Dublin County South (Dáil constituency)

Dublin County South was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas from 1969 to 1981. The constituency elected 3 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs) to the Dáil, using proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).

Dublin County South
Former Dáil constituency
Former constituency
Created	1969
Abolished	1981
Seats	3
Local government area	County Dublin
Created from	Dublin County
Replaced by	Dublin South

History and boundaries

The constituency was created by the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1969, and first used at the 1969 general election. It was abolished by the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1980, with effect from the 1981 general election.

Changes to the constituency of Dublin County South, 1969–1981

Years	TDs	Boundaries	Notes
1969–1977	3	In County Dublin[1] the district electoral divisions (except any parts in the county borough of Dublin) of: Newcastle, Rathcoole, Saggart, in the former Rural District of Celbridge No. 2; Ballybrack (except the part thereof which is comprised in the constituency of Dun Laoghaire and Rathdown), Dundrum (except the part thereof which is comprised in the constituency of Dun Laoghaire and Rathdown), Glencullen, Milltown, Rathmichael (except the part thereof which is comprised in the constituency of Dun Laoghaire and Rathdown), in the former Rural District of Rathdown No. 1; Rathfarnham, Tallaght, Whitechurch, and the townland of Kimmage (except the part thereof comprised in the county borough of Dublin) in the district electoral division of Terenure, in the former Rural District of Dublin South.	Created from Dublin County
1977–1981	3	In County Dublin the district electoral divisions of Ballybrack Number One, Ballybrack Number Two, Dundrum Number Two, Dundrum Number Three, Dundrum Number Four, Dundrum Number Five, Glencullen, Milltown Number One, Milltown Number Two, Rathmichael; and that part of the district electoral division of Stillorgan Number One not contained in the constituency of Dún Laoghaire; and in County Wicklow, the district electoral divisions of Bray No. 1 and Rathmichael (Bray)[2]	Transfer of Bray No. 1 and Rathmichael from Wicklow
1981	—	Constituency abolished	See Dublin South, Dún Laoghaire and Wicklow

TDs

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Dublin County South 1969–1981[3]
Key to parties   FF = Fianna Fáil   FG = Fine Gael   Lab = Labour
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
19th	1969[4]		Kevin Boland (FF)		Tom O'Higgins (FG)		Richard Burke (FG)
	1970 by-election[5]		Larry McMahon (FG)
20th	1973[6]				Ruairí Brugha (FF)
21st	1977[7]		John Kelly (FG)		Niall Andrews (FF)		John Horgan (Lab)
22nd	1981	Constituency abolished. See Dublin 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

^ *: Outgoing TD

1977 general election

1977 general election: Dublin County South^[7][8]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Fianna Fáil	Niall Andrews	19.9	6,956	7,063	7,133	7,771	9,698
	Fine Gael	John Kelly[*]	15.3	5,355	5,452	6,282	6,866	6,971	10,241
	Labour	John Horgan	13.4	4,673	4,880	5,281	6,631	6,845	7,752	9,067
	Fianna Fáil	Ruairí Brugha[*]	11.6	4,037	4,112	4,148	4,506	6,356	6,514	6,714
	Fianna Fáil	James Murphy	11.2	3,902	3,982	4,057	4,310
	Independent	Nuala Fennell	9.8	3,426	3,693	3,828
	Fine Gael	Seán Barrett	9.5	3,331	3,384	4,126	4,536	4,631
	Fine Gael	Tom Hand	6.5	2,258	2,357
	Independent	Myles Tierney	2.8	962
Electorate: 47,847   Valid: 34,900   Quota: 8,726   Turnout: 72.9%

1973 general election

1973 general election: Dublin County South^[6][9]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Fine Gael	Richard Burke[*]	26.1	9,104
	Fianna Fáil	Ruairí Brugha	18.2	6,361	6,366	6,910	7,271	7,328	7,375	7,579	8,043
	Fianna Fáil	James Murphy	12.5	4,345	4,349	5,541	5,733	5,802	5,861	6,052	6,574
	Fine Gael	Larry McMahon[*]	10.4	3,627	3,758	3,833	4,157	5,982	6,639	10,735
	Labour	Mervyn Taylor	8.8	3,083	3,105	3,155	3,535	3,834	5,769
	Labour	Malachi Burke	6.2	2,169	2,196	2,215	2,625	2,866
	Aontacht Éireann	Kevin Boland[*][‡]	6.2	2,142	2,148	2,178
	Fine Gael	Donal Lowry	6.0	2,103	2,289	2,309	2,558
	Fianna Fáil	Damien Murray	5.6	1,950	1,951
Electorate: 45,289   Valid: 34,884   Quota: 8,722   Turnout: 77.0%

^ ‡: Boland resigned his seat on 4 November 1970

1970 by-election

Following the resignation of Fianna Fáil TD Kevin Boland, a by-election was held on 2 December 1970. The seat was won by the Fine Gael candidate Larry McMahon.

1970 by-election: Dublin County South^[10][9]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4
	Fine Gael	Larry McMahon	38.3	9,549	9,679	10,984	14,098
	Fianna Fáil	James Murphy	33.3	8,293	8,356	9,044	9,709
	Labour	Donal O'Sullivan	13.8	3,449	3,485	4,586
	Independent	Joseph MacAnthony	12.7	3,169	3,377
	Independent	James T. Deegan	1.9	462
Electorate: 40,216   Valid: 24,922   Quota: 12,462   Turnout: 61.9%

1969 general election

1969 general election: Dublin County South^[4][11]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Fine Gael	Tom O'Higgins	22.2	6,243	6305	6389	6489	7,665
	Fianna Fáil	Kevin Boland	19.3	5,441	5,458	5,485	6,293	6,384	6,370	6,542
	Fine Gael	Richard Burke	12.9	3,623	3,648	3,697	3,793	4,795	5,367	6,878
	Fianna Fáil	Ruairí Brugha	11.9	3,338	3,352	3,393	4,483	4,592	4,606	4,921
	Fine Gael	Pearse Morris	8.3	2,344	2,361	2,484	2,567
	Labour	Donal O'Sullivan	8.2	2,300	2,631	4,368	4,421	4,490	4,523
	Fianna Fáil	James Murphy	7.9	2,224	2,240	2,288
	Labour	Seán Fitzpatrick	6.4	1,814	2,144
	Labour	Thomas O'Brien	2.9	830
Electorate: 38,614   Valid: 28,157   Quota: 7,040   Turnout: 72.9%

See also

• Dáil constituencies
• Politics of the Republic of Ireland
• Historic Dáil constituencies
• Elections in the Republic of Ireland