Waterford

• No of Seats: 4
• No of Male Candidates: 14
• No of Female Candidates: 1
• Total number of GE11 candidates: 15
• No of TDs standing: 2
• No of Senators standing: 1
• No of Councillors standing: 6
• No of MEPs standing: 0
• No of Seats: 4
• Population (2006): 106530
• Population per TD: 26633
• Average Population per TD: 25541
• Variance (from average): 1092
• % Variance: 4.27%

Candidates

• Independent candidates, ULA and other small parties: Cllr. John Halligan, Cllr. Joe Conway, Joe Tobin (WP), Ben Nutty (FN), Justin Collery,  Tom Higgins, Declan Waters, Gerard Kiersey
• Green Party candidates: Jody Power
• Labour Party candidates: Cllr. Seamus Ryan, Ciara Conway TC
• Sinn Fein candidates: Cllr. David Cullinane
• Fianna Fail candidates: Brendan Kenneally TD
• Fine Gael candidates: John Deasy TD, Sen. Paudie Coffey
• Independent candidates who previously ran for another party: Ben Nutty GP, Tom Higgins FG, John Halligan WP
• Young candidates (21-35):
• Retired/Retiring TDs: Waterford: Martin Cullen FF, Brian O'Shea LB

Opinion Polls

Red C-Sunday Business Post Poll (published 20-02-2011, adjusted to this constituency):

• FF: 17.70%
• FG: 38.60%
• Lab: 18.80%
• Green Party: 0.90%
• Sinn Fein: 11.50%
• Other: 12.50%

This translates to seats as follows (according to Adrian Kavanagh of http://geographyspecialinterestgroup.wordpress.com):

• FF: 1
• FG: 2
• Lab: 1
• Green Party: 0
• Sinn Fein: 0
• Other: 0

Sunday Independent Milward Brown Poll (published 20-02-2011 - adjusted to this constituency):

• FF: 17.50%
• FG: 36.30%
• Lab: 21.90%
• Green Party: 0.40%
• Sinn Fein: 11.40%
• Other: 12.40%

This translates to seats as follows (according to Adrian Kavanagh of http://geographyspecialinterestgroup.wordpress.com):

• FF: 1
• FG: 2
• Lab: 1
• Green Party: 0
• Sinn Fein: 0
• Other: 0

2007 Election Stats

• Size of Electorate: 73,434
• Total No. Votes: 49,958
• No. of valid votes: 49,528
• No. of spoiled votes: 430
• Quota: 9,906

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Credits: Thanks to Adrian Kavanagh of NUI Maynooth who has created an excellent resource at this website. Other data is drawn from Oireachtas.ie, the Central Statistics Office and ElectionsIreland.org

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Demographics, socio-economic indicators and other statistics based on 2006 Census (via CSO and Oireachtas.ie):