Dublin Cabra (Dáil Éireann constituency)
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Dublin Cabra was a short-lived former parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. It covered the Cabra, Arran Quay and Phoenix Park areas of the city of Dublin. It existed from 1977 to 1981. It elected three Teachtaí Dála (TDs) to the Dáil, using the Single Transferable Vote method of proportional representation (PR-STV).
[edit] History
The constituency was created in 1977, under the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1974 [1], taking in parts of the former Dublin North West and Dublin Central constituencies, as part of the redistribution of constituencies (also known as the Tullymander) which attempted to secure the re-election of the outgoing Fine Gael/Labour government. The constituency was abolished in 1981 with most of it going into a revived Dublin Central constituency. Of the 16 wards in Dublin Cabra, 13 went to Dublin Central for the 1981 election, with three going to Dublin West (the wards of Phoenix Park and Cabra West 'A' and 'C'.)
[edit] Boundaries
It consisted of the following wards of the county borough of Dublin [2]: Arran Quay A, Arran Quay B, Arran Quay C, Arran Quay D, Arran Quay E, Cabra East A, Cabra East B, Cabra East C, Cabra West A, Cabra West B, Cabra West C, Cabra West D, Cabra West E, Inns Quay B, Inns Quay C, Phoenix Park.
[edit] 1977 election result
| 1977 General Election: Dublin Cabra | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
| Fianna Fáil | Vivion de Valera | 5,830 | 22.95 | 1 | ||
| Fine Gael | Hugh Byrne | 5,042 | 19.85 | 2 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Thomas Leonard | 3,728 | 14.68 | 3 | ||
| Labour Party | Patrick Carroll | 2,817 | 11.09 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Richard Gogan | 2,224 | 8.75 | |||
| Labour Party | David Thornley | 1,615 | 6.36 | |||
| Labour Party | Michael Mullan | 1,603 | 6.31 | |||
| Independent | Frank Sherwin | 1,427 | 5.62 | |||
| Fine Gael | John McKay | 991 | 3.90 | |||
| Independent | Frank Hall | 126 | 0.50 | |||
