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There were 685 candidates in the 2024 general election. 248 of the candidates were women, making a record 36% of the total. There were 171 independent candidates. The five-seat Louth had the most candidates at 25, while the three-seat Wicklow–Wexford had the fewest at 10. Twenty registered political parties fielded candidates. Five parties ...
Independent Ireland is a right-wing [10] political party in Ireland. It was formed on 8 November 2023 by former independent TDs Michael Collins and Richard O'Donoghue. [11] [12] Their elected representation was subsequently boosted by the joining of TD Michael Fitzmaurice, formerly an independent, and by the success of Ciaran Mullooly in winning a seat for the party in the European Parliament ...
Barry Heneghan (born 1997/1998), also known as Barra Ó hÉanacháin, [2] is an Irish independent who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Bay North constituency since the 2024 general election. [3] [4]
The number of TDs and constituencies will both increase for the 2024 ... Aontú and the newly-formed Independent Ireland. ... Polling also suggests more independent candidates will be elected than ...
The two-seat shortage means that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael will need to strike a deal with a smaller party or independent candidates. This could be the Labour Party or the Social Democrats ...
In April 2024, Boylan announced that he would stand for the Independent Ireland party in the Dublin constituency in the 2024 European Parliament elections. [5] That same month Boylan argued that criticism levelled at his party leader, Michael Collins TD, was unfair as Collins had apologised several times for the fact that in 2001 he had written a supportive character statement for a man who ...
These parties in turn saw an increase in support, with the Irish Freedom Party and National Party seeing their first ever elected officials, [22] [24] though the number of far-right candidates elected remained small. [24] Independent candidates and the new right-wing Independent Ireland party notably performed well. [25]
An election to all 63 seats on Dublin City Council was held on 7 June 2024 as part of the 2024 Irish local elections. [1] Dublin is divided into 11 local electoral areas (LEAs) to elect councillors for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).