Seán Sherwin (born 1946) is an Irish former

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politician. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Dublin South-West constituency at the 1969 general election. However, Dublin South-West's long-serving Labour Party TD Seán Dunne, who had been re-elected at the general election, died only seven days after polling. Sherwin was selected as the Fianna Fáil candidate at the by-election on 4 March 1970, and won, taking his seat in the

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. He resigned from Fianna Fáil in 1971 in the wake of the

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, and joined

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's new party

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.''Breakaway Parties Have Poor Record''. Carol Coulter. ''

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''. 22 April 1985. The new party failed to take off at the 1973 general election, and Sherwin lost his seat to

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. He later rejoined Fianna Fáil, and at the November 1982 general election he was one of four Fianna Fáil candidate in Dublin West. He won only 2.1% of the

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and was not elected.

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1946 births Living people Fianna Fáil TDs Members of the 19th Dáil Aontacht Éireann TDs {{TeachtaDála-stub