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Cork North Central is a constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency has an electorate of 79,063 and at present is served by 5 Teachtaí Dála (TDs). The method of election is the Single Transferable Vote. A constituency (often called ridings)is any cohesive corporate unit or body bound by shared structures, goals or loyalty. ... DÃ¡il Ã‰ireann[1] is the lower house of the Oireachtas (parliament) of the Republic of Ireland. ... The Oireachtas is the National Parliament of the Republic of Ireland1. ... A TD or Teachta Dála (Irish for Dáil Deputy, pronounced chock-ta dawla) is a member of Dáil Éireann, the lower chamber of the Irish Oireachtas (pronounced orr-och-tas) or National Parliament. ... The Single Transferable Vote, or STV, is a preference voting system designed to minimise wasted votes in multi-candidate elections while ensuring that votes are explicitly for candidates rather than party lists. ...

The constituency is made up of the electoral areas of Cork City Council north of the river Lee, namely Cork North Central, Cork North East and Cork North West, and much of the Blarney electoral area of Cork County Council. Due to population decline in some parts the constituency is due to become a four seater at the next general election. Cork City Council (previously known as Cork Corporation) is a local government organisation in Cork City, responsible for providing services to citizens in the areas of : Housing & Community, Roads & Transportation, Planning & Development, Amenity & Culture, and Environment. ... The next general election in the Republic of Ireland need not occur until 2007. ...

Recent Results

2002 General Election: Cork North Central
Candidate		Party	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Noel O'Flynn	Fianna Fáil	7,387	16.36	1	4
	Kathleen Lynch	Labour	5,313	11.77	2	7
	Bernard Allen	Fine Gael	5,458	12.09	3	7
	Billy Kelleher	Fianna Fáil	5,801	12.85	4	7
	Dan Wallace	Fianna Fáil	5,537	12.27	5	7
	Gerry Kelly	Fine Gael	3,744	8.29
	Joe O'Callaghan	Independent	3,154	6.99
	Jonathan O'Brien	Sinn Féin	2,860	6.34
	John Minihan	Progressive Democrats	3,126	6.92
	Nicholas McMurray	Green	1,155	2.56
	Mick Barry	Socialist	936	2.07
	Ted Tynan	Workers Party	458	1.01
	Gerry Duffy	Christian Solidarity	215	0.48

The Irish general election of 2002 was held on Friday 17 May 2002, just over three weeks after the dissolution of the 28th DÃ¡il on Thursday 25 April by President Mary McAleese, at the request of the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern. ... Fianna FÃ¡il - The Republican Party (IPA ; English translation: Soldiers of Destiny) is the largest political party in Ireland. ... Kathleen Lynch is an Irish Labour Party politician. ... The Labour Party (Irish: PÃ¡irti an Lucht Oibre) is the third largest political party in the Republic of Ireland. ... Bernard Allen is an Irish Fine Gael politician. ... Fine Gael (IPA in English and in Irish, approximate English translation: Family of the Irish) is the second largest political party in both the Republic of Ireland and Ireland as a whole. ... Fianna FÃ¡il - The Republican Party (IPA ; English translation: Soldiers of Destiny) is the largest political party in Ireland. ... Fianna FÃ¡il - The Republican Party (IPA ; English translation: Soldiers of Destiny) is the largest political party in Ireland. ... Fine Gael (IPA in English and in Irish, approximate English translation: Family of the Irish) is the second largest political party in both the Republic of Ireland and Ireland as a whole. ... The name Sinn FÃ©in (pronounced in English, in Irish), which means ourselves or we ourselves (not as sometimes incorrectly translated, ourselves alone or we alone) has been applied to a series of political movements since 1905 in Ireland, each of which claim or claimed sole descent from the original... John Minihan is an Irish politician and member of the 22nd Seanad Ã‰ireann for the Progressive Democrats. ... The Progressive Democrats (in Irish An Páirtí Daonlathach) is a free market liberal party in the Republic of Ireland founded in 1985. ... The Green Party/Comhaontas Glas was founded as the Ecology Party of Ireland in 1981. ... The Socialist Party (in Irish PÃ¡irtÃ SÃ³isialach) is a political party active in Ireland. ... Categories: Ireland-related stubs | Irish political parties | Republic of Ireland political parties | Northern Ireland political parties ... The Christian Solidarity Party (An Comhar Críostaí) is a conservative political party in Ireland without parliamentary representation. ...

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