2009 European Parliament election in Ireland

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12 seats to the European Parliament
Turnout	1,875,920 (57.6%1.4pp)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Enda Kenny Brian Cowen Eamon Gilmore Party Fine Gael Fianna Fáil Labour Alliance EPP ALDE S&D Leader since 2 June 2002 7 May 2008 6 September 2007 Last election 27.8%, 5 seats 29.5%, 4 seats 10.5%, 1 seat Seats won 4 / 12 3 / 12 3 / 12 Seat change 1 1 2 Popular vote 532,889 440,562 254,669 Percentage 29.1% 24.1% 13.9% Swing 1.3 pp 5.4 pp 3.4 pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   LI Leader Joe Higgins Gerry Adams Declan Ganley Party Socialist Party Sinn Féin Libertas Alliance GUE/NGL GUE/NGL Lib.eu Leader since 1996 1983 30 October 2008 Last election 1.3%, 0 seats 11.1%, 1 seat New Seats won 1 / 12 0 / 12 0 / 12 Seat change 1 1 Popular vote 50,510 205,613 99,709 Percentage 2.7% 11.2% 5.4% Swing 1.4 pp 0.1 pp 5.4 pp
Colours indicate winning party.

The2009 European Parliament election in Ireland was the Irish component of the2009 European Parliament election and was held on Friday, 5 June 2009, coinciding with the2009 local elections. Two by-elections (Dublin South andDublin Central) were also held on the same day.^[1]

The governingFianna Fáil party lost oneMEP and a significant share of the vote, in line with the day's other election results.Fine Gael increased its national vote share but lost a seat. TheLabour Party, which increased its delegation from one MEP to three, was the only major party to make seat gains.Sinn Féin lost its only MEP in the Republic of Ireland, and theSocialist Party won a seat for the first time. One independent MEP lost her seat. TheGreen Party's vote was halved, and the pan-EuropeanLibertas party, based in Ireland, also failed to make a breakthrough.

InDublin,Gay Mitchell of Fine Gael andProinsias De Rossa of Labour were re-elected, whileJoe Higgins of the Socialist Party defeated the incumbent Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin MEPs to take the third seat. In theEast constituency,Mairead McGuinness of Fine Gael andLiam Aylward of Fianna Fáil were re-elected.Nessa Childers of Labour took the vacant final seat.North-West re-elected independentALDE MEPMarian Harkin andJim Higgins of Fine Gael, while the Fianna Fáil seat was retained by former MEPPat "the Cope" Gallagher. InSouth,Brian Crowley of Fianna Fáil was re-elected,Seán Kelly won a seat from his Fine Gael colleagueColm Burke, and Labour'sAlan Kelly took the last seat in a tight contest between him,Sinn Féin'sToiréasa Ferris and the incumbentIndependentKathy Sinnott in the final count.^[2]

In accordance with the terms of theTreaty of Nice, the number of MEPs from Ireland in theEuropean Parliament was reduced from 13 to 12 for this election. TheDublin constituency was reduced from 4 seats to 3, and the counties ofLongford andWestmeath were transferred from theEast constituency to theNorth-West constituency. The election was conducted under thesingle transferable vote in Ireland; the only other constituencies to elect their MEPs under STV areMalta andNorthern Ireland, with the rest of Europe using variants of thelist system.

• List of members of the European Parliament for Ireland, 2009–14 – List ordered by constituency

• European Elections 2009 in Ireland
• ElectionsIreland.org – 2009 European Parliament (Ireland) election results

• 2009 elections in the Republic of Ireland
• 2009 in Irish politics
• 2009 European Parliament election
• European Parliament elections in the Republic of Ireland
• June 2009 in Ireland

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