local elections: boundaries, seats, etc

Carawaystick

From searching hard, and not from any recycling material Election leaflets, I found out there will be 8 councillors in the Balbriggan area

and 9 in Swords

Balbrigan area takes in the following electoral districts
Balbriggan Rural, Balbriggan Urban, Ballyboghil, Balscadden, Clonmethan, Garristown,
Hollywood, Holmpatrick, Lusk, Rush and Skerries

Swords area takes in

Airport, Donabate, Dubber, Kilsallaghan, Swords-Forrest, Swords-Glasmore, Swords-
Lissenhall, the part of Swords-Seatown electoral division west of the M1 motorway, Swords Village and Turnapin

Trying to find a map of electoral divisions took a while, you'ld almost imagine the powers that be don't want you to know.

Here's one I had to grab from a print-screen, so ignore all the whitespace...


Everyone resident in Ireland can vote in the local elections, irrespective of citizenship.
Nominations close on Tuesday afaik, so then we can add the nominations for the two areas, and add more Fingal areas if there's interest in Portmarnock/howth/D15

Carawaystick

There's these funny loops in the Lusk electoral district. One near the 5 roads, and the other just beside the Skerries road. Anyone know what they are?

Paulw

Carawaystick wrote: »

Swords area takes in

Airport, Donabate, Dubber, Kilsallaghan, Swords-Forrest, Swords-Glasmore, Swords-
Lissenhall, the part of Swords-Seatown electoral division west of the M1 motorway, Swords Village and Turnapin

Swords ward also inclused Meakstown, where I live.

There is an interactive map but I am not sure how useful it actually is.

Just found out - Final number of election candidates Swords 26, Balbriggan 23, Castleknock 18, Mulhuddart 17, Howth-Malahide 13.

expectationlost

fingal 2014 election page http://www.fingalcoco.ie/your-council/voting-and-elections/local-elections-2014/ no list yet


Seats
LEA|2009|2014|change
Balbriggan|5|8|+3
Castleknock |4|7|+3
Howth–Malahide|5|8|+3
Mulhuddart|5|8|+3
Swords |5|9|+4
|24|40|+16

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingal_County_Council
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_electoral_area

and yes it bloody hard to find a good image of the new electoral map


http://www.boundarycommittee.ie/ Local elections Boundary Committee

Carawaystick

found a list of townlands in each electoral division

http://oireachtasdebates.oireachtas.ie/debates%20authoring/debateswebpack.nsf/takes/dail1975112500033?opendocument

As outlined by Liam Cosgrave in '75

eamonnj

The full descriptions of the new boundaries is contained in a VERY LONG document. I can't post URLs so I suggest you Google "boundary committee report 2013" for the details.

Dizzyblonde

eamonnj, this is the Dublin County North forum so I doubt anyone is looking for information on South Dublin boundaries.

Carawaystick

Does anyone know why the Skerries or Rockabill aren't shown on the electoral maps? Smaller islands in Cork, Wexford and Galway are

tubos

You can view the electoral divisions in detail on this map ...

http://census.cso.ie/sapmap/

Swords area takes in Meakstown (Lanesborough and Charlestown) but doesn't include Holywell!