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Dublin County (Dáil Éireann constituency)
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Dublin County was a parliamentary constituency
represented in Dáil Éireann
, the lower house of the Irish
parliament or Oireachtas
from 1921 to 1969. The method of election was the single transferable vote
form of proportional representation
(PR-STV).
, for the 1921 election
to the House of Commons of Southern Ireland, whose members formed the 2nd Dáil.
Under the Electoral Act 1923, it became an 8 seat constituency for the 1923 general election
to the 4th Dáil. It remained at that size until major boundaries changes for the 1937 election
to the 9th Dáil, when its geographical area was reduced and its representation cut to 5 seats.
Further boundary changes for the 1948 general election
to the 13th Dáil saw its area further reduced, and representation cut to 3 seats. It was expanded to a 5 seater again for the 1961 general election
to the 17th Dáil, before its abolition for the 1969 general election
. It was replaced by Dublin County North
and Dublin County South
.
, excluding the area of Dublin city
. However, at various points it also included some territory from within the boundaries of Dublin City, which were expanded under the Local Government (Dublin) Act, 1930.
1921–1923 (6 seats)
1923–1937 (8 seats)
1937–1948 (5 seats)
1948–1961 (3 seats)
1961–1969 (5 seats)
was held to fill the seat left vacant by death of the Fianna Fáil TD Patrick Fogarty
. It was won by Seán MacBride
of Clann na Poblachta
.
was held to fill the seat left vacant by death of the Fine Gael
TD Batt O'Connor
. It was won for Fine Gael by Cecil Lavery
.
was held on 14 August 1927 to fill the seat in the 4th Dáil which had been left vacant by the assassination on 10 July of the Minister for Justice, Cumann na nGaedheal TD Kevin O'Higgins
. The election was won for Cumann na nGaedheal by Gearóid O'Sullivan
, who won nearly 70% of the first-preference votes.
was held on 18 February 1926 to fill the seat in the 4th Dáil which had been vacated by the death of the independent
TD Darrell Figgis
. It was won by the Labour Party
candidate William Norton
. Norton's win was the first by a Labour Party candidate at any by-election since the establishment of the First Dáil
. Labour did not repeat Norton's feat of winning a seat from another party in a by-election for 72 years, when Seán Ryan won the Dublin North by-election in March 1998.
was held on 19 March 1924 to fill the seat in the 4th Dáil which had been left vacant by the death of the Cumann na nGaedheal TD Michael Derham
. It was won for Cumann na nGaedheal by Batt O'Connor
.
to the 2nd Dáil, no constituencies were contested. As in other constituencies, all 6 candidates in Dublin County were returned unopposed.
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Parliamentary constituencies in the Republic of Ireland
The lower house of the Oireachtas , Dáil Éireann, contains 166 Teachtaí Dála , representing 43 parliamentary constituencies throughout the Republic of Ireland. Depending on its size, each constituency must have at least 3 members and a maximum of five members. The most recent ratio indicates that...
represented in Dáil Éireann
Dáil Éireann
Dáil Éireann is the lower house, but principal chamber, of the Oireachtas , which also includes the President of Ireland and Seanad Éireann . It is directly elected at least once in every five years under the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote...
, the lower house of the Irish
Republic of Ireland
Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...
parliament or Oireachtas
Oireachtas
The Oireachtas , sometimes referred to as Oireachtas Éireann, is the "national parliament" or legislature of Ireland. The Oireachtas consists of:*The President of Ireland*The two Houses of the Oireachtas :**Dáil Éireann...
from 1921 to 1969. The method of election was the single transferable vote
Single transferable vote
The single transferable vote is a voting system designed to achieve proportional representation through preferential voting. Under STV, an elector's vote is initially allocated to his or her most preferred candidate, and then, after candidates have been either elected or eliminated, any surplus or...
form of proportional representation
Proportional representation
Proportional representation is a concept in voting systems used to elect an assembly or council. PR means that the number of seats won by a party or group of candidates is proportionate to the number of votes received. For example, under a PR voting system if 30% of voters support a particular...
(PR-STV).
History
The constituency was created in 1921 as a 6 seater, under the Government of Ireland Act 1920Government of Ireland Act 1920 (Parliamentary and Dáil constituencies)
The Government of Ireland Act 1920 is a law of the United Kingdom. This article concerns the parts of the Act which provided for parliamentary constituencies in the Northern Ireland House of Commons and the House of Commons of Southern Ireland...
, for the 1921 election
Irish elections, 1921
Two elections in Ireland took place in 1921, as a result of the Government of Ireland Act 1920 to establish the House of Commons of Northern Ireland and the House of Commons of Southern Ireland. The election was used by Irish Republicans as the basis of membership of the Second Dáil...
to the House of Commons of Southern Ireland, whose members formed the 2nd Dáil.
Under the Electoral Act 1923, it became an 8 seat constituency for the 1923 general election
Irish general election, 1923
The Irish general election of 1923 was held on 27 August 1923. The newly elected members of the 4th Dáil assembled at Leinster House on 19 September when the new President of the Executive Council and Executive Council of the Irish Free State were appointed. The election was held just after the end...
to the 4th Dáil. It remained at that size until major boundaries changes for the 1937 election
Irish general election, 1937
The Irish general election of 1937 was held on 1 July 1937, just over two weeks after the dissolution of the Dáil on 14 June. A plebiscite to ratify the Constitution of Ireland was held on the same day...
to the 9th Dáil, when its geographical area was reduced and its representation cut to 5 seats.
Further boundary changes for the 1948 general election
Irish general election, 1948
The Irish general election of 1948 was held on 4 February 1948. The 147 newly elected members of the 13th Dáil assembled on 18 February when the First Inter-Party government in the history of the Irish state was appointed....
to the 13th Dáil saw its area further reduced, and representation cut to 3 seats. It was expanded to a 5 seater again for the 1961 general election
Irish general election, 1961
The Irish general election of 1961 was held on 4 October 1961, just over three weeks after the dissolution of the Dáil on 8 September. The newly elected members of the 17th Dáil assembled at Leinster House on 11 October when the new Taoiseach and government were appointed.The general election took...
to the 17th Dáil, before its abolition for the 1969 general election
Irish general election, 1969
The Irish general election of 1969 was held on 18 June 1969. The newly elected members of the 19th Dáil assembled at Leinster House on 2 July when the new Taoiseach and government were appointed...
. It was replaced by Dublin County North
Dublin County North (Dáil Éireann constituency)
Dublin County North was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas from 1969 to 1981...
and Dublin County South
Dublin County South (Dáil Éireann constituency)
Dublin County South was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas from 1969 to 1981...
.
Boundaries
Throughout its history the constituency consisted primarily of the area of County DublinCounty Dublin
County Dublin is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Dublin Region and is also located in the province of Leinster. It is named after the city of Dublin which is the capital of Ireland. County Dublin was one of the first of the parts of Ireland to be shired by King John of England following the...
, excluding the area of Dublin city
Dublin City
Dublin City may refer to:*Dublin, the capital of the Republic of Ireland*Dublin City F.C.*Dublin City , a constituency before 1801*Dublin City , a constituency between 1801 and 1885...
. However, at various points it also included some territory from within the boundaries of Dublin City, which were expanded under the Local Government (Dublin) Act, 1930.
1921–1923 (6 seats)
- The boundaries covered all of County DublinCounty DublinCounty Dublin is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Dublin Region and is also located in the province of Leinster. It is named after the city of Dublin which is the capital of Ireland. County Dublin was one of the first of the parts of Ireland to be shired by King John of England following the...
, excluding the area within Dublin cityDublin CityDublin City may refer to:*Dublin, the capital of the Republic of Ireland*Dublin City F.C.*Dublin City , a constituency before 1801*Dublin City , a constituency between 1801 and 1885...
1923–1937 (8 seats)
- Under the Electoral Act 1923, the boundaries of the constituency were defined simply as "the administrative county of Dublin", that is County DublinCounty DublinCounty Dublin is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Dublin Region and is also located in the province of Leinster. It is named after the city of Dublin which is the capital of Ireland. County Dublin was one of the first of the parts of Ireland to be shired by King John of England following the...
excluding the area within the boundaries of Dublin cityDublin CityDublin City may refer to:*Dublin, the capital of the Republic of Ireland*Dublin City F.C.*Dublin City , a constituency before 1801*Dublin City , a constituency between 1801 and 1885...
. These boundaries took effect at the 1923 general electionIrish general election, 1923The Irish general election of 1923 was held on 27 August 1923. The newly elected members of the 4th Dáil assembled at Leinster House on 19 September when the new President of the Executive Council and Executive Council of the Irish Free State were appointed. The election was held just after the end...
.
1937–1948 (5 seats)
- The Electoral (Revision of Constituencies) Act 1935 followed the removal from the county to the city of heavily-populated suburbs from former Pembroke TownshipPembroke TownshipPembroke Township was an area adjoining the City of Dublin, Ireland formed for local government purposes by private Act of Parliament in 1863. The township took its name from the fact that most of the area was part of the estate of the Earl of Pembroke. The township was governed by commissioners...
. Most of those areas became part of a new 3 seat Dublin Townships constituencyDublin Townships (Dáil Éireann constituency)Dublin Townships was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas from 1937 to 1948...
, but some wards which had become part of the city remained within the county constituency. The 1935 Act defined the new boundaries of the constituency as "The administrative County of Dublin. The following townlands or portions of townlands comprised in the County Borough of Dublin: Annefield, Crumlin, Kimmage (parish of Crumlin), Kimmage (parish of Rathfarnham), Larkfield, Newtown Little, Priesthouse, Rathfarnham, Saint Lawrence, Simmonscourt, Stannaway, Terenure and Tonguefield". These boundaries took effect at the 1937 general electionIrish general election, 1937The Irish general election of 1937 was held on 1 July 1937, just over two weeks after the dissolution of the Dáil on 14 June. A plebiscite to ratify the Constitution of Ireland was held on the same day...
.
1948–1961 (3 seats)
- The Electoral (Amendment) Act 1948 reduced the size of the constituency, removing most of the areas within the boundary of Dublin city, and removing a further substantial area in the south of the county to form the new Dún Laoghaire and Rathdown constituencyDún Laoghaire and Rathdown (Dáil Éireann constituency)Dún Laoghaire and Rathdown was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas from 1948 to 1977...
. A further area in the North East of the county, from KillesterKillesterKillester is a small, largely residential suburb of Dublin and lies on the Northside of the city.-Location and access:Killester is located between Clontarf, Donnycarney, Raheny and Artane, and it falls within the postal districts of Dublin 3 or 5. St. Anne's Park lies just beyond Killester on the...
to MalahideMalahideMalahide is a coastal suburban town, near Dublin city, located in the administrative county of Fingal, within the traditional County Dublin, Ireland. It has a village-like centre and extensive residential areas to the south, west and northwest.-Name:...
to HowthHowthHowth is an area in Fingal County near Dublin city in Ireland. Originally just a small fishing village, Howth with its surrounding rural district is now a busy suburb of Dublin, with a mix of dense residential development and wild hillside, all on the peninsula of Howth Head. The only...
, was removed to a new Dublin North East constituencyDublin North East (Dáil Éireann constituency)Dublin North–East is a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency elects 3 deputies...
. The boundaries were formally defined as "The Beann Eadair ward and the administrative county of Dublin except the portion thereof which is comprised in the county constituency of Dun Laoghaire and Rathdown and the portion thereof which is comprised in the borough constituency of Dublin North (East)". These boundaries took effect at the 1948 general electionIrish general election, 1948The Irish general election of 1948 was held on 4 February 1948. The 147 newly elected members of the 13th Dáil assembled on 18 February when the First Inter-Party government in the history of the Irish state was appointed....
.
1961–1969 (5 seats)
- The Electoral (Amendment) Act 1961 expanded the constituency boundaries again, restoring the areas which had been removed to Dublin North East and adding part of BallyfermotBallyfermotBallyfermot is a suburb in the city of Dublin.Celebrities such as the famous Furey Brothers and the brilliant Keenan family have all resided in Ballyfermot.Ireland, located 7 kilometres due west from the city centre, and to the south of the Phoenix Park...
. The new boundaries were defined as "The administrative county of Dublin, except the part thereof which is comprised in the county constituency of Dun Laoghaire and Rathdown; and the part of the Ballyfermot ward in the county borough of Dublin which is not included in the borough constituency of Dublin South West." These boundaries took effect at the 1961 general electionIrish general election, 1961The Irish general election of 1961 was held on 4 October 1961, just over three weeks after the dissolution of the Dáil on 8 September. The newly elected members of the 17th Dáil assembled at Leinster House on 11 October when the new Taoiseach and government were appointed.The general election took...
.
TDs
1965 general election
1961 general election
1957 general election
1954 general election
1951 general election
1948 general election
1947 by-election
A by-electionBy-election
A by-election is an election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between regularly scheduled elections....
was held to fill the seat left vacant by death of the Fianna Fáil TD Patrick Fogarty
Patrick Fogarty
Patrick J. Fogarty was an Irish Fianna Fáil Party politician who served for ten years as a member of Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas ....
. It was won by Seán MacBride
Seán MacBride
Seán MacBride was an Irish government minister and prominent international politician as well as a Chief of Staff of the IRA....
of Clann na Poblachta
Clann na Poblachta
Clann na Poblachta , abbreviated CnaP, was an Irish republican and social democratic political party founded by former Irish Republican Army Chief of Staff Seán MacBride in 1946.-Foundation:...
.
1944 general election
1943 general election
1938 general election
1937 general election
1935 by-election
A by-electionBy-election
A by-election is an election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between regularly scheduled elections....
was held to fill the seat left vacant by death of the Fine Gael
Fine Gael
Fine Gael is a centre-right to centrist political party in the Republic of Ireland. It is the single largest party in Ireland in the Oireachtas, in local government, and in terms of Members of the European Parliament. The party has a membership of over 35,000...
TD Batt O'Connor
Batt O'Connor
Bartholomew "Batt" O'Connor was an Irish Cumann na nGaedheal politician , and TD for Dublin County from 1924–1935....
. It was won for Fine Gael by Cecil Lavery
Cecil Lavery
Cecil Patrick Lavery was an Irish lawyer, Fine Gael Party politician and judge. He was elected as a TD and then as a Senator, and served as Attorney General before being appointed as a Supreme Court judge.-Early life:...
.
1933 general election
1932 general election
September 1927 general election
1927 by-election
A by-electionBy-election
A by-election is an election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between regularly scheduled elections....
was held on 14 August 1927 to fill the seat in the 4th Dáil which had been left vacant by the assassination on 10 July of the Minister for Justice, Cumann na nGaedheal TD Kevin O'Higgins
Kevin O'Higgins
Kevin Christopher O'Higgins was an Irish politician who served as Vice-President of the Executive Council and Minister for Justice. He was part of early nationalist Sinn Féin, before going on to become a prominent member of Cumann na nGaedheal. O'Higgins initiated the An Garda Síochána police force...
. The election was won for Cumann na nGaedheal by Gearóid O'Sullivan
Gearóid O'Sullivan
Gearóid O'Sullivan was an Irish teacher, Irish language scholar, army officer, barrister and Sinn Féin and Fine Gael politician.-Early life and education:...
, who won nearly 70% of the first-preference votes.
June 1927 general election
1926 by-election
A by-electionBy-election
A by-election is an election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between regularly scheduled elections....
was held on 18 February 1926 to fill the seat in the 4th Dáil which had been vacated by the death of the independent
Independent (politician)
In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...
TD Darrell Figgis
Darrell Figgis
Darrell Edmund Figgis was an Irish writer, Sinn Féin activist and independent parliamentarian in the Irish Free State. The little that has been written about him has attempted to highlight how thoroughly his memory and works have been excised from Irish popular culture.-Early life:Darrell Figgis...
. It was won by the Labour Party
Labour Party (Ireland)
The Labour Party is a social-democratic political party in the Republic of Ireland. The Labour Party was founded in 1912 in Clonmel, County Tipperary, by James Connolly, James Larkin and William X. O'Brien as the political wing of the Irish Trade Union Congress. Unlike the other main Irish...
candidate William Norton
William Norton
William Norton was an Irish Labour Party politician, and leader of the party from 1932 to 1960.Norton was born in Dublin in 1900. He joined the postal service in 1916. By 1920 he was a prominent member in the trade union movement in Ireland. From 1924 to 1948 he served as secretary of the Post...
. Norton's win was the first by a Labour Party candidate at any by-election since the establishment of the First Dáil
First Dáil
The First Dáil was Dáil Éireann as it convened from 1919–1921. In 1919 candidates who had been elected in the Westminster elections of 1918 refused to recognise the Parliament of the United Kingdom and instead assembled as a unicameral, revolutionary parliament called "Dáil Éireann"...
. Labour did not repeat Norton's feat of winning a seat from another party in a by-election for 72 years, when Seán Ryan won the Dublin North by-election in March 1998.
1924 by-election
A by-electionBy-election
A by-election is an election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between regularly scheduled elections....
was held on 19 March 1924 to fill the seat in the 4th Dáil which had been left vacant by the death of the Cumann na nGaedheal TD Michael Derham
Michael Derham
Michael James Derham was an Irish Sinn Féin and later Cumann na nGaedheal politician who served for two years as a Teachta Dála for the Dublin County constituency....
. It was won for Cumann na nGaedheal by Batt O'Connor
Batt O'Connor
Bartholomew "Batt" O'Connor was an Irish Cumann na nGaedheal politician , and TD for Dublin County from 1924–1935....
.
1923 general election
1922 general election
1921 general election
In the 1921 general electionIrish elections, 1921
Two elections in Ireland took place in 1921, as a result of the Government of Ireland Act 1920 to establish the House of Commons of Northern Ireland and the House of Commons of Southern Ireland. The election was used by Irish Republicans as the basis of membership of the Second Dáil...
to the 2nd Dáil, no constituencies were contested. As in other constituencies, all 6 candidates in Dublin County were returned unopposed.
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See also
- Parliamentary constituencies in the Republic of IrelandParliamentary constituencies in the Republic of IrelandThe lower house of the Oireachtas , Dáil Éireann, contains 166 Teachtaí Dála , representing 43 parliamentary constituencies throughout the Republic of Ireland. Depending on its size, each constituency must have at least 3 members and a maximum of five members. The most recent ratio indicates that...
- Politics of the Republic of IrelandPolitics of the Republic of IrelandIreland is a parliamentary, representative democratic republic and a member state of the European Union. While the head of state is the popularly elected President of Ireland, this is a largely ceremonial position with real political power being vested in the indirectly elected Taoiseach who is...
- List of historic Dáil Éireann constituencies
- Elections in the Republic of Ireland