Dublin County was a

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represented in

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, the lower house of the Irish parliament or

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from 1921 to 1969. The method of election was

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by means of the

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(PR-STV).

History and boundaries

The constituency was created in 1921 by the

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as a 6-seat constituency for the

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and a two-seat constituency for the

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at Westminster, combining the former Westminster constituencies of Dublin Pembroke, Dublin Rathmines, North Dublin and

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. At the 1921 election for the Southern Ireland House of Commons, the four seats were won uncontested by Sinn Féin, who treated it as part of the election to the

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. It was never used as a Westminster constituency; under s. 1(4) of the

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, no writ was to be issued "for a constituency in Ireland other than a constituency in Northern Ireland". Therefore, no vote was held in Dublin County at the

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on 15 November 1922, shortly before the

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left the

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on 6 December 1922. It was restructured by the

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, the first electoral act of the new state, becoming an 8-seat constituency, first used at the 1923 general election to the

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. It was revised at subsequent revisions, taking into account changes in the boundary and city, before its abolition at the 1969 general election. It was replaced by

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and Dublin County South. Throughout its history the constituency consisted primarily of the area of

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, excluding the area of

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city. However, at various points it also included some territory from within the boundaries of Dublin City.

TDs

Elections

1965 general election

1961 general election

1957 general election

1954 general election

1951 general election

1948 general election

1947 by-election

A by-election was held to fill the seat left vacant by death of the Fianna Fáil TD Patrick Fogarty. It was won by

Seán MacBride Seán MacBride (26 January 1904 – 15 January 1988) was an Irish Clann na Poblachta politician who served as Minister for External Affairs from 1948 to 1951, Leader of Clann na Poblachta from 1946 to 1965 and Chief of Staff of the IRA from 193 ...

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1944 general election

Full figures of the last nine counts are unavailable. Ó Droighneáin, Lynch, Bennett and FitzGerald all lost their deposits.

1943 general election

Full figures for the third to the fourteenth counts are unavailable. Hickey, Costelloe, Ennis, Owens, Bobbett, Roe, O'Farrell and Watkins all lost their deposits.

1938 general election

1937 general election

1935 by-election

A by-election was held to fill the seat left vacant by death of the

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Batt O'Connor Bartholomew O'Connor (4 July 1870 – 7 February 1935) was an Irish Cumann na nGaedheal (and later Fine Gael) politician. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) for Dublin County from 1924 to 1935. Early life Batt O'Connor was born 4 July 1870 in Brosna, ...

. It was won for Fine Gael by

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1933 general election

1932 general election

1930 by-election

A by-election was held on 9 December 1930 to fill the seat in the

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which had been left vacant by the death of

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TD Bryan Cooper. It was won for Cumann na nGaedheal by Thomas Finlay.

September 1927 general election

1927 by-election

A by-election was held on 14 August 1927 to fill the seat in the

which had been left vacant by the assassination on 10 July of the

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. The election was won for Cumann na nGaedheal by

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, who won nearly 70% of the first-preference votes.

June 1927 general election

Full figures for counts 5 to 18 are not available. Eight candidates lost their deposits (Tench, Morris, Byrne, Brennan, Guinness, McCabe, Rooney and Lynn).

1926 by-election

A by-election was held on 18 February 1926 to fill the seat in the

which had been vacated by the death of the

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. It was won by the Labour Party candidate

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. Norton's win was the first by a Labour Party candidate at any by-election since the establishment of the

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. Labour would next win a seat from another party in a by-election 72 years later, when Seán Ryan won the Dublin North by-election in March 1998.

1924 by-election

A by-election was held on 19 March 1924 to fill the seat in the

which had been left vacant by the death of the

Michael Derham Michael James Derham (1889 – 20 November 1923) was an Irish Sinn Féin and later Cumann na nGaedheal politician who served for two years as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin County constituency. He was returned unopposed as one of six Sinn ...

. It was won for Cumann na nGaedheal by

1923 general election

1922 general election

1921 general election

In the 1921 general election to the 2nd Dáil, no constituencies were contested. As in other constituencies, all 6 candidates in Dublin County were returned unopposed.

References

External links

Dublin Historic Maps: Parliamentary & Dail Constituencies 1780-1969 (a work in progress.)Oireachtas Members Database
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