Talk:Joe Higgins

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[edit] Succession boxes

Contrary to what is frequently claimed, Joe Higgins is not the leader of the Socialist Party, since the Party does not have a leader. This function is carried out by what is called the National Executive Committee which consists of (as far as I know) six people of whom Joe Higgins is one. Also, it is misleading to imply that Joe Higgins suceeded Joan Burton as TD for Dublin West, since, she is still a sitting TD. Although it is true that she lost her seat the first time he was elected, she was elected again at the last election together with Joe Higgins. I would suggest deleting the succession boxes.

[edit] 2007 election

I rewrote the bit on the 2007 election; previously the article suggested that Higgins losing his seat as part of a swing from smaller to larger parties, but I'm not sure about this: PD and Labour (smaller partners in alliances) lost votes, but the Greens and Sinn Fein (nonaligned) gained. Rafaelgr 00:51, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

I think it is called a swing when you measure the amount of seats the smaller parties won, PD, Labour and Independents suffered, Sinn Fein bearly held on to what they had and the greens had a slight gain, when compared to the increase in seats that FG got and FF managed not to get too badly hit, i'd say its safe to say its a swing away from the smaller parties Holeinthehead 12:14, 02 June 2007 (BST)