Kerry South (Dáil Éireann constituency)

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

Kerry South
Former Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Constituency
Location of Kerry South within Ireland
Former constituency
Created	1937
Abolished	2016
Seats	3
County council	County Kerry

Kerry South was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas, from 1937 to 2016. The constituency elected 3 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs). The method of election was the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).

History and boundaries

The constituency was located in the southern half of County Kerry taking in the Dingle and Iveragh peninsulas, including the towns of Killarney, Dingle, Cahirciveen, Killorglin and Kenmare.^[1]

It was established by the Electoral (Revision of Constituencies) Act 1935 when the former Kerry constituency was divided into the constituencies of Kerry North and Kerry South. It was first used at the 1937 general election electing members of the 9th Dáil.

The Electoral (Amendment) Act 2009 defined the constituency as:^[1]

"The county of Kerry, except the part thereof which is comprised in the constituency of Kerry North–West Limerick."

It was abolished at the 2016 general election and replaced by the new Kerry constituency.

TDs

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Kerry South 1937–2016^[2]
Key to parties FF = Fianna Fáil FG = Fine Gael Ind = Independent Lab = Labour Party SF = Sinn Féin
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
9th	1937^[3]		Frederick Crowley (FF)		John Flynn (FF)		Fionán Lynch (FG)
10th	1938^[4]				John Flynn (FF)
11th	1943^[5]				John Healy (FF)
12th	1944^[6]
	1944 by-election^[7]						Donal O'Donoghue (FF)
	1945 by-election^[8]		Honor Crowley (FF)				Donal O'Donoghue (FF)
13th	1948^[9]				John Flynn (Ind)		Patrick Palmer (FG)
14th	1951^[10]				John Flynn (Ind)
15th	1954^[11]				John Flynn (FF)
16th	1957^[12]				John Joe Rice (SF)
17th	1961^[13]				Timothy O'Connor (FF)		Patrick Connor (FG)
18th	1965^[14]
18th	1966 by-election^[15]		John O'Leary (FF)
19th	1969^[16]						Michael Begley (FG)
20th	1973^[17]
21st	1977^[18]
22nd	1981^[19]				Michael Moynihan (Lab)
23rd	1982 (Feb)^[20]
24th	1982 (Nov)^[21]
25th	1987^[22]				John O'Donoghue (FF)
26th	1989^[23]						Michael Moynihan (Lab)
27th	1992^[24]						Breeda Moynihan-Cronin (Lab)
28th	1997^[25]		Jackie Healy-Rae (Ind)
29th	2002^[26]
30th	2007^[27]						Tom Sheahan (FG)
31st	2011^[28]		Michael Healy-Rae (Ind)		Tom Fleming (Ind)		Brendan Griffin (FG)
32nd	2016	Constituency abolished. See Kerry

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

2011 general election

2011 general election: Kerry South^[28]
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6
	Fine Gael	Brendan Griffin	19.8	8,808	8,943	10,014	10,865	12,636
	Independent	Tom Fleming	14.5	6,416	6,548	7,357	8,746	10,389	10,697
	Independent	Michael Healy-Rae	15.0	6,670	6,789	7,412	9,146	10,129	10,326
	Fine Gael	Tom Sheahan	12.8	5,674	5,736	6,577	7,326	8,668	9,409
	South Kerry Independent	Michael Gleeson	11.1	4,939	5,222	6,378	7,037
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Donoghue	13.3	5,917	5,960	6,200
	Labour Party	Marie Moloney	11.1	4,926	5,132
	Green Party	Oonagh Comerford	0.9	401
	Independent	Richard Behal	0.8	348
	Independent	Dermot Finn	0.6	281
Electorate: 59,629 Valid: 44,380 Spoilt: 299 (0.7%) Quota: 11,096 Turnout: 44,679 (74.9%)

2007 general election

2007 general election: Kerry South^[27]
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Donoghue	23.4	9,128	9,407	9,956
	Fine Gael	Tom Sheahan	14.3	5,600	5,819	7,927	7,960	11,010
	Independent	Jackie Healy-Rae	15.4	5,993	6,356	6,828	6,882	8,526	9,315
	Fianna Fáil	Tom Fleming	17.3	6,740	6,972	7,221	7,278	8,393	8,855
	Labour Party	Breeda Moynihan-Cronin	13.5	5,263	5,904	6,774	6,827
	Fine Gael	Séamus Cosaí FitzGerald	10.7	4,195	4,419
	Sinn Féin	Lynn Ní Bhaoigheallain	3.5	1,375
	Green Party	John Hickey	1.9	738
Electorate: 53,660 Valid: 39,032 Spoilt: 293 (0.8%) Quota: 9,759 Turnout: 39,325 (73.3%)

2002 general election

2002 general election: Kerry South^[26]
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Donoghue	25.8	9,445
	Labour Party	Breeda Moynihan-Cronin	14.5	5,307	5,480	5,946	5,979	6,432	9,442
	Independent	Jackie Healy-Rae	17.0	6,229	6,455	6,819	6,893	7,147	8,409	8,584
	Fianna Fáil	Tom Fleming	18.9	6,912	6,995	7,255	7,407	7,593	8,276	8,381
	Fine Gael	Séamus Cosaí FitzGerald	12.4	4,539	4,732	4,791	4,811	6,083
	Fine Gael	Sheila Casey	5.3	1,934	2,033	2,216	2,220
	Independent	Donal Grady	3.7	1,346	1,449
	Independent	Donal Barry	2.5	934
Electorate: 51,761 Valid: 36,646 Spoilt: 376 (1.0%) Quota: 9,162 Turnout: 37,022 (61.0%)

1997 general election

1997 general election: Kerry South^[25]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Donoghue	7,204	20.3	1	5
	Independent	Jackie Healy-Rae	7,220	20.3	2	5
	Labour Party	Breeda Moynihan-Cronin	4,988	14.1	3	7
	Independent	Breandan MacGearailt	4,172	11.8
	Fine Gael	Aidan O'Connor	3,041	8.6
	Fianna Fáil	Brian O'Leary	4,079	11.5
	Fine Gael	Jim Kelly	1,847	5.2
	Independent	P. J. Cronin	1,557	4.4
	Independent	Michael Gleeson	1,388	3.9
Electorate: 48,164 Valid: 35,496 Spoilt: 303 (0.9%) Quota: 8,875 Turnout: 35,799 (74.3%)

1992 general election

1992 general election: Kerry South^[24]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Donoghue	8,263	26.4	1	1
	Labour Party	Breeda Moynihan-Cronin	7,537	24.1	2	5
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Leary	6,113	19.5	3	6
	Fine Gael	Michael Connor Scarteen	3,576	11.4
	Fine Gael	Paul Coghlan	2,658	8.5
	Independent	P. J. Cronin	2,481	7.9
	Sinn Féin	Dan Daly	331	1.1
	Independent	Pól Ó Criochain	267	0.9
	Independent	Liam West	112	0.4
Electorate: 44,591 Valid: 31,338 Spoilt: 486 (1.5%) Quota: 7,835 Turnout: 31,824 (71.4%)

1989 general election

1989 general election: Kerry South^[23]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Leary	8,398	26.8	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Donoghue	8,375	26.7	2	1
	Labour Party	Michael Moynihan	6,408	20.5	3
	Fine Gael	Michael Begley	6,477	20.7
	Progressive Democrats	John Kelly	1,458	4.7
	Independent	Barbara Hyland	202	0.6
Electorate: ? Valid: 31,318 Quota: 7,830 Turnout:

1987 general election

1987 general election: Kerry South^[22]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Leary	7,839	23.6	1
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Donoghue	5,606	16.9	2
	Fine Gael	Michael Begley	5,036	15.3	3
	Labour Party	Michael Moynihan	4,559	13.7
	Fianna Fáil	Breandan Mac Gearailt	4,481	13.5
	Progressive Democrats	Michael Ahern	3,215	9.7
	Fine Gael	Denis Sheahan	910	2.7
	Workers' Party	Seán O'Grady	735	2.2
	Independent	Marcus Counihan	708	2.1
	Independent	James Falvey	122	0.4
Electorate: ? Valid: 33,211 Quota: 8,303 Turnout:

November 1982 general election

November 1982 general election: Kerry South^[21]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	Michael Begley	7,524	22.8	1
	Labour Party	Michael Moynihan	7,609	23.1	2
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Leary	7,898	24.0	3
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Donoghue	7,201	21.9
	Fine Gael	Thomas Randles	890	2.7
	Independent	Joseph O'Shea	845	2.6
	Workers' Party	Seán O'Grady	679	2.1
	Independent	Colm O'Sullivan	236	0.7
	Independent	Stephen Doyle	57	0.2
Electorate: ? Valid: 32,939 Quota: 8,235 Turnout:

February 1982 general election

February 1982 general election: Kerry South^[20]
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5
	Fine Gael	Michael Begley	20.8	6,758	6,770	8,292
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Leary	23.1	7,510	7,515	7,758	7,764	8,811
	Labour Party	Michael Moynihan	21.6	7,038	7,077	7,732	7,877	8,285
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Donoghue	15.3	4,977	4,999	5,100	5,105	7,094
	Fianna Fáil	Tom Fitzgerald	10.8	3,523	3,544	3,582	3,585
	Fine Gael	Michael Connor Scarteen	8.0	2,584	2,599
	Independent	Stephen Doyle	0.4	141
Electorate: 41,807 Valid: 32,531 Spoilt: 279 (0.9%) Quota: 8,133 Turnout: 32,810 (78.5%)

1981 general election

1981 general election: Kerry South^[19]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Labour Party	Michael Moynihan	8,221	24.5	1
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Leary	7,383	22.0	2
	Fine Gael	Michael Begley	6,144	18.3	3
	Fianna Fáil	Timothy O'Connor	4,702	14.0
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Donoghue	3,780	11.3
	Fine Gael	Patrick O'Connor	1,763	5.3
	Independent	Michael O'Connell	1,600	4.8
Electorate: ? Valid: 33,593 Quota: 8,399 Turnout:

1977 general election

1977 general election: Kerry South^[18]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Leary	8,002	24.5	1
	Fine Gael	Michael Begley	6,655	20.4	2
	Fianna Fáil	Timothy O'Connor	7,917	24.2	3
	Labour Party	Michael Moynihan	5,799	17.7
	Fine Gael	Michael Connor Scarteen	3,256	10.0
	Sinn Féin (Workers' Party)	Redmond Sullivan	1,065	3.3
Electorate: ? Valid: 32,694 Quota: 8,174 Turnout:

1973 general election

1973 general election: Kerry South^[17]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Leary	8,286	30.3	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Timothy O'Connor	5,819	21.3	2
	Fine Gael	Michael Begley	5,390	19.7	3
	Labour Party	Michael Moynihan	3,806	13.9
	Fine Gael	Daniel Barry	3,025	11.1
	Sinn Féin (Official)	Patrick O'Callaghan	1,014	3.7
Electorate: ? Valid: 27,340 Quota: 6,836 Turnout:

1969 general election

1969 general election: Kerry South^[16]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Leary	8,656	30.6	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Timothy O'Connor	6,490	22.9	2
	Fine Gael	Michael Begley	4,564	16.1	3
	Fine Gael	Patrick Connor	3,891	13.8
	Labour Party	Tadhg O'Sullivan	2,652	9.4
	Fine Gael	Daniel Barry	2,038	7.2
Electorate: ? Valid: 28,291 Quota: 7,073 Turnout:

1966 by-election

Following the death of Fianna Fáil TD Honor Crowley, a by-election was held on 7 December 1966. The seat was won by the Fianna Fáil candidate John O'Leary.

1966 by-election: Kerry South^[15]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Leary	12,499	45.9	1	2
	Fine Gael	Michael Begley	9,875	36.3
	Labour Party	Michael Moynihan	4,849	17.8
Electorate: 35,832 Valid: 27,223 Quota: 13,612 Turnout: 76.0%

1965 general election

1965 general election: Kerry South^[14]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	Patrick Connor	5,501	20.7	1
	Fianna Fáil	Timothy O'Connor	5,977	22.5	2
	Fianna Fáil	Honor Crowley	5,746	21.6	3
	Labour Party	Michael Moynihan	4,712	17.7
	Fine Gael	Michael Begley	3,250	12.2
	Independent	James Courtney	1,370	5.2
Electorate: ? Valid: 26,556 Quota: 6,640 Turnout:

1961 general election

1961 general election: Kerry South^[13]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	Patrick Connor	5,402	21.3	1
	Fianna Fáil	Honor Crowley	5,640	22.3	2
	Fianna Fáil	Timothy O'Connor	5,244	20.7	3
	Labour Party	Michael Moynihan	3,630	14.3
	Sinn Féin	John Joe Rice	3,240	12.8
	Fine Gael	Michael O'Sullivan	2,158	8.5
Electorate: ? Valid: 25,314 Quota: 6,329 Turnout:

1957 general election

1957 general election: Kerry South^[12]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	Patrick Palmer	5,899	26.6	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Honor Crowley	5,632	25.4	2	1
	Sinn Féin	John Joe Rice	5,582	25.1	3	1
	Fianna Fáil	John Flynn	5,101	23.0
Electorate: ? Valid: 22,214 Quota: 5,554 Turnout:

1954 general election

1954 general election: Kerry South^[11]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	Patrick Palmer	6,376	25.6	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	John Flynn	5,834	23.4	2
	Fianna Fáil	Honor Crowley	5,732	23.0	3
	Labour Party	Michael Moynihan	2,690	10.8
	Clann na Talmhan	William Dennehy	2,461	9.9
	Clann na Poblachta	John O'Leary	1,853	7.4
Electorate: ? Valid: 24,946 Quota: 6,237 Turnout:

1951 general election

1951 general election: Kerry South^[10]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	Patrick Palmer	7,437	29.5	1	1
	Independent	John Flynn	5,337	21.2	2
	Fianna Fáil	Honor Crowley	4,679	18.6	3
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Lane	4,232	16.8
	Clann na Poblachta	John O'Leary	2,330	9.3
	Clann na Poblachta	Jeremiah O'Riordan	1,170	4.7
Electorate: ? Valid: 25,185 Quota: 6,297 Turnout:

1948 general election

1948 general election: Kerry South^[9]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Honor Crowley	4,091	15.7	1
	Independent	John Flynn	4,107	15.7	2
	Fine Gael	Patrick Palmer	4,924	18.9	3
	Fianna Fáil	John Healy	3,992	15.3
	Clann na Poblachta	Pádraig O'Donoghue	3,179	12.2
	Fianna Fáil	Donal O'Donoghue	2,278	8.7
	Clann na Poblachta	Patrick Jones	2,121	8.1
	Independent	Patrick O'Shea	1,424	5.5
Electorate: ? Valid: 26,116 Quota: 6,530 Turnout:

1945 by-election

Following the death of Fianna Fáil TD Frederick Crowley, a by-election was held on 4 December 1945. The seat was won by the Fianna Fáil candidate Honor Crowley, widow of the deceased TD.

1945 by-election: Kerry South^[8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Honor Crowley	10,483	56.7	1	1
	Clann na Talmhan	Edmund Horan	8,018	43.3
Electorate: 35,945 Valid: 18,501 Quota: 9,251 Turnout: 51.5%

1944 by-election

Following the resignation of Fine Gael TD Fionán Lynch upon his appointment as a judge, a by-election was held on 10 November 1944. The seat was won by the Fianna Fáil candidate Donal O'Donoghue.

1944 by-election: Kerry South^[7]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Donal O'Donoghue	10,986	48.6	1	2
	Clann na Talmhan	Edmund Horan	6,795	30.1
	Fine Gael	Eoin O'Connell	4,822	21.3
Electorate: 35,945 Valid: 22,603 Quota: 11,302 Turnout: 62.9%

1944 general election

1944 general election: Kerry South^[6]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Frederick Crowley	6,693	26.6	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	John Healy	6,526	25.9	2	1
	Fine Gael	Fionán Lynch	6,057	24.1	3
	Independent	Edmund Horan	5,908	23.5
Electorate: ? Valid: 25,184 Quota: 6,297 Turnout:

1943 general election

1943 general election: Kerry South^[5]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Frederick Crowley	5,934	22.4	1
	Fine Gael	Fionán Lynch	4,771	18.0	2
	Fianna Fáil	John Healy	5,323	20.1	3
	Independent	Daniel Allman	4,446	16.8
	Labour Party	William Myers	4,384	16.5
	Independent	John Duffy	1,685	6.4
Electorate: ? Valid: 26,543 Quota: 6,636 Turnout:

1938 general election

1938 general election: Kerry South^[4]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	John Flynn	Unopposed	N/A	1
	Fianna Fáil	Frederick Crowley	Unopposed	N/A	2
	Fine Gael	Fionán Lynch	Unopposed	N/A	3

1937 general election

1937 general election: Kerry South^[3]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	John Flynn	7,268	28.3	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Frederick Crowley	6,772	26.4	2	1
	Fine Gael	Fionán Lynch	4,741	18.5	3
	Independent	Patrick O'Shea	3,532	13.7
	Fine Gael	William O'Sullivan	3,384	13.2
Electorate: ? Valid: 25,697 Quota: 6,425 Turnout:

References

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External links

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