Cork North-East (Dáil constituency)
| Cork North-East | |
|---|---|
| FormerDáilconstituency | |
| Former constituency | |
| Created | 1961 |
| Abolished | 1981 |
| Seats |
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| Local government area | County Cork |
| Created from | Cork North |
| Replaced by | |
Cork North-Eastwas aparliamentary constituencyrepresented inDáil Éireann,the lower house of the Irish parliament orOireachtasfrom 1961 to 1981. The constituency elected 5 deputies (Teachtaí Dála,commonly known as TDs) to the Dáil until 1969, and then 4 thereafter. The method of election wasproportional representationby means of thesingle transferable vote(PR-STV).
History
[edit]The constituency was created under theElectoral (Amendment) Act 1961,for the1961 general electionto Dáil Éireann.[1]The constituency returned 5 deputies from 1961 to 1969. Under theElectoral (Amendment) Act 1969this was reduced to 4 seats from 1969 onwards.[2]
It was abolished under theElectoral (Amendment) Act 1980,when it was partially replaced by the new constituencies ofCork EastandCork North-West.
Boundaries
[edit]The district electoral divisions of the former Rural District ofFermoy;former rural district ofKanturk;former rural district ofMallow;former rural district ofMidleton;former rural district ofMitchelstownNo. 1; former rural district ofYoughal;and the urban districts ofCobh,Fermoy, Mallow, Midleton and Youghal.[1]
TDs
[edit]| Teachtaí Dála(TDs) for Cork North-East 1961–1981[3] | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Key to parties
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| Dáil | Election | Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) | |||||
| 17th | 1961[4] | John Moher (FF) |
Martin Corry (FF) |
Philip Burton (FG) |
Richard Barry (FG) |
Patrick McAuliffe (Lab) | |||||
| 18th | 1965[5] | Jerry Cronin (FF) | |||||||||
| 19th | 1969[6] | Seán Brosnan (FF) |
Gerard Cott (FG) |
4 seats 1969–1981 | |||||||
| 20th | 1973[7] | Liam Ahern (FF) |
Patrick Hegarty (FG) | ||||||||
| 1974 by-election[8] | Seán Brosnan (FF) | ||||||||||
| 21st | 1977[9] | ||||||||||
| 1979 by-election[10] | Myra Barry (FG) | ||||||||||
| 22nd | 1981 | Constituency abolished. SeeCork EastandCork North-West | |||||||||
Note:The columns in this table are used only for presentational purposes, and no significance should be attached to the order of columns. For details of the order in which seats were won at each election, see the detailed results of that election.
Elections
[edit]1979 by-election
[edit]Following the death ofFianna FáilTDSeán Brosnan,a by-election was held on 7 November 1979. The seat was won by theFine Gaelcandidate Myra Barry.
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Myra Barry | 38.7 | 15,939 | 20,292 | |
| Fianna Fáil | John Brosnan | 36.3 | 14,961 | 17,883 | |
| Sinn Féin The Workers' Party | Joe Sherlock | 22.8 | 9,395 | ||
| Independent | Mary Ann Duggan | 2.2 | 911 | ||
| Electorate:60,075Valid:41,206Quota:20,604Turnout:68.59% | |||||
1977 general election
[edit]| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Seán Brosnan | 18.7 | 8,840 | 8,986 | 9,025 | 9,078 | 9,788 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Jerry Cronin | 17.6 | 8,352 | 8,440 | 8,501 | 8,632 | 8,828 | 10,221 | ||
| Fine Gael | Richard Barry | 16.0 | 7,590 | 7,628 | 7,864 | 9,024 | 9,382 | 10,296 | ||
| Fine Gael | Patrick Hegarty | 12.9 | 6,117 | 6,260 | 6,727 | 7,251 | 7,863 | 8,367 | 8,667 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Carey Joyce | 11.9 | 5,630 | 5,661 | 5,684 | 5,706 | 5,825 | 6,608 | 6,719 | |
| Sinn Féin The Workers' Party | Joe Sherlock | 9.5 | 4,485 | 4,584 | 4,765 | 4,925 | 5,252 | |||
| Independent | Noel Collins | 5.1 | 2,433 | 2,488 | 2,560 | 2,600 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Michael Broderick | 4.3 | 2,036 | 2,047 | 2,161 | |||||
| Labour | Liam Duggan | 2.3 | 1,094 | 1,288 | ||||||
| Independent | John Kidney | 1.7 | 788 | |||||||
| Electorate:5Valid:47,365Quota:9,474Turnout:80.1% | ||||||||||
1974 by-election
[edit]Following the death ofFianna FáilTDLiam Ahern,a by-election was held on 13 November 1974. The seat was won by the Fianna Fáil candidate Seán Brosnan.
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Seán Brosnan | 49.4 | 19,928 | 20,031 | 21,912 | |
| Fine Gael | Michael Broderick | 34.0 | 13,708 | 14,561 | 16,330 | |
| Sinn Féin (Official) | Joe Sherlock | 13.3 | 5,363 | 5,659 | ||
| Labour | Liam Hurley | 3.1 | 1,243 | |||
| Independent | Angela Cunningham | 0.3 | 132 | |||
| Electorate:55,388Valid:40,374Quota:20,188Turnout:72.17% | ||||||
1973 general election
[edit]| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fianna Fáil | Jerry Cronin | 9,608 | 24.0 | 1 | ||
| Fine Gael | Richard Barry | 7,188 | 18.0 | 2 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Liam Ahern | 5,403 | 13.5 | 4 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Seán Brosnan | 5,029 | 12.6 | |||
| Fine Gael | Patrick Hegarty | 4,066 | 10.2 | 3 | ||
| Fine Gael | Michael Broderick | 2,994 | 7.5 | |||
| Sinn Féin (Official) | Joe Sherlock | 2,488 | 6.2 | |||
| Labour | William Fennessy | 1,887 | 4.7 | |||
| Independent | Noel Collins | 1,228 | 3.0 | |||
| Independent | Cuthbert Kelly | 100 | 0.3 | |||
| Electorate:?Valid:39,991Quota:7,999Turnout: | ||||||
1969 general election
[edit]| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fianna Fáil | Jerry Cronin | 8,842 | 23.0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Fine Gael | Richard Barry | 7,133 | 18.6 | 2 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Seán Brosnan | 5,281 | 13.8 | 4 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Liam Ahern | 5,050 | 13.2 | |||
| Labour | Patrick McAuliffe | 3,335 | 8.7 | |||
| Fine Gael | Gerard Cott | 3,162 | 8.2 | 3 | ||
| Fine Gael | Jeremiah O'Hanlon | 2,354 | 6.1 | |||
| Labour | Donie O'Driscoll | 1,687 | 4.4 | |||
| Fine Gael | Daniel Casey | 1,566 | 4.1 | |||
| Electorate:?Valid:38,410Quota:7,683Turnout: | ||||||
1965 general election
[edit]| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fine Gael | Richard Barry | 8,007 | 17.4 | 1 | 1 | |
| Labour | Patrick McAuliffe | 7,013 | 15.3 | 3 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Martin Corry | 6,753 | 14.7 | 2 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Jerry Cronin | 5,919 | 12.9 | 5 | ||
| Fine Gael | Philip Burton | 4,949 | 10.8 | 4 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | John Moher | 4,905 | 10.7 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Seán Brosnan | 4,542 | 9.9 | |||
| Fine Gael | Cornelius Carey | 3,626 | 7.9 | |||
| Independent | John O'Shaughnessy | 227 | 0.5 | |||
| Electorate:?Valid:45,941Quota:7,657Turnout: | ||||||
1961 general election
[edit]| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fine Gael | Richard Barry | 8,454 | 19.0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Labour | Patrick McAuliffe | 7,584 | 17.0 | 2 | 1 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Martin Corry | 7,093 | 15.9 | 3 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Batt Donegan | 5,318 | 12.0 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | John Moher | 5,304 | 11.9 | 5 | ||
| Fine Gael | Philip Burton | 5,150 | 11.6 | 4 | ||
| Fine Gael | Daniel Casey | 3,663 | 8.2 | |||
| Sinn Féin | Denis O'Connor | 1,939 | 4.4 | |||
| Electorate:?Valid:44,505Quota:7,418Turnout: | ||||||
See also
[edit]- Dáil constituencies
- Politics of the Republic of Ireland
- Historic Dáil constituencies
- Elections in the Republic of Ireland
References
[edit]- ^ab"Electoral (Amendment) Act, 1961: Schedule (Constituencies)".Irish Statute Bookdatabase.Archived fromthe originalon 11 October 2012.Retrieved28 February2009.
- ^"Electoral (Amendment) Act, 1969: Schedule (Constituencies)".Irish Statute Book database.Archived fromthe originalon 15 October 2013.Retrieved28 February2009.
- ^abWalker, Brian M, ed. (1992).Parliamentary election results in Ireland, 1918–92.Dublin: Royal Irish Academy.ISBN0-901714-96-8.ISSN0332-0286.
- ^ab"General election 1961: Cork North–East".ElectionsIreland.org.Archivedfrom the original on 21 February 2011.Retrieved20 October2010.
- ^ab"General election 1965: Cork North–East".ElectionsIreland.org.Archivedfrom the original on 21 February 2011.Retrieved20 October2010.
- ^ab"General election 1969: Cork North–East".ElectionsIreland.org.Archivedfrom the original on 21 February 2011.Retrieved20 October2010.
- ^ab"General election 1973: Cork North–East".ElectionsIreland.org.Archivedfrom the original on 21 February 2011.Retrieved20 October2010.
- ^"By-election 1974: Cork North–East".ElectionsIreland.org.Archivedfrom the original on 25 August 2007.Retrieved28 February2009.
- ^ab"General election 1977: Cork North–East".ElectionsIreland.org.Archivedfrom the original on 11 September 2007.Retrieved28 February2009.
- ^"By-election 1979: Cork North–East".ElectionsIreland.org.Archivedfrom the original on 30 November 2010.Retrieved28 February2009.
- ^abGallagher, Michael(2009).Irish Elections 1948–77: Results and Analysis Sources for the Study of Irish Politics 2.Routledge.ISBN9781138973343.
- ^"22nd Dáil 1981 general election results"(PDF).Houses of the Oireachtas.September 1981.Retrieved19 October2023.
- ^ab"21st Dáil 1977 general election results"(PDF).Houses of the Oireachtas.February 1978.Retrieved19 October2023.
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