Kildare North (Dáil constituency)

This article is about the constituency since 1997. For the 1885–1922 constituency of the United Kingdom House of Commons and the 1919–1921 First Dáil, see North Kildare (UK Parliament constituency).

Kildare North is a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency elects 4 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs) on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).

Kildare North
Dáil constituency
Location of Kildare North within Ireland
Major settlements	Celbridge Clane Leixlip Maynooth Naas
Current constituency
Created	1997
Seats	3 (1997–2007) 4 (2007–)
TDs	Réada Cronin (SF)   Bernard Durkan (FG)   James Lawless (FF)   Catherine Murphy (SD)
Local government area	County Kildare
Created from	Kildare
EP constituency	Midlands–North-West

History and boundaries

The constituency was created at the 1997 general election, when the former 5-seat Kildare constituency was divided into Kildare North and Kildare South. At the 1997 and 2002 elections, Kildare North was a 3-seat constituency, but it was allocated an extra seat at the 2007 general election. The constituency spans the more densely populated north-eastern corner of County Kildare, taking in the towns of Celbridge, Clane, Leixlip, Maynooth and Naas.

The Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2017 defines the constituency as:^[1]

"In the county of Kildare the electoral divisions of:

Balraheen, Celbridge, Cloncurry, Donadea, Donaghcumper, Kilcock, Leixlip, Maynooth, Straffan, in the former Rural District of Celbridge No. 1;

Ballynadrumny, Cadamstown, Dunfierth, in the former Rural District of Edenderry No. 2;

Bodenstown, Clane, Downings, Kill, Kilteel, Naas Rural, Newtown, Oughterard, Rathmore, Timahoe North, in the former Rural District of Naas No. 1;

and Naas Urban."

Changes to the constituency of Kildare North, 1997–

Years	TDs	Boundaries	Notes
1997–2002	3	In County Kildare, the electoral divisions of^[2] Balraheen, Celbridge, Cloncurry, Donadea, Donaghcumper, Kilcock, Leixlip, Maynooth, Straffan, in the former Rural District of Celbridge No. 1; Ballynadrumny, Cadamstown, Carbury, Carrick, Drehid, Dunfierth, Kilrainy, Windmill Cross, in the former Rural District of Edenderry No. 2; Bodenstown, Clane, Kill, Kilteel, Naas Rural, Oughterard, Rathmore, Timahoe North, in the former Rural District of Naas; and the urban district of Naas.	Created from Kildare^[3]
2002–2007	3	In County Kildare, the electoral divisions of^[4] Balraheen, Celbridge, Cloncurry, Donadea, Donaghcumper, Kilcock, Leixlip, Maynooth, Straffan, in the former Rural District of Celbridge No. 1; Bodenstown, Clane, Kill, Kilteel, Naas Rural, Oughterard, Rathmore, Timahoe North, in the former Rural District of Naas; and the urban district of Naas.	Transfer to Kildare South of^[5] Ballynadrumny, Cadamstown, Carbury, Carrick, Drehid, Dunfierth, Kilrainy, Windmill Cross, in the former Rural District of Edenderry No. 2.
2007–2011	4	In County Kildare, the electoral divisions of^[6] Balraheen, Celbridge, Cloncurry, Donadea, Donaghcumper, Kilcock, Leixlip, Maynooth, Straffan, in the former Rural District of Celbridge No. 1; Ballynadrumny, Cadamstown, Carbury, Carrick, Drehid, Dunfierth, Kilrainy, Windmill Cross, in the former Rural District of Edenderry No. 2; Bodenstown, Clane, Downings, Kill, Kilteel, Naas Rural, Oughterard, Rathmore, Robertstown, Timahoe North, Timahoe South, in the former Rural District of Naas No. 1; and the town of Naas.	Transfer from Kildare South of^[7] Ballynadrumny, Cadamstown, Carbury, Carrick, Drehid, Dunfierth, Kilrainy, Windmill Cross, in the former Rural District of Edenderry No. 2, and Downings, Robertstown, and Timahoe South, in the former Rural District of Naas No. 1.
2011–2016	4	In County Kildare, the electoral divisions of^[8] Balraheen, Celbridge, Cloncurry, Donadea, Donaghcumper, Kilcock, Leixlip, Maynooth, Straffan, in the former Rural District of Celbridge No. 1; Ballynadrumny, Cadamstown, Carbury, Carrick, Drehid, Dunfierth, Kilpatrick, Kilrainy, Windmill Cross, in the former Rural District of Edenderry No. 2; Bodenstown, Clane, Downings, Kill, Kilteel, Naas Rural, Newtown, Oughterard, Rathmore, Robertstown, Timahoe North, Timahoe South, in the former Rural District of Naas No. 1; and the town of Naas.	Transfer from Kildare South of^[9] Kilpatrick, in the former Rural District of Edenderry No. 2, and Newtown, in the former Rural District of Naas No. 1.
2016–2020	4	In County Kildare, the electoral divisions of^[10] Balraheen, Celbridge, Cloncurry, Donadea, Donaghcumper, Kilcock, Leixlip, Maynooth, Straffan, in the former Rural District of Celbridge No. 1; Ballynadrumny, Cadamstown, Carbury, Carrick, Drehid, Dunfierth, Kilrainy, in the former Rural District of Edenderry No. 2; Bodenstown, Clane, Downings, Kill, Kilteel, Naas Rural, Newtown, Oughterard, Rathmore, Timahoe North, in the former Rural District of Naas No. 1; and the town of Naas.	Transfer to Kildare South of^[11] Kilpatrick and Windmill Cross, in the former Rural District of Edenderry No. 2, and Robertstown and Timahoe South, in the former Rural District of Naas No. 1.
2020–	4	In County Kildare, the electoral divisions of^[1] Balraheen, Celbridge, Cloncurry, Donadea, Donaghcumper, Kilcock, Leixlip, Maynooth, Straffan, in the former Rural District of Celbridge No. 1; Ballynadrumny, Cadamstown, Dunfierth, in the former Rural District of Edenderry No. 2; Bodenstown, Clane, Downings, Kill, Kilteel, Naas Rural, Newtown, Oughterard, Rathmore, Timahoe North, in the former Rural District of Naas No. 1; and Naas Urban.	Transfer to Kildare South of^[12] Carbury, Carrick, Drehid and Kilrainy, in the former Rural District of Edenderry No. 2.

TDs

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Kildare North 1997–
Key to parties   FF = Fianna Fáil   FG = Fine Gael   Ind = Independent   Lab = Labour   SD = Social Democrats   SF = Sinn Féin
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
28th	1997^[13]		Emmet Stagg (Lab)		Charlie McCreevy (FF)		Bernard Durkan (FG)	3 seats until 2007
29th	2002^[14]
	2005 by-election^[15]				Catherine Murphy (Ind)
30th	2007^[16]				Áine Brady (FF)				Michael Fitzpatrick (FF)
31st	2011^[17]				Catherine Murphy (Ind)				Anthony Lawlor (FG)
32nd	2016^[18]		Frank O'Rourke (FF)		Catherine Murphy (SD)				James Lawless (FF)
33rd	2020^[19]		Réada Cronin (SF)

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

2020 general election

2020 general election: Kildare North^[20][21]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Social Democrats	Catherine Murphy	19.3	9,808	10,180	11,008
	Sinn Féin	Réada Cronin	17.1	8,705	9,192	9,508	9,623	9,732	11,079
	Fianna Fáil	James Lawless	13.8	7,029	7,146	7,357	7,417	7,909	9,357
	Fianna Fáil	Frank O'Rourke	12.4	6,336	6,596	6,945	7,035	7,238	7,956
	Fine Gael	Bernard Durkan	10.7	5,447	5,522	5,910	6,006	8,521	10,258
	Green	Vincent P. Martin	10.0	5,100	5,473	5,901	6,211	6,674
	Fine Gael	Anthony Lawlor	7.1	3,621	3,693	3,871	3,920
	Labour	Emmet Stagg	5.4	2,751	2,853
	Renua	Séamus Ó Riain	1.9	967
	PBP–Solidarity	Paul Mahon^[n 1]	1.7	861
	Independent	David Monaghan	0.4	197
	Independent	Wayne Swords	0.2	123
Electorate: 81,884   Valid: 50,945   Spoilt: 382 (0.74%)   Quota: 10,190   Turnout: 51,327 (62.68%)

1. People Before Profit, Solidarity and RISE contested this election as Solidarity–People Before Profit, so candidates appeared on the ballot under this name. Mahon was a member of People Before Profit.

2016 general election

2016 general election: Kildare North^[22][23][18]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Social Democrats	Catherine Murphy	22.7	11,108
	Fianna Fáil	James Lawless	15.3	7,461	7,592	7,696	7,737	7,919	8,003	8,256	8,850	9,444
	Fianna Fáil	Frank O'Rourke	12.9	6,341	6,486	6,528	6,562	6,711	6,879	7,138	7,684	8,479
	Fine Gael	Bernard Durkan	12.6	6,147	6,268	6,302	6,322	6,472	6,531	6,740	6,974	8,890
	Fine Gael	Anthony Lawlor	11.1	5,406	5,490	5,544	5,572	5,714	5,767	6,046	6,213	7,402
	Labour	Emmet Stagg	8.4	4,087	4,288	4,349	4,408	4,488	4,632	5,181	5,775
	Sinn Féin	Réada Cronin	6.5	3,205	3,323	3,390	3,621	3,708	4,146	4,497
	Green	Maebh Ní Fhallúin	3.0	1,485	1,649	1,715	1,804	2,020	2,419
	Independent	Brendan Young	2.4	1,200	1,323	1,467	1,737	1,858
	Renua	Shane Fitzgerald	2.0	994	1,086	1,154	1,236
	AAA–PBP	Ashling Merriman	1.6	781	873	943
	Independent	Michael Beirne	0.7	372	389
	Independent	Gerard Dunne	0.5	249	261
	Independent	Elizabeth O'Sullivan	0.2	99	119
Electorate: 77,609   Valid: 48,935   Spoilt: 291 (0.6%)   Quota: 9,788   Turnout: 49,226 (63.4%)

2011 general election

2011 general election: Kildare North^[24][17]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	Fine Gael	Bernard Durkan	19.9	10,168	10,420
	Labour	Emmet Stagg	19.0	9,718	9,976	10,264
	Independent	Catherine Murphy	13.5	6,911	7,474	7,696	8,716	11,639
	Fine Gael	Anthony Lawlor	13.4	6,882	7,074	7,283	7,667	9,088
	Labour	John McGinley	10.3	5,261	5,489	5,590	6,449
	Fianna Fáil	Áine Brady	9.3	4,777	4,910	6,627	6,821	7,288
	Sinn Féin	Martin Kelly	5.7	2,896	3,043	3,111
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Fitzpatrick	5.2	2,659	2,714
	Green	Shane Fitzgerald	1.8	905
	Independent	Eric Doyle-Higgins	0.8	423
	Independent	Michael Beirne	0.8	422
	Independent	Bart Murphy	0.4	200
Electorate: 76,773   Valid: 51,222   Spoilt: 388 (0.8%)   Quota: 10,245   Turnout: 51,610 (67.2%)

2007 general election

2007 general election: Kildare North^[16]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Fianna Fáil	Áine Brady	24.9	11,245
	Labour	Emmet Stagg	17.4	7,882	8,063	8,107	8,468	9,220
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Fitzpatrick	14.6	6,606	8,113	8,151	8,817	9,097
	Fine Gael	Bernard Durkan	11.8	5,340	5,427	5,471	5,663	5,912	9,229
	Independent	Catherine Murphy	11.5	5,188	5,339	5,474	5,881	6,733	7,652
	Fine Gael	Darren Scully	9.4	4,250	4,306	4,332	4,489	4,832
	Green	Shane Fitzgerald	4.9	2,215	2,289	2,342	2,668
	Sinn Féin	Cristin McCauley	2.4	1,103	1,135	1,154
	Progressive Democrats	Jeff Aherne	2.1	983	1,083	1,103
	Independent	John Corish	0.5	234	244
	Independent	Gerry Browne	0.3	145	153
Electorate: 71,311   Valid: 45,191   Spoilt: 232 (0.5%)   Quota: 9,039   Turnout: 45,423 (63.7%)

2005 by-election

2005 by-election: Kildare North^[15]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	Fianna Fáil	Áine Brady	24.5	6,201	6,255	7,265	8,133	9,818
	Independent	Catherine Murphy	23.6	5,985	6,189	7,176	8,809	12,256
	Fine Gael	Darren Scully	18.3	4,630	4,660	5,382	7,421
	Labour	Paddy MacNamara	17.8	4,507	4,545	5,199
	Progressive Democrats	Kate Walsh	7.9	2,006	2,023
	Green	J. J. Power	6.1	1,547	1,621
	Independent	Gerry Browne	0.9	226
	Independent	Seanán Ó Coistín	0.8	211
Electorate: 65,080   Valid: 25,313   Spoilt: 211 (0.8%)   Quota: 12,657   Turnout: 25,524 (39.2%)

2002 general election

2002 general election: Kildare North^[14]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	Fianna Fáil	Charlie McCreevy	27.5	9,082
	Labour	Emmet Stagg	21.4	7,051	7,168	8,005	9,472
	Fine Gael	Bernard Durkan	17.5	5,786	5,859	6,177	7,341	8,025
	Fianna Fáil	Paul Kelly	15.7	5,168	5,681	5,923	7,382	7,890
	Progressive Democrats	Kate Walsh	11.9	3,919	4,027	4,473
	Green	Anne Kelly McCormack	6.0	1,974	1,999
Electorate: 60,094   Valid: 32,980   Spoilt: 291 (0.9%)   Quota: 8,246   Turnout: 33,271 (55.4%)

1997 general election

1997 general election: Kildare North^[25]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	Fianna Fáil	Charlie McCreevy	21.9	6,905	7,055	7,152	8,156
	Fine Gael	Bernard Durkan	21.2	6,653	6,804	7,932
	Labour	Emmet Stagg	19.0	5,964	6,255	6,445	6,721	8,952
	Fianna Fáil	Paul Kelly	12.9	4,039	4,160	4,197	4,879	5,582
	Democratic Left	Catherine Murphy	8.8	2,762	3,067	3,204	3,392
	Progressive Democrats	Timmy Conway	6.7	2,101	2,252	2,351
	Fine Gael	Mary French	5.0	1,569	1,719
	Green	Seán English	4.5	1,403
Electorate: 50,957   Valid: 31,396   Spoilt: 295 (0.9%)   Quota: 7,850   Turnout: 31,691 (60.5%)

See also

• Elections in the Republic of Ireland
• Politics of the Republic of Ireland
• List of Dáil by-elections
• List of political parties in the Republic of Ireland

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