Template talk:Dublin elections

Municipal elections

I have corrected the dates for the period 1924–39. But also:

• Elections in Dublin occurred from the Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Act 1840, so starting at the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 is misleading. While the 1898 act gave the corporation new powers, it was incremental rather than revolutionary.
• Elections 1900–14 were not triennial but rather in three annual cohorts, so highlighting 1902 1905 1908 1911 while ignoring 1901 1903 1904 etc is misleading. In fact 1901 was more important than 1902 as the number of councillors increased from 60 to 80.
  • This info is in the existing reference: O'Brien, Joseph V. (1982). Dear, Dirty Dublin: A City in Distress, 1899-1916. Joseph Valentine O'Brien. ISBN 9780520039650. Retrieved 7 February 2017. search for "election" on pages 80, 83, 88, 92.

jnestorius^(talk) 18:17, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

All good points! The template box was only using 1898 as the starting point as I was unsure about prior corporation dates. I assume similar to other corporations they were annual? MrPenguin20 (talk) 23:11, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

The 1840 act sec 60–62 provided for councillors elected for three year terms and aldermen for six years, the former in three annual cohorts and the latter in two triennial cohorts. This may have been amended for individual boroughs by later local acts; I believe it was still generally applicable until 1898. The 1898 act allowed urban councils (corporations, urban district councils, and town commissioners) to petition the Local Government Board for Ireland to switch from annual cohort elections to triennial all-at-once elections, and many did so in 1899 and thereafter. The Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1919 made triennial system compulsory in urban areas (they had been since 1898 in rural areas). jnestorius^(talk) 11:48, 8 February 2017 (UTC)