Dublin North West (Dáil Éireann constituency)

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Dublin North West Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Constituency
Dublin North West shown within County Dublin
Created	1921, 1937, 1977
TDs	3
Counties	Dublin
EP constituency	Dublin

Dublin North West is a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which is represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. It elects 3 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known in English as TDs) by the single transferable vote system of proportional representation (PR-STV).

It was first created for the created for the 1921 general election, but abolished for the 1923 general election. It was recreated for the 1937 general election when the old Dublin North constituency divided into Dublin North West and Dublin North East. The constituency was briefly abolished in 1977, under the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1974^[1], with most of the constituency going to the new constituency of Dublin Finglas with a smaller but significant portion going to a new Dublin Cabra constituency. Dublin North West was then re-created in 1981.

Contents 1 Details 2 TDs 3 Election results 3.1 2007 general election result 3.2 2002 general election result 3.3 February 1982 general election result 3.4 1981 general election result 4 References 5 See also

[edit] Details

It is located in the north-western area of County Dublin. The constituency has an electorate of 47,641 and at present is served by 3 Teachtaí Dála (TDs), although in the elections from 1981 to 1997 it had 4 TDs. The method of election is the Single Transferable Vote.

The constituency is overwhelmingly urbanised and encompasses the Finglas and Ballymun electoral areas of Dublin City Council in their entirety together with the Santry area of Fingal County Council and the area of Whitehall to the west of Swords Road. The constituency gained some extra territory at the 2007 general election. Parts of the Dublin North Central constituency were moved to this constituency and the Dunsink and Scribblestown areas were moved out of the Dublin West constituency.

[edit] TDs

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Dublin North West 1921–1923[2]
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
2nd	1921		Philip Cosgrave (SF)		Joseph McGrath (SF)		Richard Mulcahy (SF)		Michael Staines (SF)
3rd	1922		Philip Cosgrave (Pro-Treaty)		Joseph McGrath (Pro-Treaty)		Richard Mulcahy (Pro-Treaty)		Michael Staines (Pro-Treaty)
4th	1923	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.

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Dublin North West 1937–1977[2]
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
9th	1937		Seán T. O'Kelly (FF)		Alfred P. Byrne (Ind)		Cormac Breathnach (FF)		Patrick McGilligan (FG)		Archibald Heron (Lab)
10th	1938										Eamonn Cooney (FF)
11th	1943										Martin O'Sullivan (Lab)
12th	1944				John O'Connor (FF)
	1945 by-election		Vivion de Valera (FF)
13th	1948		Michael Fitzpatrick (CnaP)		Alfred P. Byrne (Ind)			3 seats from 1948–1969
14th	1951		Declan Costello (FG)
	1952 by-election				Thomas Byrne (Ind)
15th	1954						Richard Gogan (FF)
16th	1957
17th	1961				Michael Mullen (Lab)
18th	1965
19th	1969		Hugh Byrne (FG)		Jim Tunney (FF)				David Thornley (Lab)	4 seats from 1969–1977
20th	1973
21st	1977	Constituency abolished: see Dublin Finglas and Dublin Cabra

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.

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Dublin North West 1981–[2]
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
22nd	1981		Jim Tunney (FF)		Michael Barrett (FF)		Mary Flaherty (FG)		Hugh Byrne (FG)
23rd	1982 (Feb)								Proinsias De Rossa (WP)
24th	1982 (Nov)
25th	1987
26th	1989
27th	1992		Noel Ahern (FF)		Róisín Shortall (Lab)				Proinsias De Rossa (DL)
28th	1997						Pat Carey (FF)
29th	2002							3 seats from 2002
30th	2007

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.

[edit] Election results

[edit] 2007 general election result

2007 General Election: Dublin North West
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Noel Ahern	7,913	25.6	1	1
	Labour Party	Róisín Shortall	6,286	20.3	2	3
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Carey	7,211	23.3	3	3
	Sinn Féin	Dessie Ellis	4,873	15.7
	Fine Gael	Bill Tormey	3,083	10.0
	Green Party	Declan Fitzgerald	853	2.8
	Irish Socialist Network	John O'Neill	505	1.6
	Workers' Party	Owen Martin	240	0.8

[edit] 2002 general election result

2002 General Election: Dublin North West
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Noel Ahern	6,912	26.42	1	1
	Labour Party	Róisín Shortall	4,391	16.79	1	6
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Carey	5,523	21.11	3	6
	Sinn Féin	Dessie Ellis	4,781	18.28		(6)
	Fine Gael	Brendan Brady	2,082	7.96		(5)
	Independent	Bill Tormey	1,100	4.21		(5)
	Green Party	Eugene O'Brien	607	2.32		(4)
	Workers' Party	Seán Ó Cionnaith	608	2.32		(3)
	Christian Solidarity	Michael Larkin	154	0.59		(1)

[edit] February 1982 general election result

23rd Irish General Election – 18 February 1982
Candidate		Party	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 8
	Jim Tunney	Fianna Fáil	8570
	Mary Flaherty	Fine Gael	4551	4653	4677	5103	5770	6702
	Proinsias De Rossa	Sinn Féin (Workers Party)	3906	4033	4144	4183	4349	5000	5069	5319	6078
	Michael Barrett	Fianna Fáil	3798	4689	4728	4762	4883	5097	5117	8460
	Timothy Killeen	Fianna Fáil	2808	3768	3803	3825	3848	4095	4117
	Hugh Byrne	Fine Gael	2449	2485	2494	2670	3551	4143	4417	4635	5223
	Paddy Dunne	Labour Party	2412	2466	2517	2584	2792
	Frank Barr	Fine Gael	1803	1841	1850	2097
	Rita Boyle	Fine Gael	984	1004	1017
	William Keegan	Independent	300	325
Electorate: 48,705 Valid: 31,581 Spoilt: 370 Quota: 6,317

[edit] 1981 general election result

22nd Irish General Election  – 11 June 1981
Candidate		Party	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10	Count 11
	Jim Tunney	Fianna Fáil	8667
	Mary Flaherty	Fine Gael	4141	4277	4284	4294	4301	4334	4534	5267	5573	5764	6012
	Hugh Byrne	Fine Gael	4047	4106	4117	4135	4152	4171	4290	5666	5997	6159	6477
	Michael Barrett	Fianna Fáil	3162	3939	3947	3957	3966	4003	4030	4154	4350	7499
	Timothy Killeen	Fianna Fáil	2655	3641	3647	3653	3680	3735	3772	3809	3976
	Frank Barr	Fine Gael	2447	2486	2492	2503	2511	2532	2615
	Paddy Dunne	Labour Party	2293	2336	2352	2378	2392	2484	3770	3944	4830	5098	5547
	Proinsias De Rossa	Sinn Féin (Workers Party)	2071	2124	2135	2191	2405	2613	2734	2850
	Brendan Halligan	Labour Party	1729	1771	1784	1800	1811	1931
	Matthew Merrigan	Socialist Labour Party	473	495	618	671	694
	Michael Kenny	Sinn Féin (Workers Party)	289	298	310	339
	Eamonn Farrell	Independent Socialist	236	240	246
	William Keegan	Socialist Labour Party	209	222
Electorate: 48,705 Valid: 32,419 Spoilt: 474 Quota: 6,484

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• Parliamentary constituencies in the Republic of Ireland
• Politics of the Republic of Ireland
• List of political parties in the Republic of Ireland
• List of Irish by-elections
• Elections in the Republic of Ireland

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