Cork South Central (Dáil Éireann constituency)
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Cork South Central is a constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency has an electorate of 90,237 and at present is served by 5 Teachtaí Dála (TDs). The method of election is the Single Transferable Vote.
Cork South Central is predominantly an urban constituency and encompasses the electoral areas of Cork City Council south of the river Lee, namely Cork South Central, Cork South East and Cork South West together with most of the largely suburban Carrigaline electoral area of Cork County Council, in particular the Ringaskiddy, Passage West and Carrigaline areas. At the most recent boundary revisions it was proposed that the Ballincollig area should be moved to the Cork North West constituency as of the next general election.
The most high profile TD in the constituency is the current Minister for Enterprise, Trade & Employment, Micheál Martin.
[edit] Recent Results
| 2002 General Election: Cork South Central | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
| Mícheál Martin | Fianna Fáil | 14,742 | 26.69 | 1 | 1 | |
| Simon Coveney | Fine Gael | 5,183 | 9.83 | 2 | 7 | |
| Batt O'Keeffe | Fianna Fáil | 6,556 | 11.87 | 3 | 8 | |
| Dan Boyle | Green | 4,952 | 8.96 | 4 | 8 | |
| John Dennehy | Fianna Fáil | 5,533 | 10.02 | 5 | 10 | |
| Kathy Sinnott | Independent | 4,984 | 9.02 | |||
| Deirdre Clune | Fine Gael | 5,535 | 10.02 | |||
| Brendan Ryan | Labour | 3,282 | 5.94 | |||
| Tom Hanlon | Sinn Féin | 2,063 | 3.73 | |||
| Con O'Connell | Independent | 1,821 | 3.30 | |||
| Ted Neville | Independent | 372 | 0.67 | |||
| Michael O'Sullivan | SWP | 217 | 0.39 | |||
[edit] Former TDs
[edit] See also
- Politics of the Republic of Ireland
- List of political parties in Ireland
- List of Irish by-elections
- Elections in Ireland
