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Sligo–North Leitrim
Sligo–North Leitrim
Former Dáil constituency
	Location of Sligo–North Leitrim within Ireland
Former constituency
Created	2007
Abolished	2016
Seats	3
Local government areas	County Sligo; County Leitrim;
Created from	Sligo–Leitrim
Replaced by	Sligo–Leitrim

Sligo–North 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).

History and boundaries

The constituency was created by the Electoral (Amendment) Act 2005,^[1] which gave effect to the 2004 Constituency Commission Report on Dáil Constituencies and was first used at the 2007 general election. It largely replaced the previous constituency of Sligo–Leitrim, although it ceded the southern half of Leitrim to the new constituency of Roscommon–South Leitrim, though a subsequent revision in 2007 restored a portion of South Leitrim to the constituency. It consisted of all of County Sligo and the parts of County Leitrim, contained in the Local Electoral Areas of Dromahair and Manorhamilton.^[2]

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

"The county of Sligo and the county of Leitrim, except the part thereof which is comprised in the constituency of Roscommon–South Leitrim."

It was abolished at the 2016 general election and replaced by the re-created Sligo–Leitrim constituency.

TDs

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Sligo–North Leitrim 2007–2016
Key to parties FF = Fianna Fáil FG = Fine Gael SF = Sinn Féin
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
30th	2007^[3]		Jimmy Devins (FF)		Eamon Scanlon (FF)		John Perry (FG)
31st	2011^[4]		Michael Colreavy (SF)		Tony McLoughlin (FG)		John Perry (FG)
32nd	2016	Constituency abolished. See 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

2011 general election

2011 general election: Sligo–North Leitrim^[4]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Fine Gael	John Perry	19.5	8,663	8,703	8,741	8,968	9,548	9,768	10,419	11,973
	Fine Gael	Tony McLoughlin	17.4	7,715	7,778	7,891	8,127	8,320	8,699	9,493	10,981	11,508
	Sinn Féin	Michael Colreavy	13.3	5,911	5,972	6,232	6,465	6,846	7,775	8,139	9,616	9,771
	Fianna Fáil	Eamon Scanlon	11.4	5,075	5,097	5,165	5,235	5,625	5,699	8,389	8,942	9,125
	Fianna Fáil	Marc MacSharry	10.4	4,633	4,647	4,686	4,865	5,302	5,586
	Labour	Susan O'Keeffe	10.2	4,553	4,709	4,769	5,213	5,430	6,096	6,646
	Independent	Michael Clarke	5.4	2,415	2,431	2,463	2,607
	Independent	Declan Bree^[5]	5.1	2,284	2,334	2,380	2,763	2,946
	Independent	Veronica Cawley	2.5	1,119	1,140	1,171
	New Vision	Alwyn Love	1.8	779	836	881
	Independent	Gabriel McSharry	1.7	747	770
	Green	Johnny Gogan	1.0	432
	Independent	Dick Cahill	0.2	102
Electorate: 63,432 Valid: 44,428 Spoilt: 409 (0.9%) Quota: 11,108 Turnout: 44,837 (70.7%)

2007 general election

2007 general election: Sligo–North Leitrim^[3]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5
	Fianna Fáil	Eamon Scanlon	23.2	9,258	9,317	9,390	9,662	10,771
	Fine Gael	John Perry	19.8	7,910	7,952	8,086	9,493	10,363
	Fianna Fáil	Jimmy Devins	17.8	7,102	7,168	7,288	7,904	9,187
	Fine Gael	Michael Comiskey	12.4	4,936	5,016	5,171	6,732	7,757
	Sinn Féin	Seán MacManus	11.7	4,684	4,784	5,075	5,769
	Fine Gael	Imelda Henry	7.1	2,837	2,863	2,987
	Labour	Jim McGarry	3.9	1,555	1,571	1,829
	Green	Brian Scanlon	3.0	1,209	1,240
	Independent	Andy McSharry	0.9	353
	Independent	John Higgins	0.2	89
Electorate: 57,517 Valid: 39,934 Spoilt: 396 (1.0%) Quota: 9,984 Turnout: 40,330 (70.1%)