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Kerry–Limerick West was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas, from 1921 to 1923. It returned 8 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 Government of Ireland Act 1920 to elect members to the House of Commons of Southern Ireland and first used at the Irish elections, 1921 to return the members of the 2nd Dáil. It succeeded a combined set of Kerry and Limerick UK Parliament constituencies such as Kerry South which were used to elect the members of the 1st Dáil and earlier UK House of Commons members.
It was abolished under the Electoral Act 1923 and succeeded by the new Kerry constituency and the Limerick constituency, both of which were first used in the Irish general election, 1923 for the members of the 4th Dáil.
Boundaries
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TDs
| Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Kerry–Limerick West 1921–1923 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Dáil | Election | Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) | ||||||||
| 2nd | 1921 | Piaras Béaslaí (SF) |
Patrick Cahill (SF) |
Con Collins (SF) |
James Crowley (SF) |
Finian Lynch (SF) |
Thomas O'Donoghue (SF) |
Edmund Roche (SF) |
Austin Stack (SF) | ||||||||
| 3rd | 1922 | Piaras Béaslaí (PT-SF) |
Patrick Cahill (AT-SF) |
Con Collins (AT-SF) |
James Crowley (PT-SF) |
Finian Lynch (PT-SF) |
Thomas O'Donoghue (AT-SF) |
Edmund Roche (AT-SF) |
Austin Stack (AT-SF) | ||||||||
| 4th | 1923 | Constituency abolished: See Kerry | |||||||||||||||
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.
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
- Government of Ireland Act 1920 (Parliamentary and Dáil constituencies)
- List of historic Dáil Éireann constituencies
- Parliamentary constituencies in the Republic of Ireland
- Elections in the Republic of Ireland
- Politics of the Republic of Ireland
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| Dáil Éireann 1918–present |
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