East (European Parliament constituency)

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East European Parliament constituency

Location amongst the 2007 constituencies

East shown within Ireland
Created	2004
MEP(s)	3
Member State	Ireland
Source(s)	[1]

East is a constituency of the European Parliament in Ireland. It has a population of 0.8 million and elects three MEPs using the single transferable vote system. The constituency was created in 2004 and is a successor to the old Leinster constituency. It comprises the Leinster counties excluding the counties of Dublin, Longford and Westmeath.

[edit] 2009 Election result

2009 European Election: East^[1]^[2]
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
	Fine Gael	*Mairead McGuinness	25.7	110,366
	Labour Party	Nessa Childers	18.3	78,338	78,914	80,145	84,198	86,654	89,355	102,220
	Fianna Fáil	*Liam Aylward	17.4	74,666	74,866	75,124	76,295	77,044	99,236	103,605
	Fine Gael	John Paul Phelan	14.4	61,851	63,590	64,169	67,972	69,608	70,846	76,960
	Fianna Fáil	Thomas Byrne	7.2	31,112	31,264	31,480	32,276	33,383
	Sinn Féin	Kathleen Funchion	6.2	26,567	26,647	27,132	29,305	43,085	44,422
	Sinn Féin	Tomás Sharkey	4.9	20,932	21,034	21,461	23,954
	Libertas	Raymond O'Malley	4.3	18,557	18,728	19,396
	Independent	Paddy Garvey	0.7	2,934	2,945
	Independent	Jim Tallon	0.6	2,412	2,425
	Independent	Micheál E. Grealy	0.4	1,514	1,523
Electorate: 778,502 Valid: 429,249 Spoilt: 13,042 (2.9%) Quota: 107,313 Turnout: 442,291 (56.8%)

For the 2009 election the counties of Longford and Westmeath were transferred from the East constituency to the North–West constituency.

2004–2009 East constituency boundaries

2004 European Election: East^[3]
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
	Fine Gael	Mairead McGuinness	25.2	114,249
	Fianna Fáil	Liam Aylward	15.1	68,206	68,271	68,756	70,735	73,217	78,126	110,758
	Fine Gael	*Avril Doyle	15.3	69,511	70,056	71,159	74,429	80,523	86,220	91,046
	Labour Party	Peter Cassells	13.1	59,158	59,264	60,231	63,119	70,509	79,901	83,981
	Fianna Fáil	Séamus Kirk	10.0	45,454	45,514	46,173	47,869	49,629	53,933
	Sinn Féin	John Dwyer	8.7	39,356	39,386	40,258	43,021	46,547
	Green Party	Mary White	5.6	25,576	25,644	27,093	30,437
	Independent	Justin Barrett	2.4	10,997	11,019	12,023
	Independent	Clifford T. Reid	2.4	10,692	10,718	12,032
	Fathers Rights	Liam Ó Gógáin	0.8	3,407	3,418
	Independent	Seanán Ó Coistín	0.7	3,130	3,141
	Independent	Eoin Dubsky	0.4	1,955	1,960
	Independent	Joe Neal	0.3	1,487	1,492
Electorate: 806,598 Valid: 453,178 Spoilt: 18,717 (3.9%) Quota: 113,295 Turnout: 471,895 (58.5%)

*Denotes outgoing MEP