Sligo–Leitrim (Dáil Éireann constituency)

Sligo–Leitrim
Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Constituency
Current constituency
Created	2016
Seats	4
TDs	Tony McLoughlin (FG)      Martin Kenny (SF)      Eamon Scanlon (FF)      Marc MacSharry (FF)
County council	Sligo County Council Leitrim County Council Donegal County Council Cavan County Council
EP constituency	Midlands–North-West

Sligo–Leitrim
Former Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Constituency
Former constituency
Created	1948
Abolished	2007
Seats	5 (1948–1961) 4 (1961–1969) 3 (1969–1981) 4 (1981–2007)
County council	County Sligo County Leitrim

Sligo–Leitrim is a parliamentary constituency which will be represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas, from the 2016 general election. The constituency will elect 4 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs). The method of election is the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).

History

1948–2007

The Sligo–Leitrim constituency was created under the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1947,^[1] and first used for the 1948 general election. It replaced the two previous constituencies of Sligo and Leitrim, which had been created for the 1937 general election.

The constituency was abolished for the 2007 general election,^[2] when it was replaced by two new constituencies: Roscommon–South Leitrim and Sligo–North Leitrim.

Since 2016

The Constituency Commission proposed in its 2012 report that at the next general election a new constituency called Sligo–Leitrim be created.^[3] The report proposed changes to the constituencies of Ireland so as to reduce the total number of TDs from 166 to 158.^[4]

It was established by the Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013.^[5] It will replace the constituencies of Roscommon–South Leitrim and Sligo–North Leitrim, and will comprise all of County Sligo; all of County Leitrim; nine electoral divisions of southern County Donegal and thirty-six electoral divisions of western County Cavan.^[3]

The 2013 Act defines the constituency as:^[5]

"The county of Sligo;

and the county of Leitrim;

and, in the county of Donegal, the electoral divisions of:

Ballintra, Ballyshannon Rural, Bundoran Rural, Carrickboy, Cavangarden, Cliff, in the former Rural District of Ballyshannon;

Ballintra in the former Rural District of Donegal;

and the towns of Ballyshannon and Bundoran;

and, in the county of Cavan, the electoral divisions of:

Ballyconnell, Ballymagauran, Bawnboy, Benbrack, Bilberry, Carn, Diamond, Doogary, Kinawley, Lissanover, Pedara Vohers, Swanlinbar, Templeport, Tircahan, in the former Rural District of Bawnboy;

Ardue, Arvagh, Ballintemple, Bruce Hall, Corr, Crossdoney, Drumcarban, Kilconny, Killashandra, Killykeen, Milltown, Springfield, in the former Rural District of Cavan;

Derrylahan, Derrynananta, Dowra, Dunmakeever, Eskey, Killinagh, Teebane, Tuam, in the former Rural District of Enniskillen No. 2;

Loughdawan, Scrabby, in the former Rural District of Mullaghoran."

Boundaries

The constituency originally existed from 1948 to 2007, initially electing 5 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs), and covering the entire area of the County Sligo and County Leitrim in Connacht. Its boundaries were significantly revised in 1961, 1969 and 1977 when the number of seats was reduced to 4 and then 3. From 1977 to 1981 it included parts of County Donegal, but from 1981 until its abolition in 2007 it was again a 4 seat constituency, covering the whole of both counties including the towns of Sligo and Carrick-on-Shannon and many other areas. For the 2016 general election, it was recreated as a 4 seater with the full territory of both counties, plus part of County Donegal and part of County Cavan.

Its size and representation were revised on several occasions, summarised in the following table:

Changes to the Sligo–Leitrim constituency

Years	TDs	Boundaries	Law	Notes
1948–1961	5	The full territory of both counties.[1]	Electoral (Amendment) Act 1947	Constituency created
1961–1969	4	All of County Sligo, and all of County Leitrim except for those areas which were included in the Roscommon constituency.[6]	Electoral (Amendment) Act 1961	Adjustments to maintain voter-to-seat ratio at near national average. Most of the Carrick-on-Shannon and Mohill areas now in the Roscommon constituency.
1969–1977	3	All of County Sligo; and all of Leitrim, except the parts in the constituencies of Donegal–Leitrim and Roscommon–Leitrim.[7]	Electoral (Amendment) Act 1969	Large parts of County Leitrim moved to the two new neighbouring constituencies
1977–1981	3	All of County Sligo; in County Donegal, all of the Bundoran area and part of Ballyshannon; in County Leitrim, parts of the Kinlough and Manorhamilton districts.[8]	Electoral (Amendment) Act 1974	Major revision as part of the "Tullymander". Constituency is now effectively Sligo – Southmost Donegal and the small area of North Leitrim which was in the old Donegal–Leitrim constituency
1981–1987	4	The full territory of both counties.[9]	Electoral (Amendment) Act 1980	Restored to 1948 boundaries
1992–2002	4	The full territory of both counties.[10][11][12][13]	Electoral (Amendment) Act 1990, Electoral (Amendment) Act 1995, Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1998	No changes
2007	—	Constituency abolished.[2]	Electoral (Amendment) Act 2005	The two counties now represented through the constituencies of Roscommon–South Leitrim and Sligo–North Leitrim
2016–	4	All of County Sligo; all of County Leitrim; in County Donegal, the Bundoran and Ballyshannon areas; western parts of County Cavan.	Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013	Constituency re-created.

TDs

TDs 1948–2007

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Sligo–Leitrim 1948–2007[14]
Key to parties    FF = Fianna Fáil   FG = Fine Gael   Ind = Independent   Lab = Labour Party
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
13th	1948[15]		Eugene Gilbride (FF)		Stephen Flynn (FF)		Mary Reynolds (FG)		Joseph Roddy (FG)		Bernard Maguire (Ind)
14th	1951[16]										Patrick Rogers (FG)
15th	1954[17]										Bernard Maguire (Ind)
16th	1957[18]								John Joe McGirl (SF)		Patrick Rogers (FG)
	1961 by-election[19]				Joseph McLoughlin (FG)
17th	1961[20]						James Gallagher (FF)		Eugene Gilhawley (FG)	4 seats 1961–1969
18th	1965[21]
19th	1969[22]		Ray MacSharry (FF)					3 seats 1969–1981
20th	1973[23]						Eugene Gilhawley (FG)
21st	1977[24]				James Gallagher (FF)
22nd	1981[25]				John Ellis (FF)		Ted Nealon (FG)		Joe McCartin (FG)	4 seats 1981–2007
23rd	1982 (Feb)[26]								Matt Brennan (FF)
24th	1982 (Nov)[27]				Joe McCartin (FG)
25th	1987[28]				John Ellis (FF)
26th	1989[29]		Gerry Reynolds (FG)
27th	1992[30]		Declan Bree (Lab)
28th	1997[31]		Gerry Reynolds (FG)				John Perry (FG)
29th	2002[32]		Marian Harkin (Ind)						Jimmy Devins (FF)
30th	2007	Constituency abolished. See Sligo–North Leitrim and Roscommon–South Leitrim

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.

TDs since 2016

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Sligo–Leitrim 2016–
Key to parties    FF = Fianna Fáil   FG = Fine Gael   SF = Sinn Féin
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
32nd	2016[33]		Marc MacSharry (FF)		Martin Kenny (SF)		Tony McLoughlin (FG)		Eamon Scanlon (FF)

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

2016 general election

2016 general election: Sligo–Leitrim[33][34]
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10	Count 11	Count 12	Count 13	Count 14	Count 15
	Fianna Fáil	Marc MacSharry	14.21	8,856	8,874	8,893	9,036	9,122	9,447	9,549	9,705	10,322	10,672	11,520	13,227
	Sinn Féin	Martin Kenny	10.20	6,356	6,419	6,439	6,473	6,687	6,781	6,988	7,028	7,270	7,305	7,971	9,294	14,066
	Fine Gael	Tony McLoughlin	9.90	6,172	6,204	6,237	6,338	6,371	6,440	6,485	7,013	7,628	9,465	10,055	10,167	10,529	10,910	10,931
	Fianna Fáil	Eamon Scanlon	9.42	5,874	5,899	5,907	5,961	5,994	6,126	6,179	6,267	6,522	7,553	7,822	9,145	9,554	10,185	10,822
	Fine Gael	Gerry Reynolds	10.70	6,672	6,702	6,742	6,797	6,944	7,027	7,054	7,314	7,532	8,715	8,921	10,092	10,177	10,316	10,417
	Sinn Féin	Chris MacManus	7.62	4,747	4,786	4,809	4,837	4,865	4,909	5,194	5,257	5,547	5,637	7,045	7,093
	Fianna Fáil	Paddy O'Rourke	8.74	5,447	5,474	5,486	5,511	5,658	5,799	5,819	5,863	5,949	6,001	6,083
	Independent	Declan Bree	5.21	3,250	3,282	3,347	3,399	3,454	3,547	4,165	4,402	5,361	5,512
	Fine Gael	John Perry	7.06	4,403	4,413	4,431	4,466	4,487	4,533	4,566	4,773	4,935
	Independent	Marie Casserly	4.37	2,726	2,763	2,823	2,945	3,067	3,254	3,697	4,138
	Labour Party	Susan O'Keeffe	2.93	1,829	1,843	1,986	2,036	2,060	2,096	2,192
	AAA–PBP	Nigel Gallagher	2.84	1,768	1,803	1,890	1,950	2,014	2,074
	Independent	Bernie O'Hara	1.93	1,206	1,242	1,265	1,344	1,470
	Independent	Des Guckian	1.70	1,060	1,098	1,118	1,154
	Renua Ireland	Finbarr Filan	1.41	881	887	913
	Green Party	Leslie O'Hora	0.97	603	619
	Independent	Eamon Murray	0.57	356
	Independent	Bernard Sweeney	0.21	129
Electorate: 95,911   Valid: 62,335 (64.99%)   Spoilt: 560 (0.89%)   Quota: 12,468   Turnout: 62,895 (65.58%)

2002 general election

2002 general election: Sligo–Leitrim[32]
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
	Independent	Marian Harkin	17.6	8,610	8,796	9,624	11,397
	Fianna Fáil	Jimmy Devins	12.9	6,307	6,427	6,824	7,591	7,894	10,621
	Fine Gael	John Perry	14.1	6,897	6,983	7,291	7,699	7,923	10,439
	Fianna Fáil	John Ellis	13.1	6,434	6,465	6,506	7,282	7,503	8,499	9,271
	Fine Gael	Gerry Reynolds	12.6	6,192	6,236	6,438	6,939	7,151	7,303	7,357
	Fianna Fáil	Eamon Scanlon	13.0	6,345	6,381	6,463	6,856	6,981
	Sinn Féin	Seán MacManus	10.2	5,001	5,100	5,616
	Labour Party	Declan Bree	5.0	2,429	2,530
	Independent	Andy McSharry	0.6	303
	Independent	Martin Forde	0.4	203
	Christian Solidarity	John Lacken	0.3	166
	Independent	John McCrea	0.2	114
Electorate: 70,460   Valid: 48,971   Spoilt: 523 (1.1%)   Quota: 9,795   Turnout: 49,494 (70.2%)

1997 general election

1997 general election: Sligo–Leitrim[31]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Matt Brennan	6,461	14.3	1	5
	Fianna Fáil	John Ellis	7,051	15.6	2	5
	Fine Gael	John Perry	5,786	12.8	3	6
	Fine Gael	Gerry Reynolds	6,743	14.9	4	6
	Labour Party	Declan Bree	4,905	10.9
	Fianna Fáil	Margaret Forde	4,738	10.4
	Fine Gael	Joe Leonard	4,016	8.9
	Sinn Féin	Seán MacManus	3,208	7.1
	Christian Solidarity	John Lacken	1,359	3.0
	Progressive Democrats	Jim Lawlor	745	1.6
	Natural Law	Simon Gillan	154	0.3
Electorate: 64,770   Valid: 45,166   Spoilt: 452 (1.0%)   Quota: 9,034   Turnout: 45,618 (70.4%)

1992 general election

1992 general election: Sligo–Leitrim[30]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Matt Brennan	6,791	15.9	1	4
	Labour Party	Declan Bree	7,328	17.2	2	4
	Fianna Fáil	John Ellis	7,430	17.4	3	5
	Fine Gael	Ted Nealon	6,622	15.5	4	6
	Fine Gael	Gerry Reynolds	6,348	14.9
	Fianna Fáil	Gerry Healy	5,270	12.3
	Independent	John McGettrick	1,560	3.7
	Sinn Féin	Seán MacManus	1,311	3.1
	Independent	Patrick D. Melly	73	0.2
Electorate: 60,764   Valid: 42,733   Spoilt: 553 (1.3%)   Quota: 8,547   Turnout: 43,286 (71.2%)

1989 general election

1989 general election: Sligo–Leitrim[29]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	Gerry Reynolds	8,487	19.8	1
	Fianna Fáil	Matt Brennan	7,982	18.7	2
	Fianna Fáil	John Ellis	6,295	14.7	3
	Fine Gael	Ted Nealon	6,881	16.1	4
	Fianna Fáil	Hugh Glynn	5,450	12.7
	Independent Socialist	Declan Bree	4,947	11.6
	Sinn Féin	Seán MacManus	1,482	3.5
	Progressive Democrats	Hugh Slevin	1,255	2.9
Electorate: ?   Valid: 42,779   Quota: 8,556   Turnout:

1987 general election

1987 general election: Sligo–Leitrim[28]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Ray MacSharry	9,521	20.8	1	1
	Fine Gael	Ted Nealon	6,483	14.2	2
	Fianna Fáil	Matt Brennan	6,913	15.1	3
	Fianna Fáil	John Ellis	7,140	15.6	4
	Fine Gael	Joe McCartin	5,071	11.1
	Sinn Féin	John Joe McGirl	2,627	5.8
	Fine Gael	Tommy Lavin	2,606	5.7
	Independent	Declan Bree	2,584	5.7
	Progressive Democrats	Frank Dobbs	2,521	5.5
	Independent	Noel Gorman	240	0.5
Electorate: ?   Valid: 45,706   Quota: 9,142   Turnout:

November 1982 general election

John Ellis topped the poll on the first count, but unusually he was not elected.

November 1982 general election: Sligo–Leitrim[27]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	Joe McCartin	8,242	17.8	1
	Fine Gael	Ted Nealon	6,682	14.4	2
	Fianna Fáil	Matt Brennan	8,167	17.6	3
	Fianna Fáil	Ray MacSharry	7,897	17.0	4
	Fianna Fáil	John Ellis	8,552	18.4
	Fine Gael	Tommy Lavin	4,317	9.3
	Independent	Declan Bree	1,832	4.0
	Labour Party	James Finan	562	1.2
	Independent	Noel Gorman	180	0.4
Electorate: 59,268   Valid: 46,431   Quota: 9,287   Turnout: 78.3%

February 1982 general election

February 1982 general election: Sligo–Leitrim[26]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Ray MacSharry	9,214	20.2	1	1
	Fine Gael	Ted Nealon	9,082	19.9	2
	Fianna Fáil	John Ellis	7,654	16.8	3
	Fianna Fáil	Matt Brennan	7,500	16.4	4
	Fine Gael	Joe McCartin	6,261	13.7
	Sinn Féin	John Joe McGirl	2,772	6.1
	Fine Gael	Joe Cawley	1,783	3.9
	Independent	Declan Bree	1,035	2.3
	Labour Party	Séamus Kennelly	399	0.9
Electorate: ?   Valid: 45,700   Quota: 9,141   Turnout:

1981 general election

1981 general election: Sligo–Leitrim[25]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Ray MacSharry	10,818	22.7	1	1
	Fine Gael	Ted Nealon	6,292	13.2	2
	Fianna Fáil	John Ellis	7,121	14.9	3
	Fine Gael	Joe McCartin	5,927	12.4	4
	Fianna Fáil	Matt Brennan	5,848	12.3
	Anti H-Block	Joe McDonnell	5,639	11.8
	Fine Gael	Tony McLoughlin	4,749	10.0
	Independent	Declan Bree	934	2.0
	Labour Party	Richard Lacy	361	0.8
Electorate: ?   Valid: 47,689   Quota: 9,538   Turnout:

1977 general election

1977 general election: Sligo–Leitrim[24]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Ray MacSharry	10,970	30.9	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	James Gallagher	6,152	17.3	2
	Fine Gael	Eugene Gilhawley	7,988	22.4	3
	Fine Gael	Joseph McLoughlin	5,786	16.2
	Independent	Seán McManus	2,399	6.7
	Independent	Declan Bree	1,282	3.6
	Labour Party	Thomas Higgins	1,074	3.0
Electorate: ?   Valid: 35,651   Quota: 8,913   Turnout:

1973 general election

1973 general election: Sligo–Leitrim[23]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Ray MacSharry	7,535	25.8	1	1
	Fine Gael	Joseph McLoughlin	5,743	19.7	2
	Fine Gael	Eugene Gilhawley	6,520	22.3	3
	Fianna Fáil	Bernard Brennan	4,922	16.9
	Fianna Fáil	Joe Mooney	2,325	8.0
	Labour Party	Thomas Higgins	2,158	7.4
Electorate: ?   Valid: 29,203   Quota: 7,301   Turnout:

1969 general election

1969 general election: Sligo–Leitrim[22]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	Joseph McLoughlin	6,053	20.2	1
	Fianna Fáil	Ray MacSharry	5,616	18.7	2
	Fianna Fáil	James Gallagher	6,124	20.4	3
	Fine Gael	Eugene Gilhawley	5,858	19.5
	Fianna Fáil	Joe Mooney	2,267	7.6
	Fine Gael	John Fallon	1,332	4.4
	Labour Party	Thomas Higgins	1,251	4.2
	Labour Party	Joan Gallagher	967	3.2
	Labour Party	Patrick O'Rourke	506	1.7
Electorate: ?   Valid: 29,974   Quota: 7,494   Turnout:

1965 general election

1965 general election: Sligo–Leitrim[21]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	Joseph McLoughlin	6,379	19.1	1
	Fianna Fáil	James Gallagher	6,250	18.7	2
	Fine Gael	Eugene Gilhawley	6,052	18.1	3
	Fianna Fáil	Eugene Gilbride	4,782	14.3	4
	Labour Party	Daniel Shaw	3,903	11.7
	Fianna Fáil	Harry O'Carroll	3,736	11.2
	Fine Gael	Thomas McGoldrick	1,528	4.6
	Independent	Gerald Foley	850	2.5
Electorate: ?   Valid: 33,480   Quota: 6,697   Turnout:

1961 general election

1961 general election: Sligo–Leitrim[20]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	Joseph McLoughlin	6,240	18.3	1
	Fianna Fáil	James Gallagher	5,032	14.7	2
	Fine Gael	Eugene Gilhawley	4,268	12.5	3
	Fianna Fáil	Eugene Gilbride	4,429	13.0	4
	Fine Gael	Gerald Foley	2,949	8.6
	Fianna Fáil	Joe Mooney	2,668	7.8
	Labour Party	Daniel Shaw	2,600	7.6
	Independent	James Flanagan	2,512	7.4
	Sinn Féin	John Joe McGirl	2,487	7.3
	Clann na Talmhan	Francis Higgins	1,000	2.9
Electorate: ?   Valid: 34,185   Quota: 6,838   Turnout:

1961 by-election

Following the death of Fianna Fáil TD Stephen Flynn, a by-election was held on 1 March 1961. The seat was won by the Fine Gael candidate Joseph McLoughlin.

1961 by-election: Sligo–Leitrim[19]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	Joseph McLoughlin	17,126	52.0	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Willie Farrell	15,807	48.0
Electorate: 56,714   Valid: 32,933   Quota: 16,467   Turnout: 58.1%

1957 general election

1957 general election: Sligo–Leitrim[18]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Sinn Féin	John Joe McGirl	7,007	15.7	1
	Fine Gael	Mary Reynolds	5,962	13.4	2
	Fianna Fáil	Eugene Gilbride	5,303	11.9	3
	Fianna Fáil	Stephen Flynn	2,879	6.5	4
	Fine Gael	Patrick Rogers	4,001	9.0	5
	Fine Gael	Joseph Roddy	4,429	9.9
	Fianna Fáil	Michael McDonagh	4,422	9.9
	Independent	Bernard Maguire	3,601	8.1
	Fianna Fáil	Leo McAlinden	2,912	6.5
	Fine Gael	Luke Colleran	2,696	6.0
	Independent	Gerald Foley	1,392	3.1
Electorate: ?   Valid: 44,604   Quota: 7,435   Turnout:

1954 general election

1954 general election: Sligo–Leitrim[17]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	Mary Reynolds	5,628	11.7	1
	Fine Gael	Joseph Roddy	5,865	12.2	2
	Fianna Fáil	Eugene Gilbride	5,633	11.7	3
	Fianna Fáil	Stephen Flynn	3,282	6.8	4
	Independent	Bernard Maguire	4,169	8.7	5
	Fine Gael	Patrick Rogers	5,505	11.5
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Kirrane	4,968	10.4
	Fianna Fáil	Leo McAlinden	3,022	6.3
	Clann na Poblachta	Martin McGowan	2,742	5.7
	Independent	Joseph Pilkington	2,710	5.7
	Fine Gael	Thomas Fallon	2,453	5.1
	Independent	Joseph Mooney	1,406	2.9
	Clann na Talmhan	Alphonso Quinn	586	1.2
Electorate: ?   Valid: 47,969   Quota: 7,995   Turnout:

1951 general election

1951 general election: Sligo–Leitrim[16]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	Mary Reynolds	7,357	15.2	1
	Fine Gael	Joseph Roddy	6,087	12.6	2
	Fianna Fáil	Stephen Flynn	4,188	8.6	3
	Fianna Fáil	Eugene Gilbride	5,629	11.6	4
	Fine Gael	Patrick Rogers	5,996	12.4	5
	Fianna Fáil	Michael McDonagh	5,429	11.2
	Fianna Fáil	Willie Farrell	3,966	8.2
	Independent	Bernard Maguire	3,637	7.5
	Clann na Poblachta	Martin McGowan	3,197	6.6
	Labour Party	Michael Nevin	2,999	6.2
Electorate: ?   Valid: 48,485   Quota: 8,081   Turnout:

1948 general election

1948 general election: Sligo–Leitrim[15]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Eugene Gilbride	5,688	11.4	1
	Fine Gael	Mary Reynolds	5,141	10.3	2
	Fianna Fáil	Stephen Flynn	4,910	9.8	3
	Fine Gael	Joseph Roddy	5,054	10.1	4
	Independent	Bernard Maguire	4,757	9.5	5
	Fianna Fáil	Michael McDonagh	4,582	9.1
	Fine Gael	Patrick Rogers	4,324	8.6
	Clann na Talmhan	Laurence Harte	2,227	4.4
	Independent	Francis Higgins	2,088	4.2
	Clann na Poblachta	Robert Flanagan	1,952	3.9
	Clann na Talmhan	Francis Gannon	1,840	3.7
	Independent	James Flynn	1,785	3.6
	Independent	Michael McGowan	1,776	3.5
	Clann na Talmhan	Owen Dolan	1,338	2.7
	Clann na Poblachta	Patrick Kiernan	1,177	2.4
	Clann na Poblachta	John Leonard	1,158	2.3
	Independent	William Hargadon	323	0.6
Electorate: ?   Valid: 50,120   Quota: 8,354   Turnout:

See also

• Parliamentary constituencies in the Republic of Ireland
• Politics of the Republic of Ireland
• List of Irish by-elections
• Elections in the Republic of Ireland
• 1981 Irish hunger strike (Hunger striker Joe McDonnell narrowly missed election in Sligo–Leitrim in 1981)

References

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External links

• Oireachtas Members Database