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	==History and boundaries==		==History and boundaries==
	The constituency was created by combining the former constituencies of ] and ], and used for the first time at the ]. It spans the entire area of ].<ref name="ea-2009">{{cite web \|title=Electoral (Amendment) Act 2009: Schedule \|url=http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/2009/en/act/pub/0004/sched.html \|work=Irish Statute Book database \|accessdate=29 September 2010}}</ref> This area includes ], ] and ]. Mayo is the largest Dáil constituency in ] by area.		The constituency was created by combining the former constituencies of ] and ], and used for the first time at the ]. It spans the entire area of ].<ref name="ea-2009">{{cite web\|title=Electoral (Amendment) Act 2009: Schedule\|url=http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/2009/en/act/pub/0004/sched.html\|work=Irish Statute Book database\|accessdate=29 September 2010}}</ref> This area includes ], ] and ]. Mayo is the largest Dáil constituency in ] by area.

	At the ], this was the constituency of ] leader ], who subsequently became ]. Fine Gael won four out of five seats in Mayo at that election. This was the first time in the modern era that any party won four seats in a Dáil Éireann constituency; the last such time was in the era of six- and seven-seat constituencies. It was the first time that any party won four seats in any five-seat Dáíl Éireann constituency. At the 2002 general election Fine Gael suffered its worst electoral performance ever, losing 23 seats nationally, a figure larger than expected and with its overall vote down 5%. Kenny himself came close to losing his seat and even went so far as to prepare a concession speech. In the end he won the third seat in the five-seat constituency.		At the ], this was the constituency of ] leader ], who subsequently became ]. Fine Gael won four out of five seats in Mayo at that election. This was the first time in the modern era that any party won four seats in a Dáil Éireann constituency; the last such time was in the era of six- and seven-seat constituencies. It was the first time that any party won four seats in any five-seat Dáíl Éireann constituency. At the 2002 general election Fine Gael suffered its worst electoral performance ever, losing 23 seats nationally, a figure larger than expected and with its overall vote down 5%. Kenny himself came close to losing his seat and even went so far as to prepare a concession speech. In the end he won the third seat in the five-seat constituency.
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	\|refs = <ref name="FlynnFF">Beverley Flynn was elected in 2007 as an independent candidate, was readmitted to the Fianna Fáil party in 2008. {{cite news \|url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0403/flynnb.html \|title=Beverly Flynn readmitted to FF \|work=] \|date=3 April 2008 \|accessdate=17 February 2009}}</ref>		\|refs = <ref name="FlynnFF">Beverley Flynn was elected in 2007 as an independent candidate, was readmitted to the Fianna Fáil party in 2008. {{cite news\|url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0403/flynnb.html\|title=Beverly Flynn readmitted to FF\|work=]\|date=3 April 2008\|accessdate=17 February 2009}}</ref>
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Revision as of 19:19, 22 February 2016

Mayo
Dáil Éireann Parliamentary constituency
Location of Mayo within Ireland
Current constituency
Created	1997
Seats	5 (1997–2016) 4 (2016–)
County council	County Mayo
EP constituency	Midlands–North-West

Mayo is a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency elects 4 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs). The method of election is the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).

History and boundaries

The constituency was created by combining the former constituencies of Mayo East and Mayo West, and used for the first time at the 1997 general election. It spans the entire area of County Mayo. This area includes Castlebar, Westport and Ballina. Mayo is the largest Dáil constituency in Ireland by area.

At the 2011 general election, this was the constituency of Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny, who subsequently became Taoiseach. Fine Gael won four out of five seats in Mayo at that election. This was the first time in the modern era that any party won four seats in a Dáil Éireann constituency; the last such time was in the era of six- and seven-seat constituencies. It was the first time that any party won four seats in any five-seat Dáíl Éireann constituency. At the 2002 general election Fine Gael suffered its worst electoral performance ever, losing 23 seats nationally, a figure larger than expected and with its overall vote down 5%. Kenny himself came close to losing his seat and even went so far as to prepare a concession speech. In the end he won the third seat in the five-seat constituency.

At the 2016 general election, part of southern County Mayo was moved to Galway West.

The Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013 defines the constituency as:

"The county of Mayo, except the part thereof which is comprised in the constituency of Galway West."

TDs

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Mayo 1997–
Key to parties FF = Fianna Fáil FG = Fine Gael Ind = Independent
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
28th	1997		Michael Ring (FG)		Jim Higgins (FG)		Enda Kenny (FG)		Beverley Flynn (FF)		Tom Moffatt (FF)
29th	2002				Jerry Cowley (Ind)				Beverley Flynn (FF)		John Carty (FF)
30th	2007				John O'Mahony (FG)				Beverley Flynn (Ind)		Dara Calleary (FF)
31st	2011				John O'Mahony (FG)				Michelle Mulherin (FG)		Dara Calleary (FF)
32nd	2016

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

2016 general election

2016 general election: Mayo
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1
	Fianna Fáil	Dara Calleary
	Fianna Fáil	Lisa Chambers
	Sinn Féin	Rose Conway Walsh
	Independent	Jerry Cowley
	Renua	Michael Farrington
	Independent	Seán Forkin
	Independent	Peter Jordan
	Fine Gael	Enda Kenny
	Independent	Stephen Manning
	AAA–PBP	Tom Moran
	Fine Gael	Michelle Mulherin
	Independent	Gerry O'Boyle
	Independent	George O'Malley
	Fine Gael	Michael Ring
	Green	Margaret Sheehan
	Independent	Mohammad Kamal Uddin
Quota:

2011 general election

2011 general election: Mayo
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Fine Gael	Enda Kenny	23.6	17,472
	Fine Gael	Michael Ring	17.8	13,180
	Fine Gael	Michelle Mulherin	11.9	8,851	10,814	11,110	11,434	11,577	11,672	12,162	13,303
	Fianna Fáil	Dara Calleary	11.6	8,577	8,745	8,775	8,969	9,063	11,602	12,222	12,997
	Fine Gael	John O'Mahony	11.7	8,667	10,290	10,511	10,688	10,864	11,004	11,340	12,111
	Independent	Michael Kilcoyne	5.4	3,996	4,641	4,715	4,947	5,128	5,462	6,137	7,379
	Labour	Jerry Cowley	4.9	3,644	3,955	4,037	4,294	4,529	4,714	5,899
	Sinn Féin	Rose Conway-Walsh	3.6	2,660	2,752	2,813	2,939	4,367	4,527
	Fianna Fáil	Lisa Chambers	4.5	3,343	3,464	3,491	3,552	3,619
	Sinn Féin	Thérèse Ruane	2.9	2,142	2,260	2,277	2,438
	New Vision	Martin Daly	1.2	893	919	926
	Green	John Carey	0.4	266	280	282
	Independent	Dermot McDonnell	0.3	216	237	238
	Independent	Loretta Clarke	0.3	218	226	228
	Independent	Seán Forkin		29	31	31
Electorate: 99,504 Valid: 74,154 Spoilt: 641 (0.9%) Quota: 12,360 Turnout: 74,795 (75.2%)

2007 general election

2007 general election: Mayo
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Fine Gael	Enda Kenny	20.6	14,717
	Fine Gael	Michael Ring	16.0	11,412	12,441
	Fine Gael	John O'Mahony	9.6	6,869	7,544	7,759	8,003	8,717	8,855	9,587	13,736
	Fianna Fáil	Dara Calleary	10.1	7,225	7,248	7,251	7,438	7,699	8,803	9,345	11,269
	Independent	Beverley Flynn	9.5	6,779	7,131	7,212	7,387	8,043	9,322	10,684	11,250
	Fianna Fáil	John Carty	8.2	5,889	5,926	5,937	5,991	6,519	7,825	8,214	8,303
	Fine Gael	Michelle Mulherin	7.6	5,428	5,877	6,016	6,416	6,681	6,763	7,644
	Independent	Jerry Cowley	4.8	3,407	3,487	3,529	3,910	4,784	5,342
	Fianna Fáil	Frank Chambers	6.1	4,345	4,386	4,406	4,499	4,705
	Sinn Féin	Gerry Murray	5.1	3,608	3,660	3,668	3,845
	Labour	Harry Barrett	1.2	831	896	917
	Green	Peter Enright	0.8	580	594	597
	Progressive Democrats	Tommy Cooke	0.4	296	298	298
Electorate: 98,696 Valid: 71,386 Spoilt: 700 (1.0%) Quota: 11,898 Turnout: 72,086 (73.0%)

2002 general election

2002 general election: Mayo
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	Independent	Jerry Cowley	13.7	8,709	9,213	9,808	10,573	11,128
	Fine Gael	Michael Ring	15.6	9,880	10,045	10,384	10,576	10,907
	Fine Gael	Enda Kenny	9.2	5,834	5,954	6,045	6,142	6,478	6,576	6,707	7,307	11,922
	Fianna Fáil	John Carty	10.2	6,457	6,512	6,555	6,756	6,817	6,822	6,824	8,284	9,531	10,157
	Fianna Fáil	Beverley Flynn	10.5	6,661	6,741	6,886	7,123	7,167	7,178	7,187	9,517	9,749	9,910
	Fianna Fáil	Tom Moffatt	10.3	6,536	6,749	6,892	7,084	7,521	7,661	7,697	8,625	8,878	9,187
	Fine Gael	Jim Higgins	9.2	5,858	5,971	6,035	6,155	6,833	6,998	7,100	7,220
	Fianna Fáil	Frank Chambers	9.0	5,726	5,792	6,045	6,266	6,307	6,315	6,319
	Fine Gael	Ernie Caffrey	3.6	2,290	2,419	2,486	2,558
	Sinn Féin	Vincent Wood	3.3	2,085	2,181	2,274
	Independent	Michael Holmes	2.8	1,754	1,873
	Progressive Democrats	Billy Heffron	1.5	919
	Green	Ann Crowley	1.1	669
	Independent	Thomas King	0.2	102
Electorate: 94,854 Valid: 63,480 Spoilt: 790 (1.2%) Quota: 10,581 Turnout: 64,270 (67.8%)

1997 general election

1997 general election: Mayo
Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	Michael Ring	10,066	16.3	1	3
	Fine Gael	Jim Higgins	6,945	11.2	2	7
	Fianna Fáil	Beverley Flynn	8,353	13.5	3	7
	Fine Gael	Enda Kenny	8,568	13.9	4	7
	Fianna Fáil	Tom Moffatt	5,735	9.3	5	8
	Fianna Fáil	Séamus Hughes	6,791	11.0
	Fianna Fáil	P. J. Morley	5,692	9.2
	Fine Gael	Ernie Caffrey	4,579	7.4
	Independent	Richard Finn	1,683	2.7
	Independent	Gerry Ginty	1,656	2.7
	Green	Ann Crowley	938	1.5
	National Party	Ciaran Sherry	733	1.2
	Independent	Cormac Cullen	119	0.2
Electorate: 87,719 Valid: 61,858 Spoilt: 614 (1.0%) Quota: 10,310 Turnout: 62,472 (71.2%)

References

"Electoral (Amendment) Act 2009: Schedule". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 29 September 2010.
^ "Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013: Schedule". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
^ "General election 1997: Mayo". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 13 February 2009.
^ "General election 2002: Mayo". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 13 February 2009.
^ "General election 2007: Mayo". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 13 February 2009.
Beverley Flynn was elected in 2007 as an independent candidate, was readmitted to the Fianna Fáil party in 2008. "Beverly Flynn readmitted to FF". RTÉ News. 3 April 2008. Retrieved 17 February 2009.
^ "General election 2011: Mayo". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
^ "General election 2016: Mayo". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 22 February 2016.

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Parliament of Ireland
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County Mayo (????–1800)
Castlebar (1614–1800)

Westminster 1801–1922
and First Dáil 1918

Mayo (1801–1885)
East Mayo (1885–1922)
North Mayo (1885–1922)
South Mayo (1885–1922)
West Mayo (1885–1922)

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1918–present

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