DOCSLIB.ORG

Q4 2015 Donations and Loans

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Q4 2015 Donations and Loans Summary of political parties’ donations and borrowing for quarter four 2015 (October to December) The Electoral Commission is an independent body set up by the UK Parliament. We regulate party and election finance and set standards for well- run elections. Registered political parties are required to report quarterly donation and borrowing returns to us within 30 days of the end of each calendar quarter. This document is a summary of donations and borrowing reported to us in the quarter four 2015 returns. Find full analysis and breakdown of the figures for quarter four 2015 here: http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/find-information-by-subject/political- parties-campaigning-and-donations/donations-and-loans-to-political- parties/quarterly-donations-and-loans Read our news release on the quarter four donations and loans here: http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/i-am-a/journalist/electoral-commission- media-centre/news-releases-donations/political-parties-latest-donations-and- borrowing-figures-published22 Donations Table 1: Reported donations to all political parties over the last four quarters Quarter Donations Public funds Donations total excluding public funds Q4 2015 £9,225,096 £2,235,621 £11,460,787 Q3 2015 £6,088,450 £3,413,776 £9,502,226 Q2 2015 £21,059,522 £1,738,649 £22,798,170 Q1 2015 £30,746,702 £2,366,125 £33,112,827 Total £67,119,770 £9,754,171 £76,874,010 Table 2: Donations to political parties accepted in quarter four 2015 (October to December) Party Donations Public funds Total excluding accepted in public funds Quarter four 2015 British National Party £180,000 - £180,000 Cannabis is Safer than Alcohol £40,789 - £40,789 Conservative Party £5,152,334 £303,740 £5,456,074 Co-operative Party £16,000 - £16,000 English Democrats £1,500 - £1,500 Green Party £46,230 £52,203 £98,433 Labour Party £2,669,241 £1,496,657 £4,165,968 Liberal Democrats £828,657 - £828,657 Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales £22,000 - £22,000 Scottish Green Party £16,032 - £16,032 Scottish National Party (SNP) £54,030 £293,152 £347,182 The Radical Party £2,000 - £2,000 UK Independence Party (UKIP) £196,282 £89,869 £286,151 Total £9,225,096 £2,235,621 £11,460,787 Table 3: Donations accepted in previous quarters and reported late in quarter four 2015 Party Central Party Accounting unit Value Number Value Number Conservative Party £3,908 3 £11,176 1 Co-operative Party - - £42,500 4 Green Party - - £2,368 2 Liberal Democrats - - £36,385 10 Total £3,908 3 £92,429.00 17 Table 4: Top donors for quarter four 2015 Donor Name Total amount (£) Recipient Unite the Union £938,297 Labour Party Unison £353,498 Labour Party GMB £327,460 Labour Party Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied £317,475 Labour Party Workers Mr Alexander A. Fraser £250,000 Conservative Party Countywide Developments Ltd £232,920 Conservative Party Mr David E. D. Brownlow £210,000 Conservative Party National Conservative Draws Society £154,000 Conservative Party Sun Mark Ltd £150,610 Conservative Party Flowidea Ltd £150,000 Conservative Party Mr Dennis Stanley Radmore £150,000 British National Party Public funds Table 5: Total of public funds accepted by parties in quarter four 2015 by type Party Short money Cranborne Financial Policy Total (House of money (House assistance to Development Grant Commons)1 of Lords)2 parties (Scottish Parliament)3 Conservative Party - - £29,444 £274,296 £303,740 Green Party £52,203 - - - £52,203 Labour Party £1,030,609 £126,327 £70,112 £269,609 £1,496,657 Scottish National Party £293,152 - - - £293,152 (SNP) UK Independence - - - £89,869 £89,869 Party (UKIP) Total £1,375,964 £126,327 £99,556 £633,774 £2,235,621 1 Allocated to opposition parties in the House of Commons to assist with costs 2 Allocated to opposition parties in the House of Lords to assist with costs 3 Allocated to opposition parties in the Scottish Parliament to assist with costs Late reporting There were 431 registered political parties in Great Britain during Quarter 4 2015. 117 were required to submit a quarterly donation report and 112 to submit borrowing information within the deadline. Of these, the following parties failed to submit a donation or loan report for the Q4 2015 deadline. Donations Abolish The Welsh Assembly Party Apni Party Christian Party "Proclaiming Christ's Lordship" Digital Democracy Everyone's Party For Russia Friends Party Hucknall First Community Forum Immigrants Political Party Kitten Independence Party New Parliament Party Oxfordshire Independent Party Radcliffe Independence Party RISE - Respect, Independence, Socialism and Environmentalism Rochdale First Party Rural Oxfordshire Action Rally - ROAR Support Stafford Group The Diamond Party The Globelization Liberation Dream Party The Independent Party For East Staffordshire The Northern Party United Kingdom Democratic and Demographic Party We Are The Reality Party World Peace Through Song Borrowing A Better Britain – Unionist Party Abolish The Welsh Assembly Party Apni Party Christian Party "Proclaiming Christ's Lordship" Digital Democracy Everyone's Party For Russia Friends Party Hucknall First Community Forum Immigrants Political Party Kitten Independence Party New Parliament Party Oxfordshire Independent Party People Social Freedom Party Radcliffe Independence Party RISE - Respect, Independence, Socialism and Environmentalism Rochdale First Party Rural Oxfordshire Action Rally - ROAR The Diamond Party The Globelization Liberation Dream Party The Independent Party For East Staffordshire The New Society of Worth The Northern Party The UK Progressive Democracy Party United Kingdom Democratic and Demographic Party We Are The Reality Party All other parties are currently exempt from quarterly reporting. Note: Parties that submit nil returns for four consecutive quarters are then exempt from quarterly reporting. The exemption continues to apply unless the party receives reportable donations again at which point the exemption is lifted and the party would again have to submit quartely reports to the Commission. Any potential breaches of the legislation will be considered in line with our usual enforcement policy, which can be viewed here: Borrowing Table 6: Total outstanding borrowing by party as at 30 October 2015 Party Loans4 Credit Connected facilities5 transactions6 Alliance EPP: European £36,680 - - People’s Party UK British National Party £37,000 - - Christian Party "Proclaiming £203,000 - - Christ's Lordship" Conservative Party £994,216 £5,556,000 - English Democrats £166,644 - - Equal and Just Society £8,000 - - Labour Party £1,755,975 £10,000 - Liberal Democrats £501,996 £680,000 £40,000 Plaid Cymru - The Party of £9,413 £50,000 - Wales Scottish National Party (SNP) £165,553 - - Scottish Socialist Party £63,000 £10,000 - Scottish Voice [De-registered £200,000 - - 12/11/15] The Peoples Party For Better £7,800 - - Government The Respect Party £18,417 - - UK Independence Party £529,954 - - (UKIP) Total £4,697,649 £6,306,000 £40,000 4 This is the maximum value of loans entered into by a party. In some instances, amounts may have been repaid and converted to donations. Further detail is available on PEF Online 5 Credit facilities are an agreement where a registered party is entitled to receive a loan of money from time to time from another person (or organisation). The credit facility will generally have an upper limit specified in the credit facility agreement. Examples of common credit facilities include overdrafts and credit cards. The amount displayed is the maximum that can be borrowed and not the amount that is drawn upon at any one time 6 Connected transactions are an arrangement where a person (or organisation) gives any form of security on behalf of a political party in respect of a loan or a credit facility arranged with someone other than the party or the person giving security. Where a person (or organisation) has provided security or a guarantee, it is the maximum that they could be liable to pay. Table 7: New loans reported in quarter four 2015 Full details of loans, including the date on which the loan was entered into, date repayable, interest rate (whether fixed, variable or nil), whether security was given and details of the lender are available at: http://search.electoralcommission.org.uk/ Party Total value of new loans Alliance EPP: European People’s Party UK £9,381 Conservative Party £12,000 Labour Party £5,000 Liberal Democrats £632,914 UK Independence Party (UKIP) £51,996 Total £711,291 Table 8: Loans repaid in full or converted to donations reported in quarter four 2015 Changes to terms and conditions of borrowings (such as changes to interest rate and repayment or review date) must also be reported to us. These details are available to view at: http://search.electoralcommission.org.uk/ Party Loans converted to Loans repaid in full donations (including partial conversion) Conservative Party £1,500 £135,500 Liberal Democrats £5,500 £509,375 Total £7,000 £644,875 .
Load more

Recommended publications
  • 1 Decision of the Election Committee on a Due Impartiality Complaint Brought by the Respect Party in Relation to the London Deba
    Decision of the Election Committee on a due impartiality complaint brought by the Respect Party in relation to The London Debate ITV London, 5 April 2016 LBC 97.3 , 5 April 2016 1. On Friday 29 April 2016, Ofcom’s Election Committee (“the Committee”)1 met to consider and adjudicate on a complaint made by the Respect Party in relation to its candidate for the London Mayoral election, George Galloway (“the Complaint”). The Complaint was about the programme The London Debate, broadcast in ITV’s London region on ITV, and on ITV HD and ITV+1 at 18:00 on Tuesday 5 April 2016 (“the Programme”). The Programme was broadcast simultaneously by LBC on the local analogue radio station LBC 97.3, as well as nationally on DAB radio and on digital television (as a radio channel). 2. The Committee consisted of the following members: Nick Pollard (Chair, Member of the Ofcom Content Board); Dame Lynne Brindley DBE (Member of the Ofcom Board and Content Board); Janey Walker (Member of the Ofcom Content Board); and Tony Close (Ofcom Director with responsibility for Content Standards, Licensing and Enforcement and Member of the Ofcom Content Board). 3. For the reasons set out in this decision, having considered all of the submissions and evidence before it under the relevant provisions of the Broadcasting Code (“the Code”), the Committee decided not to uphold the Respect Party’s complaint. The Committee found that in respect of ITV the broadcast of the Programme complied with the requirements of the Code. In the case of LBC, the Programme did not a contain list of candidates in the 2016 London Mayoral election (in audio form) and LBC therefore breached Rule 6.11.
    [Show full text]
  • {DOWNLOAD} Politics in Europe: an Introduction To
    POLITICS IN EUROPE: AN INTRODUCTION TO POLITICS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM,FRANCE AND GERMANY 5TH EDITION PDF, EPUB, EBOOK M Donald Hancock | 9781604266115 | | | | | Politics in Europe: An Introduction to Politics in the United Kingdom,France and Germany 5th edition PDF Book The public take part in Parliament in a way that is not the case at Westminster through Cross-Party Groups on policy topics which the interested public join and attend meetings of alongside Members of the Scottish Parliament MSPs. Regions of Asia. The radical feminists believe that these are rooted in the structures of family or domestic life. This group currently has 51 MPs. Parsons, T. Under this proposal, most MPs would be directly elected from constituencies by the alternative vote , with a number of additional members elected from "top-up lists. Sheriff courts deal with most civil and criminal cases including conducting criminal trials with a jury, known that as Sheriff solemn Court, or with a Sheriff and no jury, known as Sheriff summary Court. Sociologists usually apply the term to such conflicts only if they are initiated and conducted in accordance with socially recognized forms. The small Gallo-Roman population there became submerged among the German immigrants, and Latin ceased to be the language of everyday speech. Nevertheless, many radical feminists claim that a matriarchal society would be more peaceful compared to the patriarchal one. Powers reserved by Westminster are divided into "excepted matters", which it retains indefinitely, and "reserved matters", which may be transferred to the competence of the Northern Ireland Assembly at a future date.
    [Show full text]
  • Scottish Parliament Election 2011 – Campaign Expenditure
    Scottish Parliament election 2011 – campaign expenditure Contents Table 1: Summary of spending at the Scottish Parliament election 1 2011 Table 2: Total spend at the 2003, 2007 and 2011 Scottish 2 Parliament elections by party Chart 1: Total spend at the 2003, 2007 and 2011 Scottish 2 Parliament elections by party Table 3: Total spend at the Scottish Parliament election 2011 by 3 category Chart 2: Total spend at the Scottish Parliament election 2011 by 4 category Table 4: Total spend at the 2003, 2007 and 2011 Scottish 5 Parliament elections by party and category Chart 3: Total spend at the 2003, 2007 and 2011 Scottish 6 Parliament elections by category Chart 4: Total spend at the 2003, 2007 and 2011 Scottish 7 Parliament elections by party and category Glossary 8 Scottish Parliament election 2011 – campaign expenditure Table 1: Summary of spending at the Scottish Parliament election 2011 Regions Constituencies Spending Payments Notional Party name contested contested limit made expenditure Total All Scotland Pensioners Party 8 2 £664,000 £12,034 £0 £12,034 Angus Independents Representatives (AIR) 1 1 £92,000 £1,699 £0 £1,699 Ban Bankers Bonuses 2 0 £160,000 £4,254 £275 £4,529 British National Party 8 0 £640,000 £9,379 £400 £9,779 Christian Party "Proclaiming Christ's Lordship 8 2 £664,000 £352 £0 £352 Christian People's Alliance 2 0 £160,000 £988 £0 £988 Communist Party of Britain 0 1 £12,000 £0 £0 £0 Conservative and Unionist Party 8 73 £1,516,000 £256,610 £16,852 £273,462 Co-operative Party 0 11 £132,000 £1,865 £0 £1,865 Labour Party
    [Show full text]
  • Race and Elections
    Runnymede Perspectives Race and Elections Edited by Omar Khan and Kjartan Sveinsson Runnymede: Disclaimer This publication is part of the Runnymede Perspectives Intelligence for a series, the aim of which is to foment free and exploratory thinking on race, ethnicity and equality. The facts presented Multi-ethnic Britain and views expressed in this publication are, however, those of the individual authors and not necessariliy those of the Runnymede Trust. Runnymede is the UK’s leading independent thinktank on race equality ISBN: 978-1-909546-08-0 and race relations. Through high-quality research and thought leadership, we: Published by Runnymede in April 2015, this document is copyright © Runnymede 2015. Some rights reserved. • Identify barriers to race equality and good race Open access. Some rights reserved. relations; The Runnymede Trust wants to encourage the circulation of • Provide evidence to its work as widely as possible while retaining the copyright. support action for social The trust has an open access policy which enables anyone change; to access its content online without charge. Anyone can • Influence policy at all download, save, perform or distribute this work in any levels. format, including translation, without written permission. This is subject to the terms of the Creative Commons Licence Deed: Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales. Its main conditions are: • You are free to copy, distribute, display and perform the work; • You must give the original author credit; • You may not use this work for commercial purposes; • You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work. You are welcome to ask Runnymede for permission to use this work for purposes other than those covered by the licence.
    [Show full text]
  • Although Many European Radical Left Parties
    Peace, T. (2013) All I'm asking, is for a little respect: assessing the performance of Britain's most successful radical left party. Parliamentary Affairs, 66(2), pp. 405-424. There may be differences between this version and the published version. You are advised to consult the publisher’s version if you wish to cite from it. http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/144518/ Deposited on: 21 July 2017 Enlighten – Research publications by members of the University of Glasgow http://eprints.gla.ac.uk 2 All I’m asking, is for a little Respect: assessing the performance of Britain’s most successful radical left party BY TIMOTHY PEACE1 ABSTRACT This article offers an overview of the genesis, development and decline of the Respect Party, a rare example of a radical left party which has achieved some degree of success in the UK. It analyses the party’s electoral fortunes and the reasons for its inability to expand on its early breakthroughs in East London and Birmingham. Respect received much of its support from Muslim voters, although the mere presence of Muslims in a given area was not enough for Respect candidates to get elected. Indeed, despite criticism of the party for courting only Muslims, it did not aim to draw its support from these voters alone. Moreover, its reliance on young people and investment in local campaigning on specific political issues was often in opposition to the traditional ethnic politics which have characterised the electoral process in some areas. When the British public awoke on the morning of Friday 6th May 2005 most would have been unsurprised to discover that the Labour Party had clung on to power but with a reduced majority, as had been widely predicted.
    [Show full text]
  • Party Politics
    Party Politics http://ppq.sagepub.com/ `This is What Happens When You Don't Listen' : All-Women Shortlists at the 2005 General Election David Cutts, Sarah Childs and Edward Fieldhouse Party Politics 2008 14: 575 DOI: 10.1177/1354068808093391 The online version of this article can be found at: http://ppq.sagepub.com/content/14/5/575 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: Political Organizations and Parties Section of the American Political Science Association Additional services and information for Party Politics can be found at: Email Alerts: http://ppq.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions: http://ppq.sagepub.com/subscriptions Reprints: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsReprints.nav Permissions: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav Citations: http://ppq.sagepub.com/content/14/5/575.refs.html >> Version of Record - Aug 18, 2008 What is This? Downloaded from ppq.sagepub.com at RUTGERS UNIV on January 28, 2013 PARTY POLITICS VOL 14. No.5 pp. 575–595 Copyright © 2008 SAGE Publications Los Angeles London New Delhi Singapore www.sagepublications.com ‘THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DON’T LISTEN’ All-Women Shortlists at the 2005 General Election David Cutts, Sarah Childs and Edward Fieldhouse ABSTRACT Labour’s All-Women Shortlists (AWS), an example of an equality guarantee, have proved they can deliver. Labour’s 98 women constitute 77 percent of all the women MPs in the House of Commons and 27.5 percent of the Parliamentary Labour Party. Moreover, half of all Labour’s women MPs currently sitting in the House of Commons were selected on AWS, either in 1997 or 2005.
    [Show full text]
  • Secondary School Politics Competition 2013 Campaign Slogan Competition
    Secondary School Politics Competition 2013 Campaign slogan competition Competition Guidelines In the aftermath of the recent local elections, where none of the major political parties secured more than 30% of the vote, and average voter turnout at less The competition is open than a third, the ability of the political parties to connect with the public seems to individuals or teams of to be at an all-time low. up to three students Therefore we would like you to come up with a campaign slogan for each of The deadline for submissions is Friday 18 three political parties of your choice, which you feel best express the policies October 2013 and values of that party, and which you believe would be effective in attracting support from the public, if an election was to be held this year. Please select Entries should be sent to your three parties from the list below. us on a single A4 page Word document. Please Remember, these are slogans, so they should be relatively short, concise and make it clear which party memorable. You should also consider the type of people that the parties are the slogan is for! trying to reach. Entrants should be in Years 9 to 11 or S2 to S4 The Political Studies Association is now inviting all students in Years 9 to 11 or S2 to S4 in Scotland to submit entries. This competition is open to all students, The winner(s) will receive regardless of whether they are studying a trophy and win a trip to GCSE Politics and Government or Standard Westminster Grade Modern Studies.
    [Show full text]
  • Electoral Shocks: the Volatile Voter in a Turbulent World
    OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 19/11/19, SPi Electoral Shocks OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 19/11/19, SPi OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 19/11/19, SPi Electoral Shocks The Volatile Voter in a Turbulent World EDWARD FIELDHOUSE JANE GREEN GEOFFREY EVANS JONATHAN MELLON CHRISTOPHER PROSSER HERMANN SCHMITT CEES VAN DER EIJK 1 OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 31/12/20, SPi 1 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP, United Kingdom Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries © Edward Fieldhouse, Jane Green, Geoffrey Evans, Jonathan Mellon, Christopher Prosser, Hermann Schmitt, and Cees van der Eijk 2020 The moral rights of the authors have been asserted First Edition published in 2020 Impression: 1 Some rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, for commercial purposes, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by licence or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. This is an open access publication, available online and distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial – No Derivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), a copy of which is available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. For any use not expressly allowed in the CC BY-NC-ND licence terms, please contact the publisher at the address above.
    [Show full text]
  • Parliamentary Affairs Following Peer Review
    1 This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Parliamentary Affairs following peer review. The version of record Peace T (2013) All I’m asking, is for a little Respect: assessing the performance of Britain’s most successful radical left party, Parliamentary Affairs, 66 (2), pp. 405-424 is available online at: http://pa.oxfordjournals.org/content/66/2/405 2 All I’m asking, is for a little Respect: assessing the performance of Britain’s most successful radical left party BY TIMOTHY PEACE1 ABSTRACT This article offers an overview of the genesis, development and decline of the Respect Party, a rare example of a radical left party which has achieved some degree of success in the UK. It analyses the party’s electoral fortunes and the reasons for its inability to expand on its early breakthroughs in East London and Birmingham. Respect received much of its support from Muslim voters, although the mere presence of Muslims in a given area was not enough for Respect candidates to get elected. Indeed, despite criticism of the party for courting only Muslims, it did not aim to draw its support from these voters alone. Moreover, its reliance on young people and investment in local campaigning on specific political issues was often in opposition to the traditional ethnic politics which have characterised the electoral process in some areas. When the British public awoke on the morning of Friday 6th May 2005 most would have been unsurprised to discover that the Labour Party had clung on to power but with a reduced majority, as had been widely predicted.
    [Show full text]
  • A TUSC Timeline
    ■ A TUSC timeline 2009 ■ Early in 2009 the No2EU:Yes to Democracy coalition is established to stand candidates in the 4 June European parliament elections on a platform of opposition to the EU’s neo- liberal agenda. The coalition involves the RMT – with general secretary Bob Crow heading the candidates’ list in London – the Socialist Party, the Communist Party of Britain (CPB), Scottish Solidarity, and others, including convenors and leading activists from the Visteon plant closures and Lindsey oil refinery construction workers’ disputes, prominent industrial struggles of that year. ■ No2EU stands candidates for all eleven regional lists and polls 153,236 votes. With the RMT’s formal backing this was the first time a trade union had supported a national electoral challenge to Labour since the formation of the Labour Representation Committee in 1900. The coalition participants continue to meet in the summer to discuss how the successful model of co-operation between different forces could be continued and a common platform of core policies agreed for the general election due in 2010. ■ Resulting from a resolution at the RMT annual general meeting (AGM) a conference to discuss working class political representation is hosted by the union on 7 November, at which it is announced that a federally-organised coalition has been agreed which will stand candidates in the coming general election (with the name still to be finalised). Speakers at the conference include Bob Crow, Joe Higgins (Socialist Party Ireland MEP), Dave Nellist, FBU general secretary Matt Wrack and… Jeremy Corbyn! On the issue of working class political representation the then backbench Labour MP says “there has always been a debate, in or out of the Labour Party, but what we can agree on is the need to stand up against war and poverty”.
    [Show full text]
  • Reflections of a Young Journalist Working Within the Parliament Of
    Syracuse University SURFACE Syracuse University Honors Program Capstone Syracuse University Honors Program Capstone Projects Projects Spring 5-1-2010 Reflections of a oungY Journalist Working Within The Parliament of the United Kingdom Joe Frandino Follow this and additional works at: https://surface.syr.edu/honors_capstone Part of the Comparative Politics Commons, and the Other Political Science Commons Recommended Citation Frandino, Joe, "Reflections of a oungY Journalist Working Within The Parliament of the United Kingdom" (2010). Syracuse University Honors Program Capstone Projects. 405. https://surface.syr.edu/honors_capstone/405 This Honors Capstone Project is brought to you for free and open access by the Syracuse University Honors Program Capstone Projects at SURFACE. It has been accepted for inclusion in Syracuse University Honors Program Capstone Projects by an authorized administrator of SURFACE. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Abstract The purpose of my Capstone project is to present a personalized insight into the British political and journalistic systems, and how they contrast with their respective American counterparts. As an intern in the British Houses of Parliament, and with the news department of the Liberal Democratic Party of the United Kingdom, I will present significant experiences and understandings, as well as the changes I underwent during my semester in London, England during the spring of 2009. Table of Contents Capstone Summary Here I present a brief explanation of the project’s construction, content, and purpose. I discuss why I think the project is a personally meaningful piece of work, and how others can share from the work and insight present within my project.
    [Show full text]
  • 1 the 2020 General Election
    The 2020 General Election: A Gender Analysis Fiona Buckley and Yvonne Galligan University College Cork and Technological University Dublin Orcid: 0000-0002-9411-5081 and Orcid: 0000-0003-4624-3959 Introduction When the 33rd Dáil met for the first time on Thursday 20 February 2020, 36 female TDs took their seats. This is the highest number of women to be elected at a general election in Ireland, but an increase of only one since the 2016 election. The proportion of women in the Dáil now stands at 22.5 per cent, a record high. However, gender parity is still a long way off. Why this is so and what measures could help address this fundamental democratic deficit are discussed in this report. The 2020 general election held mixed fortunes for women candidates. On the one hand it was a very successful day for female party leaders Mary Lou McDonald (Sinn Féin), Catherine Murphy and Róisín Shortall (Social Democrats co-leaders) as they saw their parties’ Dáil representation increase in size. Furthermore, sixteen new women TDs were elected. However, these advances were counteracted by the loss of a number of prominent women from Dáil Éireann. It was a bad day for long-standing TDs and former cabinet ministers Joan Burton and Jan O’Sullivan. Their departure from the Dáil leaves the Labour party with an all-male team of deputies. High profile casualties also included cabinet ministers Regina Doherty (Fine Gael), Katherine Zappone (Independent) and ministers of state Catherine Byrne (Fine Gael) and Mary Mitchell-O’Connor (Fine Gael). Other prominent losses included Fianna Fáil’s Lisa Chambers, Margaret Murphy-O’Mahony and Fiona O’Loughlin; Fine Gael’s Marcella Corcoran-Kennedy and Kate O’Connell; and Solidarity’s Ruth Coppinger.
    [Show full text]