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Kerry was a parliamentary constituency in the Irish Free State which was represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas, from 1923–1937. It elected seven Teachtaí Dála (TDs) to the Dáil, using the using the Single Transferable Vote method of proportional representation (PR-STV).
The constituency was created under the Electoral Act 1923, and first used at the 1923 general election to elect the Members of the 4th Dáil. It replaced the Kerry-Limerick West constituency which was used to elect Members of the 2nd Dáil and Members of the 3rd Dáil.
The 1923 Act was amended by the Electoral (Revision of Constituencies) Act 1935 (No. 5/1935) and the new Kerry South and Kerry North constituencies were established. They were first used in the Irish general election, 1937 for the Members of the 9th Dáil.
TDs
| Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Kerry 1923–1937 | |||||||||||||||
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| Dáil | Election | Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) | |||||||
| 4th | 1923 | Patrick Cahill (SF) |
James Crowley (CnaG) |
Finian Lynch (CnaG) |
Tom McEllistrim, Snr (SF) |
Thomas O'Donoghue (SF) |
John O'Sullivan (CnaG) |
Austin Stack (SF) | |||||||
| 5th | 1927 (Jun) | William O'Leary (FF) |
Tom McEllistrim, Snr (FF) |
Thomas O'Reilly (FF) |
Austin Stack (FF) | ||||||||||
| 6th | 1927 (Sep) | Frederick Crowley (FF) | |||||||||||||
| 7th | 1932 | John Flynn (FF) |
Eamon Kissane (FF) | ||||||||||||
| 8th | 1933 | Denis Daly (FF) | |||||||||||||
| 9th | 1937 | constituency abolished: see Kerry North and Kerry South | |||||||||||||
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
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References
- Walker, Brian M, ed. (1992). Parliamentary election results in Ireland, 1918-92. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0 901714 96 8. ISSN 0332-0286.
See also
- Parliamentary constituencies in the Republic of Ireland
- List of historic Dáil Éireann constituencies
- Elections in the Republic of Ireland
- Politics of the Republic of Ireland
External links
| Parliamentary constituencies in County Kerry | |||||||
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| Parliament of Ireland to 1800 | |||||||
| Westminster 1801–1922 and First Dáil 1918 |
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| Dáil Éireann 1921–present |
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| European Parliament 1979–present | |||||||
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