2009 Election
| 2009 European Parliament election: North-West | |||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | % 1st Pref | Count 1 | Count 2 | Count 3 | Count 4 | Count 5 | Count 6 | |
| Independent | Marian Harkin | 17.1 | 84,813 | 89,938 | 99,561 | 103,942 | 112,210 | 121,672 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Pat the Cope Gallagher | 16.7 | 82,643 | 84,680 | 85,842 | 87,714 | 112,622 | 120,930 | |
| Fine Gael | Jim Higgins | 16.2 | 80,093 | 82,457 | 86,597 | 111,133 | 113,810 | 120,185 | |
| Libertas | Declan Ganley | 14.3 | 67,638 | 69,925 | 72,475 | 73,994 | 75,705 | 84,277 | |
| Sinn Féin | Pádraig Mac Lochlainn | 9.2 | 45,515 | 47,413 | 50,225 | 52,384 | 54,737 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Paschal Mooney | 8.7 | 42,985 | 44,719 | 45,687 | 47,702 | |||
| Fine Gael | Joe O'Reilly | 7.6 | 37,564 | 38,854 | 42,350 | ||||
| Labour Party | Susan O'Keeffe | 5.8 | 28,658 | 31,176 | |||||
| Independent | Michael McNamara | 2.6 | 12,744 | ||||||
| Independent | Fiachra Ó Luain | 1.3 | 6,510 | ||||||
| Independent | John Francis Higgins | 0.6 | 3,030 | ||||||
| Independent | Noel McCullagh | 0.4 | 1,940 | ||||||
| Independent | Thomas King | 0.2 | 1,124 | ||||||
| Electorate: 805,626 Valid: 495,257 Spoilt: 15,675 (3.1%) Quota: 123,815 Turnout: 510,932 (63.4%) | |||||||||
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