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    A by-election was held in the Dáil constituency of Donegal South-West in Ireland on Thursday 25 November 2010 to fill a vacancy left by the election of...
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    Donegal South-West was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas, from 1961 to 1969...
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    In November 2010, the EU/IMF rescue, followed by an historic defeat at the Donegal South-West by-election, marked a new period in opinion polling. Fianna...
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    County Donegal in north-west Ireland, succeeding the former Westminster constituencies of East Donegal, North Donegal, South Donegal and West Donegal. At...
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    Donegal in the south of the county. It has also been known as County Tyrconnell or Tirconaill (Tír Chonaill), after the historic territory. Donegal County...
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  • This is a list of by-elections to Dáil Éireann, the house of representatives of the Oireachtas, the Irish legislature. By-elections in Ireland occur to...
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    Pearse Doherty (category Politicians from County Donegal)
    (TD) for the Donegal constituency since the 2016 general election, and previously a TD for the Donegal South-West constituency from 2010 to 2016. He also...
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  • when it and Donegal East were replaced by the new constituencies of Donegal North-East and Donegal South-West. It consisted of the district electoral...
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  • protester who is then taken away in an ambulance. 25 November – 2010 Donegal South-West by-election: Pearse Doherty of Sinn Féin is elected to Dáil Éireann....
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    Pat McFadden (category UK MPs 2005–2010)
    May to October 2010. Having failed to be elected in the 2010 Shadow Cabinet election, he was appointed Shadow Minister for Europe by Ed Miliband in 2014...
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  • The 1876 Donegal by-election was fought on 26 August 1876. The byelection was fought due to the death of the incumbent Conservative MP, Thomas Conolly...
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    the Cathedral Town, is a large town in County Donegal, Ireland, on the River Swilly in the north-west of Ulster. Along with the nearby city of Derry...
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  • The 1890 West Donegal by-election was a parliamentary by-election held for the United Kingdom House of Commons constituency of West Donegal on 30 May 1890...
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  • he became the first MP for the then new seat of South Donegal in Ireland at the 1885 general election. He died aged reportedly 78 on 1 January 1887. Others:...
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  • The 1879 Donegal by-election was fought on 15 December 1879. The by-election, to one of two seats in the House of Commons constituency of Donegal, arose...
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    (Irish-speaking) district and parish located on the Atlantic coast of County Donegal in the north-west of Ireland. Gweedore stretches some 26 kilometres (16 mi) from...
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  • The 1887 South Donegal by-election was a parliamentary by-election held for the United Kingdom House of Commons constituency of South Donegal on 2 February...
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  • Donegal West were replaced by the new constituencies of Donegal North-East and Donegal South-West. It consisted of the administrative county of Donegal except...
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  • The 1874 South West Lancashire by-election was fought on 19 March 1874. The by-election was fought due to the incumbent Conservative MP, Richard Assheton...
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    Thomas Pringle (politician) (category Members of Donegal County Council)
    Dála (TD) for the Donegal constituency since the 2016 general election, and previously from 2011 to 2016 for the Donegal South-West constituency. Pringle...
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  • 1905 North Donegal by-election was a parliamentary by-election held for the United Kingdom House of Commons constituency of North Donegal on 15 June 1905...
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  • Cathal Coughlan (politician) (category Members of Donegal County Council)
    Éireann in a 1983 by-election caused by the death of his brother, Clement Coughlan. His tenure as a Teachta Dála (TD) for Donegal South-West was short as he...
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  • 30th Dáil (category Lists of Teachtaí Dála by term)
    Government of Ireland [2010] IEHC 369, [2011] 2 IR 222 (3 November 2010), High Court "Issue of Writ: Donegal South-West By-election". Dáil Debates – Vol...
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    opposed by many Ulster Protestants, sparking the Home Rule Crisis. In the last all Ireland election (1918 Irish general election) counties Donegal and Monaghan...
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  • "General election 1969: Donegal–Leitrim". ElectionsIreland.org. Archived from the original on 21 February 2011. Retrieved 19 September 2010. "By-election 1970:...
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    transferred from the East constituency to North-West. From 2009 it comprised the counties of Cavan, Clare, Donegal, Galway, Leitrim, Longford, Mayo, Monaghan...
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    A by-election was held in the Dáil Éireann Dublin South-West constituency in Ireland on Friday, 10 October 2014, following the election of Fine Gael Teachta...
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  • Thumbnail for 1996 Donegal North-East by-election
    A by-election was held in the Dáil Éireann Donegal North-East constituency in Ireland on 2 April 1996. It followed the death of Independent Fianna Fáil...
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    Dinny McGinley (category Politicians from County Donegal)
    Dála (TD) for the Donegal South-West constituency from 1982 to 2016. McGinley was born and brought up in Gweedore, County Donegal, a Gaeltacht area where...
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  • Cormac Breslin (category Politicians from County Donegal)
    Fáil Teachta Dála (TD) for the Donegal West constituency at the 1937 general election. He was re-elected at every election until his retirement in 1977...
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