Galway (Dáil Éireann constituency)

Galway
Former Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Constituency
Location of Galway within Ireland
Former constituency
Created	1921
Abolished	1937
Seats	7 (1921–1923) 9 (1923–1937)
County/City council	County Galway

Galway was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas from 1921 to 1937. The method of election was the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).

History

It was the largest constituency in Ireland, electing 7 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs) to the Dáil in 1921 and 1922, and 9 from 1923 to 1937. The constituency was created in 1921 as a 7 seater, under the Government of Ireland Act 1920, for the 1921 elections to the House of Commons of Southern Ireland. That House had only a brief existence, as only four members took their seats, the remainder forming the 2nd Dáil.

Under the Electoral Act 1923, it became a 9 seat constituency for the 1923 general election to the 4th Dáil. Its representation remained at 9 seats until its abolition for the 1937 general election, under the Electoral (Revision of Constituencies) Act 1935.

Boundaries

Some Dáil Éireann constituencies extend cross the county boundaries, to ensure a reasonably consistent ratio of electors to TDs. The mathematics make this less likely to be necessary in a large constituency such as this one, and the 1923 Act defined the boundaries of the Galway constituency simply as: "The administrative county of Galway."^[1] No boundary revisions took place until the abolition of the constituency under the 1935 Act.

TDs

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Galway 1921–1937^[2]
Key to parties CC = Ceann Comhairle CnaG = Cumann na nGaedheal FF = Fianna Fáil FG = Fine Gael Ind = Independent Lab = Labour Party NL = National League Party Rep = Republican SF = Sinn Féin Anti-Treaty = Sinn Féin (Anti-Treaty) Pro-Treaty = Sinn Féin (Pro-Treaty)
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
2nd	1921^[3]		Pádraic Ó Máille (SF)		Bryan Cusack (SF)		Liam Mellows (SF)		Frank Fahy (SF)		Patrick Hogan (SF)		Joseph Whelehan (SF)		George Nicolls (SF)	7 seats 1921–1923
3rd	1922^[4]		Pádraic Ó Máille (Pro-Treaty)		Bryan Cusack (Anti-Treaty)		Thomas O'Connell (Lab)		Frank Fahy (Anti-Treaty)		Patrick Hogan (Pro-Treaty)		Joseph Whelehan (Pro-Treaty)		George Nicolls (Pro-Treaty)	7 seats 1921–1923
4th	1923^[5]		Pádraic Ó Máille (CnaG)		Barney Mellows (Rep)		Thomas O'Connell (Lab)		Frank Fahy (Rep)		Patrick Hogan (CnaG)		James Cosgrave (Ind)		George Nicolls (CnaG)		Seán Broderick (CnaG)		Louis O'Dea (Rep)
5th	1927 (Jun)^[6]		Mark Killilea (FF)		Thomas Powell (FF)		Gilbert Lynch (Lab)		Frank Fahy (FF)				Seán Tubridy (FF)		Martin McDonogh (CnaG)				William Duffy (NL)
6th	1927 (Sep)^[7]		Mark Killilea (FF)				Stephen Jordan (FF)						Seán Tubridy (FF)		Martin McDonogh (CnaG)				Joseph Mongan (CnaG)
7th	1932^[8]		Patrick Beegan (FF)										Gerald Bartley (FF)		Fred McDonogh (CnaG)				Joseph Mongan (CnaG)
8th	1933^[9]				Mark Killilea (FF)				Frank Fahy (CC)						Martin McDonogh (CnaG)				Séamus Keely (FF)
	1935 by-election^[10]														Eamon Corbett (FF)
	1936 by-election^[11]										Martin Neilan (FF)				Eamon Corbett (FF)
9th	1937	Constituency abolished. See Galway East and Galway 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

1936 by-election

Following the death of Fine Gael TD Patrick Hogan, a by-election was held on 13 August 1936. The seat was won by the Fianna Fáil candidate Martin Neilan.

1936 by-election: Galway^[11]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Martin Neilan	39,982	60.6	1	1
	Fine Gael	James Hogan	23,264	35.3
	Cumann Poblachta na hÉireann	Count Plunkett	2,696	4.1
Electorate: 97,736 Valid: 65,942 Quota: 32,972 Turnout: 67.4%

1935 by-election

Following the death of Fine Gael TD Martin McDonogh, a by-election was held on 19 June 1935. The seat was won by the Fianna Fáil candidate Eamon Corbett.

1935 by-election: Galway^[10]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Eamon Corbett	37,415	60.8	1	1
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Thomas McDonogh	24,088	39.2
Electorate: 97,650 Valid: 61,503 Quota: 30,752 Turnout: 62.9%

1933 general election

1933 general election: Galway^[9]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Ceann Comhairle	Frank Fahy	Automatically returned	N/A	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Mark Killilea, Snr	8,872	12.2	2	1
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Patrick Hogan	4,940	6.8	3
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Martin McDonogh	4,328	5.9	4
	Fianna Fáil	Gerald Bartley	6,358	8.7	5
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Beegan	7,010	9.6	6
	Fianna Fáil	Séamus Keely	6,197	8.5	7
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Seán Broderick	4,167	5.7	8
	Fianna Fáil	Stephen Jordan	5,770	7.9	9
	Fianna Fáil	Thomas Powell	5,687	7.8
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Tubridy	5,634	7.7
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Joseph Mongan	4,198	5.8
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Fred McDonogh	3,574	4.9
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Patrick Cawley	3,129	4.3
	Labour Party	Robert Burke	3,080	4.2
Electorate: 94,591 Valid: 72,944 Quota: 8,105 Turnout: 77.1%

1932 general election

1932 general election: Galway^[8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Thomas Powell	6,068	9.2	1
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Patrick Hogan	5,551	8.4	2
	Fianna Fáil	Frank Fahy	6,132	9.3	3
	Fianna Fáil	Gerald Bartley	4,357	6.6	4
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Beegan	5,230	7.9	5
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Joseph Mongan	4,658	7.0	6
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Seán Broderick	4,397	6.7	7
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Fred McDonogh	4,926	7.5	8
	Fianna Fáil	Stephen Jordan	5,142	7.8	9
	Fianna Fáil	Mark Killilea, Snr	5,454	8.3
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Martin McDonogh	3,384	5.1
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Tubridy	4,020	6.1
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Patrick Lambert	3,261	4.9
	Labour Party	Frank Kelly	1,533	2.3
	Labour Party	Edward Meehan	1,036	1.6
	Independent	Martin Cooke	987	1.5
Electorate: ? Valid: 66,136 Quota: 6,614 Turnout:

September 1927 general election

September 1927 general election: Galway^[7]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Patrick Hogan	6,059	10.2	1	1
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Seán Broderick	5,236	8.8	2
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Martin McDonogh	5,007	8.4	3
	Fianna Fáil	Frank Fahy	4,780	8.0	4
	Fianna Fáil	Mark Killilea, Snr	4,675	7.8	5
	Fianna Fáil	Thomas Powell	4,551	7.6	6
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Tubridy	5,126	8.6	7
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Joseph Mongan	4,208	7.1	8
	Fianna Fáil	Stephen Jordan	3,448	5.8	9
	Cumann na nGaedheal	James Nestor	3,944	6.6
	Labour Party	Gilbert Lynch	2,912	4.9
	Fianna Fáil	Séamus Keely	2,898	4.9
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Andrew Staunton	2,680	4.5
	Independent	James Cosgrave	2,399	4.0
	Independent	Pádraic Ó Máille	1,732	2.9
Electorate: ? Valid: 59,655 Quota: 5,966 Turnout:

June 1927 general election

June 1927 general election: Galway^[6]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Patrick Hogan	5,564	9.6	1
	Fianna Fáil	Mark Killilea, Snr	4,349	7.5	2
	Fianna Fáil	Frank Fahy	3,150	5.5	3
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Seán Broderick	3,906	6.8	4
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Martin McDonogh	3,244	5.6	5
	National League Party	William Duffy	2,003	3.5	6
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Tubridy	4,287	7.4	7
	Fianna Fáil	Thomas Powell	3,136	5.4	8
	Labour Party	Gilbert Lynch	2,654	4.6	9
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Joseph Mongan	3,245	5.6
	Sinn Féin	Barney Mellows	2,548	4.4
	Cumann na nGaedheal	James Nestor	2,433	4.2
	Fianna Fáil	Stephen Jordan	2,241	3.9
	Fianna Fáil	Bryan Cusack	2,212	3.8
	Farmers' Party	Patrick Lambert	2,031	3.5
	Independent	James Cosgrave	1,991	3.5
	Cumann na nGaedheal	John McKeague	1,832	3.2
	Clann Éireann	Pádraic Ó Máille	1,809	3.1
	Independent	James McDonnell	1,795	3.1
	Farmers' Party	John Ronaldson	1,637	2.8
	Independent	Seamus O'Mulloy	1,216	2.1
	Independent	James Reddington	464	0.8
Electorate: ? Valid: 57,747 Quota: 5,775 Turnout:

1923 general election

1923 general election: Galway^[5]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Patrick Hogan	7,563	15.6	1	1
	Republican	Barney Mellows	7,131	14.7	2	1
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Pádraic Ó Máille	6,570	13.6	3	1
	Republican	Frank Fahy	5,670	11.7	4	1
	Cumann na nGaedheal	George Nicolls	1,732	3.6	5
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Seán Broderick	1,847	3.8	6
	Republican	Louis O'Dea	1,413	2.9	7
	Labour Party	Thomas J. O'Connell	1,862	3.8	8
	Independent	James Cosgrave	1,922	3.9	9
	Republican	Colm Ó Gaora	2,011	4.2
	Farmers' Party	Patrick Conroy	1,529	3.2
	Farmers' Party	Martin Egan	1,497	3.1
	Town Tenants' Association	Thomas Sloyan	1,296	2.7
	Cumann na nGaedheal	William Dolly	1,237	2.6
	Labour Party	John McNally	1,028	2.1
	Cumann na nGaedheal	John Quinn	837	1.7
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Michael Tierney	667	1.4
	Unpurchased Tenants' Association	James Hoban	622	1.3
	Farmers' Party	Martin Finnerty	615	1.3
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Patrick Curley	379	0.8
	Farmers' Party	James Haverty	343	0.7
	Farmers' Party	Thomas Dillon	293	0.6
	Farmers' Party	Michael O'Brien	203	0.4
	Independent	Anthony Fallon	175	0.4
Electorate: 106,378 Valid: 48,442 Quota: 4,845 Turnout: 45.5%

1922 general election

1922 general election: Galway^[4]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Sinn Féin (Pro-Treaty)	Patrick Hogan	6,832	18.7	1	1
	Sinn Féin (Pro-Treaty)	Pádraic Ó Máille	6,445	17.7	2	1
	Labour Party	Thomas J. O'Connell	4,821	13.2	3	1
	Sinn Féin (Pro-Treaty)	Joseph Whelehan	4,361	11.9	4	2
	Sinn Féin (Pro-Treaty)	George Nicolls	2,258	6.2	5	3
	Sinn Féin (Anti-Treaty)	Bryan Cusack	4,425	12.1	6	3
	Sinn Féin (Anti-Treaty)	Frank Fahy	3,418	9.4	7	7
	Sinn Féin (Anti-Treaty)	Liam Mellows	3,937	10.8
Electorate: 81,455 Valid: 36,497 Quota: 4,563 Turnout: 44.8%

1921 general election

1921 general election: Galway^[3]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Sinn Féin	Bryan Cusack	Unopposed	N/A	1
	Sinn Féin	Frank Fahy	Unopposed	N/A	2
	Sinn Féin	Patrick Hogan	Unopposed	N/A	3
	Sinn Féin	Liam Mellows	Unopposed	N/A	4
	Sinn Féin	George Nicolls	Unopposed	N/A	5
	Sinn Féin	Pádraic Ó Máille	Unopposed	N/A	6
	Sinn Féin	Joseph Whelehan	Unopposed	N/A	7

References

↑ "Electoral Act, 1923: Eighth 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 1921: Galway". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 21 September 2010.
1 2 "General election 1922: Galway". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 21 September 2010.
1 2 "General election 1923: Galway". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 21 September 2010.
1 2 "General election June 1927: Galway". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 21 September 2010.
1 2 "General election September 1927: Galway". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 21 September 2010.
1 2 "General election 1932: Galway". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 21 September 2010.
1 2 "General election 1933: Galway". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 21 September 2010.
1 2 "By-election 1935: Galway". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 21 September 2010.
1 2 "By-election 1936: Galway". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 21 September 2010.

External links

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