A by-election was held in the Dáil Éireann Cork South-Central constituency in Ireland on 23 October 1998. It followed the death of Fine Gael Teachta Dála (TD) Hugh Coveney on 14 March 1998.
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| Turnout | 43,007 (49.1%) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The election was won by Simon Coveney of Fine Gael and son of Hugh Coveney. The other candidates being Sinead Behan for Fianna Fáil, Cork City Councillor and former TD Toddy O'Sullivan for the Labour Party, Cork City Councillor Dan Boyle for the Green Party, Henry Cremin for Sinn Féin, Peter Kelly for the Progressive Democrats, Benny Cooney as an Independent, Brian McEnery for Natural Law and Jim Tallon as an Independent.
Dan Boyle would go on to represent the constituency as a TD in the future.
Result
edit| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||
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| Fine Gael | Simon Coveney | 37.7 | 16,212 | 16,720 | 23,230 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Sinead Behan | 29.4 | 12,658 | 13,372 | 16,379 | |
| Labour | Toddy O'Sullivan | 19.0 | 8,171 | 8,689 | ||
| Green | Dan Boyle | 8.1 | 3,461 | 4,017 | ||
| Sinn Féin | Henry Cremin | 2.7 | 1,158 | |||
| Progressive Democrats | Peter Kelly | 2.3 | 971 | |||
| Independent | Benny Cooney | 0.5 | 197 | |||
| Natural Law | Brian McEnery | 0.4 | 150 | |||
| Independent | Jim Tallon | 0.1 | 29 | |||
| Electorate: 87,606 Valid: 43,007 Quota: 21,504 Turnout: 49.1% | ||||||