Dublin Clontarf was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which from 1977 to 1981 was represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. Covering the Clontarf, Baldoyle, Coolock and Raheny areas of North Dublin, it elected three deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known in English as TDs) to the 21st Dáil, using the Single Transferable Vote method of proportional representation (PR-STV).
History
A similarly named constituency existed from 1918 to 1922, for elections of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, but the Member of Parliament elected chose not to take his seat at Westminster, and joined the revolutionary First Dáil.
Boundaries
The Dáil constituency was created by the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1974, and used at the 1977 general election. It consisted of the following wards in the county borough of Dublin:
- Baldoyle, Beann Éadair A, Beann Éadair B, Clontarf East A, Clontarf East B, Clontarf East C, Coolock A, Coolock B, Coolock C, Coolock D, Raheny A, Raheny B.[1]
TDs
| Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Dublin Clontarf 1977–1981[2] | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Key to parties
| |||||||
| Dáil | Election | Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) | |||
| 21st | 1977[3] | George Colley (FF) |
Michael Joe Cosgrave (FG) |
Michael Woods (FF) | |||
| 22nd | 1981 | constituency abolished | |||||
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.
Election results
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fianna Fáil | George Colley | 8,768 | 28.3 | 1 | ||
| Fine Gael | Michael Joe Cosgrave | 3,991 | 12.9 | 2 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Michael Woods | 3,093 | 10.0 | 3 | ||
| Labour | Conor Cruise O'Brien | 3,588 | 11.6 | |||
| Independent | Seán Dublin Bay Rockall Loftus | 3,003 | 9.7 | |||
| Fine Gael | Ted Nealon | 2,821 | 9.1 | |||
| Independent | Vincent Manning | 2,076 | 6.7 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Eoghan Fitzsimonons | 1,590 | 5.1 | |||
| Labour | Thomas Duffy | 917 | 3.0 | |||
| Fine Gael | Dermot Melia | 549 | 1.8 | |||
| Independent | Brian Bell | 527 | 1.7 | |||
| Independent | John Malone | 40 | 0.1 | |||
| Electorate: 41,132 Valid: 30,963 Spoilt: ? Quota: 7,741 Turnout: 75.0% | ||||||
See also
- List of historic Dáil Éireann constituencies
- Parliamentary constituencies in the Republic of Ireland
- Elections in the Republic of Ireland
- Politics of the Republic of Ireland
References
- ^ "Electoral (Amendment) Act, 1974: Schedule (revised constituencies)". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 2009-02-12.
- ^ a b Walker, Brian M, ed. (1992). Parliamentary election results in Ireland, 1918-92. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0 901714 96 8. ISSN 0332-0286.
- ^ a b "General election 1977: Dublin Clontarf". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 2009-03-06.
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