Cork City was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas from 1977 to 1981. The constituency elected 5 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs) to the Dáil, on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).
| Cork City | |
|---|---|
| Former Dáil constituency | |
| Former constituency | |
| Created | 1977 |
| Abolished | 1981 |
| Seats | 5 |
| Local government area | Cork City |
| Created from | |
| Replaced by | |
History and boundaries
editThe constituency was created under the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1974.[1] It was only used for the 1977 general election and a by-election in 1979. The constituency was defined as the county borough of Cork, except the part which was in the Cork Mid constituency.[1] The wards in Cork Mid were Bishopstown E, Gillabbey B, Gillabbey C, Glasheen A, Glasheen B, Glasheen C, Pouladuff A, Pouladuff B, The Lough, Togher A, Togher B.
It was abolished under the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1980 and replaced at the 1981 general election by Cork North-Central and Cork South-Central.
TDs
edit| Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Cork City 1977–1981[2] | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Key to parties
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| Dáil | Election | Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) | |||||
| 21st | 1977[3] | Jack Lynch (FF) |
Seán French (FF) |
Pearse Wyse (FF) |
Patrick Kerrigan (Lab) |
Peter Barry (FG) | |||||
| 1979 by-election[4] | Liam Burke (FG) | ||||||||||
| 22nd | 1981 | Constituency abolished. See Cork North-Central and Cork South-Central | |||||||||
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^ *: Outgoing TD
1979 by-election
editFollowing the death of Labour Party TD Patrick Kerrigan, a by-election was held on 7 November 1979. The seat was won by the Fine Gael candidate Liam Burke.
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | John Dennehy | 35.9 | 13,890 | 14,269 | 16,210 | |
| Fine Gael | Liam Burke | 33.2 | 12,832 | 13,411 | 19,524 | |
| Labour | Toddy O'Sullivan | 22.6 | 8,742 | 10,444 | ||
| Sinn Féin The Workers' Party | Ted Tynan | 8.3 | 3,193 | |||
| Electorate: 70,164 Valid: 38,657 Quota: 19,329 Turnout: 55.10% | ||||||
1977 general election
edit| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Jack Lynch[*] | 39.0 | 20,079 | ||||||||
| Fine Gael | Peter Barry[*] | 13.5 | 6,923 | 7,098 | 7,117 | 7,506 | 7,566 | 9,327 | |||
| Labour | Patrick Kerrigan | 10.2 | 5,254 | 5,551 | 5,577 | 5,883 | 6,575 | 7,121 | 7,214 | 10,313 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Pearse Wyse[*] | 8.7 | 4,462 | 9,718 | |||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Seán French[*] | 6.5 | 3,359 | 6,357 | 6,975 | 7,186 | 7,458 | 7,597 | 7,605 | 7,806 | |
| Fine Gael | Liam Burke[*] | 6.0 | 3,082 | 3,188 | 3,195 | 3,322 | 3,409 | 3,993 | 4,634 | ||
| Fine Gael | Samuel Allen | 5.5 | 2,850 | 3,011 | 3,021 | 3,159 | 3,283 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Máirín Quill | 4.4 | 2,262 | 4,423 | 4,844 | 5,179 | 5,483 | 5,575 | 5,583 | 5,722 | |
| Sinn Féin The Workers' Party | Ted Tynan | 3.2 | 1,661 | 1,832 | 1,848 | 1,992 | |||||
| Independent | Maureen Black | 2.9 | 1,529 | 1,706 | 1,730 | ||||||
| Electorate: 68,709 Valid: 51,461 (74.9%) Spoilt: 376 (0.6%) Quota: 8,577 Turnout: 51,837 (75.4%)[8] | |||||||||||
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Electoral (Amendment) Act 1974, Schedule (No. 7 of 1974, Schedule). Act of the Oireachtas. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 22 July 2022.
- ^ 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: Cork City". ElectionsIreland.org. Archived from the original on 21 February 2011. Retrieved 30 July 2010.
- ^ "By-election 1979: Cork City". ElectionsIreland.org. Archived from the original on 30 November 2010. Retrieved 27 February 2009.
- ^ a b Gallagher, Michael (2009). Irish Elections 1948–77: Results and Analysis Sources for the Study of Irish Politics 2. Routledge. ISBN 9781138973343.
- ^ "22nd Dáil 1981 general election results" (PDF). Houses of the Oireachtas. September 1981. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
- ^ "21st Dáil 1977 general election results" (PDF). Houses of the Oireachtas. February 1978. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
- ^ The Irish Times, 20 June 1977, p. 7–10
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