Winning and Losing Seats
Doyle was one of a number of TDs to lose their seats at the 1987 general election. He was elected later at the Senate general election to sit in the upper house (Seanad Éireann). He regained his Dáil seat at the 1989 general election, where he and FitzGerald on a tight vote management strategy achieved 2 seats out of 4. He however lost his seat again at the 1992 general election to new running mate Frances Fitzgerald. Though he contested the 1997 general election (under party pressure because it saw Doyle as the party's best chance to win a seat, even though he had originally decided not to contest any more general elections) he failed to win back a seat. Frances Fitzgerald dramatically lost the party's only seat at the 2002 general election, leaving Fine Gael for the first time in the constituency's history without a Fine Gael TD even though commentators regarded Dublin South–East as "natural Fine Gael" electoral territory.
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