The current Minister for Justice and Equality, Frances Fitzgerald is contesting the election as a Fine Gael Candidate for Dublin Mid-West. During this term she also served as the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs before being given the Justice portfolio following the resignation of Alan Shatter. Ms Fitzgerald served as a TD between 1992 to 2002 before she lost her seat. She subsequently was a Senator from 2007 to 2011. She unsuccessfully contested the 2007 General Election. Currently she is Chairperson of the Fine Gael National Election Strategy Committee and has previously served as a member of the party’s Executive Council.
| Electorate | Seats | Total Poll | Turnout | Valid Poll | Spoiled Votes | Quota |
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| 69,388 | 4 | 43,550 | 62.76% | 43,104 | 446 | 8,621 |
Vote Distribution
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Count Results
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6971 | 7054 | 7109 | 7114 | 7145 | 7180 | 7218 | 7274 | 7383 | 7685 | 8287 | 9497 |
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4629 | 5257 | 5270 | 5321 | 5331 | 5397 | 5474 | 5791 | 6331 | 6542 | 7498 | 7911 |
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2633 | 2730 | 2747 | 2766 | 2773 | 2804 | 2867 | 3048 | 3235 | 3679 | 4460 | 5320 |
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On the Ballot
Derek Keating was elected to Dáil Éireann in the last General Election. He is currently serving on the Oireachtas Education Committee and has a particular interest in adult education. He served on the South Dublin County Council from 1999 until 2011. Mr Keating is involved in charity work in Lucan and Dublin, and is particularly dedicated to suicide prevention and representing people with special needs . He and his wife Anne have two grown up children. Derek is a sports fan, enjoying soccer, rugby and GAA, and he himself competed in athletics.
Joanna Tuffy is looking to retain her seat in the upcoming General Election. The Labour TD successfully contested the 2007 General Election and subsequently retained her seat in 2011. She previously served as a Senator from 2002 through to 2007 as well as this she sat on the South Dublin County Council from 1999 until 2003. MS Tuffy unsuccessfully contested the 2002 General Election as a Labour candidate. She publicly disagreed with the official Labour party stance regarding the abolition of the Seanad in 2013.
Anne-Marie McNally (35) is running as a first time candidate in the 2016 general election. She is the head of communications for the Social Democrats, and has worked with Kildare TD Catherine Murphy in the Dáil. A former community journalist and development worker, Ms McNally stresses that housing should be the number issue for the next Government.
Local activist Gino Kenny (42) has been a People Before Profit Alliance councillor on South Dublin County Council since 2009. He has been an active campaigner against the property tax and the water charges, and, if elected, says that solving Dublin Mid-West’s lack of social housing will be his number one priority. Cllr Kenny received just under 6 pc of first preference votes cast in the 2011 general election.
Fianna Fáil’s John Curran (55) held the position of Government Chief Whip until his party’s political collapse after the 2011 general election. Following Fianna Fáil’s worst election defeat, Mr Curran lost his seat in 2011. First elected several years prior to this, he was appointed a Minister of State for Drug Strategy and Community Affairs by then Taoiseach Brian Cowen in 2008. A former south Dublin county councillor, the 55-year-old is campaigning for better access to health services, including mental health, speech and occupational therapists.
Co-opted onto South Dublin County Council in 2013, Eoin O’Broin (44) is standing for Sinn Féin in Dublin Mid-West. He was elected onto Belfast City Council in 2001 but stepped down in 2004. He has failed twice to win a Dáil seat over the last nine years, contesting Dun Laoghaire in 2007 and running in Dublin Mid West in 2011. He has been involved in an unsuccessful Seanad bid. A graduate of cultural studies, Cllr O’Broin wants to increase funding to local councils so they can build more social housing.
Community activist and shop worker Lorraine Hennessy narrowly missed on out on a seat with South Dublin County council when she contested the 2014 local elections. A lone parent with a teenage son, she is running as a candidate in Dublin Mid-West for the Workers Party on a platform that has social housing at its core. Ms Hennessy says she is keenly aware of the many challenges facing people due to cut backs in services.
Independent Francis Timmons (44) was first elected to South Dublin County Council in 2014. A campaigner on social justice issues, he is calling for a repeal of the austerity measures introduce since 2011, notably water charges and property tax. Involved with a number of charities, Cllr Timmons is also a peace commissioner and a teacher.
Former Green Party member Paul Gogarty (47) was a TD for Dublin Mid–West from 2002 to 2011. After the loss of his seat, he left the party and briefly withdrew from politics. Following a successfully bid to secure a seat on South Dublin County Council in 2014, he later announced that he would contest the 2016 general election in Dublin Mid–West as part of the Independent Alliance. Mr Gogarty is an advocate for political reform, and has been critical of the party whip system in the past.
Clare Leonard
Independent
Patrick Akpoveta is a Youth Worker who lives in Lucan. He ran unsuccessfully in the 2014 local elections. Mr Akpoveta has won numerous awards for work in youth development, and is a prominent worker with Adamstown FC.
Standing from Direct Democracy Ireland, this is Christopher Healy's first time running for election. The Aer Lingus aircraft worker wants to see more power devolved to local government and supports his party’s system of direct democracy, wherein political decisions are put to constituents first before any vote.
Haroon Khan is a doctor running as an independent candidate. He is from Lucan. He is standing as an election candidate for the first time.
Tom Kivlehan served on the Dun Laoghaire - Rathdown council from 2004 for five years, he lost his seat in 2009 and failed to reclaim in subsequently in 2014. A self-employed businessman, he id running on a platform of investment for local communities.