Dublin Fingal

Dublin Fingal
Former Dáil constituency
Constituencies in County Dublin (2020);Dublin Fingal is at the top, coloured green.
Show Dublin Fingal (2016–2024) Show all of Ireland Dublin Fingal is outlined in red
Major settlements	Balbriggan Donabate Lusk Malahide Portmarnock Rush Skerries Swords
Former constituency
Created	2016
Abolished	2024
Seats	5
Local government area	Fingal
Created from	Dublin North (in whole) Dublin North-East (part) Dublin West (part)
EP constituency	Dublin

Dublin Fingal was a parliamentary constituency which was represented in Dáil Éireann, the house of representatives of the Oireachtas (the legislature of Ireland), from 2016 to 2024. The constituency elected five deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs) on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).

History and boundaries

The constituency was established by the Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013.^[1] It incorporated all of the old Dublin North, Swords-Forrest and Kilsallaghan from Dublin West, and Balgriffin and Turnapin from Dublin North-East. The name Dublin Fingal for the constituency that became Dublin North had been proposed by John Boland in 1980.^[2]

The Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2017 defined the constituency as:^[3]

"In the county of Fingal the electoral divisions of:

Balbriggan Rural, Balbriggan Urban, Balgriffin, Ballyboghil, Balscadden, Clonmethan, Donabate, Garristown, Hollywood, Holmpatrick, Kilsallaghan, Kinsaley, Lusk, Malahide East, Malahide West, Portmarnock North, Portmarnock South, Rush, Skerries, Swords-Forrest, Swords-Glasmore, Swords-Lissenhall, Swords-Seatown, Swords Village;

and those parts of the electoral divisions of Airport, Dubber and Turnapin situated north of a line drawn along the Northern Cross Route (M50), passing in a clockwise direction around and excluding roundabout No. 3 at the junction of the Northern Cross Route (M50) with the M1 Motorway."

In August 2023, the Electoral Commission published its review of constituency boundaries in Ireland, which recommended that the constituency of Dublin Fingal be abolished, with the creation of two new three-seat constituencies: Dublin Fingal East and Dublin Fingal West.^[4] Each new constituency would elect 3 deputies. These changes commenced at the 2024 general election under the Electoral (Amendment) Act 2023.

TDs

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Dublin Fingal 2016–2024
Key to parties   FF = Fianna Fáil   FG = Fine Gael   GP = Green   I4C = Inds. 4 Change   Lab = Labour   SF = Sinn Féin
Dáil	Election	Deputy(Party)		Deputy(Party)		Deputy(Party)		Deputy(Party)		Deputy(Party)
32nd	2016[5]		Louise O'Reilly(SF)		Clare Daly(I4C)		Brendan Ryan(Lab)		Darragh O'Brien(FF)		Alan Farrell(FG)
	2019 by-election[6]				Joe O'Brien(GP)
33rd	2020[7]						Duncan Smith(Lab)
34th	2024	Constituency abolished. See Dublin Fingal East and Dublin Fingal 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.

Elections

^ *: Outgoing TD

2020 general election

2020 general election: Dublin Fingal^{[7][8][9][10][11]}

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
	Sinn Féin	Louise O'Reilly[*]	24.9	15,792
	Green	Joe O'Brien[*]	13.2	8,400	9,067	9,104	9,181	9,289	9,428	9,680	10,720
	Fianna Fáil	Darragh O'Brien[*]	15.9	10,111	10,306	10,323	10,354	10,365	10,503	10,530	10,652
	Fine Gael	Alan Farrell[*]	9.8	6,213	6,278	6,283	6,312	6,329	6,385	6,406	6,492	8,732	9,754	10,577
	Labour	Duncan Smith	7.1	4,513	4,898	4,936	4,988	5,052	5,138	5,222	5,691	6,126	7,135	8,258	8,340
	Inds. 4 Change	Dean Mulligan	4.0	2,529	3,700	3,762	3,882	3,985	4,202	4,979	5,862	5,972	6,447	8,088	8,152
	Independent	Tony Murphy	5.7	3,622	4,135	4,183	4,262	4,347	4,768	4,920	5,133	5,346	5,838
	Fianna Fáil	Lorraine Clifford-Lee	5.6	3,523	3,668	3,681	3,732	3,748	3,841	3,868	4,020	4,275
	Fine Gael	James Reilly	5.2	3,280	3,347	3,366	3,377	3,403	3,433	3,450	3,503
	Social Democrats	Paul Mulville	3.5	2,206	2,628	2,656	2,729	2,804	2,879	3,226
	Solidarity–PBP	Terry Kelleher[a]	1.1	674	1,391	1,424	1,513	1,800	1,883
	Independent	Gemma O'Doherty[b]	2.0	1,252	1,462	1,538	1,573	1,614
	Solidarity–PBP	John Uwhumiakpor[c]	0.8	487	845	875	895
	Independent	Sandra Sweetman	0.4	259	376
	United People	Alistair Smith	0.1	43	97
Electorate: 101,045   Valid: 63,440   Spoilt: 451 (0.7%)   Quota: 10,574   Turnout: 63,891 (63.2%)

1. Kelleher was a member of Solidarity.
2. O'Doherty contested this election as member of Anti Corruption Ireland. It is not registered as a political party, so candidates appeared on the ballot as non-party.
3. Uwhumiakpor 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 Clare Daly on her election to the European Parliament in May 2019.^[12][13]

2019 by-election: Dublin Fingal^[6]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Green	Joe O'Brien	22.9	5,744	5,837	5,965	6,091	6,784	7,984	9,183	12,315
	Fianna Fáil	Lorraine Clifford-Lee	18.5	4,631	4,672	4,766	4,929	5,252	5,648	6,547	7,754
	Labour	Duncan Smith	15.2	3,821	3,866	3,926	4,008	4,347	4,999	6,300
	Fine Gael	James Reilly	14.8	3,707	3,753	3,803	3,882	3,992	4,200
	Inds. 4 Change	Dean Mulligan	10.2	2,550	2,606	2,745	2,909	3,754
	Sinn Féin	Ann Graves	5.3	1,327	1,361	1,402	1,481
	Social Democrats	Tracey Carey	4.4	1,106	1,125	1,214	1,273
	Independent	Gemma O'Doherty	4.1	1,026	1,088	1,149
	Independent	Glenn Brady	2.7	670	726
	Independent	Peadar O'Kelly	1.4	350
	Independent	Charlie Keddy	0.4	112
	Independent	Cormac McKay	0.2	46
Electorate: 99,039   Valid: 25,090   Spoilt: 254 (1.0%)   Quota: 12,546   Turnout: 25,344 (25.6%)

2016 general election

2016 general election: Dublin Fingal^[14][15][5]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	Fianna Fáil	Darragh O'Brien	17.9	10,826
	Inds. 4 Change	Clare Daly[*]	15.7	9,480	9,552	9,827	10,566
	Fine Gael	Alan Farrell[*]	12.4	7,514	7,563	7,627	7,664	7,672	8,082	8,244	8,709	8,969	9,965
	Labour	Brendan Ryan[*]	10.0	6,009	6,054	6,125	6,193	6,210	6,358	6,800	7,794	8,424	9,406
	Sinn Féin	Louise O'Reilly	8.7	5,228	5,246	5,314	5,621	5,719	5,858	6,193	6,465	7,911	8,771
	Fine Gael	James Reilly[*]	7.7	4,666	4,699	4,735	4,767	4,769	4,955	5,259	5,549	5,756	6,215
	Fianna Fáil	Lorraine Clifford-Lee	5.6	3,359	3,788	3,871	3,937	3,953	4,339	4,705	5,099	5,595
	Inds. 4 Change	Barry Martin	4.0	2,412	2,424	2,694	3,126	3,404	3,649	4,298	5,077
	Green	Joe O'Brien	4.6	2,783	2,802	2,964	3,105	3,125	3,430	3,758
	Independent Alliance	Tony Murphy	4.1	2,503	2,520	2,679	2,863	2,896	3,104
	Renua	Gerry Molloy	3.5	2,091	2,139	2,219	2,326	2,355
	AAA–PBP	Terry Kelleher	3.4	2,067	2,076	2,210
	Independent	Roslyn Fuller	1.3	772	775
	Independent	Marcus de Brun	1.0	627	633
	Independent	Fergal O'Connell	0.1	51	52
Electorate: 93,486   Valid: 60,388   Spoilt: 462   Quota: 10,065   Turnout: 65.1%

See also

• 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

References

1. Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013, Schedule (No. 7 of 2013, Schedule). Enacted on 20 March 2013. Act of the Oireachtas. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 5 October 2021.
2. "Electoral (Amendment) Bill, 1980: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages". Dáil Debates – Vol. 322 No. 9. 24 June 1980. Archived from the original on 9 November 2021. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
3. Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2017, Schedule (No. 39 of 2017, Schedule). Enacted on 23 December 2017. Act of the Oireachtas. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 5 October 2021.
4. "Constituency Review Report 2023"(PDF). Electoral Commission. p. 104.
5. "General election 2016: Dublin Fingal". ElectionsIreland.org. Archived from the original on 20 September 2016. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
6. "By election 2019: Dublin Fingal". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
7. "General election 2020: Dublin Fingal". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
8. "General Election 2020 Results – Dublin Fingal". RTÉ News. Archived from the original on 13 February 2020. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
9. "Dublin Fingal: 2020 General Election". Irelandelection.com. Archived from the original on 24 May 2020. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
10. Wall, Martin. "Dublin Fingal results: SF wave results in high-profile Fine Gael casualty". Irish Times. Dublin. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
11. "Election 2020: Dublin Fingal". Irish Times. Dublin. 10 February 2020. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
12. "Writs moved for four Dáil by-elections". RTÉ News. 7 November 2019. Archived from the original on 14 November 2019. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
13. Friday's byelections: All you need to know about candidates, constituencies and issuesArchived 29 November 2019 at the Wayback Machine by Jennifer Bray, Irish Times, November 26, 2019.
14. "Dublin Fingal Results 2016". Irelandelection.com. Archived from the original on 20 January 2020. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
15. "Dublin Fingal Results 2016". RTÉ. Archived from the original on 15 March 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2020.

External links

• Oireachtas Constituency Dashboards
• Oireachtas Members Database