Tipperary (Dáil Éireann constituency)

Tipperary is a parliamentary constituency which will be represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas, from the 2016 general election. The constituency will elect 5 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs). The method of election is the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).

History and boundaries

1923–1948

The constituency was created under the Electoral Act 1923, and was first used at the 1923 general election, replacing the previous Tipperary Mid, North and South constituency and the Tipperary part of the Waterford–Tipperary East constituency.

It consisted of administrative counties of Tipperary North Riding and Tipperary South Riding.^[1] The constituency elected 7 deputies.

Under the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1947, it was abolished and divided into two new constituencies: Tipperary South and Tipperary North. These constituencies were first used for the 1948 general election

From 2016

The Constituency Commission proposed in its 2012 report that at the next general election a new constituency called Tipperary be created.^[2] The report proposed changes to the constituencies of Ireland so as to reduce the total number of TDs from 166 to 158.^[3]

It was established by the Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013.^[4] It will replace the constituencies of Tipperary North and Tipperary South. The new constituency will incorporate all of South Tipperary and most of North Tipperary, except for the electoral divisions of: Aglishcloghane, Ballingarry, Ballylusky, Borrisokane, Carrig, Cloghjordan, Cloghprior, Clohaskin, Finnoe, Graigue, Kilbarron, Lorrha East, Lorrha West, Mertonhall, Rathcabban, Redwood, Riverstown, Terryglass, Uskane, in the former Rural District of Borrisokane; and Ardcrony, Ballygibbon, Ballymackey, Knigh, Monsea, in the former Rural District of Nenagh, which will be in the Offaly constituency.

The 2013 Act defines the constituency as:^[4]

"The county of South Tipperary;

and the county of North Tipperary, except the part thereof which is comprised in the constituency of Offaly."

TDs

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

2016 general election

1947 by-election

Following the death of Clann na Talmhan TD William O'Donnell, a by-election was held on 29 October 1947. The seat was won by the Clann na Poblachta candidate Patrick Kinane.

1944 general election

1943 general election

1938 general election

1937 general election

1933 general election

1932 general election

September 1927 general election

June 1927 general election

1923 general election

See also

• Parliamentary constituencies in the Republic of Ireland
• Politics of the Republic of Ireland
• List of historic Dáil Éireann constituencies
• Elections in the Republic of Ireland

References

External links

• Oireachtas Members Database