2004 European Parliament election in Ireland

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Hiberno-English The 2004 European Parliament election in Ireland was the Irish component of the 2004 European Parliament election. The voting was held on Friday, 11 June 2004. The election coincided with the 2004 local elections. The election was conducted under the single transferable vote.

This was the first election that Fine Gael won more seats than Fianna Fáil, who had won most seats at every election from 1979.

Constituency revision

Since the 1999 European Parliament election, Ireland's entitlement had fallen from 15 seats to 13 seats due to European Union expansion and some constituencies boundaries and names were changed.

• Munster constituency lost County Clare and was reduced from 4 seats to 3 and renamed South
• Connacht–Ulster gained County Clare and was renamed North-West
• Leinster had no boundary changes but was reduced from 4 seats to 3 and renamed East
• Dublin was unchanged

Results

The election was organised by city/county council area, the basis for the local elections being held simultaneously. Voters received different-coloured ballot papers for the European election, city/county council election, and a constitutional referendum, all of which went into the same ballot box and were separated by colour once the boxes arrived at the count centre for the city/county. Not all voters received all ballots as the franchises differ. The European ballots were all counted in one city/county, necessitating a second transportation of the separated ballots from the other city/county centres. For example, the East ballots were counted in Navan, County Meath.

MEPs elected

Constituency	Name	Party		EP group
Dublin	Gay Mitchell	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
	Eoin Ryan	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
	Mary Lou McDonald	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
	Proinsias De Rossa	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
East	Mairead McGuinness	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
	Avril Doyle	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
	Liam Aylward	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
North-West	Marian Harkin	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
	Seán Ó Neachtain	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
	Jim Higgins	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
South	Brian Crowley	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
	Simon Coveney	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
	Kathy Sinnott	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color

Voting details

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2004–2009 European Parliament Ireland constituencies

Constituency	Electorate	Turnout	Spoilt	Valid Poll	Quota	Seats	Candidates
Dublin	821,723	435,136 (52.9%)	13,239 (3.0%)	421,897	84,380	4	12
East	806,598	471,895 (58.5%)	18,717 (3.9%)	453,178	113,295	3	13
North-West	688,804	435,910 (63.3%)	14,487 (3.3%)	421,423	105,356	3	9
South	802,359	498,394 (62.1%)	14,124 (2.8%)	484,270	121,068	3	10
Total	3,119,484	1,841,335 (59.0%)	60,567 (3.3%)	1,780,768	—	13	44

Seats

Constituency	Area	Seats	Pop.	per Seat
Dublin	County Dublin	4	1.1m	275k
East	Leinster less County Dublin	3	1m	333k
South	Munster less County Clare	3	1m	333k
North-West	Connacht plus counties Cavan, Donegal, Monaghan, Clare	3	800k	270k
Total		13	3.9m	300k

See also

• List of members of the European Parliament for Ireland, 2004–2009 – List ordered by constituency
• For the Northern Ireland European Parliament elections, see 2004 UK European Parliament election.

External links

• ElectionsIreland.org – 2004 European Parliament (Ireland) election results
• European Election News by European Election Law Association (Eurela)