Mayo East (Dáil constituency)

For the 1885–1922 constituency, see East Mayo (UK Parliament constituency).

Mayo East was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas from 1969 to 1997. The constituency was served by 3 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs). The method of election was proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).

Mayo East
Former Dáil constituency
Former constituency
Created	1969
Abolished	1997
Seats	3
Local government area	County Mayo
Created from	Mayo North Mayo South
Replaced by	Mayo

History and boundaries

The constituency was created under the terms of the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1969, taking in parts of the former Mayo North and Mayo South constituencies.^[1] It was abolished for the 1997 general election when it was combined with Mayo West to form the new 5 seat Mayo constituency.

TDs

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Mayo East 1969–1997[2]
Key to parties   FF = Fianna Fáil   FG = Fine Gael
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
19th	1969[3]		Seán Flanagan (FF)		Thomas O'Hara (FG)		Martin Finn (FG)
20th	1973[4]				Seán Calleary (FF)
21st	1977[5]		P. J. Morley (FF)				Paddy O'Toole (FG)
22nd	1981[6]
23rd	1982 (Feb)[7]
24th	1982 (Nov)[8]
25th	1987[9]						Jim Higgins (FG)
26th	1989[10]
27th	1992[11]				Tom Moffatt (FF)
28th	1997	Constituency abolished. See Mayo

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

1992 general election

1992 general election: Mayo East^[12]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3
	Fine Gael	Jim Higgins	26.1	7,631
	Fianna Fáil	Tom Moffatt	22.7	6,639	6,870	7,709
	Fine Gael	Ernie Caffrey	19.6	5,733	6,209	6,457
	Fianna Fáil	P. J. Morley	19.4	5,693	5,806	7,158
	Fianna Fáil	Paddy Oliver	8.6	2,514	2,612
	Independent	Mary Reilly	3.7	1,089
Electorate: 43,449   Valid: 29,299   Spoilt: 421 (1.4%)   Quota: 7,325   Turnout: 29,720 (68.4%)

1989 general election

1989 general election: Mayo East^[10][13][14]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2
	Fine Gael	Jim Higgins	31.2	8,463
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Calleary	27.0	7,313
	Fianna Fáil	P. J. Morley	24.3	6,579	6,967
	Fine Gael	Ernie Caffrey	17.6	4,758	6,054
Electorate: 39,470   Valid: 27,113   Quota: 6,779   Turnout: 68.7%

1987 general election

1987 general election: Mayo East^[9][15][16]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3
	Fine Gael	Jim Higgins	23.5	7,263	7,328	7,829
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Calleary	21.9	6,779	6,955	8,560
	Fianna Fáil	P. J. Morley	20.6	6,382	6,497	8,295
	Fine Gael	Paddy O'Toole	18.6	5,765	5,833	6,058
	Fianna Fáil	Padraic Gavin	13.1	4,063	4,203
	Sinn Féin	Joseph McHale	2.2	668
Electorate: 41,247   Valid: 30,920   Quota: 7,731   Turnout: 75.0%

November 1982 general election

November 1982 general election: Mayo East^[8][17][18]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Calleary	21.7	6,834	6,944	8,815
	Fianna Fáil	P. J. Morley	20.7	6,507	6,717	8,091
	Fine Gael	Paddy O'Toole	20.4	6,427	7,594	7,777	7,997
	Fine Gael	Jim Higgins	16.3	5,120	6,539	6,695	6,969
	Fianna Fáil	John Bolingbrook	10.9	3,418	3,659
	Fine Gael	Seán McEvoy	8.7	2,745
	Independent	John Regan	1.4	451
Electorate: 41,818   Valid: 31,502   Quota: 7,876   Turnout: 75.3%

February 1982 general election

February 1982 general election: Mayo East^[7][19][20]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3
	Fine Gael	Paddy O'Toole	22.9	7,140	7,512	7,770
	Fianna Fáil	P. J. Morley	22.8	7,096	7,194	8,504
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Calleary	22.1	6,876	6,927	8,672
	Fine Gael	Jim Higgins	16.5	5,134	5,937	6,092
	Fianna Fáil	John Bolingbrook	11.1	3,439	3,509
	Fine Gael	John Flannery	4.1	1,274
	Independent	Peter Keane	0.4	134
Electorate: 41,811   Valid: 31,093   Spoilt: 208 (0.7%)   Quota: 7,774   Turnout: 31,509 (75.4%)

1981 general election

1981 general election: Mayo East^[6][21]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Calleary	22.4	7,248	8,916
	Fianna Fáil	P. J. Morley	21.1	6,829	7,896	8,592
	Fine Gael	Paddy O'Toole	20.3	6,569	6,695	6,719	8,022
	Fine Gael	Martin Finn	13.9	4,509	4,798	4,873	7,371
	Fine Gael	Jim Higgins	11.8	3,829	3,987	4,020
	Fianna Fáil	John Bolingbrook	10.4	3,367
Electorate: 41,811   Valid: 32,351   Spoilt: 260 (0.8%)   Quota: 8,088   Turnout: 32,611 (78.0%)

1977 general election

1977 general election: Mayo East^[5][22]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Calleary	23.9	7,858	8,074	9,749
	Fine Gael	Paddy O'Toole	19.3	6,338	7,921	8,015	8,053	8,096
	Fine Gael	Martin Finn	18.8	6,203	7,694	7,932	7,969	8,033
	Fianna Fáil	P. J. Morley	15.6	5,115	5,251	7,007	8,460
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Flanagan	11.3	3,722	3,859
	Fine Gael	Seán McEvoy	11.1	3,646
Electorate: 44,214   Valid: 32,882   Spoilt: 267 (0.8%)   Quota: 8,221   Turnout: 33,149 (75.5%)

1973 general election

1973 general election: Mayo East^[4][23]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Calleary	26.0	6,725
	Fine Gael	Martin Finn	22.6	5,842	6,453	6,463	6,785
	Fine Gael	Thomas O'Hara	13.6	3,507	3,828	3,854	5,471	5,718	6,080
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Flanagan	12.7	3,290	3,396	3,568	3,600	3,611	6,172
	Fianna Fáil	P. J. Morley	12.4	3,218	3,348	3,384	3,407	3,413
	Fine Gael	Paddy O'Toole	7.2	1,850	2,057	2,071
	Labour	Thomas Dillon-Leetch	5.5	1,432
Electorate: 34,810   Valid: 25,864   Quota: 6,467   Turnout: 74.3%

1969 general election

1969 general election: Mayo East^[3][24]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Flanagan	23.6	6,165	6,239	6,979
	Fine Gael	Martin Finn	18.6	4,852	5,078	5,111	5,116	5,913	6,442
	Fianna Fáil	John Garrett	15.6	4,087	4,145	5,138	5,538	6,061	6,115
	Fine Gael	Thomas O'Hara	15.6	4,080	4,225	4,523	4,554	7,115
	Fine Gael	Michael Browne	14.5	3,780	4,013	4,132	4,143
	Fianna Fáil	Kevin McLoughlin	8.8	2,292	2,331
	Labour	Gerald Boyle	3.3	869
Electorate: 35,508   Valid: 26,125   Quota: 6,532   Turnout: 73.6%

See also

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