| 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 | |
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).
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.
| Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) for North-West 2004–2014 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Key to parties
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| 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.
| 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%) | |||||||||
| 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%) | ||||||||
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