Connacht–Ulster (European Parliament constituency)

Connacht–Ulster
European Parliament constituency
Shown within Ireland
Member state	Ireland
Created	1979
Dissolved	2004
MEPs	3
Sources

Connacht–Ulster was a constituency of the European Parliament in Ireland between 1979 and 2004. It elected 3 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) using the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).

History and boundaries

The constituency was created in 1979 for the first direct elections to the European Parliament. It comprised the counties of Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon and Sligo from the historic province of Connacht together with the Ulster counties of Donegal, Cavan, and Monaghan.^[1] It was abolished under the European Parliament Elections (Amendment) Act 2004 and succeeded by the new North-West constituency.^[2]

MEPs

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) for Connacht–Ulster 1979–2009
Key to parties FF = Fianna Fáil FG = Fine Gael IFF = Independent Fianna Fáil Ind = Independent
Parl.	Election	Member (Party)		Member (Party)		Member (Party)
1st	1979^[3]		Neil Blaney (IFF)		Seán Flanagan (FF)		Joe McCartin (FG)
2nd	1984^[4]		Ray MacSharry (FF)
2nd	1987^[5]		Mark Killilea (FF)
3rd	1989^[6]				Neil Blaney (IFF)
4th	1994^[7]				Pat the Cope Gallagher (FF)
5th	1999^[8]		Dana Rosemary Scallon (Ind)		Pat the Cope Gallagher (FF)
5th	2002^[9]		Dana Rosemary Scallon (Ind)		Seán Ó Neachtain (FF)
6th	2004	Constituency abolished. See North-West

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.

1999 election

1999 European Parliament election: Connacht–Ulster^[8]
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6
	Fianna Fáil	Pat the Cope Gallagher^[9]	20.6	66,055	66,381	66,902	72,673	98,258
	Fine Gael	Joe McCartin	19.9	63,632	63,811	64,506	68,388	72,764	75,275
	Independent	Dana Rosemary Scallon	16.0	51,086	51,366	52,802	59,444	67,887	72,855
	Independent	Marian Harkin	14.8	47,372	47,712	48,632	56,141	60,316	64,152
	Fianna Fáil	Noel Treacy	15.0	47,933	48,060	48,470	51,544
	Sinn Féin	Seán MacManus	6.4	20,457	20,571	20,801
	Labour Party	Gerard Gibbons	3.3	10,522	10,827	10,972
	Independent	Luke 'Ming' Flanagan	1.6	5,000	5,539	5,650
	Independent	Liam Sharkey	1.7	5,334	5,404
	Natural Law	Paul Campbell	0.6	1,920
	Independent	Paul Raymond	0.3	840
Electorate: 541,552 Valid: 320,151 Spoilt: 12,085 (3.6%) Quota: 80,038 Turnout: 332,236 (61.4%)

Mark Killilea retired and his seat was gained by Independent Dana Rosemary Scallon.

1994 election

1994 European Parliament election: Connacht–Ulster^[7]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Pat the Cope Gallagher	53,171	22.9	1	4
	Fianna Fáil	Mark Killilea	45,638	19.6	2	5
	Fine Gael	Joe McCartin	38,039	16.4	3	5
	Fine Gael	Jim Higgins	30,947	13.3
	Labour Party	Ann Gallagher	19,826	8.5
	Progressive Democrats	Bobby Molloy	21,219	9.1
	Sinn Féin	Pat Doherty	13,939	6.0
	Green Party	Richard Douthwaite	8,628	3.7
	Natural Law	Mary Louise Lacey	1,223	0.5
Electorate: 496,352 Valid: 232,630 Spoilt: 4,971 (2.1%) Quota: 58,158 Turnout: 237,601 (47.9%)

Pat the Cope Gallagher of Fianna Fáil gained the seat vacated by Neil Blaney.

1989 election

1989 European Parliament election: Connacht–Ulster^[6]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	Joe McCartin	46,523	14.9	1	9
	Independent Fianna Fáil	Neil Blaney	52,852	16.9	2	9
	Fianna Fáil	Mark Killilea	53,842	17.2	3	9
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Doherty	48,288	15.5
	Progressive Democrats	Bobby Molloy	40,476	13.0
	Fine Gael	Paddy Harte	30,745	9.8
	Fine Gael	Angela Lupton	10,165	3.3
	Sinn Féin	Pat Doherty	7,716	2.5
	Workers' Party	Jimmy Brick	6,173	2.0
	Sinn Féin	Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin	4,969	1.6
	Labour Party	Ivan McPhillips	4,759	1.5
	Workers' Party	Seamus Rodgers	4,097	1.3
	Sinn Féin	Dermot Guy	1,697	0.5
Electorate: 464,661 Valid: 312,302 Spoilt: 10,362 (3.2%) Quota: 78,076 Turnout: 322,664 (69.4%)

Neil Blaney regained his seat at the expense of Fianna Fáil.

1984 election

1984 European Parliament election: Connacht–Ulster^[4]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Ray MacSharry^[5]	56,803	24.1	1	7
	Fine Gael	Joe McCartin	51,164	21.7	2	8
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Flanagan	40,760	17.3	3	9
	Independent Fianna Fáil	Neil Blaney	32,504	13.8
	Fine Gael	Joseph Murrin	20,107	8.5
	Sinn Féin	Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin	6,103	2.6
	Labour Party	Michael D. Higgins	8,337	3.5
	Fine Gael	Pól Ó Foighil	7,144	3.0
	Sinn Féin	Eddie Fullerton	5,771	2.5
	Sinn Féin	Mary McGing	4,176	1.8
	Workers' Party	Jimmy Brick	2,612	1.1
Electorate: 471,577 Valid: 235,481 Spoilt: 5,763 (2.4%) Quota: 58,871 Turnout: 241,244 (51.2%)

Neil Blaney lost his seat to Ray MacSharry of Fianna Fáil.

1979 election

1979 European Parliament election: Connacht–Ulster^[3]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Independent Fianna Fáil	Neil Blaney	81,522	26.6	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Flanagan	38,233	12.5	2	7
	Fine Gael	Joe McCartin	47,519	15.5	3	7
	Fine Gael	Patrick Cooney	33,360	10.9
	Fianna Fáil	Jim Doolan	27,739	9.1
	Fine Gael	Myles Staunton	32,485	10.6
	Fianna Fáil	Sean McEniff	25,774	8.4
	Labour Party	Michael D. Higgins	13,062	4.3
	Sinn Féin (Workers' Party)	Tony Coffey	3,329	1.1
	Sinn Féin (Workers' Party)	Séamus Rodgers	2,696	0.9
	Independent	Christopher Morris	447	0.2
Electorate: 442,471 Valid: 306,166 Spoilt: 14,547 (4.5%) Quota: 76,542 Turnout: 320,713 (72.5%)

References

↑ "European Assembly Elections Act, 1977: Schedule (Constituencies)". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 22 November 2011.
↑ "European Parliament Elections (Amendment) Act 2004: Schedule (Constituencies)". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 22 November 2011.
1 2 "1979 European Parliament election result – Connacht–Ulster constituency". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 22 March 2009.
1 2 "1984 European Parliament election result – Connacht–Ulster constituency". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 22 March 2009.
1 2 Ray MacSharry resigned on 10 March 1987 and was substituted by Mark Killilea (FF / EDA) on 24 March 1987.
1 2 "1989 European Parliament election result – Connacht–Ulster constituency". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 22 March 2009.
1 2 "1994 European Parliament election result – Connacht–Ulster constituency". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 22 March 2009.
1 2 "1999 European Parliament election result – Connacht–Ulster constituency". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 22 March 2009.
1 2 Pat the Cope Gallagher was substituted by Seán Ó Neachtain (FF / UEN) on 2 July 2002, following the 2002 general election.

1994–99 ← European Parliament constituencies 1999–2004 → 2004–09

England	East Midlands^¤1 East of England^¤1 London^¤1 North East England^¤1 North West England^¤1 South East England^¤1 South West England^¤1 West Midlands^¤1 Yorkshire and the Humber^¤1

Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland	Northern Ireland Wales Scotland

National

Key: ^¤1 Constituency created in 1999 ^†2 Constituency dissolved in 2004

1989–94 ← European Parliament constituencies 1994–99 → 1999–2004

England	Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes Birmingham East Birmingham West Bristol Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire East Cambridgeshire Cheshire East Cheshire West and Wirral Cleveland and Richmond Cornwall and West Plymouth Cotswolds Coventry and North Warwickshire Cumbria and Lancashire North Devon and East Plymouth Dorset and East Devon Durham East Sussex and Kent South Essex North and Suffolk South Essex South Essex West and Hertfordshire East Greater Manchester Central Greater Manchester East Greater Manchester West Hampshire North and Oxford Herefordshire and Shropshire Hertfordshire Humberside Itchen, Test and Avon Kent East Kent West Lancashire Central Lancashire South Leeds Leicester Lincolnshire and Humberside South London Central London East London North London North East London North West London South and Surrey East London South East London South Inner London South West London West Merseyside East and Wigan Merseyside West Midlands West Norfolk North Yorkshire Northamptonshire and Blaby Northumbria Nottingham and Leicestershire North West Nottinghamshire North and Chesterfield Peak District Sheffield Somerset and North Devon South Downs West Staffordshire East and Derby Staffordshire West and Congleton Suffolk and South West Norfolk Surrey Sussex South and Crawley Thames Valley Tyne and Wear Wight and Hampshire South Wiltshire North and Bath Worcestershire and South Warwickshire Yorkshire South Yorkshire South West Yorkshire West

Wales	Mid and West Wales North Wales South Wales Central South Wales East South Wales West

Scotland	Glasgow Highlands and Islands Lothians Mid Scotland and Fife North East Scotland South of Scotland Strathclyde East Strathclyde West

Northern Ireland	Northern Ireland

National

* Constituency created 1996; † Constituency created 1995

1984–89 ← European Parliament constituencies 1989–94 → 1994–99

Belgium

Dutch-speaking
French-speaking^†1

Ireland

Italy

United Kingdom

England	Bedfordshire South^†1 Birmingham East Birmingham West Bristol Cambridge and Bedfordshire North^†1 Cheshire East Cheshire West^†1 Cleveland and Yorkshire North^†1 Cornwall and Plymouth^†1 Cotswolds Cumbria and Lancashire North Derbyshire^†1 Devon^†1 Dorset East and Hampshire West^†1 Durham Essex North East^†1 Essex South West^†1 Greater Manchester Central Greater Manchester East Greater Manchester West Hampshire Central^†1 Hereford and Worcester^†1 Hertfordshire Humberside Kent East Kent West Lancashire Central Lancashire East^†1 Leeds Leicester Lincolnshire^†1 London Central London East London North London North East London North West London South and Surrey East London South East London South Inner London South West London West Merseyside East^†1 Merseyside West Midlands Central^†1 Midlands West Norfolk Northamptonshire^†1 Northumbria Nottingham^†1 Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire^†1 Sheffield Shropshire and Stafford^†1 Somerset and Dorset West^†1 Staffordshire East^†1 Suffolk^†1 Surrey West^†1 Sussex East^†1 Sussex West^†1 Thames Valley Tyne and Wear Wight and Hampshire East^†1 Wiltshire^†1 York^†1 Yorkshire South Yorkshire South West^†1 Yorkshire West

Wales	Mid and West Wales North Wales South Wales^†1 South Wales East

Scotland	Glasgow Highlands and Islands Lothians Mid Scotland and Fife North East Scotland South of Scotland Strathclyde East Strathclyde West

Northern Ireland	Northern Ireland

National

Key: ^†1 Constituency dissolved in 1994

1979–84 ← European Parliament constituencies 1984–89 → 1989–94

Belgium

Denmark

Denmark
Greenland^†2

Ireland

Italy

United Kingdom

England	Bedfordshire South^¤1 Birmingham East^¤1 Birmingham West^¤1 Bristol Cambridge and Bedfordshire North^¤1 Cheshire East Cheshire West Cleveland and Yorkshire North^¤1 Cornwall and Plymouth Cotswolds Cumbria and Lancashire North^¤1 Derbyshire Devon Dorset East and Hampshire West^¤1 Durham Essex North East Essex South West Greater Manchester Central^¤1 Greater Manchester East^¤1 Greater Manchester West Hampshire Central^¤1 Hereford and Worcester Hertfordshire Humberside Kent East Kent West Lancashire Central Lancashire East Leeds Leicester Lincolnshire London Central London East London North London North East London North West London South and Surrey East^¤1 London South East London South Inner London South West London West Merseyside East^¤1 Merseyside West^¤1 Midlands Central Midlands West Norfolk Northamptonshire Northumbria Nottingham Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire^¤1 Sheffield Shropshire and Stafford^¤1 Somerset and Dorset West^¤1 Staffordshire East Suffolk Surrey West^¤1 Sussex East Sussex West Thames Valley Tyne and Wear^¤1 Wight and Hampshire East Wiltshire^¤1 York^¤1 Yorkshire South Yorkshire South West Yorkshire West

Wales	Mid and West Wales North Wales South Wales South Wales East^¤1

Scotland	Glasgow Highlands and Islands Lothians Mid Scotland and Fife North East Scotland South of Scotland Strathclyde East Strathclyde West

Northern Ireland	Northern Ireland

National

Key: ^¤1 Constituency created in 1984; ^†2 Constituency dissolved in 1985; ^¤3 Constituency created in 1987

1977–1979 ← European Parliament constituencies 1979–84 → 1984–89

England	Bedfordshire Birmingham North Birmingham South Bristol Cambridgeshire Cheshire East Cheshire West Cleveland Cornwall and Plymouth Cotswolds Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Durham Essex North East Essex South West Greater Manchester North Greater Manchester South Greater Manchester West Hampshire West Hereford and Worcester Hertfordshire Humberside Kent East Kent West Lancashire Central Lancashire East Lancashire West Leeds Leicester Lincolnshire Liverpool London Central London East London North London North East London North West London South London South East London South Inner London South West London West Midlands Central Midlands East Midlands West Norfolk Northamptonshire Northumbria Nottingham Salop and Stafford Sheffield Somerset Staffordshire East Suffolk Surrey Sussex East Sussex West Thames Valley Tyne South and Wear Upper Thames Wessex Wight and Hampshire East Yorkshire North Yorkshire South Yorkshire South West Yorkshire West

Wales	Mid and West Wales North Wales South East Wales South Wales

Scotland	Glasgow Highlands and Islands Lothians Mid Scotland and Fife North East Scotland South of Scotland Strathclyde East Strathclyde West

Northern Ireland	Northern Ireland

National

Key

* Constituency created 1981

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Connacht–Ulster (European Parliament constituency)

History and boundaries

MEPs

1999 election

1994 election

1989 election

1984 election

1979 election

See also

References