Galway North (Dáil constituency)
Galway North was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas from 1948 to 1961. 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).
| Galway North | |
|---|---|
| Former Dáil constituency | |
| Former constituency | |
| Created | 1948 |
| Abolished | 1961 |
| Seats | 3 |
| Local government area | County Galway |
| Created from | |
| Replaced by | |
History
editThe constituency was created under the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1947 for the 1948 general election to Dáil Éireann.[1] It was abolished under the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1961, when the three existing Galway constituencies were replaced by the two new constituencies of Galway East and Galway West.
Boundaries
editThe administrative county of Galway except the portion thereof which was comprised in the County Constituencies of Galway West and Galway South.[1]
TDs
edit| Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Galway North 1948–1961[2] | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Key to parties
| |||||||
| Dáil | Election | Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) | |||
| 13th | 1948[3] | Mark Killilea Snr (FF) |
Michael F. Kitt (FF) |
Michael Donnellan (CnaT) | |||
| 14th | 1951[4] | James Hession (FG) | |||||
| 15th | 1954[5] | ||||||
| 16th | 1957[6] | Michael F. Kitt (FF) | |||||
| 17th | 1961 | Constituency abolished. See Galway East and Galway West | |||||
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.
Elections
edit1957 general election
edit| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Clann na Talmhan | Michael Donnellan | 33.1 | 7,399 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Michael F. Kitt | 23.3 | 5,215 | 5,358 | 5,946 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Mark Killilea Snr | 21.6 | 4,826 | 4,939 | 5,346 | |
| Sinn Féin | Pádraig Ó Ceallaigh | 11.4 | 2,551 | 2,716 | ||
| Fine Gael | James Hession | 10.6 | 2,380 | 3,765 | 4,302 | |
| Electorate: 29,884 Valid: 22,371 Quota: 5,593 Turnout: 74.9% | ||||||
1954 general election
edit| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| Clann na Talmhan | Michael Donnellan | 33.7 | 7,889 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Michael F. Kitt | 19.7 | 4,619 | 5,195 | 5,266 | 5,352 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Mark Killilea Snr | 18.9 | 4,430 | 5,600 | 5,665 | 5,834 | |
| Fine Gael | James Hession | 18.7 | 4,374 | 4,553 | 6,453 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Thomas King | 9.0 | 2,099 | ||||
| Electorate: 30,452 Valid: 23,411 Quota: 5,853 Turnout: 76.9% | |||||||
1951 general election
edit| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| Clann na Talmhan | Michael Donnellan | 34.8 | 7,923 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Mark Killilea Snr | 18.5 | 4,205 | 4,287 | 4,391 | 5,952 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Michael F. Kitt | 18.1 | 4,120 | 4,200 | 4,236 | 4,886 | |
| Fine Gael | James Hession | 12.7 | 2,882 | 4,291 | 5,581 | 5,764 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Seán Glynn | 10.5 | 2,382 | 2,511 | 2,632 | ||
| Clann na Poblachta | William Burke | 5.6 | 1,265 | 1,793 | |||
| Electorate: 31,373 Valid: 22,777 Quota: 5,695 Turnout: 72.60% | |||||||
1948 general election
edit| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Mark Killilea Snr | 19.9 | 4,636 | 4,663 | 4,682 | 4,728 | 4,808 | 4,961 | 6,816 | ||
| Clann na Talmhan | Michael Donnellan | 19.6 | 4,582 | 5,072 | 5,171 | 5,251 | 5,861 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Michael F. Kitt | 16.0 | 3,742 | 3,851 | 3,876 | 3,897 | 4,033 | 4,166 | 4,814 | 5,782 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Seán Glynn | 12.1 | 2,811 | 2,826 | 2,838 | 2,850 | 2,882 | 2,924 | |||
| Labour | Robert Malachy Burke | 9.7 | 2,273 | 2,309 | 2,418 | 2,466 | 2,704 | 3,971 | 4,162 | 4,175 | |
| Clann na Poblachta | John Nohilly | 6.7 | 1,562 | 1,606 | 1,651 | 2,352 | 2,575 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Mark Wall | 4.5 | 1,046 | 1,074 | 1,658 | 1,679 | |||||
| Clann na Poblachta | Michael Mannion | 4.0 | 922 | 944 | 963 | ||||||
| Fine Gael | William Allen | 3.8 | 886 | 942 | |||||||
| Clann na Talmhan | Patrick Collins | 3.8 | 876 | ||||||||
| Electorate: 32,389 Valid: 23,336 Quota: 5,835 Turnout: 72.05% | |||||||||||
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Electoral (Amendment) Act, 1947: (Constituencies)". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 20 September 2010.
- ^ 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 1948: Galway North". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 20 September 2010.
- ^ "General election 1951: Galway North". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 20 September 2010.
- ^ a b "General election 1954: Galway North". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 20 September 2010.
- ^ a b "General election 1957: Galway North". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 20 September 2010.
- ^ a b c d Gallagher, Michael (2009). Irish Elections 1948–77: Results and Analysis Sources for the Study of Irish Politics 2. Routledge. ISBN 9781138973343.
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