Labour Party (Ireland) leadership election, 2014

Labour Party leadership election, 2014

4 July 2014 (2014-07-04)



Candidate	Joan Burton	Alex White
Party	Labour Party	Labour Party
Percentage	77%	22%

Leader before election

Eamon Gilmore

Elected Leader

Joan Burton

The 2014 Labour Party leadership election was held following the resignation of Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore as Leader of the Labour Party in the aftermath the party's poor showing at the local and European elections. A postal ballot was held to elect a successor. Nominations opened on 27 May and closed on 2 June.^[1]

Candidates

Two candidates contested the leadership election:

Joan Burton, Deputy leader and Minister for Social Protection^[2]
Alex White, Minister of State for Health with Responsibility for Primary Care ^[3]

Deputy leader

Along with the position of leader, there was also be an election to fill the Deputy leadership that fell vacant on the resignation of the Leader.^[4] Four candidates contested it.^[5]^[6]

Ciara Conway, TD for Waterford
Alan Kelly, Minister of State for Transport with Responsibility for Public and Commuter Transport
Michael McCarthy, TD for Cork South–West
Seán Sherlock, Minister of State for Research and Innovation

Debates

There were 5 leadership election debates held across Ireland during the election campaign.

Labour Party leadership election debates, 2014
*N°.*	Date	Place	Leadership candidates		Deputy Leadership candidates
P Participant. N Non-invitee. A Absent invitee.			Burton	White	Conway	Kelly	McCarthy	Sherlock
1	June 9, 2014	Radisson Blu Hotel, Dublin Airport	P	P	P	P	P	P
2	June 16, 2014	Clayton Hotel, Galway	P	P	P	P	P	P
3	June 19, 2014	Rochestown Park Hotel, Cork	P	P	P	P	P	P
4	June 21, 2014	Tom Johnson Summer School, Portlaoise Heritage Hotel, Portlaoise	P	P	P	P	P	P
5	June 26, 2014	Mansion House, Dublin	P	P	P	P	P	P

Result

Joan Burton was elected as leader with 78% of the vote. Alan Kelly was elected as deputy leader.^[7]^[8]^[9]

Leadership election
Candidate	Votes	%
Joan Burton	2,094	77.0%
Alex White	607	22.3%
Spoiled	19	0.7%

Deputy leader election
Candidate	Votes	%
Alan Kelly	1,409	51.5%
Seán Sherlock	467	17.1%
Michael McCarthy	438	16.0%
Ciara Conway	421	15.4%
Spoiled	3	0.1%

References

↑ http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/eamon-gilmore-quits-as-labour-leader-1.1809400
↑ http://www.thejournal.ie/new-labour-leader-1486518-May2014/
↑ http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/elections/adrian-kavanagh-ace-of-bases-who-should-be-the-next-labour-party-leader-30306117.htm
↑ http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/elections/gilmore-quit-ahead-of-ministers-threat-to-force-his-hand-30306880.html
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↑ "Need to govern with more heart, says Joan Burton". RTÉ News. 4 July 2014.
↑ "Joan Burton wins 76pc of votes to become new Labour Party leader". Irish Independent. 4 July 2014. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
↑ "Joan Burton happy to take the reins as Labour leader". Irish Examiner. 4 July 2014. Retrieved 7 July 2014.

Labour Party

History

History of the Labour Party Democratic Left Democratic Socialist Party Irish Land and Labour Association Irish Worker League Militant Tendency National Labour Party Republican Labour Party Socialist Labour Party

Leadership

Leaders	Thomas Johnson (1917–27) Thomas J. O'Connell (1927–32) William Norton (1932–60) Brendan Corish (1960–77) Frank Cluskey (1977–81) Michael O'Leary (1981–82) Dick Spring (1982–97) Ruairi Quinn (1997–2002) Pat Rabbitte (2002–07) Eamon Gilmore (2007–14) Joan Burton (2014–16) Brendan Howlin (2016–)

Deputy leaders	Barry Desmond (1982–89) Ruairi Quinn (1989–97) Brendan Howlin (1997–2002) Liz McManus (2002–07) Joan Burton (2007–14) Alan Kelly (2014–16)

Seanad leaders	Michael Ferris (1981–89) Jack Harte (1989–93) Jan O'Sullivan (1993–97) Joe Costello (1997–02) Brendan Ryan (2002–07) Alex White (2007–11) Phil Prendergast (2011) (acting) Ivana Bacik (2011–)

Presidents	Proinsias De Rossa (1999–2002) Michael D. Higgins (2003–11)

Leadership elections

2014 (Burton) 2016 (Howlin)

Party structures

Leader of the Labour Party Labour Party Front Bench Labour Youth Labour Women

Presidential candidates

Mary Robinson (1990) Adi Roche (1997) Michael D. Higgins (2011)

Elected representatives

Dáil Éireann	Burton Howlin Kelly O'Sullivan Penrose Ryan Sherlock

Seanad Éireann	Bacik Humphreys Landy Nash Ó Ríordáin

International Affiliations

European	Party of European Socialists Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats

International	Progressive Alliance Socialist International

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