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2009 Mayo County Council Election
An election to Mayo County Council Mayo County Council ( ga, Comhairle Contae Mhaigh Eo) is the authority responsible for local government in County Mayo, Ireland. As a county council, it is governed by the Local Government Act 2001. The council is responsible for housing and co ... took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 31 councillors were elected from six local electoral areas (LEAs) for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV) Results by party Results by local electoral area Ballina Belmullet Castlebar Claremorris Swinford Westport External links Official website {{2009 Irish local elections 2009 Irish local elections, Mayo Mayo County Council elections ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayo County Council
Mayo County Council ( ga, Comhairle Contae Mhaigh Eo) is the authority responsible for local government in County Mayo, Ireland. As a county council, it is governed by the Local Government Act 2001. The council is responsible for housing and community, roads and transportation, urban planning and development, amenity and culture, and environment. The council has 30 elected members. Elections are held every five years and are by single transferable vote. The head of the council has the title of Cathaoirleach (Chairperson). The county administration is headed by a Chief Executive, Kevin Kelly. The county town is Castlebar. History Originally meetings of Mayo County Council took place in Castlebar Courthouse. The county council moved to modern facilities at County Hall ( ga, Áras an Chontae) further west on The Mall in Castlebar in 1989. In the early 1930s, the County Council was dissolved for a time and replaced with a Commissioner because of the Mayo librarian controversy. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fine Gael
Fine Gael (, ; English: "Family (or Tribe) of the Irish") is a liberal-conservative and Christian-democratic political party in Ireland. Fine Gael is currently the third-largest party in the Republic of Ireland in terms of members of Dáil Éireann and largest in terms of 2019 European Parliament election in Ireland, Irish members of the European Parliament. The party has a membership of 25,000 in 2021. Leo Varadkar succeeded Enda Kenny as party leader on 2 June 2017 and as Taoiseach on 14 June; Kenny had been leader since 2002, and Taoiseach since 2011. Fine Gael was founded on 8 September 1933 following the merger of its parent party Cumann na nGaedheal, the National Centre Party (Ireland), National Centre Party and the Blueshirts, Army Comrades Association. Its origins lie in the Irish War of Independence, struggle for Irish independence and the Anglo-Irish Treaty, pro-Treaty side in the Irish Civil War, with the party claiming the legacy of Michael Collins (Irish leader), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Irish Local Elections
The 2009 Irish local elections were held in all the Local government in the Republic of Ireland, counties, cities and towns of the Republic of Ireland on Friday, 5 June 2009, on the same day as the 2009 European Parliament election in Ireland, European Parliament election and two by-elections (2009 Dublin South by-election, Dublin South and 2009 Dublin Central by-election, Dublin Central). Overview The election results were significant for a number of reasons: *Fine Gael gained 88 seats and became the largest party at local level for the first time ever. *Fianna Fáil lost 135 seats and became the second-largest party nationally, and the third-largest in Dublin. *The Labour Party (Ireland), Labour Party increased its seat total by 43 seats, and became the largest party on Dublin City Council. It also held the most seats on the four Dublin local authorities. *Sinn Féin support remained at almost the same level, gaining 2 seats. *The Green Party (Ireland), Green Party lost 14 seat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Local Electoral Area
A local electoral area (LEA; ga, Toghlimistéir Áitiúil) is an electoral area for elections to local authorities in Ireland. All elections use the single transferable vote. The Republic of Ireland is divided into 166 LEAs, with an average population of 28,700 and average area of . The boundaries of LEAs are defined by statutory instrument, usually based lower-level units called electoral divisions (EDs), with a total of 3,440 EDs in the state. As well as their use for electoral purposes, LEAs are local administrative units in Eurostat NUTS classification. They are used in local numbers of cases of COVID-19. Municipal districts A municipal district () is a division of a local authority which can exercise certain powers of the local authority. They came into being on 1 June 2014, ten days after the local elections, under the provisions of the Local Government Reform Act 2014. Of the 31 local authorities, 25 are subdivided into municipal districts, which comprise one or m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral System
An electoral system or voting system is a set of rules that determine how elections and referendums are conducted and how their results are determined. Electoral systems are used in politics to elect governments, while non-political elections may take place in business, non-profit organisations and informal organisations. These rules govern all aspects of the voting process: when elections occur, who is allowed to vote, who can stand as a candidate, how ballots are marked and cast, how the ballots are counted, how votes translate into the election outcome, limits on campaign spending, and other factors that can affect the result. Political electoral systems are defined by constitutions and electoral laws, are typically conducted by election commissions, and can use multiple types of elections for different offices. Some electoral systems elect a single winner to a unique position, such as prime minister, president or governor, while others elect multiple winners, such as me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proportional Representation
Proportional representation (PR) refers to a type of electoral system under which subgroups of an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body. The concept applies mainly to geographical (e.g. states, regions) and political divisions (Political party, political parties) of the electorate. The essence of such systems is that all votes cast - or almost all votes cast - contribute to the result and are actually used to help elect someone—not just a Plurality (voting), plurality, or a bare majority—and that the system produces mixed, balanced representation reflecting how votes are cast. "Proportional" electoral systems mean proportional to ''vote share'' and ''not'' proportional to population size. For example, the United States House of Representatives, US House of Representatives has 435 districts which are drawn so roughly equal or "proportional" numbers of people live within each district, yet members of the House are elected in first-past-the-post e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Single Transferable Vote
Single transferable vote (STV) is a multi-winner electoral system in which voters cast a single vote in the form of a ranked-choice ballot. Voters have the option to rank candidates, and their vote may be transferred according to alternate preferences if their preferred candidate is eliminated, so that their vote is used to elect someone they prefer over others in the running. STV aims to approach proportional representation based on votes cast in the district where it is used, so that each vote is worth about the same as another. Under STV, no one party or voting bloc can take all the seats in a district unless the number of seats in the district is very small or almost all the votes cast are cast for one party's candidates (which is seldom the case). This makes it different from other district voting systems. In majoritarian/plurality systems such as first-past-the-post (FPTP), instant-runoff voting (IRV; also known as the alternative vote), block voting, and ranked-v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle Mulherin
Michelle Mulherin (born 20 January 1972) is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as a Senator from 2016 to 2020, after being nominated by the Taoiseach. She served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Mayo constituency from 2011 to 2016. Career She was elected as a Fine Gael TD for the Mayo constituency at the 2011 general election. She was elected to Ballina Town Council in 1999 and has also as a Mayo County Councillor from 2004, until her election to Dáil Éireann in 2011. Mulherin also sat on the European Committee of the Regions from 2005 until her election to the Dáil. Mulherin unsuccessfully stood for election in the Mayo constituency at the 2007 general election. She lost her seat at the 2016 general election. Mulherin was nominated by the Taoiseach Enda Kenny to the 25th Seanad in May 2016. She was the Fine Gael Seanad spokesperson on Agriculture, Food and the Marine. She was an unsuccessful candidate for the Mayo constituency at the 2020 general electi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rose Conway-Walsh
Rose Conway-Walsh (née Conway) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Mayo constituency since the 2020 general election. She previously served as a Leader of Sinn Féin in the Seanad and a Senator for the Agricultural Panel from 2016 to 2020. Early life Conway-Walsh grew up in Ballycroy, County Mayo and is one of nine children. She attended primary school in Ballycroy before attending a convent in Belmullet. She moved to London when she was 19. On returning to Ireland, she obtained a Bachelor of Arts in public management and a Master's degree in Local Government from NUI Galway. Political career Conway-Walsh is the first Sinn Féin TD to represent County Mayo in almost 100 years; the last Sinn Féin TD to be elected in Mayo was John Madden in June 1927. She was a member of Mayo County Council from 2009 to 2016. She was an unsuccessful candidate for the Mayo constituency at the 2011 and 2016 general elections. She founded the Sinn Fé ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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