- Cork West (Dáil Éireann constituency)
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For the 1885–1922 constituency, see West Cork (UK Parliament constituency).
Cork West Former Dáil Éireann
Parliamentary constituency1923–1961 Seats 5 (1923–1948)
3 (1948–1961)County/City council County Cork Cork West was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas from 1923 to 1961. The constituency elected 5 (and later 3) deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known in English as TDs) to the Dáil, using the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).
History
It was created in 1923 as a 5 seat constituency, a partial replacement for the 8 seat Cork Mid, North, South, South East and West constituency. It was first used for the 1923 general election to the 4th Dáil.
It was reduced to a 3 seater for the 1948 general election to the 12th Dáil, and remained at that size until its abolition for the 1961 general election to the 17th Dáil. It was then partially replaced by the new Cork South West constituency.
Boundaries
It consisted of the county electoral areas of Bandon, Bantry and Dunmanway in the administrative county of Cork.[1]
TDs
Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Cork West 1923–1961[2] Key to partiesDáil Election Deputy
(Party)Deputy
(Party)Deputy
(Party)Deputy
(Party)Deputy
(Party)4th 1923[3] Seán Buckley
(Rep)Cornelius Connolly
(CnaG)Timothy J. Murphy
(Lab)Timothy O'Donovan
(FP)John Prior
(CnaG)5th 1927 (Jun)[4] Thomas Mullins
(FF)Timothy Sheehy
(CnaG)Jasper Wolfe
(Ind)6th 1927 (Sep)[5] 7th 1932[6] Raphael Keyes
(FF)Eamonn O'Neill
(CnaG)8th 1933[7] Tom Hales
(FF)Timothy O'Donovan
(NCP)James Burke
(CnaG)9th 1937[8] Timothy O'Sullivan
(FF)Daniel O'Leary
(FG)Timothy O'Donovan
(FG)Eamonn O'Neill
(FG)10th 1938[9] Seán Buckley
(FF)11th 1943[10] Patrick O'Driscoll
(Ind)12th 1944[11] Eamonn O'Neill
(FG)13th 1948[12] Seán Collins
(FG)3 seats
1948–19611949 by-election[13] William J. Murphy
(Lab)14th 1951[14] Michael Murphy
(Lab)15th 1954[15] Edward Cotter
(FF)16th 1957[16] Florence Wycherley
(Ind)17th 1961 Constituency abolished. See Cork South 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
1957 general election
1957 general election: Cork South West[16] Party Candidate 1st Pref % Seat Count Fianna Fáil Edward Cotter 5,255 19.9 1 Labour Party Michael Murphy 6,454 24.5 2 Independent Florence Wycherley 4,666 17.7 3 Fine Gael Seán Collins 5,869 22.3 Fianna Fáil Michael Finn 4,125 15.6 Electorate: ? Valid: 30,353 Quota: 7,589 Turnout: 1954 general election
1954 general election: Cork West[15] Party Candidate 1st Pref % Seat Count Labour Party Michael Murphy 7,315 25.4 1 1 Fianna Fáil Edward Cotter 6,270 21.8 2 Fine Gael Seán Collins 4,003 13.9 3 Clann na Talmhan Florence Wycherley 4,238 14.7 Fine Gael John O'Sullivan 3,635 12.6 Fianna Fáil Michael Finn 3,339 11.6 Electorate: ? Valid: 28,800 Quota: 7,201 Turnout: 1951 general election
1951 general election: Cork West[14] Party Candidate 1st Pref % Seat Count Fianna Fáil Timothy O'Sullivan 7,571 25.8 1 1 Fine Gael Seán Collins 7,515 25.7 2 1 Labour Party Michael Murphy 6,103 20.8 3 Clann na Talmhan Charles Bryan 4,732 16.2 Fianna Fáil James Moynihan 3,373 11.5 Electorate: ? Valid: 29,294 Quota: 7,324 Turnout: 1949 by-election
Following the death of the Labour Party TD Timothy J. Murphy, a by-election was held on 15 June 1949. The seat was won by the Labour Party candidate William J. Murphy.
1949 by-election: Cork West[13] Party Candidate 1st Pref % Seat Count Labour Party William J. Murphy 18,909 63.3 1 1 Fianna Fáil Edward Cotter 10,950 36.7 Electorate: 36,609 Valid: 29,859 Quota: 14,930 Turnout: 81.6% 1948 general election
1948 general election: Cork West[12] Party Candidate 1st Pref % Seat Count Fianna Fáil Timothy O'Sullivan 6,348 21.0 1 Labour Party Timothy J. Murphy 6,165 20.4 2 Fine Gael Seán Collins 4,643 15.4 3 Clann na Talmhan Charles Bryan 4,750 15.7 Fianna Fáil Patrick Burke 3,439 11.4 Clann na Poblachta Thomas Roycroft 2,135 7.1 Fine Gael Daniel Kingston 1,877 6.2 Clann na Poblachta Liam Dwyer 857 2.8 Electorate: ? Valid: 30,214 Quota: 7,554 Turnout: 1944 general election
1944 general election: Cork West[11] Party Candidate 1st Pref % Seat Count Labour Party Timothy J. Murphy 7,764 15.7 1 Clann na Talmhan Patrick O'Driscoll 7,573 15.3 2 Fine Gael Eamonn O'Neill 5,125 10.3 3 Fianna Fáil Seán Buckley 7,529 15.2 4 Fianna Fáil Timothy O'Sullivan 7,136 14.4 5 Independent Daniel O'Leary 5,655 11.4 Fine Gael Timothy O'Donovan 3,900 7.9 Labour Party T. J. Harrington 2,092 4.2 Independent Tom Hales 1,444 2.9 Fine Gael Michael Sheehy 1,405 2.8 Electorate: ? Valid: 49,623 Quota: 8,271 Turnout: 1943 general election
1943 general election: Cork West[10] Party Candidate 1st Pref % Seat Count Labour Party Timothy J. Murphy 9,363 18.1 1 1 Clann na Talmhan Patrick O'Driscoll 7,062 13.7 2 Fianna Fáil Timothy O'Sullivan 7,977 15.5 3 Fine Gael Timothy O'Donovan 4,854 9.4 4 Fianna Fáil Seán Buckley 6,632 12.8 5 Fine Gael Daniel O'Leary 4,414 8.6 Fine Gael Eamonn O'Neill 4,378 8.5 Labour Party Denis Lehane 2,315 4.5 Labour Party Patrick Crowley 1,955 3.8 Independent Michael Twomey 1,582 3.1 Fine Gael Denis Cronin 1,104 2.1 Electorate: ? Valid: 51,636 Quota: 8,607 Turnout: 1938 general election
1938 general election: Cork West[9] Party Candidate 1st Pref % Seat Count Fianna Fáil Seán Buckley 10,895 20.1 1 1 Labour Party Timothy J. Murphy 10,424 19.3 2 1 Fianna Fáil Timothy O'Sullivan 10,019 18.5 3 1 Fine Gael Timothy O'Donovan 7,825 14.5 4 Fine Gael Eamonn O'Neill 6,304 11.7 5 Fine Gael Daniel O'Leary 6,504 12.0 Fine Gael Eugene O'Sullivan 2,124 3.9 Electorate: ? Valid: 54,095 Quota: 9,016 Turnout: 1937 general election
1937 general election: Cork West[8] Party Candidate 1st Pref % Seat Count Labour Party Timothy J. Murphy 12,179 22.7 1 1 Fine Gael Timothy O'Donovan 6,846 12.8 2 Fianna Fáil Timothy O'Sullivan 7,538 14.1 3 Fine Gael Eamonn O'Neill 5,108 9.5 4 Fine Gael Daniel O'Leary 5,781 10.8 5 Fianna Fáil Daniel Corkery 5,754 10.7 Fine Gael William Roycroft 4,484 8.4 Fine Gael John O'Sullivan 3,675 6.9 Independent Tom Hales 2,207 4.1 Electorate: ? Valid: 53,572 Quota: 8,929 Turnout: 1933 general election
1933 general election: Cork West[7] Party Candidate 1st Pref % Seat Count Cumann na nGaedheal James Burke 9,482 21.3 1 1 National Centre Party Timothy O'Donovan 9,075 20.4 2 1 Cumann na nGaedheal Eamonn O'Neill 6,067 13.6 3 Labour Party Timothy J. Murphy 6,458 14.5 4 Fianna Fáil Tom Hales 4,021 9.0 5 Fianna Fáil Raphael Keyes 4,840 10.9 Fianna Fáil Jeremiah Galvin 2,708 6.1 Fianna Fáil Eugene McCarthy 1,843 4.1 Electorate: ? Valid: 44,494 Quota: 7,416 Turnout: 1932 general election
1932 general election: Cork West[6] Party Candidate 1st Pref % Seat Count Labour Party Timothy J. Murphy 7,257 17.7 1 1 Cumann na nGaedheal Eamonn O'Neill 5,715 13.9 2 Independent Jasper Wolfe 5,757 14.1 3 Farmers' Party Timothy O'Donovan 5,310 13.0 4 Fianna Fáil Raphael Keyes 5,005 12.2 5 Fianna Fáil Jeremiah Galvin 5,060 12.3 Cumann na nGaedheal Timothy Sheehy 4,476 10.9 Fianna Fáil Eugene McCarthy 2,393 5.8 Electorate: ? Valid: 40,973 Quota: 6,829 Turnout: September 1927 general election
September 1927 general election: Cork West[5] Party Candidate 1st Pref % Seat Count Fianna Fáil Thomas Mullins 4,797 13.2 1 Independent Jasper Wolfe 6,027 16.6 2 Labour Party Timothy J. Murphy 5,561 15.3 3 Farmers' Party Timothy O'Donovan 5,893 16.3 4 Cumann na nGaedheal Timothy Sheehy 4,771 13.2 5 Cumann na nGaedheal Eamonn O'Neill 4,623 12.8 Fianna Fáil Raphael Keyes 4,585 12.7 Electorate: ? Valid: 36,257 Quota: 6,043 Turnout: June 1927 general election
June 1927 general election: Cork West[4] Party Candidate 1st Pref % Seat Count Labour Party Timothy J. Murphy 6,679 18.7 1 1 Fianna Fáil Thomas Mullins 2,925 8.2 2 Cumann na nGaedheal Timothy Sheehy 3,206 9.0 3 Farmers' Party Timothy O'Donovan 3,708 10.4 4 Independent Jasper Wolfe 4,422 12.4 5 Farmers' Party Joseph MacCarthy 2,693 7.6 Cumann na nGaedheal Thomas O'Donovan 2,404 6.7 Fianna Fáil Jeremiah McCarthy 2,122 5.9 Farmers' Party Jeremiah O'Sullivan 1,801 5.1 Fianna Fáil George Ross 1,739 4.9 Cumann na nGaedheal John Prior 1,685 4.7 Sinn Féin Seán Buckley 1,349 3.8 Independent Cornelius O'Donovan 947 2.7 Electorate: ? Valid: 35,680 Quota: 5,947 Turnout: 1923 general election
1923 general election: Cork West[3] Party Candidate 1st Pref % Seat Count Cumann na nGaedheal Cornelius Connolly 4,430 14.9 1 6 Republican Seán Buckley 3,237 10.9 2 10 Farmers' Party Timothy O'Donovan 2,473 8.3 3 10 Cumann na nGaedheal John Prior 3,257 11.0 4 10 Labour Party Timothy J. Murphy 3,517 11.8 5 10 Cumann na nGaedheal Robert Kelly 2,469 8.3 Republican Maurice Donegan 1,741 5.9 Farmers' Party Michael Scully 1,460 4.9 Independent Daniel O'Leary 1,427 4.8 Cumann na nGaedheal Daniel McCarthy 1,347 4.5 Independent Joseph O'Mahony 1,336 4.5 Republican John Lehane 1,240 4.2 Farmers' Party Daniel Minihane 1,074 3.6 Independent William Hales 510 1.7 Independent David Connor 205 0.7 Electorate: 59,500 Valid: 29,723 Quota: 4,954 Turnout: 49.9% See also
- Parliamentary constituencies in the Republic of Ireland
- Politics of the Republic of Ireland
- List of historic Dáil Éireann constituencies
- Elections in the Republic of Ireland
References
- ^ "Electoral (Amendment) Act, 1923: (Constituencies)". Irish Statute Book database. http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1923/en/act/pub/0012/sched8.html#sched8. Retrieved 15 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.
- ^ a b "General election 1923: Cork West". ElectionsIreland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=1923&cons=64. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
- ^ a b "General election June 1927: Cork West". ElectionsIreland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=1927jun&cons=64. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
- ^ a b "General election September 1927: Cork West". ElectionsIreland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=1927sep&cons=64. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
- ^ a b "General election 1932: Cork West". ElectionsIreland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=1932&cons=64. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
- ^ a b "General election 1933: Cork West". ElectionsIreland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=1933&cons=64. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
- ^ a b "General election 1937: Cork West". ElectionsIreland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=1937&cons=64. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
- ^ a b "General election 1938: Cork West". ElectionsIreland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=1938&cons=64. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
- ^ a b "General election 1943: Cork West". ElectionsIreland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=1943&cons=64. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
- ^ a b "General election 1944: Cork West". ElectionsIreland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=1944&cons=64. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
- ^ a b "General election 1948: Cork West". ElectionsIreland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=1948&cons=64. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
- ^ a b "By-election 1949: Cork West". ElectionsIreland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=1948B&cons=64&ref=49. Retrieved 1 March 2009.
- ^ a b "General election 1951: Cork West". ElectionsIreland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=1951&cons=64. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
- ^ a b "General election 1954: Cork West". ElectionsIreland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=1954&cons=64. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
- ^ a b "General election 1957: Cork West". ElectionsIreland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=1957&cons=64. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
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