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The election results, in fulla career compounded annually, in the wrong direction

Justin Barrett has contested three European Parliament elections and one Dáil by-election. The two figures the record fixes most firmly are 10,997 and 183. The plain tally is below; no commentary is required, only arithmetic.

I. The arc, in three numbers

The plain electoral record — the candidate's first-preference votes, then the attendance at the meeting called to dismiss him. No commentary required:

Twenty years of momentum

10,997 First-preference votes
European Parliament
East constituency, 2004
→
183 First-preference votes
Dublin Bay South
by-election, 2021
→
1 Persons attending
the September 2024 “AGM”
called to dismiss him

A career compounded annually, in the wrong direction. The trajectory is not editorial; it is arithmetic.

II. The tally, contest by contest

  • 2004 — European Parliament, East constituency. Stood as an independent. 10,997 first-preference votes (2.4%). Not elected. ElectionsIreland.org Wikipedia
  • 2021 — Dublin Bay South by-election. Stood under the campaign slogan “Right So Far”. 183 first-preference votes (0.68%), finishing 11th of 15 candidates, eliminated on the third count. Wikipedia RTÉ Election Results
  • European Parliament — further contests. The candidate record lists three European Parliament campaigns in total; the full per-election breakdown is held on his ElectionsIreland candidate page. ElectionsIreland.org Wikipedia

III. The non-electoral postscript

The third figure on the scoreboard is not a vote count. In September 2024 a purported meeting of the National Party, called in part to deal with his leadership, was attended in person by one person. The Electoral Commission ruled that meeting invalid, but later confirmed his removal on other grounds in 2025. The party context is on the National Party page. The Journal Electoral Commission

IV. A note on this page

The text is original. Every figure links to its source. No vote total has been invented or estimated; where a per-election figure is not stated here, it is because it is held on the linked candidate record rather than reproduced. Corrections of fact, supplied with a public source, are welcome at info@justinbarrett.ie.

Better Barretts, better Justins · and one electorate

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese, XLIII (1850) · a better Barrett

We counted, too: 10,997 votes in 2004; 183 in 2021.

“Reason directs those who are truly pious and philosophical to honour and love only what is true, declining to follow traditional opinions, if these be worthless.”
Justin Martyr, First Apology, ch. II (c. AD 155), trans. Ante-Nicene Fathers · a better Justin

The name comes from the Latin iustus: just, upright. Some bearers took it seriously.

“183.”
The electorate of Dublin Bay South, by-election, July 2021 (0.68% of first preferences) · the record

Eleventh of fifteen candidates. The electorate has not been asked to elaborate.

“10,997.”
The electorate of the East constituency, European Parliament election, 2004 (2.4%) · the record

Seventeen years later, in Dublin Bay South: 183.

“1.”
In-person attendance at the September 2024 National Party meeting called to remove him · The Irish Times

The Electoral Commission ruled that meeting invalid. A later one was not.

“We have been stood on since 1745. We mention it only for context.”
The steps of Leinster House, in a statement they did not make

That one is fiction, and labelled as such. The November 2023 incident it refers to is not.

Every quotation here is verbatim and in the public domain, or is a figure from the published record. No words have been put in Mr Barrett’s mouth. The one fictional speaker is a flight of steps, and says so.

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