Monaghan_(Dáil_constituency)

Monaghan (Dáil constituency)

Dáil constituency (1921–1977)

Monaghan was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas from 1921 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).

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Monaghan
Former Dáil constituency
Former constituency
Created	1921
Abolished	1977
Seats	3
Local government area	County Monaghan
Created from	North Monaghan South Monaghan
Replaced by	Cavan–Monaghan

History

The constituency was created in 1921 as a 3-seat constituency, under the Government of Ireland Act 1920, for the 1921 election to the House of Commons of Southern Ireland, whose members formed the 2nd Dáil.

It succeeded the constituencies of Monaghan North and Monaghan South which were used to elect the Members of the 1st Dáil and earlier British House of Commons members.

It was abolished under the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1974, when it was replaced by the new constituency of Cavan–Monaghan which was first used at the 1977 general election.

Boundaries

The constituency spanned the entire area of the County Monaghan.^[1]

TDs

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Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Monaghan 1921–1977^[2]
Key to parties CnaG = Cumann na nGaedheal FF = Fianna Fáil FG = Fine Gael Ind = Independent Rep = Republican SF = Sinn Féin AT-SF = Sinn Féin (Anti-Treaty) PT-SF = Sinn Féin (Pro-Treaty)
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
2nd	1921^[3]		Seán MacEntee (SF)		Eoin O'Duffy (SF)		Ernest Blythe (SF)
3rd	1922^[4]		Patrick MacCarvill (AT-SF)		Eoin O'Duffy (PT-SF)		Ernest Blythe (PT-SF)
4th	1923^[5]		Patrick MacCarvill (Rep)		Patrick Duffy (CnaG)		Ernest Blythe (CnaG)
5th	1927 (Jun)^[6]		Patrick MacCarvill (FF)		Alexander Haslett (Ind)
6th	1927 (Sep)^[7]		Conn Ward (FF)		Alexander Haslett (Ind)
7th	1932^[8]				Eamon Rice (FF)
8th	1933^[9]						Alexander Haslett (Ind)
9th	1937^[10]						James Dillon (FG)
10th	1938^[11]				Bridget Rice (FF)		James Dillon (FG)
11th	1943^[12]						James Dillon (Ind)
12th	1944^[13]
13th	1948^[14]		Patrick Maguire (FF)
14th	1951^[15]		Patrick Maguire (FF)
15th	1954^[16]		Patrick Mooney (FF)		Edward Kelly (FF)		James Dillon (FG)
16th	1957^[17]				Eighneachán Ó hAnnluain (SF)
17th	1961^[18]				Erskine H. Childers (FF)
18th	1965^[19]
19th	1969^[20]		Billy Fox (FG)				John Conlan (FG)
20th	1973^[21]		Jimmy Leonard (FF)
20th	1973 by-election^[22]		Jimmy Leonard (FF)		Brendan Toal (FG)
21st	1977	Constituency abolished. See Cavan–Monaghan

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.