Anyone Have Irish Election Maps?

[Tory]

Just wondering if someone has Irish election maps. I can't find any.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Can't find any either... IIRC the Irish Labour Party has a map of STV constituancies

[Mr. Pink]

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

[Filuwaúrdjan]

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

Cool :-)

Question: why do Labour do well in Wicklow?

[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.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

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

It's all relative

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Thanks

[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.)

[Filuwaúrdjan]

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.)

True, but until you explained it Wicklow looked strange

[Baggy Green]

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

[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.

[minionofmidas]

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

Cool :-)

Question: why do Labour do well in Wicklow?

IIRC it used to be that Labour did best in rural Southern Leinster, while their Dublin strength really only developed after WW II. As to why - well, what's been said sounds right. Don't really know, though.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The old NILP (the only non-sectarian party in NI ever to be even remotely electorally viable. I miss them...) used to do well in Belfast. Both sides of Belfast.