In the 2016 general election, after a redrawing of constituency boundaries, he ran alongside Charlie McConalogue as the two Fianna Fáil candidates in the new five-seater Donegal constituency. Gallagher was elected on the 11th count, after McConalogue was elected on the first count. Having unseated Pádraig Mac Lochlainn in that 2016 election, at the following election in February 2020, Mac Lochlainn unseated Gallagher .
In the 2016 general election, after a redrawing of constituency boundaries, he ran alongside Charlie McConalogue as the two Fianna Fáil candidates in the new five-seater Donegal constituency. Gallagher was elected on the 11th count, after McConalogue was elected on the first count. He lost his seat at the February 2020, with Pádraig Mac Lochlainn winning back the seat Gallagher had won at his expense in 2016.
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Having unseated Pádraig Mac Lochlainn in that 2016 election, at the following election in
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Mac Lochlainn unseated Gallagher .
with Pádraig Mac Lochlainn winning back the seat Gallagher had won at his expense in 2016.