Cork_City_North-West_(Dáil_constituency)
Cork City North-West (Dáil constituency)
Dáil constituency (1969–1977)
Cork City North-West was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas from 1969 to 1977. The constituency elected 3 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs) to the Dáil, on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).
| Cork City North-West | |
|---|---|
| Former Dáil constituency | |
| Former constituency | |
| Created | 1969 |
| Abolished | 1977 |
| Seats | 3 |
| Local government area | County Cork |
| Created from | Cork Borough |
| Replaced by | Cork City |
The constituency was created under the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1969 for the 1969 general election to Dáil Éireann.[1] The old Cork Borough constituency was divided into the new constituencies of Cork City North-West and Cork City South-East. It was abolished under the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1974, when the Cork City North-West and Cork City South-East constituencies were replaced by the new constituency of Cork City.
The constituency comprised the north western parts of Cork city and suburbs.[1]
| Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Cork City North-West 1969–1977[2] | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Key to parties
| |||||||
| Dáil | Election | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | |||
| 19th | 1969[3] | Jack Lynch (FF) |
Seán French (FF) |
Liam Burke (FG) | |||
| 20th | 1973[4] | ||||||
| 21st | 1977 | Constituency abolished. See Cork City | |||||
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.
1973 general election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Jack Lynch | 45.9 | 12,427 | ||||||
| Fine Gael | Liam Burke | 17.1 | 4,624 | 4,833 | 4,886 | 4,912 | 6,492 | 8,303 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Seán French | 10.0 | 2,691 | 7,192 | |||||
| Independent | Samuel Allen | 9.7 | 2,630 | 3,306 | 3,615 | 3,749 | 3,911 | 4,735 | |
| Labour | Patrick Kerrigan | 9.0 | 2,425 | 2,586 | 2,618 | 2,739 | 2,992 | ||
| Fine Gael | Vincent O'Connell | 7.1 | 1,916 | 2,013 | 2,038 | 2,075 | |||
| Aontacht Éireann | Seán Twomey | 1.3 | 338 | 358 | 368 | ||||
| Electorate: 36,115 Valid: 27,051 Quota: 6,763 Turnout: 74.90% | |||||||||
1969 general election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Jack Lynch | 43.8 | 11,227 | |||||
| Fine Gael | Liam Burke | 12.9 | 3,312 | 3,426 | 3,456 | 5,332 | 5,953 | |
| Independent | Samuel Allen | 11.9 | 3,063 | 3,613 | 3,768 | 4,022 | 5,572 | |
| Labour | Patrick Kerrigan | 10.7 | 2,754 | 2,882 | 3,606 | 3,711 | ||
| Fine Gael | Vincent O'Connell | 8.7 | 2,241 | 2,361 | 2,413 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Seán French | 8.0 | 2,046 | 5,874 | 5,919 | 5,992 | 6,220 | |
| Labour | Thomas Leahy | 3.9 | 1,001 | 1,076 | ||||
| Electorate: 34,573 Valid: 25,644 Quota: 6,412 Turnout: 74.17% | ||||||||
- "Electoral (Amendment) Act, 1969: Schedule (Constituencies)". Irish Statute Book database. Archived from the original on 15 October 2013. Retrieved 28 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.
- "General election 1969: Cork City North–West". ElectionsIreland.org. Archived from the original on 16 September 2007. Retrieved 28 February 2009.
- "General election 1973: Cork City North–West". ElectionsIreland.org. Archived from the original on 25 August 2007. Retrieved 28 February 2009.
- Gallagher, Michael (2009). Irish Elections 1948–77: Results and Analysis Sources for the Study of Irish Politics 2. Routledge. ISBN 9781138973343.