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Template:Dáil Éireann constituency infobox Sligo-North Leitrim is a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency was created for the 2007 general election. It elects three deputies (Teachtaí Dála, known in English as TDs) using the Single Transferable Vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).
The constituency was created by the Electoral (Amendment) Act 2005, which gave effect to the 2004 Constituency Commission Report on Dáil Constituencies. Consisting of all of County Sligo and the northern part of County Leitrim, it largely replaced the previous constituency of Sligo-Leitrim, although it ceded the southern portions of Leitrim to the new constituency of Roscommon-South Leitrim.
TDs
| Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Sligo-North Leitrim 2007– | |||||||
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| Dáil | Election | Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) | |||
| 30th | 2007 | Eamon Scanlon (FF) |
John Perry (FG) |
Jimmy Devins (FF) | |||
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
2007 general election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | % | Seat | Count | |
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| Fianna Fáil | Eamon Scanlon | 9.258 | 23.18% | 1 | 5 | |
| Fine Gael | John Perry | 7,910 | 19.81% | 2 | 5 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Jimmy Devins | 7,102 | 17.78% | 3 | 5 | |
| Fine Gael | Michael Comiskey | 4,936 | 12.36% | |||
| Sinn Féin | Seán MacManus | 4,684 | 11.73% | |||
| Fine Gael | Imelda Henry | 2,837 | 7.10% | |||
| Labour | Jim McGarry | 1,555 | 3.89% | |||
| Green | Brian Scanlan | 1,209 | 3.03% | |||
| Independent | Andrew McSharry | 353 | 0.88% | |||
| Independent | John Francis Higgins | 89 | 0.22% | |||
References
- ^ "General election 2002: Sligo-North Leitrim". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 2009-02-18.
See also
| Parliamentary constituencies in County Sligo and Borough | |||||||
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| Parliament of Ireland to 1800 |
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| Westminster 1801–1922 and First Dáil 1918 |
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| Dáil Éireann 1918–present |
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| European Parliament 1979–present |
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| Parliamentary constituencies in County Leitrim | |||||||
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| Westminster 1801–1922 and First Dáil 1918 |
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| Dáil Éireann 1918–present |
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