the South constituency.

MEPs

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) for North-West 2004–2014
Key to parties   FF = Fianna Fáil   FG = Fine Gael   Ind = Independent
Parl.	Election	Member (Party)		Member (Party)		Member (Party)
6th	2004[3]		Marian Harkin (Ind)		Jim Higgins (FG)		Seán Ó Neachtain (FF)
7th	2009[4]						Pat "the Cope" Gallagher (FF)
8th	2014	Constituency abolished. See Midlands–North-West and South.

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

2009 election

2009 European Parliament election: North-West^[4][5]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Independent	Marian Harkin	17.1	84,813	89,938	99,561	103,942	112,210	121,672
	Fianna Fáil	Pat "the Cope" Gallagher	16.7	82,643	84,680	85,842	87,714	112,622	120,930
	Fine Gael	Jim Higgins	16.2	80,093	82,457	86,597	111,133	113,810	120,185
	Libertas	Declan Ganley	14.3	67,638	69,925	72,475	73,994	75,705	84,277
	Sinn Féin	Pádraig Mac Lochlainn	9.2	45,515	47,413	50,225	52,384	54,737
	Fianna Fáil	Paschal Mooney	8.7	42,985	44,719	45,687	47,702
	Fine Gael	Joe O'Reilly	7.6	37,564	38,854	42,350
	Labour	Susan O'Keeffe	5.8	28,658	31,176
	Independent	Michael McNamara	2.6	12,744
	Independent	Fiachra Ó Luain	1.3	6,510
	Independent	John Francis Higgins	0.6	3,030
	Independent	Noel McCullagh	0.4	1,940
	Independent	Thomas King	0.2	1,124
Electorate: 805,626   Valid: 495,257   Spoilt: 15,675 (3.1%)   Quota: 123,815   Turnout: 510,932 (63.4%)

2004 election

2004–2009 North-West constituency boundaries

2004 European Parliament election: North-West^[3]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	Independent	Marian Harkin	15.8	66,664	71,458	76,195	81,610	100,522
	Sinn Féin	Pearse Doherty	15.5	65,321	68,412	70,309	76,315	85,996
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Ó Neachtain	14.7	62,085	62,855	66,130	90,830	102,384
	Fine Gael	Jim Higgins	14.1	56,396	61,262	78,938	81,623	92,657
	Independent	Dana Rosemary Scallon	13.5	56,992	58,774	66,739	72,889
	Fianna Fáil	Jim McDaid	12.4	52,139	52,938	54,654
	Fine Gael	Madeleine Taylor-Quinn	9.9	41,570	43,093
	Labour	Hughie Baxter	3.3	13,948
	Independent	Mary Hainsworth	0.8	3,308
Electorate: 688,804   Valid: 421,423   Spoilt: 14,487 (3.3%)   Quota: 105,356   Turnout: 435,910 (63.3%)

See also

• European Parliament constituencies in the Republic of Ireland

References

1. "Electoral (Amendment) Act 2009". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 28 September 2010.
2. "Report on European Parliament Constituencies 2013" (PDF). Constituency Commission. 25 September 2013. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
3. "2004 European Parliament election – North-West constituency". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 22 March 2009.
4. "2009 European Parliament election – North-West constituency". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 21 April 2009.
5. "Nominations close for Europe elections". RTÉ News. 11 May 2009. Retrieved 12 May 2009.

External links

• North-West MEPs – European Parliament Office in Ireland