Cavan (Dáil Éireann constituency)
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Cavan is a former parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which from 1921-1977 returned deputies (Teachtaí Dála or TDs) to Dáil Éireann, the lower house of parliament in the Republic of Ireland. It elected three deputies from 1921–1923, four from 1923–1961 and three from 1961–1977.
At the 1977 general election, the Cavan constituency was combined with Monaghan to form the new five-seat Cavan-Monaghan constituency.
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[edit] Boundaries
The constituency spanned the entire area of County Cavan.
[edit] Members of Dáil Éireann
Three members
| Elections | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | 3rd Member | 3rd Party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2nd Dáil (1921) |
Arthur Griffith | Sinn Féin | Peter Galligan | Sinn Féin | Seán Milroy | Sinn Féin | |||
| 3rd Dáil (1922) |
Sinn Féin (Pro-Treaty) | Walter Cole | Sinn Féin (Pro-Treaty) | Sinn Féin (Pro-Treaty) | |||||
Four members
| Elections | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | 3rd Member | 3rd Party | 4th Member | 4th Party | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4th Dáil (1923) |
Paddy Smith | Sinn Féin | Patrick Baxter | Farmers Party | Seán Milroy | Cumann na nGaedhael | John Cole | Independent | ||||
| By-election(1925) | John Joe O'Reilly | Cumann na nGaedhael | ||||||||||
| 5th Dáil (Jun 1927) |
Fianna Fáil | John O'Hanlon | Independent | |||||||||
| 6th Dáil (Sep 1927) |
John Cole | Independent | ||||||||||
| 7th Dáil (1932) |
Michael Sheridan | Fianna Fáil | ||||||||||
| 8th Dáil (1933) |
Patrick McGovern | National Centre Party | ||||||||||
| 9th Dáil (1937) |
John Cole | Independent | Fine Gael | |||||||||
| 10th Dáil (1938) |
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| 11th Dáil (1943) |
Patrick O'Reilly | Clann na Talmhan | ||||||||||
| 12th Dáil (1944) |
Thomas O'Reilly | Independent | ||||||||||
| 13th Dáil (1948) |
John Tully | Clann na Poblachta | Independent | |||||||||
| 14th Dáil (1951) |
Fine Gael | |||||||||||
| 15th Dáil (1954) |
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| 16th Dáil (1957) |
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Three members
| Elections | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | 3rd Member | 3rd Party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17th Dáil (1961) |
Paddy Smith | Fianna Fáil | Séamus Dolan | Fianna Fáil | Patrick O'Reilly | Fine Gael | |||
| 18th Dáil (1965) |
Tom Fitzpatrick | Fine Gael | John Tully | Clann na Poblachta | |||||
| 19th Dáil (1969) |
Patrick O'Reilly | Fine Gael | |||||||
| 20th Dáil (1973) |
John P. Wilson | Fianna Fáil | |||||||
[edit] Last Results (1973)
| 1973 General Election: Cavan | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
| Fine Gael | Tom Fitzpatrick | 7,276 | 28.14 | 1 | 0 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Paddy Smith | 5,979 | 23.12 | 2 | 0 | |
| Fianna Fáil | John Wilson | 3,846 | 14.87 | 3 | 0 | |
| Fine Gael | Patrick O'Reilly | 3,459 | 13.38 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Séamus Dolan | 3,231 | 12.49 | |||
| Independent | James Kelly | 2,068 | 8.00 | |||
[edit] See also
- Cavan-Monaghan
- Monaghan (constituency)
- Politics of the Republic of Ireland
- List of political parties in Ireland
- List of Irish by-elections
- Elections in Ireland
- List of Dáil Éireann constituencies in Ireland (historic)
