Constituency: Cork South-Central

Constituency

Summary

Electorate	Seats	Total Poll	Turnout	Valid Poll	Spoiled Votes	Quota
105076	5	63127	60%	62704	423	10451

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	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Micheál Martin (FF)	14526
Séamus McGrath (FF)	7794	9940	9950	9957	9972	9982	10016	10051	10064	10758
Donnchadh O'Laoghaire (SF)	6947	7041	7055	7068	7092	7116	7179	7245	7383	7405	7418	7468	7580	7853	10152	10647
Pádraig Rice (SD)	5368	5447	5455	5481	5512	5630	5665	5680	6194	6220	6238	6324	7103	7279	7527	9418	9533	10242
Jerry Buttimer (FG)	4407	4834	4840	4846	4854	4878	4909	4918	4927	5082	5181	5955	6286	6459	6532	7223	7250	10917
Shane O'Callaghan (FG)	3664	3959	3960	3962	3976	3980	3989	4009	4014	4082	4133	5004	5232	5479	5512	5943	5958
Mick Finn (Ind)	3582	3706	3734	3770	3816	3843	4083	4323	4369	4408	4433	4486	4585	5488	5640	6138	6177	6651
Laura Harmon (Lab)	3005	3111	3114	3128	3147	3200	3237	3243	3315	3378	3404	3555	4262	4405	4643
Michelle Cowhey Shahid (SF)	2714	2731	2745	2753	2774	2816	2838	2860	2960	2968	2969	2993	3060	3214
Anna Daly (Aon)	2273	2297	2303	2313	2379	2393	2434	2784	2815	2835	2846	2892	2951
Monica Oikeh (GP)	2156	2233	2240	2260	2265	2294	2307	2314	2381	2418	2447	2596
Úna McCarthy (FG)	2078	2213	2215	2217	2221	2227	2233	2247	2251	2313	2347
Shane Patrick Laird (PBPS)	876	882	894	914	926	1002	1018	1052
Ted Neville (NP)	858	864	894	904	959	962	978
Margaret Kenneally (FF)	726	1214	1215	1218	1221	1225	1232	1239	1241
Paudie Dineen (Ind)	543	569	580	598	619	633
Lorna Bogue (RG)	425	433	436	451	460
Veronica Houlihan (II)	348	353	381	392
Graham de Barra (Ind)	217	223	230
Valerie Ward (II)	104	105
John O'Leary (Ind)	58	61
Tony Field (Ind)	35	37

On the Ballot

Lorna Bogue

An Rabharta Glas-Green Left

A former Green Party councillor for Cork City Council's South East Ward, she lost her seat in last June's Local Government elections. She holds a Masters degree in economic analysis and has worked in call centres for multinational firms and financial services operations. A trade union activist, she was the press officer for the Together For Yes campaign in Cork. She resigned from the Green Party in 2020 over its handling of the Mother and Baby Homes scandal.

Elected to the Dáil in 2011, the Bishopstown politician lost his seat at the 2016 General Election as Cork South Central dropped to a four seat constituency. A high profile member of the Seanad and with savvy media skills, he is a lifelong GAA supporter and formerly worked as a development officer for Cork Co Board. A secondary school teacher by profession he also penned an electoral memoir about his unsuccessful 2007 General Election bid.

Michelle Cowhey Shahid

Sinn Féin

A regional secretary for SF, she contested the Local Government election in June in Cork City Council's South East ward as a first time candidate. The mother-of-three is a community activist and is also a passionate sports fan, being deeply involved in Douglas Camogie Club.

A mother of five and a grandmother, she is deeply committed to the voluntary and community development sector. She unsuccessfully contested a seat for Cork City Council last June for their South Central ward. Originally from Cork's northside, she has been based in Blackrock for the past 20 years. She has also worked as a radio presenter. Her key campaign issues are affordable housing, the spiralling cost of living as well as hospital waiting lists and healthcare accessibility.

An independent challenger on a peace platform, he is advocating for a reformed drug policy, strict adherence to human rights protocols in Irish society and investment in social infrastructure to protect the poor and vulnerable in communities. He is a director of Help Not Harm, a health reform organisation. He contested the European Parliament elections last June for Ireland South, garnering 4,575 votes.

A veteran member of Cork City Council who was comfortably re-elected in last June's Local Government election, Councillor Dineen said his Dáil challenge was prompted by widespread dissatisfaction with how Ireland was being run. Unsuccessful in his challenges for a Cork City Council seat in 2004 and 2009, he has held a seat in Cork City Council's South Central Ward since 2014. Last June he garnered 879 first preference votes.

An independent challenger in Cork South Central, he also contested last June's Local Government Election in Cork City Council's South East Ward, garnering 86 votes. His election literature last summer included pledges to abolish the TV license, a requirement for RTE to apologise to voters for recent scandals and a promise of a pay hike and a free Lanzarote holiday for every Garda, firefighter and paramedic.

A former Lord Mayor of Cork - the first non-party member to hold the post - he is standing for a Dáil seat as an independent having unsuccessfully contested both the 2011 and 2016 General Elections. He is a lifelong member of St Finbarr's GAA club. A youth officer with the Education Training Board in Cork, he formerly worked as a journalist, an editor, sports coach and a parliamentary secretary. He said that justice issues including extra Gardaí and targeting the crime rate will be central to his campaign.

Another UCC graduate, she served as a President of the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) before becoming involved in the Labour Party. She twice contested Seanad elections without success but was elected to Cork City Council last June with a strong 1,240 first preference vote. Originally from Ballyvourney in west Cork, she is a fluent Irish speaker and played a key role in both Labour's equality and Eighth Amendment campaigns, being appointed head of the party's key mobilisation team. She has highlighted cost of living as a key election issue - saying that three of her four younger sisters have had to emigrate because of housing and living costs.

Veronica Houlihan

Independent Ireland

A nurse manager who boasts over three decades of experience in the healthcare field, she has cited healthcare concerns as central to her election campaign. A lifelong community activist, she holds a Masters degree in epidemiology. She has also cited rural and urban development as key issues in the campaign.

Margaret Kenneally

Fianna Fáil

A Bishopstown-based businesswoman, this is her first general election challenge. A graduate of University College Cork's Government and Public Policy School, she once served as an intern in the constituency office of former Taoiseach Micheál Martin. She is now the financial controller of her family's successful tourism business and boasts extensive contacts within Cork's tourism and hospitality sector.

Shane Patrick Laird

People Before Profit-Solidarity

A lifelong political activist, the 2024 General Election will be the first national ballot he has contested. The 30 year old sought a seat in the South Central Ward for Cork City Council in last June's Local Government election and garnered 226 first preference votes. His campaign issues include housing, transport problems across Cork South Central and healthcare waiting lists.

A TD since 1989, he has served as Taoiseach, Tánaiste and in five major Cabinet portfolios. Party leader since 2011, he has retained his Cork South Central seat through eight previous elections. Mr Martin also previously served as Lord Mayor of Cork. A teacher, he is a published author and an avid GAA fan.

A relative newcomer to the Cork political scene, she was co-opted onto Cork Co Council in October 2023 for the Carrigaline area. A teacher, she works at St Peter's Community School in Passage West. Based in Carrigaline, she has strong family connections to Rochestown - giving her a good profile in two of the constituency's most important residential areas.

A commerce graduate from University College Cork (UCC), he was a vital part of the electoral machine of his brother, Michael. Elected to Cork Co Council in 2007, he emerged as the leader of the FF group on the council and enjoyed a huge vote in last June's Local Government Election. He shares the same Carrigaline base as his brother and will benefit from the renowned McGrath electoral machine in the greater Cork harbour area.

A veteran political activist, he is a graduate of Cork RTC (now MTU) and is a retired industrial worker. He previously contested the 2002, 2007 and 2011 General Elections, garnering 523 first preference votes in the latter. He was the leading independent candidate in CSC in 2007. Immigration has been cited as one of his key campaign issues. The NP will contest CSC as part of an umbrella National Alliance grouping with Ireland First who are fielding Derek Blighe in CNC.

Elected to Cork City Council in 2019, he developed a strong personal base in the greater Douglas area. This led to him enjoying one of Fine Gael's best local election results last June - and provided the perfect platform for a Dáil challenge. A renowned sports fan, he served as Deputy Lord Mayor of Cork in 2020/21.

Donnchadh O'Laoghaire

Sinn Féin

First elected to the Dáil in 2016, his huge first preference vote at the 2020 General Election - over 50pc greater than that of Michael McGrath and Simon Coveney - was one of the most remarkable achievements for Sinn Féin as the 33rd Dáil was elected. A keen sports fan and a fluent Irish speaker, he previously worked as a parliamentary assistant for David Cullinane and former Cork East TD Sandra McLellan. He is based in Togher and studied law at UCC.

John O’Leary is from Kerry Pike in Cork and lists his occupation as a businessman. He is also known as Sean O’Leary and previously ran in several constituencies in the 2020 General Election and is now listed in several constituencies this time around as well, including Cork North West. He garnered headlines last time for canvassing from an hospital trolley and listed healthcare and homelessness among his key concerns.

Born in Nigeria, Dr Oikeh is a doctor who works as a GP in the Douglas and Carrigaline areas. She moved to Ireland over 20 years ago and has been based in Cork for the past ten years. She studied medicine at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and got involved in the Green Party as she is passionate about tackling climate change, working for social justice and better health services. She is a proud dog owner.

Based in Ballyphehane, Rice has been a policy research manager and a human rights campaigner. Having studied at UCC, he went on to get his Masters degree from Oxford University. He successfully contested a seat for Cork City Council in the South Central Ward and his election was one of a number of major breakthroughs in Cork achieved by the party.

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Constituency: Cork South-Central

Summary

Vote Distribution

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On the Ballot

Lorna Bogue

Jerry Buttimer

Michelle Cowhey Shahid

Anna Daly

Graham de Barra

Paudie Dineen

Tony Field

Mick Finn

Laura Harmon

Veronica Houlihan

Margaret Kenneally

Shane Patrick Laird

Micheál Martin

Úna McCarthy

Séamus McGrath

Ted Neville

Shane O'Callaghan

Donnchadh O'Laoghaire

John O'Leary

Monica Oikeh

Pádraig Rice

Valerie Ward