From the 2004 Local Elections, Progressive Democrat candidate Tony WIlliams running in the Rathmines Ward.
Despite polling over 1000 votes Tony Williams failed to win a seat.
The PDs are taking credit for ‘preserving Lansdowne Road as a major national sports centre here in Dublin City’.
They were still getting mileage from Mary Harneys ban on Smokey coal 14 years earlier.
”Some might say this is the best Government we’ve ever had?’
-But not if you have a Mental handicap’
A leaflet produced by PAM (Parents Association for People with a Mental Handicap) for the 1991 Local election campaign asking voters to ask candidates and canvassers what they had done to end the crisis.
From the 1997 General Elction, a flyer for Mary Heaslip running for The Progressive Democrats in Wicklow.
Mary Heaslip polled 1,726 votes and Lost her Deposit.
You might notice a similarity between the PD Tree Logo and the Tory one.
From the 2009 Local Election for Cork City Council, a leaflet from Socialist Party candidate Dave Keating. Standing in the North East ward Dave Keating received 295 votes. His transfers were instrumental in the election of Workers Party candidate Ted Tynan.
many thanks to the sender.
From the 2007 General Election a Sorry I missed you type card from Brian Cowen and his team of canvassers.
I’d hazard that many people now would be sorry to have missed him too.
On the reverse are listed key achievements. Amongst these are the number of houses being built. In the year prior to 2007 the incredible total of 93,149 houses were built.
Unemployment is now at higher than 1997 levels.
A quick shift away from the UK election stuff to an ASTI Ballot paper for Proposed Public Service Agreement (Croke Park Deal).
Nothing much too it, other than an awful lot of people never get to see Union ballot papers.
The ASTI document which outlines the reasons for recommending a rejection of the deal is here.
From the 2010 UK Election. Declan O’Loan running for the SDLP in North Antrim. O’Loan polled 3738 votes.
On the front of the leaflet is a photo of Margaret Ritchie with arms outstretched. The fact that the SDLP take their seats gets a mention as does the fact that Declan O’Loan is the Honorary Consul for Romania in Northern Ireland.
Many thanks to the sender
A leaflet from Green Party candidate Adam McGibbon running in South Belfast in the 2010 UK Election. He polled 1,036 votes.
The leaflet mentions the creation of 33,000 Green Jobs (Green New Deal), Clean Politics and speed limit reductions.
From the 2010 UK Election in North Antrim, a leaflet from Independent Unionist Lyle Cubitt.
Lyle wants the Assembly dropped and accuses Jim Allisters TUV and the Ian Paisleys DUP of telling lies to the Northern Electorate.
He polled 606 votes.
Poster and Leaflet for Hunger Striker, Bobby Sands who stood in the Fermanagh South Tyrone by-election held on the 9 April 1981. He won by 30,493 votes to 29,046 for the Unionist candidate Harry West.
The Hunger Strike centred around the “Five Demands”:
1. the right not to wear a prison uniform;
2. the right not to do prison work;
3. the right of free association with other prisoners, and to organise educational and recreational pursuits;
4. the right to one visit, one letter and one parcel per week;
5. full restoration of remission lost through the protest
Bobby Sands died on the 5th of May 1981.
many thanks to the donor.
From the 2007 General Election another leaflet from the Labour candidate Aidan Culhane. Aidan Culhane failed to get elected.
many thanks to the sender.
From 1983 a membership form for The Green Alliance/ Comhaontas Glas.
‘The Green Alliance/ Comhaontas Glas has adopted these seven principles by consensus.’
(at this stage the Party still made decisions by consensus)
1- The impact of society on the environment should not be ecologically disruptive.
2- Conservation of resources is vital to a sustainable society.
3- All political, social and economic decisions should be taken at the lowest effective level.
4- Society should be guided by self-reliance and co-operation at all levels.
5- As caretakers of the Earth, we have the responsibility to pass it on in a fit and healthy state.
6- The need for world peace overrides national and commercial interests.
7- The poverty of two-thirds of the world’s family demands a redistribution of the worlds resources.
It’s time to change the government writes Ciaran Cuffe running for the Green Party in Dun Laoghaire in the 2007 General Election. A feeling many share with him 3 years on.
We have his decent record over the previous 5 years as a TD and the plans for the future.
From the 1967 Local Elections in the Rathdown ward for Dublin City Council a card from Labour Party candidate, the Shankill based Joseph Maguire.
The message of ‘THIS TIME: SWING TO LABOUR WITH Joseph Maguire‘
The other Labour Party candidates were Bernard Connolly, Vincent McDowell and Gerard O’Reilly.
The leaflet from veteran campaigner Eamonn McCann running for The People Before Profit Alliance in the 2010 Westminister Elections in Foyle.
This leaflet would have been delivered by volunteers rather than the postal service due to an Industrial dispute, of which details here.
The campaign Song Mentioned in the Leaflet is available HERE
A leaflet from the UDP in favour of the Good Friday Agreement.
The Ulster Democratic Party (UDP) were a small Loyalist party allied to UDA. They disbanded in 2001.
The UDP were formed in 1989 from the Ulster Loyalist Democratic Party (UDLP) which had been set up by the UDA in 1981. In this leaflet the leader of the party is Gary McMichael whose father John McMichael, had previously been leader of the UDLP. John McMichael was killed in 1987.
From the 1996 Forum elections the party were alloted 2 seats, taken by Gary McMichael and John White. These seats entitled them to a place in the all-party talks that led to the Good Friday Agreement.
In the 1998 Assembly elections the party failed to win any seats. They held a number of council seats until their demise in 2001.
many thanks to the donor
Not a normal post, but thought it worthy of posting.
Poking about the RTE site I found this gem “Your Kind Of Country” sung by Colm C.T. Wilkinson released by Fianna Fáil for the 1977 Election Campaign.
It will open in realplayer or something akin to that
The song and then a critique from assorted politicians.
From the 1985 Local Elections in the Blackrock Ward, Fianna Fail candidate Michael Cotter. Michael Cotter failed to be elected and stood again in 1991 without success.
A plea about being the youngest candidate and asking young and first time voters to vote for him is a fairly common theme.
Irish Election Literature 
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