Midlands–North-West

Midlands–North-West was created for the 2014 European Parliament election when Ireland's allocation of seats was reduced from 12 to 11 due to the accession of Croatia to the European Union. It followed a recommendation of a 2013 Constituency Commission report on European Parliament constituencies in Ireland. It consisted of the old North-West constituency, except for County Clare which was moved to the South constituency; as well the northern and central Leinster part of the East constituency.^[1][2] The Irish Times criticised the wide geographic spread of the constituency, calling it "a heterogeneous mish-mash of counties with little historic or cultural connection to each other". It was nicknamed "Malin M50" for its wide spread, from the suburbs of Dublin to the Atlantic seaboard.^[3]

For the 2019 European Parliament election, a reapportionment following Brexit and the loss of 73 MEPs from the United Kingdom gave two additional seats to Ireland. Following a recommendation of the Constituency Commission, counties Laois and Offaly were moved to the South constituency, with Midlands–North-West maintaining its 4 seats.^[4][5]

At the 2024 European Parliament election, Midlands–North-West increased to 5 seats, with the transfer of County Laois and County Offaly from South.^[6] This followed a recommendation of the Electoral Commission, where Ireland had been allocated one additional MEP. This gives the new constituency a population of 1,831,741, as of the 2022 census^[7][8]

The constituency comprises the counties of Cavan, Donegal, Galway, Kildare, Laois, Leitrim, Longford, Louth, Mayo, Meath, Monaghan, Offaly, Roscommon, Sligo and Westmeath; and the city of Galway.^[9]

The main urban areas of Midlands–North-West (by population size) are Galway, Drogheda, Dundalk, Navan, Newbridge, Naas, Portlaoise, Athlone, Mullingar, Letterkenny, Celbridge, Sligo, Maynooth, Leixlip, Ashbourne and Tullamore.

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.

^ *: Outgoing MEP elected at the previous election.
^ †: Outgoing MEP co-opted subsequent to the previous election.

2024 election

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2024 European Parliament election: Midlands–North-West (5 seats)^[12][13][14]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
	Independent	Luke 'Ming' Flanagan[*]	11.50	78,214	78,551	78,700	78,855	79,019	79,582	79,842	80,484	81,122	81,663	82,856	84,665	88,033	89,660	95,314	103,653	106,461	110,533	118,754
	Fianna Fáil	Barry Cowen	10.87	73,908	73,995	74,041	74,110	74,204	74,237	74,326	74,488	74,603	74,830	75,328	75,594	76,326	76,545	78,208	78,841	84,965	85,592	89,449	115,977
	Fine Gael	Nina Carberry	10.87	73,888	74,000	74,110	74,193	74,286	74,349	74,592	74,955	75,090	75,672	76,946	77,205	78,474	78,717	80,364	82,086	86,268	86,865	90,842	98,118	98,872
	Fine Gael	Maria Walsh[*]	10.51	71,476	71,580	71,693	71,780	71,879	72,027	72,067	72,174	72,415	73,096	75,834	76,491	78,048	78,204	79,310	83,060	84,935	86,401	90,015	100,454	100,781
	Independent Ireland	Ciaran Mullooly	8.42	57,297	57,419	57,530	57,809	58,260	58,396	58,513	58,802	59,606	59,931	60,409	61,888	62,598	65,619	68,663	71,107	71,933	73,101	83,194	86,689	88,177
	Sinn Féin	Michelle Gildernew	6.74	45,807	45,917	45,957	46,050	46,093	46,383	46,485	46,826	47,032	47,345	47,833	48,074	49,584	50,151	51,254	53,129	54,103	74,795	79,398	81,639	82,723
	Fianna Fáil	Lisa Chambers	6.48	44,069	44,135	44,183	44,242	44,297	44,355	44,474	44,753	44,900	45,212	46,200	46,424	47,296	47,416	48,578	50,648	59,664	60,537	62,818
	Aontú	Peadar Tóibín	5.99	40,742	40,814	41,018	41,223	41,564	41,696	41,878	42,089	42,839	43,046	43,641	46,447	47,057	50,735	53,222	54,531	55,399	56,633
	Fianna Fáil	Niall Blaney	4.47	30,387	30,418	30,439	30,465	30,492	30,523	31,118	31,281	31,356	31,484	31,696	31,850	32,085	32,205	33,598	34,074
	Sinn Féin	Chris MacManus[†]	4.33	29,427	29,491	29,527	29,606	29,667	30,053	30,107	30,212	30,408	30,663	31,045	31,387	32,333	32,889	33,616	35,235	36,157
	Independent	Peter Casey	3.10	21,102	21,219	21,309	21,433	21,586	21,654	22,014	22,994	23,437	23,535	23,643	25,054	25,275	28,497
	Independent	Saoirse McHugh	2.79	18,976	19,343	19,464	19,744	19,802	20,360	20,414	20,546	21,049	21,547	23,848	24,801	29,234	29,928	31,519
	Social Democrats	Rory Hearne	2.21	15,023	15,102	15,172	15,201	15,210	15,825	15,852	15,942	15,977	16,926	19,202	19,279
	Irish Freedom	Hermann Kelly	2.04	13,904	13,967	14,084	14,562	14,950	15,003	15,550	16,543	17,210	17,273	17,313	20,885	21,029
	Green	Pauline O'Reilly	2.02	13,710	13,777	13,816	13,889	13,917	14,157	14,170	14,220	14,253	15,283
	Independent	John Waters	2.01	13,692	13,746	14,806	15,033	15,384	15,498	15,768	16,009	17,019	17,088	17,206
	Labour	Fergal Landy	1.03	6,970	7,024	7,041	7,070	7,078	7,238	7,246	7,321	7,350
	Independent	Michelle Smith	0.99	6,713	6,784	6,889	6,938	7,000	7,032	7,050	7,102
	The Irish People	Anthony Cahill	0.67	4,535	4,574	4,623	4,802	4,910	4,978	6,124
	National Party	Justin Barrett	0.60	4,086	4,132	4,164	4,267	4,769	4,791
	PBP–Solidarity	Brian O'Boyle	0.59	3,982	4,037	4,083	4,138	4,170
	National Party	James Reynolds	0.47	3,201	3,234	3,294	3,479
	Ireland First	Margaret Maguire	0.46	3,117	3,231	3,284
	Independent	Gerry Waters	0.44	3,015	3,056
	Independent	Charlotte Keenan	0.16	1,102
	Independent	Stephen Garland	0.16	1,079
	Independent	Daniel Pocock	0.08	524
Electorate: 1,318,190   Valid: 679,946   Spoilt: 20,754   Quota: 113,325   Turnout: 700,700 (53.10%)

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