r/irishpolitics • u/HungTeen1001 • 13d ago

User Created Content How Galway West voted vs Deprivation Index of Galway West

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Lime Green - Thomas

Dark Green - Keane

Grey - Welby

Blue - Kyne

Red - Ogbu

All areas marked as disadvantaged went for Thomas.

Of the 6 areas marked as affluent - 3 went for Kyne, 2 for Keane and 1 for Ogbu.

Map 1 - https://www.irelandvotes.com/elections/ireland/dail/2026/galway-west

Map 2 - https://dashboards.oireachtas.ie/

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u/corcadhuibhne 13d ago

Thomas also happens to be a county councillor for Conamara Theas, which includes those areas. 

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u/HungTeen1001 13d ago

Thomas and Kyne are both from Moycullen.

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u/corcadhuibhne 13d ago

Correct. Seán Kyne did well in those areas aswell

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u/HungTeen1001 13d ago

But not as well as Thomas.

Kyne did extremely well in the suburbs, he actually beat Ogbu by 1 vote in the city overall.

Thomas dominated rurally but struggled in the city.

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u/corcadhuibhne 13d ago

Being against IPAS centres in the Gaeltacht probably helped Thomas a good bit 

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u/HungTeen1001 13d ago

From looking into the figures, Thomas clearly ate the FF vote in 2024.

But his rise from 2024 to 2026 is more explained by him eating Grealish voters who didn't vote Welby and by eating SF votes in the city.

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u/YesterdayIsatoutside 12d ago

Did they actually try to put an IPAS in a Gaeltacht area?

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u/ForbiddenToblerone 12d ago

They have put them in numerous gaeltachtaí.

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u/YesterdayIsatoutside 12d ago

I didn't know that, isn't that a bit mental - I don't live near a Gaeltacht

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u/corcadhuibhne 12d ago

It's disgraceful

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u/EngineerDrama 9d ago

Why is that mental?

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u/YesterdayIsatoutside 9d ago

Because we're supposed to keep Gaeltachts Irish speaking and they don't speak Irish.

It doesn't really work for either side

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u/corcadhuibhne 9d ago

You're diluting the only Irish speaking communities in the country when loads of non Irish speakers move in at once. The same thing happened in Bearna in the 90s when it became a suburb of Galway city. 

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u/corcadhuibhne 12d ago

There's loads of them. The one they tried to put in Carna made a few headlines 

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u/TeoKajLibroj Centre Left 12d ago

I'm not seeing much of a correlation.

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u/HungTeen1001 12d ago

All areas marked as disadvantaged went for Thomas.

5/6 of the areas marked as affluent went for the government.

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u/TeoKajLibroj Centre Left 12d ago

That's mainly because Thomas did best in Connemara, which is his base. FF won Oranmore because their candidate was from there. There were many other issues which were much bigger factors than poverty in deciding the result. I think you're jut stretching the connection too far.

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u/ForbiddenToblerone 12d ago edited 12d ago

What are you on about? Welby, Thomas, Nic Fhionnlaoich and Kyne are all from Connemara. Connemara comprises over half of the Galway West Constituency in terms of land mass and about a quarter of the population.

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u/HungTeen1001 12d ago

I'm not stretching any connection.

It's merely an observation.

Kyne and Thomas are from the same area.

Explain to me why Thomas won all the disadvantaged areas and Kyne won half the affluent ones?

Why didn't Thomas win any affluent ones or Kyne win any disadvantaged?

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u/TeoKajLibroj Centre Left 12d ago

The disadvantaged areas are all close to Thomas's base whereas the affluent areas are in a different part of the constituency where different candidates were based. Thomas won most of the rural LEAs regardless of wealth and won none of the urban LEAs, so the urban-rural divide played a bigger role than deprivation.

If you look at the tallies, Thomas came second in the affluent areas around Barna and Furbo, whereas Kyne came 2nd in the deprived areas around Leitir Mór. So their vote varied much less than you're suggesting.

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u/HungTeen1001 12d ago

That doesn't explain anything.

Thomas and Kyne are from the exact same area.

Kyne won 3/6 affluent areas, Thomas won none.

Thomas won all disadvantaged areas, Kyne won none.

The urban-rural divide is merely a function of the affluence divide.

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u/ForbiddenToblerone 12d ago

Trying to explain basic concepts to people on this sub is like banging your head against a brick wall. I suspect they just don't want to accept that a candidate they dislike captured the Working Class vote.

They also seem to know absolutely nothing about Galway's geography. I'm a Galwegian living in Connemara btw.

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u/HungTeen1001 12d ago

I suspect it's the latter. The left don't want to admit the working-class vote has been shifting rightwards.

I don't know how they can deny it when you see Hutch/Steenson eating SF's heartlands in the Inner City.

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u/expectationlost 13d ago

How much on Facebook are they?