Westmeath was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas from 1992 to 2007. The constituency was served by 3 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs). The method of election was proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).
| Westmeath | |
|---|---|
| Former Dáil constituency | |
| Former constituency | |
| Created | 1992 |
| Abolished | 2007 |
| Seats | 3 |
| Local government area | County Westmeath |
| Created from | Longford–Westmeath |
| Replaced by | Longford–Westmeath |
History
The constituency was created in 1992 under the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1990 and was first used for the 1992 general election.[1] It was abolished under the Electoral (Amendment) Act 2005, when it was replaced by the new constituency of Longford–Westmeath.
Boundaries
The constituency spanned the entire area of County Westmeath taking in Mullingar, Athlone and Moate.[1]
TDs
| Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Westmeath 1992–2007 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Key to parties
| |||||||
| Dáil | Election | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | |||
| 27th | 1992[2] | Willie Penrose (Lab) | Mary O'Rourke (FF) | Paul McGrath (FG) | |||
| 28th | 1997[3] | ||||||
| 29th | 2002[4] | Donie Cassidy (FF) | |||||
| 30th | 2007 | Constituency abolished. See Longford–Westmeath | |||||
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
2002 general election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Labour | Willie Penrose | 26.1 | 8,967 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Donie Cassidy | 22.9 | 7,892 | 7,982 | 8,558 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Mary O'Rourke | 18.7 | 6,444 | 6,491 | 8,035 | |
| Fine Gael | Paul McGrath | 16.2 | 5,570 | 5,715 | 8,485 | |
| Fine Gael | Nicky McFadden | 11.0 | 3,793 | 3,824 | ||
| Sinn Féin | Niamh Hogg | 3.4 | 1,185 | 1,216 | ||
| Independent | Veronica Lynam | 1.3 | 444 | 460 | ||
| Christian Solidarity | Patrick Walsh | 0.4 | 126 | 127 | ||
| Electorate: 56,054 Valid: 34,421 Spoilt: 557 (1.6%) Quota: 8,606 Turnout: 34,978 (62.4%) | ||||||
1997 general election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| Labour | Willie Penrose | 24.5 | 8,037 | 8,271 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Mary O'Rourke | 22.2 | 7,262 | 7,454 | 8,233 | ||
| Fine Gael | Paul McGrath | 15.9 | 5,218 | 5,388 | 5,689 | 8,449 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Henry Abbott | 14.4 | 4,706 | 4,926 | 6,830 | 7,082 | |
| Fine Gael | Joe Whelan | 10.0 | 3,266 | 3,361 | 3,408 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Camillus Glynn | 9.2 | 3,005 | 3,198 | |||
| National Party | Danny Murray | 3.4 | 1,118 | ||||
| Independent | Benny Cooney | 0.5 | 175 | ||||
| Electorate: 49,007 Valid: 32,787 Spoilt: 297 (0.9%) Quota: 8,197 Turnout: 33,084 (67.5%) | |||||||
1992 general election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Mary O'Rourke | 24.1 | 7,396 | 7,410 | 7,421 | 7,432 | 7,477 | 7,655 | 7,918 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Henry Abbott | 21.5 | 6,598 | 6,603 | 6,627 | 6,684 | 6,750 | 6,861 | 6,920 | 7,080 | 7,184 | |
| Labour | Willie Penrose | 20.1 | 6,182 | 6,193 | 6,255 | 6,309 | 6,394 | 6,523 | 6,701 | 7,277 | 7,321 | |
| Fine Gael | Paul McGrath | 17.4 | 5,347 | 5,349 | 5,407 | 5,474 | 5,487 | 5,558 | 5,633 | 7,631 | 7,648 | |
| Fine Gael | Brendan McFadden | 9.3 | 2,849 | 2,864 | 2,872 | 2,886 | 2,891 | 2,954 | 3,149 | |||
| Independent | Stephen Price | 2.4 | 747 | 751 | 755 | 767 | 795 | |||||
| Independent | Mary Humphreys | 2.4 | 735 | 748 | 765 | 793 | 823 | 957 | ||||
| Sinn Féin | Peter Rogers | 1.1 | 323 | 325 | 326 | 332 | ||||||
| Independent | John Dunne | 0.8 | 242 | 253 | 265 | |||||||
| Independent | Declan Geraghty | 0.6 | 198 | 202 | ||||||||
| Independent | Benny Cooney | 0.3 | 86 | |||||||||
| Electorate: 46,267 Valid: 30,703 Spoilt: 446 (1.4%) Quota: 7,676 Turnout: 31,149 (67.3%) | ||||||||||||