# East (European Parliament constituency)

East was a European Parliament constituency in Ireland. It elected 3 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).

## History and boundaries

The constituency was created for the 2004 election and was a successor to the constituency of Leinster. From 2004 to 2009, it comprised the Leinster counties excluding the Dublin constituency. For the 2009 election, the counties of Longford and Westmeath were transferred from East to the North-West constituency. It then comprised the counties Carlow, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Louth, Meath, Offaly, Wexford and Wicklow.
For the 2014 European Parliament election the constituency was abolished, with the northern part (Kildare, Laois, Louth, Meath, Offaly) transferred to the new Midlands–North-West constituency, and the southern part (Carlow, Kilkenny, Wexford, Wicklow) transferred to the South constituency.

## MEPs

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) for East 2004–2014 :
| Key to parties  FF = Fianna Fáil  FG = Fine Gael  Lab = Labour ||||||||
| Parl. | Election | Member (Party) | Member (Party) | Member (Party) | Member (Party) | Member (Party) | Member (Party) |
| 6th | 2004 | | Mairead McGuinness (FG) | | Liam Aylward (FF) | | Avril Doyle (FG) |
| 7th | 2009 | | Mairead McGuinness (FG) | | Liam Aylward (FF) | | Nessa Childers (Lab) |
| 8th | 2014 | Constituency abolished. See Midlands–North-West and South. | Constituency abolished. See Midlands–North-West and South. | Constituency abolished. See Midlands–North-West and South. | Constituency abolished. See Midlands–North-West and South. | Constituency abolished. See Midlands–North-West and South. | Constituency abolished. See Midlands–North-West and South. |
Note: The columns in this table are used only for presentational purposes, and no significance should be attached to the order of columns. For details of the order in which seats were won at each election, see the detailed results of that election.

## Elections

^ *: Outgoing MEP elected at the previous election.

### 2009 election

2009 European Parliament election: East (3 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| | Fine Gael | Mairead McGuinness | 25.7 | 110,366 | | | | | | |
| | Labour | Nessa Childers | 18.3 | 78,338 | 78,914 | 80,145 | 84,198 | 86,654 | 89,355 | 102,220 |
| | Fianna Fáil | Liam Aylward | 17.4 | 74,666 | 74,866 | 75,124 | 76,295 | 77,044 | 99,236 | 103,605 |
| | Fine Gael | John Paul Phelan | 14.4 | 61,851 | 63,590 | 64,169 | 67,972 | 69,608 | 70,846 | 76,960 |
| | Fianna Fáil | Thomas Byrne | 7.2 | 31,112 | 31,264 | 31,480 | 32,276 | 33,383 | | |
| | Sinn Féin | Kathleen Funchion | 6.2 | 26,567 | 26,647 | 27,132 | 29,305 | 43,085 | 44,422 | |
| | Sinn Féin | Tomás Sharkey | 4.9 | 20,932 | 21,034 | 21,461 | 23,954 | | | |
| | Libertas | Raymond O'Malley | 4.3 | 18,557 | 18,728 | 19,396 | | | | |
| | Independent | Paddy Garvey | 0.7 | 2,934 | 2,945 | | | | | |
| | Independent | Jim Tallon | 0.6 | 2,412 | 2,425 | | | | | |
| | Independent | Micheál E. Grealy | 0.4 | 1,514 | 1,523 | | | | | |
| Electorate: 778,502 Valid: 429,249 Spoilt: 13,042 (2.9%) Quota: 107,313 Turnout: 442,291 (56.8%) |||||||||||

### 2004 election

2004 European Parliament election: East (3 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| | Fine Gael | Mairead McGuinness | 25.2 | 114,249 | | | | | | |
| | Fine Gael | Avril Doyle | 15.3 | 69,511 | 70,056 | 71,159 | 74,429 | 80,523 | 86,220 | 91,046 |
| | Fianna Fáil | Liam Aylward | 15.1 | 68,206 | 68,271 | 68,756 | 70,735 | 73,217 | 78,126 | 110,758 |
| | Labour | Peter Cassells | 13.1 | 59,158 | 59,264 | 60,231 | 63,119 | 70,509 | 79,901 | 83,981 |
| | Fianna Fáil | Séamus Kirk | 10.0 | 45,454 | 45,514 | 46,173 | 47,869 | 49,629 | 53,933 | |
| | Sinn Féin | John Dwyer | 8.7 | 39,356 | 39,386 | 40,258 | 43,021 | 46,547 | | |
| | Green | Mary White | 5.6 | 25,576 | 25,644 | 27,093 | 30,437 | | | |
| | Independent | Justin Barrett | 2.4 | 10,997 | 11,019 | 12,023 | | | | |
| | Independent | Clifford T. Reid | 2.4 | 10,692 | 10,718 | 12,032 | | | | |
| | Fathers Rights | Liam Ó Gógáin | 0.8 | 3,407 | 3,418 | | | | | |
| | Independent | Seanán Ó Coistín | 0.7 | 3,130 | 3,141 | | | | | |
| | Independent | Eoin Dubsky | 0.4 | 1,955 | 1,960 | | | | | |
| | Independent | Joe Neal | 0.3 | 1,487 | 1,492 | | | | | |
| Electorate: 806,598 Valid: 453,178 Spoilt: 18,717 (3.9%) Quota: 113,295 Turnout: 471,895 (58.5%) |||||||||||