1998 Dublin North by-election

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11 March 1998

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Turnout

33,046 (50.2%)

	Ryan	Kennedy	Jenkinson
Nominee	Seán Ryan	Michael Kennedy	Philip Jenkinson
Party	Labour	Fianna Fáil	Fine Gael
First preferences	11,012	10,334	3,185
Percentage	33.3%	31.3%	9.6%
Final count	16,896	13,633	–

		Martin
Nominee	Clare Daly	Paul Martin	Paul Donnelly
Party	Socialist Party	Green	Sinn Féin
First preferences	2,692	1,092	1,088
Percentage	8.2%	3.3%	3.3%
Final count	–	–	–

	Ruigrok	Goulding	Keaveney
Nominee	Rena Condrot Ruigrok	Ciaran Goulding	Angela Keaveney
Party	Independent	Independent	Christian Solidarity
First preferences	780	682	565
Percentage	2.4%	2.1%	1.7%
Final count	–	–	–

TD before election

Ray Burke
Fianna Fáil

Elected TD

Seán Ryan
Labour

A by-election was held in the Dáil Éireann Dublin North constituency in Ireland on 11 March 1998. It followed the resignation of Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála (TD) Ray Burke on 7 October 1997.

The election was won by Seán Ryan of the Labour Party.

The election was notable in that it had the highest number of candidates to ever contest a Dáil by-election. 19 candidates contested, including 9 Independents. The election took 14 counts to declare a winner with 8 candidates getting less than 1% of the first preference vote.

On the same day, a by-election took place in Limerick East, both were the final occasions which Democratic Left contested by-elections.

Michael Kennedy would go on to serve as a TD for the constituency in the future and Clare Daly would go on to serve as a TD and MEP

Result

1998 Dublin North by-election
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
	Labour	Seán Ryan	33.3	11,012	11,012	11,017	11,029	11,057	11,216	11,397	11,475	11,555	11,717	12,049	12,832	14,320	16,896
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Kennedy	31.3	10,334	10,335	10,336	10,352	10,365	10,421	10,514	10,744	10,936	11,079	11,236	11,983	12,698	13,633
	Fine Gael	Philip Jenkinson	9.6	3,185	3,186	3,187	3,190	3,215	3,258	3,296	3,385	3,449	3,557	3,715	3,982	4,395
	Socialist Party	Clare Daly	8.2	2,692	2,692	2,694	2,702	2,705	2,746	2,777	2,809	2,848	2,948	3,041	3,553
	Green	Paul Martin	3.3	1,092	1,092	1,093	1,103	1,108	1,151	1,185	1,236	1,289	1,414	1,511
	Sinn Féin	Paul Donnelly	3.3	1,088	1,088	1,088	1,092	1,093	1,108	1,115	1,119	1,150	1,188	1,209
	Independent	Rena Condrot Ruigrok	2.4	780	781	781	786	790	798	809	821	850	929
	Independent	Ciaran Goulding	2.1	682	682	683	690	698	714	740	763	817
	Christian Solidarity	Angela Keaveney	1.7	565	565	566	573	576	582	598	616
	Progressive Democrats	Finian Fallon	1.6	533	533	533	540	550	557	565
	Independent	Gertie Shields	1.4	452	458	460	464	467	476
	Democratic Left	Joe Holohan	0.7	225	225	225	229	232
	Independent	Elaine Rooney	0.5	176	177	178	179	183
	Independent	John McDonald	0.3	107	107	107	112
	Independent	Alan Nagle	0.1	44	44	45
	Independent	Peter Farrelly	0.1	34	34	34
	Independent	Benny Cooney	0.1	18	18	18
	Natural Law	Noel O'Neill	0.1	15	16
	Independent	Jim Tallon	0.1	12
Electorate: 65,891 Valid: 33,046 Quota: 16,524 Turnout: 50.2%

References

Government of Ireland, https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/electoralProcess/electionResults/dail/2002/2002-07-21_dail-general-election-may-2002-results-and-transfer-of-votes_en.pdf

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