Monaghan (Dáil constituency)

Monaghan was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas from 1921 to 1977. The constituency elected 3 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs) to the Dáil, on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).

Monaghan
Former Dáil constituency
Former constituency
Created	1921
Abolished	1977
Seats	3
Local government area	County Monaghan
Created from	North Monaghan South Monaghan
Replaced by	Cavan–Monaghan

History

The constituency was created in 1921 as a 3-seat constituency, under the Government of Ireland Act 1920, for the 1921 election to the House of Commons of Southern Ireland, whose members formed the 2nd Dáil.

It succeeded the constituencies of Monaghan North and Monaghan South which were used to elect the Members of the 1st Dáil and earlier British House of Commons members.

It was abolished under the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1974, when it was replaced by the new constituency of Cavan–Monaghan which was first used at the 1977 general election.

Boundaries

The constituency spanned the entire area of the County Monaghan.^[1]

TDs

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Monaghan 1921–1977[2]
Key to parties   CnaG = Cumann na nGaedheal   FF = Fianna Fáil   FG = Fine Gael   Ind = Independent   Rep = Republican   SF = Sinn Féin   AT-SF = Sinn Féin (Anti-Treaty)   PT-SF = Sinn Féin (Pro-Treaty)
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
2nd	1921[3]		Seán MacEntee (SF)		Eoin O'Duffy (SF)		Ernest Blythe (SF)
3rd	1922[4]		Patrick MacCarvill (AT-SF)		Eoin O'Duffy (PT-SF)		Ernest Blythe (PT-SF)
4th	1923[5]		Patrick MacCarvill (Rep)		Patrick Duffy (CnaG)		Ernest Blythe (CnaG)
5th	1927 (Jun)[6]		Patrick MacCarvill (FF)		Alexander Haslett (Ind)
6th	1927 (Sep)[7]		Conn Ward (FF)
7th	1932[8]				Eamon Rice (FF)
8th	1933[9]						Alexander Haslett (Ind)
9th	1937[10]						James Dillon (FG)
10th	1938[11]				Bridget Rice (FF)
11th	1943[12]						James Dillon (Ind)
12th	1944[13]
13th	1948[14]		Patrick Maguire (FF)
14th	1951[15]
15th	1954[16]		Patrick Mooney (FF)		Edward Kelly (FF)		James Dillon (FG)
16th	1957[17]				Eighneachán Ó hAnnluain (SF)
17th	1961[18]				Erskine H. Childers (FF)
18th	1965[19]
19th	1969[20]		Billy Fox (FG)				John Conlan (FG)
20th	1973[21]		Jimmy Leonard (FF)
	1973 by-election[22]				Brendan Toal (FG)
21st	1977	Constituency abolished. See Cavan–Monaghan

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

1973 by-election

Following the election of Fianna Fáil TD Erskine H. Childers as President of Ireland, a by-election was held on 27 November 1973. The seat was won by the Fine Gael candidate Brendan Toal.

1973 by-election: Monaghan^[23][24]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3
	Fine Gael	Brendan Toal	47.3	14,535	14,577	15,080
	Fianna Fáil	Rory O'Hanlon	45.0	13,822	13,851	14,791
	Aontacht Éireann	Pádraig Mooney	7.1	2,187	2,248
	Marxist–Leninist	David Vipond	0.6	175
Electorate: 39,647   Valid: 30,719   Quota: 15,360   Turnout: 77.5%

1973 general election

1973 general election: Monaghan^[21][25]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Fianna Fáil	Erskine H. Childers	30.2	8,431
	Fine Gael	John Conlan	21.8	6,075	6,162	6,217	6,589	7,241
	Fine Gael	Billy Fox	13.0	3,632	3,683	3,756	4,021	5,193	5,624
	Fianna Fáil	Jimmy Leonard	12.4	3,460	4,648	4,679	4,825	4,889	6,344
	Independent	Patrick Mooney	7.6	2,105	2,182	2,200	2,882	2,984
	Fine Gael	Bernard Markey	6.8	1,890	1,911	2,114	2,242
	Independent	Patrick Turley	6.6	1,827	1,849	1,903
	Independent	Val Kerr	1.7	461	475
Electorate: 36,214   Valid: 27,881   Quota: 6,971   Turnout: 76.9%

1969 general election

1969 general election: Monaghan^[20][26]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Fine Gael	John Conlan	23.2	6,615	6,683	6,851	6,873	7,526
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Mooney	20.7	5,921	5,985	6,072	6,451	6,561	6,568
	Fianna Fáil	Erskine H. Childers	19.8	5,659	5,689	5,771	6,714	6,877	6,885
	Fine Gael	Billy Fox	17.3	4,930	5,006	5,137	5,162	6,741	7,110
	Fine Gael	Bernard Markey	8.5	2,443	2,476	2,692	2,906
	Fianna Fáil	James Malone	5.4	1,536	1,558	1,677
	Labour	Thomas Donoghue	2.7	761	1,133
	Labour	Charles McCollum	2.4	699
Electorate: 35,614   Valid: 28,564   Quota: 7,142   Turnout: 80.2%

1965 general election

1965 general election: Monaghan^[19][23]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4
	Fine Gael	James Dillon	30.5	7,668
	Fianna Fáil	Erskine H. Childers	25.7	6,448
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Mooney	23.9	5,997	6,065	6,182	6,334
	Fine Gael	Billy Fox	15.5	3,901	5,020	6,086	6,099
	Fine Gael	Martin Tierney	4.4	1,114	1,312
Electorate: 32,533   Valid: 25,128   Quota: 6,283   Turnout: 77.2%

1961 general election

1961 general election: Monaghan^[18][23]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4
	Fine Gael	James Dillon	30.8	7,887
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Mooney	22.3	5,713	5,782	6,112	7,447
	Fianna Fáil	Erskine H. Childers	22.0	5,643	5,702	5,798	6,519
	Independent	Francis Ward	10.5	2,678	2,734	3,054
	Fine Gael	Edward Kelly	7.5	1,912	3,174	3,435	3,694
	Sinn Féin	Séamus McElwaine	7.0	1,786	1,822
Electorate: 32,967   Valid: 25,619   Quota: 6,405   Turnout: 77.7%

1957 general election

1957 general election: Monaghan^[17][23]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Fine Gael	James Dillon	23.3	5,894	6,108	6,275	7,081
	Sinn Féin	Eighneachán Ó hAnnluain	18.9	4,791	4,806	5,027	5,037	5,041	5,044
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Mooney	18.6	4,719	4,747	6,114	6,901
	Independent	Robert Houston	14.2	3,594	3,699	3,742
	Fianna Fáil	John Brennan	12.4	3,132	3,145	4,067	4,395	4,510	4,753
	Fianna Fáil	Edward Kelly	11.0	2,788	2,813
	Fine Gael	Herbert McWilliam	1.7	425
Electorate: 31,622   Valid: 25,343   Quota: 6,336   Turnout: 80.1%

1954 general election

1954 general election: Monaghan^[16][23]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	Fine Gael	James Dillon	24.2	6,709	7,598
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Mooney	18.5	5,122	5,166	5,553	5,600	6,956
	Independent	James Haslett	16.9	4,685	4,713	4,974	5,189	5,304
	Fianna Fáil	Edward Kelly	13.3	3,695	3,738	4,227	4,310	6,407
	Fianna Fáil	John Brennan	13.1	3,625	3,648	3,868	3,904
	Clann na Poblachta	Brian Magee	9.8	2,705	2,825
	Fine Gael	John Fitzpatrick	4.2	1,171
Electorate: 32,700   Valid: 27,712   Quota: 6,929   Turnout: 84.8%

1951 general election

1951 general election: Monaghan^[23]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2
	Independent	James Dillon	33.1	9,285
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Maguire	24.3	6,802	7,278
	Fianna Fáil	Bridget Rice	24.3	6,802	7,403
	Independent	James Haslett	18.3	5,127	6,330
Electorate: 33,647   Valid: 28,016   Quota: 7,005   Turnout: 83.3%

1948 general election

1948 general election: Monaghan^[23]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Independent	James Dillon	23.1	6,621	6,783	6,978	7,433
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Maguire	16.9	4,828	4,907	4,949	5,173	5,198	5,970	6,447
	Fianna Fáil	Bridget Rice	16.3	4,667	4,737	4,829	5,036	5,066	6,324	6,936
	Independent	Arthur H. Montgomery	14.7	4,200	4,377	4,379	4,454	4,484	4,503	4,677
	Clann na Poblachta	Patrick MacCarvill	8.2	2,348	2,507	3,406	3,729	3,844	3,981
	Fianna Fáil	John J. Brennan	7.8	2,235	2,303	2,314	2,360	2,372
	Clann na Talmhan	Patrick Mooney	4.8	1,361	1,659	1,689
	Clann na Poblachta	Thomas Caraher	4.4	1,253	1,308
	Labour	George Pollock	2.0	582
	Clann na Talmhan	Edward Bell	1.8	517
Electorate: 34,581   Valid: 28,612   Quota: 7,154   Turnout: 82.7%

1944 general election

1944 general election: Monaghan^[13][27]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1
	Independent	James Dillon	31.9	8,416
	Fianna Fáil	Conn Ward	31.4	8,308
	Fianna Fáil	Bridget Rice	25.7	6,791
	Clann na Talmhan	Patrick McArdle	11.0	2,911
Electorate: 35,476   Valid: 26,426   Quota: 6,607   Turnout: 74.5%

1943 general election

1943 general election: Monaghan^[12][27]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4
	Fianna Fáil	Conn Ward	25.2	7,434
	Fianna Fáil	Bridget Rice	18.4	5,424	5,581	6,373	7,501
	Independent	James Dillon	18.3	5,406	5,761	6,404	8,248
	Independent	Alexander Haslett	17.2	5,078	5,087	5,172	5,325
	Clann na Talmhan	Patrick McArdle	10.8	3,181	3,368	3,808
	Labour	Michael Linehan	7.4	2,174	2,258
	Fine Gael	Patrick Lonergan	2.8	824
Electorate: 35,476   Valid: 29,521   Quota: 7,381   Turnout: 83.2%

1938 general election

1938 general election: Monaghan^[11][27]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2
	Fianna Fáil	Conn Ward	29.7	9,458
	Fine Gael	James Dillon	29.3	9,318
	Fianna Fáil	Bridget Rice	22.2	7,075	8,553
	Independent	John Gillespie	18.8	5,984	6,005
Electorate: 35,949   Valid: 31,835   Quota: 7,959   Turnout: 88.6%

1937 general election

1937 general election: Monaghan^[10][27]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4
	Fianna Fáil	Conn Ward	39.2	12,275
	Fine Gael	James Dillon	24.4	7,653	7,700	7,829
	Independent	Alexander Haslett	20.2	6,314	6,325	6,336	6,347
	Fianna Fáil	Eamon Rice	10.3	3,219	7,499	7,737	8,261
	Fine Gael	Brian O'Rourke	2.5	782	798	825	859
	Fianna Fáil	James Johnston	1.7	538	606	680
	Independent	John McGahey	1.7	524	550
Electorate: 36,469   Valid: 31,305   Quota: 7,827   Turnout: 85.8%

1933 general election

1933 general election: Monaghan^[9][27]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3
	Fianna Fáil	Eamon Rice	27.8	8,749
	Fianna Fáil	Conn Ward	26.2	8,244
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Ernest Blythe	23.0	7,251	7,435	7,563
	Independent	Alexander Haslett	23.0	7,238	7,752	7,997
Electorate: 36,784   Valid: 31,482   Quota: 7,871   Turnout: 85.6%

1932 general election

1932 general election: Monaghan^[8][27]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3
	Fianna Fáil	Conn Ward	32.7	10,048
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Ernest Blythe	24.5	7,524	7,564	8,490
	Independent	Alexander Haslett	21.4	6,573	6,585	6,656
	Fianna Fáil	Eamon Rice	17.4	5,360	7,654	7,777
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Edward Brady	4.0	1,225	1,244
Electorate: 36,547   Valid: 30,730   Quota: 7,683   Turnout: 84.1%

September 1927 general election

September 1927 general election: Monaghan^[7][27]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Ernest Blythe	24.5	7,171	8,936
	Independent	Alexander Haslett	23.4	6,843	6,918	7,157
	Fianna Fáil	Conn Ward	22.1	6,467	6,829	6,995
	Fianna Fáil	Eamon Donnelly	20.7	6,059	6,347	6,468
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Patrick Duffy	9.3	2,708
Electorate: 39,069   Valid: 29,248   Quota: 7,313   Turnout: 74.9%

June 1927 general election

June 1927 general election: Monaghan^[6][27]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Independent	Alexander Haslett	22.6	6,964	7,012	7,101	7,172	7,189	7,236
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick MacCarvill	19.1	5,904	6,054	6,511	6,868	10,163
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Ernest Blythe	17.9	5,532	5,692	5,832	7,519	7,566	7,630
	National League	Jeremiah McVeagh	14.1	4,338	4,474	4,847	5,132	5,415	6,859
	Fianna Fáil	Conn Ward	11.5	3,559	3,642	3,702	3,750
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Patrick Duffy	7.9	2,438	2,483	2,686
	Clann Éireann	Patrick Conlan	4.5	1,399	1,454
	Independent	Edward Brady	2.4	729
Electorate: 39,069   Valid: 30,863   Quota: 7,716   Turnout: 79.0%

1923 general election

1923 general election: Monaghan^[5][27]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Ernest Blythe	44.1	11,290
	Republican	Patrick MacCarvill	22.4	5,745	5,808	6,085	6,276	7,303
	Farmers' Party	Hugh Maguire	11.5	2,937	3,573	3,654	3,955	4,420
	Independent	James Coburn	11.0	2,806	3,158	3,217	3,445
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Patrick Duffy	5.1	1,316	5,030	5,111	5,302	6,506
	Independent	James Barnes	3.5	888	932	1,112
	Independent	James Johnston	2.4	625	704
Electorate: 40,172   Valid: 25,607   Quota: 6,402   Turnout: 63.7%

1922 general election

1922 general election: Monaghan^[4][27]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2
	Sinn Féin (Pro-Treaty)	Eoin O'Duffy	35.6	7,298
	Sinn Féin (Anti-Treaty)	Patrick MacCarvill	24.6	5,046	5,249
	Sinn Féin (Pro-Treaty)	Ernest Blythe	21.9	4,494	6,069
	Independent	Thomas McHugh	17.9	3,681	4,071
Electorate: 34,025   Valid: 20,519   Quota: 5,130   Turnout: 60.3%

1921 general election

1921 general election: Monaghan^[3]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	Sinn Féin	Ernest Blythe	Unopposed	N/A	1
	Sinn Féin	Seán MacEntee	Unopposed	N/A	2
	Sinn Féin	Eoin O'Duffy	Unopposed	N/A	3

See also

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