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2014 European Parliament election in Ireland
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| Field | Value | |
|---|---|---|
| election_name | 2014 European Parliament election in Ireland | |
| country | Ireland | |
| type | parliamentary | |
| ongoing | no | |
| previous_election | 2009 European Parliament election in Ireland | |
| previous_year | 2009 | |
| election_date | 23 May 2014 | |
| next_election | 2019 European Parliament election in Ireland | |
| next_year | 2019 | |
| previous_mps | List of members of the European Parliament for Ireland, 2009–2014 | |
| seats_for_election | All 11 Irish seats to the European Parliament | |
| turnout | 1,701,942 (52.4% 5.2 pp) | |
| <!-- Fine Gael --> | image1 | |
| leader1 | Enda Kenny | |
| party1 | Fine Gael | |
| alliance1 | European People's Party group | |
| leader_since1 | 2 June 2002 | |
| last_election1 | 29.1%, 4 seats | |
| seats1 | ||
| seat_change1 | ||
| popular_vote1 | 369,120 | |
| percentage1 | 22.28% | |
| swing1 | 6.8 pp | |
| <!-- Sinn Féin --> | image2 | |
| leader2 | Gerry Adams | |
| leader_since2 | 13 November 1983 | |
| party2 | Sinn Féin | |
| alliance2 | European United Left–Nordic Green Left | |
| last_election2 | 11.2%, 0 seats | |
| seats2 | ||
| seat_change2 | 3 | |
| popular_vote2 | 323,300 | |
| percentage2 | 19.5% | |
| swing2 | 8.3 pp | |
| <!-- Fianna Fáil --> | image3 | |
| leader3 | Micheál Martin | |
| leader_since3 | 26 January 2011 | |
| party3 | Fianna Fáil | |
| alliance3 | Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group | |
| last_election3 | 24.1%, 3 seats | |
| seats3 | ||
| seat_change3 | 2 | |
| popular_vote3 | 369,545 | |
| percentage3 | 22.31% | |
| swing3 | 1.8 pp | |
| <!-- Labour Party --> | image4 | |
| leader4 | Eamon Gilmore | |
| leader_since4 | 6 September 2007 | |
| party4 | Labour Party (Ireland) | |
| alliance4 | Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats | |
| last_election4 | 13.9%, 3 seats | |
| seats4 | ||
| seat_change4 | 3 | |
| popular_vote4 | 88,229 | |
| percentage4 | 5.3% | |
| swing4 | 8.6 pp | |
| <!-- Green Party --> | image5 | |
| leader5 | Eamon Ryan | |
| leader_since5 | 27 May 2011 | |
| party5 | Green Party (Ireland) | |
| alliance5 | Greens–European Free Alliance | |
| last_election5 | 1.9%, 0 seats | |
| seats5 | ||
| seat_change5 | ||
| popular_vote5 | 81,458 | |
| percentage5 | 4.9% | |
| swing5 | 3.0 pp | |
| <!-- Socialist Party --> | image6 | |
| leader6 | — | |
| leader_since6 | — | |
| party6 | Socialist Party (Ireland) | |
| alliance6 | European United Left–Nordic Green Left | |
| last_election6 | 2.7%, 1 seat | |
| seats6 | ||
| seat_change6 | 1 | |
| popular_vote6 | 29,953 | |
| percentage6 | 1.8% | |
| swing6 | 0.9 pp | |
| <!-- Map --> | map_image | Irish Euros 2014 3.png |
| map_size | 210px | |
| elected_members | elected members |
The 2014 European Parliament election in Ireland was the Irish component of the 2014 European Parliament election and was held on Friday, 23 May 2014, on the same day as the 2014 local elections and two by-elections (Dublin West and Longford–Westmeath). The election was conducted under the single transferable vote. Counting of the votes began on Sunday, 25 May and continued until Tuesday, 27 May.
National and regional summaries
In contrast to a poor local election result, Fine Gael retained 4 seats, remaining the largest Irish party at a European level. Despite winning the largest number of first preference votes, Fianna Fáil lost 2 seats – a result of poor candidate selection and a reduction in the number of seats. The Labour Party, bearing the brunt of voter anger with the Coalition government, suffered a meltdown, losing all three of its seats, including its seat in Dublin which it had held since 1989. The Socialist Party also lost its sole seat. The big winners were Sinn Féin and Independents who won three seats each.
In Dublin, Lynn Boylan of Sinn Féin topped the poll and a tight four-way battle for the remaining two seats ensued between Brian Hayes of Fine Gael, ex-Labour MEP turned independent Nessa Childers, Fianna Fáil's Mary Fitzpatrick and the Green Party's Eamon Ryan. Hayes and Childers won with Hayes ahead of Ryan at the final count by a margin of 1,200 votes.
In South, both Brian Crowley of Fianna Fáil and Seán Kelly of Fine Gael were re-elected while first time candidate Liadh Ní Riada of Sinn Féin won a seat. The last seat was taken by Fine Gael Senator Deirdre Clune ahead of her party colleague Simon Harris.
In the new Midlands–North-West constituency, independent TD Luke 'Ming' Flanagan topped the poll while Mairead McGuinness of Fine Gael and Sinn Féin's Matt Carthy took the next two seats. Fianna Fáil's two-candidate strategy in the constituency backfired, with sitting MEP Pat "the Cope" Gallagher narrowly losing to independent Marian Harkin. For the first time, Ireland's delegation to the European Parliament had more women than men.
Constituency changes
The Constituency Commission made changes to the constituencies of Ireland so as to reduce the total number of MEPs from 12 to 11, due to the accession of Croatia to the European Union.
The North-West and East constituencies were abolished. A new 4-seat constituency called Midlands–North-West was created. It comprised all the area of the previous North-West constituency, with the exception of County Clare which was moved to the South constituency; as well as the north Leinster part of the East constituency.
The South constituency was increased in size by the addition of counties Carlow, Clare, Kilkenny, Wexford and Wicklow. and the number of seats increased from 3 to 4.
There were no changes to the Dublin constituency.
Opinion polls
Candidate polling
Dublin
| Date | Polling agency | Sample size | Sinn Féin}}; width:80px;" | Boylan (SF) | Fine Gael}}; width:80px;" | Hayes (FG) | Childers (Ind) | Fianna Fáil}}; width:80px;" | Fitzpatrick (FF) | Labour Party (Ireland)}}; width:80px;" | Costello (Lab) | Green Party (Ireland)}}; width:80px;" | Ryan (GP) | People Before Profit Alliance}}; width:80px;" | Smith (PBPA) | Socialist Party (Ireland)}}; width:80px;" | Murphy (SP) | Tallon (Ind) | Darcy (DDI) | Whitehead (DDI) | Fís Nua}}; width:80px;" | Wise (FN) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26–28 April | url=http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/hayes-faces-defeat-in-european-elections-poll-shows-30221043.html | title=Hayes faces defeat in European elections, poll shows}} | 500 | 20% | 15% | 19% | 13% | 12% | 11% | 5% | 4% | – | 1% | – | – | |||||||
| 1–2 May | url=http://www.aertv.ie/live/eu-elections-sunday-business-post-red-c-poll-results/ | title=Aertv | website=Aertv.ie}} | 500 | 15% | 18% | 10% | 13% | 13% | 12% | 9% | 7% | 2% | 1% | 1% | 0% | ||||||
| 13–14 May | url=http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/exclusive-poll-shows-sf-and-fg-to-top-euro-elections-in-dublin-30282458.html | title=EXCLUSIVE: Poll shows SF and FG to top Euro elections in Dublin - Independent.ie}} | 500 | 23% | 22% | 13% | 11% | 10% | 7% | 6% | 7% | – | 1% | – | – | |||||||
| 3–15 May | Behaviour & Attitudes/Sunday Times | 500 | 19% | 16% | 11% | 12% | 7% | 11% | 10% | 9% | 3% | 0% | 1% | 1% | ||||||||
| 23 May | Behaviour & Attitudes/RTÉ Exit Poll | 1000 | 24% | 14% | 11% | 12% | 8% | 14% | 6% | 7% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 0% |
Midlands–North-West
| Date | Polling agency | Sample size | Sinn Féin}}; width:80px;" | Carthy (SF) | Fianna Fáil}}; width:80px;" | Byrne (FF) | Flanagan (Ind) | Fianna Fáil}}; width:80px;" | Gallagher (FF) | Harkin (Ind) | Fine Gael}}; width:80px;" | Higgins J. (FG) | Fine Gael}}; width:80px;" | McGuinness (FG) | Labour Party (Ireland)}}; width:80px;" | Higgins L. (Lab) | Mullen (Ind) | Green Party (Ireland)}}; width:80px;" | Dearey (GP) | Fitzsimons (Ind) | Gilroy (DDI) | Fís Nua}}; width:80px;" | Nic Fhearra (FN) | Fay (Ind) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26–28 April | MillwardBrown/Sunday Independent | 500 | 17% | 16% | 12% | 9% | 12% | 11% | 11% | 4% | 3% | 2% | 3% | 1% | – | – | ||||||||
| 1–2 May | RedC/Sunday Business Post | 500 | 14% | 8% | 14% | 9% | 16% | 10% | 16% | 5% | 6% | 2% | 0% | 0% | 0% | – | ||||||||
| 13–14 May | url=http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/elections/opinion-polls/flanagan-on-course-to-win-seat-as-martin-faces-key-test-30281382.html | title=Flanagan on Course to Win Seat as Martin faces Key Test | newspaper=Irish Independent | date=17 May 2014 | author1=Fionnan Sheehan | author2=Niall O'Connor}} | 500 | 19% | 9% | 15% | 10% | 12% | 6% | 13% | 5% | 5% | 3% | 1% | 1% | 0% | 0% | |||
| 3–15 May | url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0517/618030-poll-suggests-sf-independents-gain-support/ | title=Poll suggests SF & Independents' support has increased | publisher=RTÉ News | date=17 May 2014 | access-date=17 May 2014}} | 500 | 14% | 9% | 17% | 8% | 12% | 7% | 21% | 5% | 5% | 1% | 0% | 1% | 0% | 0% | ||||
| 23 May | Behaviour & Attitudes/RTÉ Exit Poll | 1000 | 13% | 10% | 20% | 11% | 11% | 7% | 16% | 4% | 4% | 2% | 0% | 1% | 0% | 1% |
South
| Date | Polling agency | Sample size | Fianna Fáil}}; width:80px;" | Crowley (FF) | Sinn Féin}}; width:80px;" | Ní Riada (SF) | Fine Gael}}; width:80px;" | Kelly (FG) | Fine Gael}}; width:80px;" | Clune (FG) | Fine Gael}}; width:80px;" | Harris (FG) | Labour Party (Ireland)}}; width:80px;" | Prendergast (Lab) | O'Flynn (Ind) | Godsil (Ind) | Fianna Fáil}}; width:80px;" | Hartley (FF) | Green Party (Ireland)}}; width:80px;" | O'Sullivan (GP) | Van De Ven (DDI) | Fís Nua}}; width:80px;" | O'Riordan (FN) | Cahill (Ind) | Heaney (CD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26–28 April | MillwardBrown/Sunday Independent | 500 | 36% | 15% | 12% | 12% | 7% | 4% | 7% | 3% | 2% | 1% | 1% | – | 0% | 0% | |||||||||
| 1–2 May | RedC/Sunday Business Post | 500 | 28% | 14% | 18% | 8% | 7% | 9% | 4% | 3% | 3% | 6% | 1% | 0% | – | – | |||||||||
| 13–14 May | MillwardBrown/Irish Independent | 500 | 32% | 16% | 15% | 10% | 9% | 6% | 4% | 2% | 2% | 4% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | |||||||||
| 3–15 May | Behaviour & Attitudes/Sunday Times | 500 | 35% | 14% | 17% | 10% | 8% | 5% | 2% | 2% | 1% | 3% | 1% | 0% | 2% | 1% | |||||||||
| 23 May | Behaviour & Attitudes/RTÉ Exit Poll | 1000 | 26% | 17% | 12% | 9% | 7% | 5% | 5% | 1% | 5% | 5% | 1% | 1% | 3% | 1% |
Party polling
The figures are for first-preference votes, as STV is a ranked voting system.
Dublin
| Date | Source | Polling agency | Fine Gael}}" | Fine Gael | Labour Party (Ireland)}}" | Labour | Fianna Fáil}}" | Fianna Fáil | Sinn Féin}}" | Sinn Féin | Socialist Party (Ireland)}}" | Socialist | Green Party (Ireland)}}" | Green | People Before Profit Alliance}}" | [](people-before-profit-alliance) | Others |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday Independent{{cite news | url=http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/hayes-faces-defeat-in-european-elections-poll-shows-30221043.html | title=Hayes faces defeat in European elections, poll shows | work=Irish Independent | access-date=29 April 2014}} | MillwardBrown | 15% | 12% | 13% | 20% | 4% | 11% | 5% | |||||
| url=http://www.aertv.ie/live/eu-elections-sunday-business-post-red-c-poll-results | title=Aertv | website=Aertv.ie}} | RedC | 18% | 13% | 13% | 15% | 7% | 12% | 9% | 14% | ||||||
| Sunday Independent | MillwardBrown | 22% | 10% | 11% | 23% | 7% | 7% | 6% | 14% | ||||||||
| url=http://www.banda.ie/ | title=Ireland's largest independent Market Research company - Market Research agency in Dublin, Quantitative and Qualitative research - Behaviour & Attitudes | website=Behaviour & Attitudes}} | Behaviour & Attitudes | 16% | 7% | 12% | 19% | 9% | 11% | 10% | 16% |
Midlands–North-West
| Date | Source | Polling agency | Fine Gael}}" | Fine Gael | Labour Party (Ireland)}}" | Labour | Fianna Fáil}}" | Fianna Fáil | Sinn Féin}}" | Sinn Féin | Green Party (Ireland)}}" | Green | Others |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday Independent{{cite news | url=http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/article30220401.ece | title=SF on course for Euro election victories but FG's Kelly faces defeat | work=Irish Independent | access-date=29 April 2014}} | MillwardBrown | 22% | 4% | 25% | 17% | 2% | |||
| Sunday Business Post | RedC | 26% | 5% | 17% | 14% | 2% | 36% | ||||||
| Sunday Independent | MillwardBrown | 19% | 5% | 19% | 19% | 3% | 34% | ||||||
| The Sunday Times | Behaviour & Attitudes | 28% | 5% | 17% | 14% | 4% | 35% |
South
| Date | Source | Polling agency | Fine Gael}}" | Fine Gael | Labour Party (Ireland)}}" | Labour | Fianna Fáil}}" | Fianna Fáil | Sinn Féin}}" | Sinn Féin | Green Party (Ireland)}}" | Green | Others |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday Independent | MillwardBrown | 30% | 4% | 39% | 15% | 1% | 11% | ||||||
| Sunday Business Post | RedC | 33% | 9% | 31% | 14% | 6% | 8% | ||||||
| Sunday Independent | MillwardBrown | 34% | 6% | 34% | 16% | 4% | 6% | ||||||
| The Sunday Times | Behaviour & Attitudes | 35% | 5% | 36% | 14% | 3% | 8% |
Results
Post-Poll Alliance
| EPP | S&D | ECR | ALDE | GUE/NGL | G-EFA | EFDD | NI | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | ||||||||
| 4 (FG) | 1 (Childers) | 1 (FF/Crowley) | 1 (Harkin) | 3 (SF) | ||||
| 1 (Flanagan) | 11 |
Voting details
| Constituency | Electorate | Turnout | Spoilt | Valid Poll | Quota | Seats | Electorate per Seat | Candidates |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dublin | 820,668 | 358,943 | 6,368 | 352,575 | 88,144 | 3 | 273,556 | 12 |
| Midlands–North-West | 1,202,997 | 663,703 | 17,258 | 646,445 | 129,290 | 4 | 300,749 | 14 |
| South | 1,221,683 | 679,296 | 21,798 | 657,498 | 131,500 | 4 | 305,420 | 15 |
| Total | 3,245,348 | 1,701,942 | 45,424 | 1,656,518 | — | 11 | 31 |
References
References
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- (22 January 2014). "Local and European elections to be held on 23 May". [[Raidió Teilifís Éireann]].
- (23 May 2014). "Voter turnout of close to 50% reported in some areas". [[RTÉ News]].
- (25 September 2013). "New Irish MEP constituencies announced". [[RTÉ News]].
- (25 September 2013). "Report on European Parliament Constituencies 2013". [[Constituency Commission]].
- "Hayes faces defeat in European elections, poll shows".
- "Aertv".
- "EXCLUSIVE: Poll shows SF and FG to top Euro elections in Dublin - Independent.ie".
- [http://www.banda.ie/assets/files/pdf/J.5607%20Sunday%20Times%20Report%20May%202014.pdf Sunday Times/Behaviour & Attitudes European Elections] {{webarchive. link. (19 May 2014 Behaviour & Attitudes, May 2014.)
- [http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0524/619349-elections-2014/] Behaviour & Attitudes, May 2014.
- (17 May 2014). "Flanagan on Course to Win Seat as Martin faces Key Test". [[Irish Independent]].
- (17 May 2014). "Poll suggests SF & Independents' support has increased". [[RTÉ News]].
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- "Flanagan on course to win seat as Martin faces key test - Independent.ie".
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