Dublin County Mid (Dáil Éireann constituency)

Dublin County Mid
Former Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Constituency
Former constituency
Created	1977
Abolished	1981
Seats	3
County/City council	County Dublin

Dublin County Mid was a short-lived parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas from 1977 to 1981. The constituency elected 3 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs) to the Dáil, using the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).

History

The constituency was created under the terms of the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1974^[1] as part of the redistribution of constituencies which attempted to secure the re-election of the outgoing Fine Gael–Labour Party government. It drew its electorate from the existing Dublin County North and Dublin County South constituencies.

It was abolished by the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1980 and divided between the constituencies of Dublin South, Dublin South–West and Dublin South–Central. It was only used for the 1977 general election to the 21st Dáil.

Boundaries

The constituency covered the Rathfarnham, Terenure and Tallaght areas of County Dublin, as well as Blessington and other areas of northern County Wicklow. In the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1974, the boundaries of Dublin County Mid are given as:

In the administrative county of Dublin, the district electoral divisions of:^[1]

Rathfarnham Number One, Rathfarnham Number Two, Tallaght Number One, Tallaght Number Two, Tallaght Number Three, Terenure Number Two, Terenure Number Three, Terenure Number Four, Whitechurch;

and, in the administrative county of Wicklow, the district electoral divisions of:

Blessington, Burgage Kilbride, Lackan, in the former Rural District of Baltinglass No. 1;

and the following wards in the county borough of Dublin:

Rathfarnham B, Rathfarnham C, Rathfarnham D, Rathfarnham South.

TDs

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Dublin County Mid 1977–1981^[2]
Key to parties FF = Fianna Fáil FG = Fine Gael
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
21st	1977^[3]		Seán Walsh (FF)		Larry McMahon (FG)		Síle de Valera (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.

1977 general election

1977 general election: Dublin County Mid^[3]
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Walsh	26.8	10,927
	Fianna Fáil	Síle de Valera	14.6	5,969	5,998	6,031	6,346	6,370	11,461
	Fine Gael	Larry McMahon	16.2	6,593	6,716	7,729	7,756	9,913	10,118
	Labour Party	Mervyn Taylor	15.8	6,430	7,684	7,975	8,012	8,487	8,727
	Fianna Fáil	Richard Conroy	12.9	5,252	5,274	5,297	5,554	5,633
	Fine Gael	George Laing	5.7	2,338	2,380	2,785	2,789
	Fine Gael	Noel Murphy	4.2	1,701	1,786
	Labour Party	Paul Mulhern	3.8	1,567
Electorate: 54,949 Valid: Spoilt: ? Quota: 10,195 Turnout: 40,777^[4]

References

1 2 "Electoral (Amendment) Act, 1974: Schedule (Constituencies)". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 12 February 2009.
↑ 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 1977: Dublin County Mid". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 5 March 2009.
↑ The Irish Times, 20 June 1977, p7–10

External links

Oireachtas Members Database

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