Dublin_County_Mid_(Dáil_constituency)
Dublin County Mid (Dáil constituency)
Dáil constituency (1977–1981)
Dublin County Mid was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas from 1977 to 1981. The constituency elected 3 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs) to the Dáil, using proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).
| Dublin County Mid | |
|---|---|
| Former Dáil constituency | |
| Former constituency | |
| Created | 1977 |
| Abolished | 1981 |
| Seats | 3 |
| Local government area | County Dublin |
| Created from | |
| Replaced by | |
The constituency was created under the terms of the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1974[1] as part of the redistribution of constituencies which attempted to secure the re-election of the outgoing Fine Gael–Labour Party government. It drew its electorate from the existing Dublin County North and Dublin County South constituencies.
It was abolished by the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1980 and divided between the constituencies of Dublin South, Dublin South-West and Dublin South-Central. It was only used for the 1977 general election to the 21st Dáil.
The constituency covered the Rathfarnham, Terenure and Tallaght areas of County Dublin, as well as Blessington and other areas of northern County Wicklow. In the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1974, the boundaries of Dublin County Mid are given as:
- In the administrative county of Dublin, the district electoral divisions of:[1]
- Rathfarnham Number One, Rathfarnham Number Two, Tallaght Number One, Tallaght Number Two, Tallaght Number Three, Terenure Number Two, Terenure Number Three, Terenure Number Four, Whitechurch;
- and, in the administrative county of Wicklow, the district electoral divisions of:
- Blessington, Burgage Kilbride, Lackan, in the former Rural District of Baltinglass No. 1;
- and the following wards in the county borough of Dublin:
- Rathfarnham B, Rathfarnham C, Rathfarnham D, Rathfarnham South.
| Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Dublin County Mid 1977–1981[2] | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Key to parties
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| Dáil | Election | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | |||
| 21st | 1977[3] | Seán Walsh (FF) |
Síle de Valera (FF) |
Larry McMahon (FG) | |||
| 22nd | 1981 | Constituency abolished | |||||
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.
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Seán Walsh | 26.8 | 10,927 | ||||||
| Fine Gael | Larry McMahon | 16.2 | 6,593 | 6,716 | 7,729 | 7,756 | 9,913 | 10,118 | |
| Labour | Mervyn Taylor | 15.8 | 6,430 | 7,684 | 7,975 | 8,012 | 8,487 | 8,727 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Síle de Valera | 14.6 | 5,969 | 5,998 | 6,031 | 6,346 | 6,370 | 11,461 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Richard Conroy | 12.9 | 5,252 | 5,274 | 5,297 | 5,554 | 5,633 | ||
| Fine Gael | George Laing | 5.7 | 2,338 | 2,380 | 2,785 | 2,789 | |||
| Fine Gael | Noel Murphy | 4.2 | 1,701 | 1,786 | |||||
| Labour | Paul Mulhern | 3.8 | 1,567 | ||||||
| Electorate: 54,949 Spoilt: ? Quota: 10,195 Turnout: 40,777[5] | |||||||||
- "Electoral (Amendment) Act, 1974: Schedule (Constituencies)". Irish Statute Book database. Archived from the original on 20 January 2012. Retrieved 12 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 1977: Dublin County Mid". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 5 March 2009.
- "21st Dáil 1977 general election results" (PDF). Houses of the Oireachtas. February 1978. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
- The Irish Times, 20 June 1977, p7–10