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The 2024 general election – a gender analysis
| dc.check.date | 2027-02-26 | en |
| dc.check.info | Access to this article is restricted until 18 months after publication by request of the publisher | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Buckley, Fiona | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Galligan, Yvonne | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-09T11:17:39Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-10-09T11:17:39Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025-08-26 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | For women in Irish politics, the November 2024 general election was one of both progress and enduring challenges. While women secured a record number of votes, and more women sit in Dáil Éireann than ever before, the overall gender balance in Irish politics remains largely unchanged, and across all political parties, men are attracting more first preference votes on average. Here we offer some explanations for why this is the case. Examining candidate selection data, we show that women are more likely than men to be added ‘to the ticket’ and in some cases, are added quite late, negating against an effective run for office. Furthermore, in 2024, men were overwhelmingly selected to fill party vacancies that arose due to retirements, vacancies that were targeted by parties as winnable seats. Altogether, we suggest that voting patterns cannot be viewed in isolation from party candidate strategies. While the number of women running and winning seats has increased since the adoption of the legislative gender quota legislation, a continued focus on party behaviour in relation to candidate selection must be maintained, if the gender gap in electoral success is to be narrowed and gender equality in political representation is to be achieved. | en |
| dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
| dc.description.version | Accepted Version | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Buckley, F. and Galligan, Y. (2025) 'The 2024 general election – a gender analysis', Irish Political Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/07907184.2025.2543083 | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/07907184.2025.2543083 | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0790-7184 | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1743-9078 | en |
| dc.identifier.journaltitle | Irish Political Studies | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10468/17999 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis | en |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Irish Political Studies | en |
| dc.rights | © 2025, Political Studies Association of Ireland. Published by Taylor & Francis. All rights reserved. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Irish Political Studies on 26 August 2025, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/07907184.2025.2543083 | en |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ | en |
| dc.subject | Women | en |
| dc.subject | Gender and the 2024 general election | en |
| dc.subject | Gender quota | en |
| dc.subject | Candidate selection | en |
| dc.subject | Political parties | en |
| dc.subject | Ireland | en |
| dc.title | The 2024 general election – a gender analysis | en |
| dc.type | Article (peer-reviewed) | en |
| dc.type | journal-article | en |
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