Roscommon–South Leitrim (Dáil constituency)

Roscommon–South Leitrim was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas, from 2007 to 2016. The constituency elected 3 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs). The method of election was proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).

Roscommon–South Leitrim
Former Dáil constituency
Location of Roscommon–South Leitrim within Ireland
Former constituency
Created	2007
Abolished	2016
Seats	3
Local government areas	County Roscommon County Leitrim
Created from	Longford–Roscommon Sligo–Leitrim
Replaced by	Roscommon–Galway Sligo–Leitrim

History and boundaries

The constituency was created for the 2007 general election by the Electoral (Amendment) Act 2005,^[1] which gave effect to the 2004 Constituency Commission Report on Dáil Constituencies. It included all of County Roscommon and the southern portion of County Leitrim (the area to the east and south of Lough Allen).^[2] This territory was previously represented through the constituencies of Longford–Roscommon and Sligo–Leitrim, both of which were abolished in 2007.

The Electoral (Amendment) Act 2009 defined the constituency as:

"The county of Roscommon;

and, in the county of Leitrim, the electoral divisions of:

Ballinamore, Cloverhill, Corralla, Drumreilly North, Drumreilly South, Garradice, Greaghglass, Killygar, Newtowngore, Oughteragh, in the former Rural District of Ballinamore;

Annaduff, Carrick-on-Shannon, Drumsna, Gortnagullion, Gowel, in the former Rural District of Carrick-on-Shannon No. 1;

Aghavas, Beihy, Breandrum, Bunny Beg, Carrigallen East, Carrigallen West, Cashel, Castlefore, Cattan, Cloone, Corriga, Drumard, Drumdoo, Drumod, Fenagh, Gortermone, Keeldra, Lisgillock, Mohill, Rinn, Riverstown, Roosky, Rowan, in the former Rural District of Mohill."

It was abolished at the 2016 general election and replaced by the Roscommon–Galway and Sligo–Leitrim constituencies.

TDs

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Roscommon–South Leitrim 2007–2016
Key to parties   FF = Fianna Fáil   FG = Fine Gael   Ind = Independent
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
30th	2007[3]		Michael Finneran (FF)		Frank Feighan (FG)		Denis Naughten (FG)
31st	2011[4]		Luke 'Ming' Flanagan[5] (Ind)
	2014 by-election[6]		Michael Fitzmaurice (Ind)
32nd	2016	Constituency abolished. See Roscommon–Galway and Sligo–Leitrim

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

2014 by-election

2014 by-election: Roscommon–South Leitrim^[6]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Fianna Fáil	Ivan Connaughton	22.0	7,334	7,502	7,652	7,846	8,863	10,083	12,050
	Independent	Michael Fitzmaurice	18.7	6,220	6,371	6,625	7,075	9,211	11,722	14,881
	Sinn Féin	Martin Kenny	17.7	5,906	6,184	6,283	6,447	7,022
	Fine Gael	Maura Hopkins	16.8	5,593	5,742	5,864	6,075	7,312	8,476
	Independent	John McDermott	8.8	2,944	3,018	3,187	3,468
	Labour	John Kelly	6.1	2,037	2,060	2,090	2,144
	Independent	Emmett Corcoran	3.8	1,262	1,305	1,483
	Independent	Tom Crosby	3.1	1,030	1,063
	Independent	Des Guckian	2.7	902
	Independent	Gerry O'Boyle	0.2	82
Electorate: 64,873   Valid: 33,310   Spoilt: 262 (0.8%)   Quota: 16,656   Turnout: 33,572 (51.8%)

2011 general election

2011 general election: Roscommon–South Leitrim^[4]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Fine Gael	Denis Naughten	19.6	9,320	9,429	10,618	11,349	11,415	12,122
	Fine Gael	Frank Feighan	18.9	8,983	9,457	9,902	11,130	11,239	13,266
	Independent	Luke 'Ming' Flanagan[n 1]	18.8	8,925	9,251	10,448	12,149
	Sinn Féin	Martin Kenny	9.8	4,637	5,369	5,526	6,042	6,108
	Labour	John Kelly	9.4	4,455	4,617	4,894
	Fianna Fáil	Ivan Connaughton	8.6	4,070	5,379	5,856	6,254	6,285	7,034
	Independent	John McDermott	7.9	3,770	3,882
	Fianna Fáil	Gerry Kilrane	6.4	3,033
	Green	Garreth McDaid	0.5	220
	Independent	Seán Kearns	0.2	91
Electorate: 60,235   Valid: 47,504   Spoilt: 531 (1.1%)   Quota: 11,877   Turnout: 48,035 (79.7%)

1. Flanagan campaigned as a member of the New Vision alliance.

2007 general election

2007 general election: Roscommon–South Leitrim^[3]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Finneran	21.7	9,982	10,135	10,529	12,017
	Fine Gael	Frank Feighan	19.8	9,103	9,507	10,421	12,065
	Fine Gael	Denis Naughten	19.4	8,928	9,354	9,670	11,048
	Fianna Fáil	John Ellis	17.2	7,915	8,060	9,347	9,650
	Independent	John Kelly	9.9	4,539	4,839	5,522
	Sinn Féin	Martin Kenny	8.4	3,876	4,118
	Green	Garreth McDaid	1.8	836
	Labour	Hughie Baxter	1.8	832
	Independent	Noel O'Gara	0.1	66
Electorate: 62,437   Valid: 46,077   Spoilt: ?   Quota: 11,520   Turnout: 73.8%

2015 Marriage Equality referendum

On 22 May 2015, Roscommon–South Leitrim was the only constituency to vote against the proposition in what is sometimes described as the marriage equality referendum, with 51.42% voting No.^[7]

See also

• Dáil constituencies
• Politics of the Republic of Ireland
• Historic Dáil constituencies
• Elections in the Republic of Ireland