Kerry North (Dáil Éireann constituency)

For the 1885–1922 constituency, see North Kerry (UK Parliament constituency).

Kerry North
Former Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Constituency
Location of Kerry North within Ireland
Former constituency
Created	1937
Abolished	2011
Seats	4 (1937–1961) 3 (1961–2011)
County/City council	County Kerry

Kerry North was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas from 1937 to 2011. The method of election was the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).

History and boundaries

The constituency was located in the northern half of County Kerry, located between the River Shannon estuary and the Slieve Mish Mountains; and included Tralee, Listowel, Tarbert, Ballybunion and Castleisland.^[1] It was established by the Electoral (Revision of Constituencies) Act 1935 when the former Kerry constituency was divided into Kerry North and Kerry South.^[2] It was first used at the 1937 general election electing members of the 9th Dáil.

The constituency elected 4 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs) from 1937–1961 and 3 deputies from 1961–2011.

At the 2011 general election it was replaced by a new constituency called Kerry North–West Limerick.^[3]^[4]

TDs

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Kerry North 1937–2011^[5]
Key to parties CnaP = Clann na Poblachta CnaT = Clann na Talmhan FF = Fianna Fáil FG = Fine Gael Ind = Independent Lab = Labour Party NLP = National Labour Party SF = Sinn Féin
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
9th	1937^[6]		Stephen Fuller (FF)		Tom McEllistrim, Snr (FF)		John O'Sullivan (FG)		Eamonn Kissane (FF)
10th	1938^[7]		Stephen Fuller (FF)				John O'Sullivan (FG)
11th	1943^[8]		Patrick Finucane (CnaT)				Dan Spring (Lab)
12th	1944^[9]						Dan Spring (NLP)
13th	1948^[10]						Dan Spring (NLP)
14th	1951^[11]		Patrick Finucane (Ind)				Dan Spring (Lab)		John Lynch (FG)
15th	1954^[12]		Patrick Finucane (CnaT)						Johnny Connor (CnaP)
15th	1956 by-election^[13]		Patrick Finucane (CnaT)						Kathleen O'Connor (CnaP)
16th	1957^[14]		Patrick Finucane (Ind)						Daniel Moloney (FF)
17th	1961^[15]							3 seats from 1961
18th	1965^[16]
19th	1969^[17]		Gerard Lynch (FG)		Tom McEllistrim, Jnr (FF)
20th	1973^[18]		Gerard Lynch (FG)
21st	1977^[19]		Kit Ahern (FF)
22nd	1981^[20]		Denis Foley (FF)				Dick Spring (Lab)
23rd	1982 (Feb)^[21]
24th	1982 (Nov)^[22]
25th	1987^[23]				Jimmy Deenihan (FG)
26th	1989^[24]		Tom McEllistrim, Jnr (FF)
27th	1992^[25]		Denis Foley (FF)
28th	1997^[26]		Denis Foley (FF)
29th	2002^[27]		Tom McEllistrim (FF)				Martin Ferris (SF)
30th	2007^[28]		Tom McEllistrim (FF)				Martin Ferris (SF)
31st	2011	Constituency abolished. See Kerry North–West Limerick

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

2007 general election

2007 general election: Kerry North^[28]
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4
	Fine Gael	Jimmy Deenihan	32.3	12,697
	Sinn Féin	Martin Ferris	20.4	8,030	8,631	9,284	10,196
	Fianna Fáil	Tom McEllistrim	18.7	7,367	7,702	8,040	11,247
	Labour Party	Terry O'Brien	10.9	4,287	5,589	6,332	7,282
	Fianna Fáil	Norma Foley	12.5	4,937	5,257	5,535
	Green Party	David Grey	1.9	747	893
	Independent	Anthony Dineen	1.7	689	803
	Independent	Sam Locke	1.0	397	417
	Independent	Tom Donovan	0.3	111	134
	Independent	Michael O'Connor	0.1	51	58
Electorate: 56,216 Valid: 39,313 Spoilt: 334 (0.8%) Quota: 9,829 Turnout: 39,647 (70.5%)

2002 general election

2002 general election: Kerry North^[27]
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3
	Fianna Fáil	Tom McEllistrim	20.2	7,884	10,285
	Sinn Féin	Martin Ferris	24.1	9,436	10,016
	Fine Gael	Jimmy Deenihan	22.1	8,652	9,538	9,842
	Labour Party	Dick Spring	22.4	8,773	9,166	9,353
	Fianna Fáil	Dan Kiely	10.0	3,927
	Ind. Health Alliance	James Kennedy	0.6	233
	Independent	Anthony O'Connor	0.5	208
Electorate: 55,476 Valid: 39,173 Spoilt: 351 (0.9%) Quota: 9,794 Turnout: 39,524 (71.3%)

1997 general election

1997 general election: Kerry North^[26]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Labour Party	Dick Spring	10,699	29.9	1	1
	Fine Gael	Jimmy Deenihan	8,689	24.3	2	2
	Fianna Fáil	Denis Foley	5,376	15.0	3	4
	Sinn Féin	Martin Ferris	5,691	15.9
	Fianna Fáil	Tom McEllistrim, Jnr	4,036	11.3
	National Party	Ciaran O'Connell	1,288	3.6
Electorate: 51,348 Valid: 35,779 Spoilt: 284 (0.8%) Quota: 8,945 Turnout: 36,063 (70.2%)

1992 general election

1992 general election: Kerry North^[25]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Labour Party	Dick Spring	11,515	33.9	1	1
	Fine Gael	Jimmy Deenihan	8,120	23.9	2	2
	Fianna Fáil	Denis Foley	4,974	14.7	3	6
	Fianna Fáil	Tom McEllistrim, Jnr	4,619	13.6
	Fianna Fáil	Ned O'Sullivan	2,781	8.2
	Independent	Michael Reidy	1,122	3.3
	Sinn Féin	Billy Leen	802	2.4
Electorate: 48,797 Valid: 33,933 Spoilt: 400 (1.2%) Quota: 8,484 Turnout: 34,333 (70.4%)

1989 general election

1989 general election: Kerry North^[24]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Labour Party	Dick Spring	10,118	29.7	1	1
	Fine Gael	Jimmy Deenihan	8,692	25.5	2	1
	Fianna Fáil	Tom McEllistrim, Jnr	6,756	19.8	3
	Fianna Fáil	Denis Foley	5,880	17.3
	Fianna Fáil	Ned O'Sullivan	2,641	7.8
Electorate: ? Valid: 34,087 Quota: 8,522 Turnout:

1987 general election

1987 general election: Kerry North^[23]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	Jimmy Deenihan	10,087	29.0	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Denis Foley	7,611	21.9	2
	Labour Party	Dick Spring	6,739	19.4	3
	Fianna Fáil	Tom McEllistrim, Jnr	6,161	17.7
	Fianna Fáil	Dan Kiely	2,939	8.5
	Sinn Féin	Declan Finucane	668	1.9
	Sinn Féin	William Leen	559	1.6
Electorate: ? Valid: 34,764 Quota: 8,692 Turnout:

November 1982 general election

November 1982 general election: Kerry North^[22]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Labour Party	Dick Spring	9,724	28.9	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Tom McEllistrim, Jnr	7,125	21.2	2
	Fianna Fáil	Denis Foley	5,025	14.9	3
	Fine Gael	Jimmy Deenihan	5,817	17.3
	Fianna Fáil	Dan Kiely	5,081	15.1
	Fine Gael	Bernie Gannon	866	2.6
Electorate: ? Valid: 33,638 Quota: 8,410 Turnout:

February 1982 general election

February 1982 general election: Kerry North^[21]
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4
	Labour Party	Dick Spring	25.8	8,552
	Fianna Fáil	Tom McEllistrim, Jnr	20.4	6,754	7,076	9,585
	Fianna Fáil	Denis Foley	17.1	5,646	6,098	7,950	9,123
	Fine Gael	Robert Pierse	17.1	5,643	5,836	6,513	6,647
	Fianna Fáil	Dan Kiely	16.0	5,297	5,416
	Independent	Denis Foley	3.7	1,218
Electorate: 42,856 Valid: 33,110 Spoilt: 240 (0.7%) Quota: 8,278 Turnout: 33,350 (77.8%)

1981 general election

1981 general election: Kerry North^[20]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Tom McEllistrim, Jnr	8,214	24.0	1
	Fianna Fáil	Denis Foley	5,104	14.9	2
	Labour Party	Dick Spring	5,685	16.6	3
	Fine Gael	Gerard Lynch	5,037	14.7
	Fianna Fáil	Kit Ahern	4,158	12.1
	Anti H-Block	Seán McKenna	3,860	11.3
	Fine Gael	Fionán Harty	2,227	6.5
Electorate: ? Valid: 34,285 Quota: 8,572 Turnout:

1977 general election

1977 general election: Kerry North^[19]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Tom McEllistrim, Jnr	6,964	21.0	1
	Fianna Fáil	Kit Ahern	6,737	20.3	2
	Labour Party	Dan Spring	6,046	18.2	3
	Fine Gael	Gerard Lynch	6,202	18.7
	Fianna Fáil	Denis Foley	5,329	16.1
	Fine Gael	John Blennerhassett	1,920	5.8
Electorate: ? Valid: 33,198 Quota: 8,300 Turnout:

1973 general election

1973 general election: Kerry North^[18]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Tom McEllistrim, Jnr	7,263	26.0	1	1
	Labour Party	Dan Spring	5,856	21.0	2
	Fine Gael	Gerard Lynch	4,592	16.5	3
	Fianna Fáil	Kit Ahern	5,786	20.7
	Fine Gael	John Blennerhassett	1,938	7.0
	Independent	John Larkin	1,773	6.4
	Independent	Joseph Keohane	695	2.5
Electorate: ? Valid: 27,903 Quota: 6,976 Turnout:

1969 general election

1969 general election: Kerry North^[17]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Tom McEllistrim, Jnr	5,759	20.6	1
	Fine Gael	Gerard Lynch	4,332	15.5	2
	Labour Party	Dan Spring	4,913	17.5	3
	Fianna Fáil	Kit Ahern	5,217	18.6
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Scannell	2,745	9.8
	Fine Gael	John Blennerhassett	2,628	9.4
	Independent	Michael Finucane	2,425	8.7
Electorate: ? Valid: 28,019 Quota: 7,005 Turnout:

1965 general election

1965 general election: Kerry North^[16]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Tom McEllistrim, Snr	7,561	28.6	1
	Labour Party	Dan Spring	6,645	25.1	2
	Independent	Patrick Finucane	5,147	19.4	3
	Fine Gael	Edmond Hayes	3,569	13.5
	Fianna Fáil	Kit Ahern	3,563	13.5
Electorate: ? Valid: 26,485 Quota: 6,622 Turnout:

1961 general election

1961 general election: Kerry North^[15]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Labour Party	Dan Spring	5,784	20.4	1
	Independent	Patrick Finucane	5,827	20.6	2
	Fianna Fáil	Tom McEllistrim, Snr	6,195	21.9	3
	Fianna Fáil	Daniel Moloney	5,262	18.6
	Fine Gael	Robert Gleasure	1,963	6.9
	Independent	Charles Lenihan	1,777	6.3
	Sinn Féin	Kevin Barry	1,483	5.2
Electorate: ? Valid: 28,291 Quota: 7,073 Turnout:

1957 general election

1957 general election: Kerry North^[14]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Daniel Moloney	6,976	20.2	1	1
	Labour Party	Dan Spring	6,292	18.3	2
	Independent	Patrick Finucane	4,562	13.2	3
	Fianna Fáil	Tom McEllistrim, Snr	6,231	18.1	4
	Independent	Charles Lenihan	3,736	10.8
	Fine Gael	John Lynch	3,499	10.2
	Sinn Féin	May Daly	3,171	9.2
Electorate: ? Valid: 34,467 Quota: 6,894 Turnout:

1956 by-election

Following the death of Clann na Poblachta TD Johnny Connor, a by-election was held on 29 February 1956. The seat was won by the Clann na Poblachta candidate Kathleen O'Connor, daughter of the deceased TD.

1956 by-election: Kerry North^[13]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Clann na Poblachta	Kathleen O'Connor	18,176	53.5	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Daniel Moloney	15,828	46.6
Electorate: 45,841 Valid: 34,004 Quota: 17,003 Turnout: 74.2%

1954 general election

1954 general election: Kerry North^[12]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Tom McEllistrim, Snr	6,378	17.8	1
	Labour Party	Dan Spring	5,861	16.3	2
	Independent	Patrick Finucane	5,326	14.8	3
	Clann na Poblachta	Johnny Connor	5,003	13.9	4
	Fine Gael	John Lynch	4,904	13.6
	Fianna Fáil	Eamonn Kissane	4,580	12.7
	Fianna Fáil	Maurice Lawlor	3,890	10.8
Electorate: ? Valid: 35,942 Quota: 7,189 Turnout:

1951 general election

1951 general election: Kerry North^[11]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Labour Party	Dan Spring	7,035	19.9	1
	Fianna Fáil	Tom McEllistrim, Snr	5,430	15.4	2
	Fine Gael	John Lynch	5,397	15.3	3
	Independent	Patrick Finucane	4,714	13.4	4
	Fianna Fáil	Eamonn Kissane	4,868	13.8
	Clann na Poblachta	Johnny Connor	4,446	12.6
	Fianna Fáil	Thomas O'Connor	3,389	9.6
Electorate: ? Valid: 35,279 Quota: 7,056 Turnout:

1948 general election

1948 general election: Kerry North^[10]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Tom McEllistrim, Snr	7,555	21.0	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Eamonn Kissane	6,214	17.2	2
	National Labour Party	Dan Spring	5,877	16.3	3
	Clann na Talmhan	Patrick Finucane	4,569	12.7	4
	Clann na Poblachta	Johnny Connor	4,390	12.2
	Fianna Fáil	Thomas O'Connor	3,792	10.5
	Fine Gael	Jeremiah Nolan	2,108	5.8
	Clann na Poblachta	John Walsh	1,564	4.3
Electorate: ? Valid: 36,069 Quota: 7,214 Turnout:

1944 general election

1944 general election: Kerry North^[9]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Clann na Talmhan	Patrick Finucane	8,784	25.8	1	1
	National Labour Party	Dan Spring	8,429	24.7	2	1
	Fianna Fáil	Eamonn Kissane	7,047	20.7	3	1
	Fianna Fáil	Tom McEllistrim, Snr	6,521	19.1	4
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick McKenna	3,322	9.7
Electorate: ? Valid: 34,103 Quota: 6,821 Turnout:

1943 general election

1943 general election: Kerry North^[8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Eamonn Kissane	6,551	17.2	1
	Fianna Fáil	Tom McEllistrim, Snr	5,973	15.7	2
	Labour Party	Dan Spring	5,155	13.6	3
	Clann na Talmhan	Patrick Finucane	5,174	13.6	4
	Independent	Edmund Horan	4,827	12.7
	Fine Gael	John O'Sullivan	4,420	11.6
	Fianna Fáil	Stephen Fuller	3,550	9.3
	Labour Party	John Kelly	2,352	6.2
Electorate: ? Valid: 38,002 Quota: 7,601 Turnout:

1938 general election

1938 general election: Kerry North^[7]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Tom McEllistrim, Snr	8,478	24.0	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Stephen Fuller	7,684	21.8	2	1
	Fianna Fáil	Eamonn Kissane	7,457	21.1	3	1
	Fine Gael	John O'Sullivan	5,432	15.4	4
	Labour Party	William Cummins	3,273	9.3
	Fine Gael	Michael O'Connell	2,976	8.4
Electorate: ? Valid: 35,300 Quota: 7,061 Turnout:

1937 general election

1937 general election: Kerry North^[6]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Eamonn Kissane	7,673	21.9	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Tom McEllistrim, Snr	6,213	17.7	2
	Fianna Fáil	Stephen Fuller	6,019	17.2	3
	Fine Gael	John O'Sullivan	5,204	14.9	4
	Fine Gael	Thomas O'Connell	5,136	14.7
	Labour Party	Patrick Casey	4,783	13.7
Electorate: ? Valid: 35,028 Quota: 7,006 Turnout:

References

↑ "Electoral (Amendment) Act 2005: Schedule". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 24 September 2010.
↑ "Electoral (Revision of Constituencies) Act, 1935: First Schedule (Revised constituencies)". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 22 February 2009.
↑ "Constituency Commission: Report on Dáil and European Parliament Constituencies 2007" (PDF). The Stationery Office, Dublin. p. 5. Retrieved 22 February 2009.
↑ "Electoral (Amendment) Act 2009: Schedule". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 28 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.
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External links

Oireachtas Members Database

Parliamentary constituencies in County Kerry

Parliament of Ireland to 1800	Ardfert (1639–1800) Dingle (1607–1800) Kerry (????–1800) Tralee (1613–1800)

Westminster 1801–1922 and First Dáil 1918	Kerry (1801–85) Tralee (1801–85) East Kerry (1885–1922) North Kerry (1885–1922) South Kerry (1885–1922) West Kerry (1885–1922)

Dáil Éireann 1921–present	Kerry–Limerick West (1921–23) Kerry (1923–37, 2016–) Kerry North (1937–2011) Kerry South (1937–2016) Kerry North–West Limerick (2011–16)

European Parliament 1979–present	Munster (1979–2004) South (2004–)

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