Anyone Have Irish Election Maps?

[Mr. Pink]

If you give me a day I can make you one.

[Mr. Pink]

Here it is. Certainly nothing flashy, it only took me about five minutes to make up.

Making a map for the Dail is like making a map for the U.S. Senate. There isn't just one representative for a constituency. In the U.S. Senate there could be a Democrat senator and a Republican senator, which means basically that the state isn't under control by one group. That is why there is so much gray on my map. Those areas don't have a majority of representatives from one group.



Al, to answer your question, I don't think Labour does strikingly well in Wicklow.

Labour does well in areas that are poor but not nationalist or very religious. Wicklow fits that description.

[Mr. Pink]

Al, to answer your question, I don't think Labour does strikingly well in Wicklow.

It's all relative

Well, Labour does do very well in certain areas, Dublin West(where there are two Labour TD's and a Socialist TD) is probably thier strongest seat traditionally, but they do very well all over Dublin.

They do well in the rural areas that I mentioned before, where there isn't a lot of nationalist sentiment, and usually have one or two representatives in the more urban areas(Waterford, Galway, Cork, etc.)

[Mr. Pink]

Which parties are left-wing and which are right-wing?

Fianna Fail- Economically left-wing, socially very right-wing.
Progressive Democrats- Free market neo-liberals, socially moderate.
Fine Gael- Economically and socially moderate Christian Democrats.
Labour- Economically and socially left-wing.
Sinn Fein- terrorist group also known as the Irish Republican Army.
Green Party- Enviromentalist, actually not a bad party.