Cork West (Dáil Éireann constituency)

For the 1885–1922 constituency, see West Cork (UK Parliament constituency).

Cork West
Former Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Constituency
Former constituency
Created	1923
Abolished	1961
Seats	5 (1923–1948) 3 (1948–1961)
County/City council	County Cork

Cork West was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas from 1923 to 1961. The constituency elected 5 (and later 3) deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs) to the Dáil, using the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).

History

It was created in 1923 as a 5 seat constituency, a partial replacement for the 8 seat Cork Mid, North, South, South East and West constituency. It was first used for the 1923 general election to the 4th Dáil.

It was reduced to a 3 seater for the 1948 general election to the 12th Dáil, and remained at that size until its abolition for the 1961 general election to the 17th Dáil. It was then partially replaced by the new Cork South–West constituency.

Boundaries

It consisted of the county electoral areas of Bandon, Bantry and Dunmanway in the administrative county of Cork.^[1]

TDs

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Cork West 1923–1961^[2]
Key to parties CnaG = Cumann na nGaedheal FP = Farmers' Party FF = Fianna Fáil FG = Fine Gael Ind = Independent Lab = Labour Party NCP = National Centre Party Rep = Republican
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
4th	1923^[3]		Seán Buckley (Rep)		Cornelius Connolly (CnaG)		Timothy J. Murphy (Lab)		Timothy O'Donovan (FP)		John Prior (CnaG)
5th	1927 (Jun)^[4]		Thomas Mullins (FF)		Timothy Sheehy (CnaG)						Jasper Wolfe (Ind)
6th	1927 (Sep)^[5]		Thomas Mullins (FF)		Timothy Sheehy (CnaG)
7th	1932^[6]		Raphael Keyes (FF)		Eamonn O'Neill (CnaG)
8th	1933^[7]		Tom Hales (FF)		Eamonn O'Neill (CnaG)				Timothy O'Donovan (NCP)		James Burke (CnaG)
9th	1937^[8]		Timothy O'Sullivan (FF)		Daniel O'Leary (FG)				Timothy O'Donovan (FG)		Eamonn O'Neill (FG)
10th	1938^[9]				Seán Buckley (FF)						Eamonn O'Neill (FG)
11th	1943^[10]										Patrick O'Driscoll (Ind)
12th	1944^[11]								Eamonn O'Neill (FG)		Patrick O'Driscoll (Ind)
13th	1948^[12]				Seán Collins (FG)			3 seats 1948–1961
13th	1949 by-election^[13]						William J. Murphy (Lab)
14th	1951^[14]						Michael Murphy (Lab)
15th	1954^[15]		Edward Cotter (FF)
16th	1957^[16]		Edward Cotter (FF)		Florence Wycherley (Ind)
17th	1961	Constituency abolished. See Cork South–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

1957 general election

1957 general election: Cork West^[16]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Edward Cotter	5,255	19.9	1
	Labour Party	Michael Murphy	6,454	24.5	2
	Independent	Florence Wycherley	4,666	17.7	3
	Fine Gael	Seán Collins	5,869	22.3
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Finn	4,125	15.6
Electorate: ? Valid: 30,353 Quota: 7,589 Turnout:

1954 general election

1954 general election: Cork West^[15]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Labour Party	Michael Murphy	7,315	25.4	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Edward Cotter	6,270	21.8	2
	Fine Gael	Seán Collins	4,003	13.9	3
	Clann na Talmhan	Florence Wycherley	4,238	14.7
	Fine Gael	John O'Sullivan	3,635	12.6
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Finn	3,339	11.6
Electorate: ? Valid: 28,800 Quota: 7,201 Turnout:

1951 general election

1951 general election: Cork West^[14]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Timothy O'Sullivan	7,571	25.8	1	1
	Fine Gael	Seán Collins	7,515	25.7	2	1
	Labour Party	Michael Murphy	6,103	20.8	3
	Clann na Talmhan	Charles Bryan	4,732	16.2
	Fianna Fáil	James Moynihan	3,373	11.5
Electorate: ? Valid: 29,294 Quota: 7,324 Turnout:

1949 by-election

Following the death of the Labour Party TD Timothy J. Murphy, a by-election was held on 15 June 1949. The seat was won by the Labour Party candidate William J. Murphy.

1949 by-election: Cork West^[13]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Labour Party	William J. Murphy	18,909	63.3	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Edward Cotter	10,950	36.7
Electorate: 36,609 Valid: 29,859 Quota: 14,930 Turnout: 81.6%

1948 general election

1948 general election: Cork West^[12]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Timothy O'Sullivan	6,348	21.0	1
	Labour Party	Timothy J. Murphy	6,165	20.4	2
	Fine Gael	Seán Collins	4,643	15.4	3
	Clann na Talmhan	Charles Bryan	4,750	15.7
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Burke	3,439	11.4
	Clann na Poblachta	Thomas Roycroft	2,135	7.1
	Fine Gael	Daniel Kingston	1,877	6.2
	Clann na Poblachta	Liam Dwyer	857	2.8
Electorate: ? Valid: 30,214 Quota: 7,554 Turnout:

1944 general election

1944 general election: Cork West^[11]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Labour Party	Timothy J. Murphy	7,764	15.7	1
	Clann na Talmhan	Patrick O'Driscoll	7,573	15.3	2
	Fine Gael	Eamonn O'Neill	5,125	10.3	3
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Buckley	7,529	15.2	4
	Fianna Fáil	Timothy O'Sullivan	7,136	14.4	5
	Independent	Daniel O'Leary	5,655	11.4
	Fine Gael	Timothy O'Donovan	3,900	7.9
	Labour Party	T. J. Harrington	2,092	4.2
	Independent	Tom Hales	1,444	2.9
	Fine Gael	Michael Sheehy	1,405	2.8
Electorate: ? Valid: 49,623 Quota: 8,271 Turnout:

1943 general election

1943 general election: Cork West^[10]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Labour Party	Timothy J. Murphy	9,363	18.1	1	1
	Clann na Talmhan	Patrick O'Driscoll	7,062	13.7	2
	Fianna Fáil	Timothy O'Sullivan	7,977	15.5	3
	Fine Gael	Timothy O'Donovan	4,854	9.4	4
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Buckley	6,632	12.8	5
	Fine Gael	Daniel O'Leary	4,414	8.6
	Fine Gael	Eamonn O'Neill	4,378	8.5
	Labour Party	Denis Lehane	2,315	4.5
	Labour Party	Patrick Crowley	1,955	3.8
	Independent	Michael Twomey	1,582	3.1
	Fine Gael	Denis Cronin	1,104	2.1
Electorate: ? Valid: 51,636 Quota: 8,607 Turnout:

1938 general election

1938 general election: Cork West^[9]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Buckley	10,895	20.1	1	1
	Labour Party	Timothy J. Murphy	10,424	19.3	2	1
	Fianna Fáil	Timothy O'Sullivan	10,019	18.5	3	1
	Fine Gael	Timothy O'Donovan	7,825	14.5	4
	Fine Gael	Eamonn O'Neill	6,304	11.7	5
	Fine Gael	Daniel O'Leary	6,504	12.0
	Fine Gael	Eugene O'Sullivan	2,124	3.9
Electorate: ? Valid: 54,095 Quota: 9,016 Turnout:

1937 general election

1937 general election: Cork West^[8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Labour Party	Timothy J. Murphy	12,179	22.7	1	1
	Fine Gael	Timothy O'Donovan	6,846	12.8	2
	Fianna Fáil	Timothy O'Sullivan	7,538	14.1	3
	Fine Gael	Eamonn O'Neill	5,108	9.5	4
	Fine Gael	Daniel O'Leary	5,781	10.8	5
	Fianna Fáil	Daniel Corkery	5,754	10.7
	Fine Gael	William Roycroft	4,484	8.4
	Fine Gael	John O'Sullivan	3,675	6.9
	Independent	Tom Hales	2,207	4.1
Electorate: ? Valid: 53,572 Quota: 8,929 Turnout:

1933 general election

1933 general election: Cork West^[7]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Cumann na nGaedheal	James Burke	9,482	21.3	1	1
	National Centre Party	Timothy O'Donovan	9,075	20.4	2	1
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Eamonn O'Neill	6,067	13.6	3
	Labour Party	Timothy J. Murphy	6,458	14.5	4
	Fianna Fáil	Tom Hales	4,021	9.0	5
	Fianna Fáil	Raphael Keyes	4,840	10.9
	Fianna Fáil	Jeremiah Galvin	2,708	6.1
	Fianna Fáil	Eugene McCarthy	1,843	4.1
Electorate: ? Valid: 44,494 Quota: 7,416 Turnout:

1932 general election

1932 general election: Cork West^[6]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Labour Party	Timothy J. Murphy	7,257	17.7	1	1
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Eamonn O'Neill	5,715	13.9	2
	Independent	Jasper Wolfe	5,757	14.1	3
	Farmers' Party	Timothy O'Donovan	5,310	13.0	4
	Fianna Fáil	Raphael Keyes	5,005	12.2	5
	Fianna Fáil	Jeremiah Galvin	5,060	12.3
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Timothy Sheehy	4,476	10.9
	Fianna Fáil	Eugene McCarthy	2,393	5.8
Electorate: ? Valid: 40,973 Quota: 6,829 Turnout:

September 1927 general election

September 1927 general election: Cork West^[5]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Thomas Mullins	4,797	13.2	1
	Independent	Jasper Wolfe	6,027	16.6	2
	Labour Party	Timothy J. Murphy	5,561	15.3	3
	Farmers' Party	Timothy O'Donovan	5,893	16.3	4
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Timothy Sheehy	4,771	13.2	5
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Eamonn O'Neill	4,623	12.8
	Fianna Fáil	Raphael Keyes	4,585	12.7
Electorate: ? Valid: 36,257 Quota: 6,043 Turnout:

June 1927 general election

June 1927 general election: Cork West^[4]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Labour Party	Timothy J. Murphy	6,679	18.7	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Thomas Mullins	2,925	8.2	2
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Timothy Sheehy	3,206	9.0	3
	Farmers' Party	Timothy O'Donovan	3,708	10.4	4
	Independent	Jasper Wolfe	4,422	12.4	5
	Farmers' Party	Joseph MacCarthy	2,693	7.6
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Thomas O'Donovan	2,404	6.7
	Fianna Fáil	Jeremiah McCarthy	2,122	5.9
	Farmers' Party	Jeremiah O'Sullivan	1,801	5.1
	Fianna Fáil	George Ross	1,739	4.9
	Cumann na nGaedheal	John Prior	1,685	4.7
	Sinn Féin	Seán Buckley	1,349	3.8
	Independent	Cornelius O'Donovan	947	2.7
Electorate: ? Valid: 35,680 Quota: 5,947 Turnout:

1923 general election

1923 general election: Cork West^[3]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Cornelius Connolly	4,430	14.9	1	6
	Republican	Seán Buckley	3,237	10.9	2	10
	Farmers' Party	Timothy O'Donovan	2,473	8.3	3	10
	Cumann na nGaedheal	John Prior	3,257	11.0	4	10
	Labour Party	Timothy J. Murphy	3,517	11.8	5	10
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Robert Kelly	2,469	8.3
	Republican	Maurice Donegan	1,741	5.9
	Farmers' Party	Michael Scully	1,460	4.9
	Independent	Daniel O'Leary	1,427	4.8
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Daniel McCarthy	1,347	4.5
	National Democratic Party	Joseph O'Mahony	1,336	4.5
	Republican	John Lehane	1,240	4.2
	Farmers' Party	Daniel Minihane	1,074	3.6
	Independent	William Hales	510	1.7
	Independent	David Connor	205	0.7
Electorate: 59,500 Valid: 29,723 Quota: 4,954 Turnout: 49.9%

References

↑ "Electoral (Amendment) Act, 1923: (Constituencies)". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 15 September 2010.
↑ Walker, Brian M, ed. (1992). Parliamentary election results in Ireland, 1918–92. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0-901714-96-8. ISSN 0332-0286.
1 2 "General election 1923: Cork West". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
1 2 "General election June 1927: Cork West". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
1 2 "General election September 1927: Cork West". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
1 2 "General election 1932: Cork West". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
1 2 "General election 1933: Cork West". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
1 2 "General election 1937: Cork West". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
1 2 "General election 1938: Cork West". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
1 2 "General election 1943: Cork West". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
1 2 "General election 1944: Cork West". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
1 2 "General election 1948: Cork West". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
1 2 "By-election 1949: Cork West". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 1 March 2009.
1 2 "General election 1951: Cork West". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
1 2 "General election 1954: Cork West". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
1 2 "General election 1957: Cork West". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 16 September 2010.

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