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Dublin North Central Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Constituency

Dublin North Central shown within County Dublin
Created	1948 (1948)
TDs	3
Counties	Dublin
EP constituency	Dublin

Dublin North Central is a parliamentary constituency in Ireland which is represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. It is located in the capital city, Dublin. The constituency has an electorate of 65,583 and at present is served by 3 Teachtaí Dála (TDs). The method of election is the Single Transferable Vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).

It became a 3 seat constituency for the 2007 general election, having varied between 3 and 4 seats since its establishment in 1948.

[edit] Boundaries

[edit] TDs

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Dublin North Central 1948–^[1]
Key to parties FF = Fianna Fáil · FG = Fine Gael · Ind = Independent · Lab = Labour Party · Soc. Lab = Socialist Labour Party
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
13th	1948		Vivion de Valera (FF)		Martin O'Sullivan (Lab)		Patrick McGilligan (FG)	3 seats 1949–1961
14th	1951				Colm Gallagher (FF)
15th	1954				Maureen O'Carroll (Lab)
16th	1957				Colm Gallagher (FF)
17th	1961				Celia Lynch (FF)				Frank Sherwin (Ind)
18th	1965						Michael O'Leary (Lab)		Luke Belton (FG)
19th	1969		George Colley (FF)
20th	1973		George Colley (FF)
21st	1977		Vincent Brady (FF)		Michael Keating (FG)			3 seats 1977–1981
22nd	1981				Charles Haughey (FF)		Noel Browne (Soc. Lab)		George Birmingham (FG)
23rd	1982 (Feb)						Richard Bruton (FG)
24th	1982 (Nov)
25th	1987
26th	1989								Ivor Callely (FF)
27th	1992^[2]		Seán Haughey (FF)		Derek McDowell (Lab)
28th	1997^[3]				Derek McDowell (Lab)
29th	2002^[4]				Finian McGrath (Ind)
30th	2007^[5]				Finian McGrath (Ind)			3 seats from 2007

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.

[edit] Election results

[edit] 2007 general election results

2007 General Election: Dublin North Central^[5]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	Richard Bruton	9,303	23.5	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Haughey	9,026	24.8	2	3
	Independent	Finian McGrath	5,169	14.2	3	5
	Fianna Fáil	Ivor Callely	7,003	19.2
	Labour Party	Derek McDowell	2,649	7.3
	Green Party	Bronwen Maher	1,891	5.2
	Sinn Féin	Peter Lawlor	1,375	3.8
Electorate: 53,443 Valid: 36,416 Spoilt: 342 Quota: 9,105 Turnout: 68.8%

[edit] 2002 general election result

2002 General Election: Dublin North Central^[4]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Haughey	7,614	19.01	1	4
	Fine Gael	Richard Bruton	5,159	12.88	2	6
	Fianna Fáil	Ivor Callely	6,896	17.22	3	6
	Independent	Finian McGrath	3,781	9.44	4	6
	Fianna Fáil	Deirdre Heney	5,533	13.82
	Labour Party	Derek McDowell	4,203	10.49
	Green Party	Bronwen Maher	2,275	5.68
	Sinn Féin	Frances McCole	2,299	5.74
	Fine Gael	Gerry Breen	1,650	4.12
	Socialist Workers	Ritchie Brown	638	1.59

[edit] 1977 general election result

Electorate=37934, Valid votes =25528, spoiled votes=245, quota=5883 ^[6]

1977 General Election: Dublin North Central
Candidate		Party	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6
	Michael O'Leary	Labour	4729	5319	5641	5754	6014
	Vincent Brady	Fianna Fáil	4678	4700	4814	5861
	Noel Mulcahy	Fianna Fáil	3198	3216	3318	3840	3894	4612
	Michael Keating	Fine Gael	2912	3003	3058	3093	4933	5826
	Ray Fay	Fine Gael	2166	2258	2285	2328
	Kevin Byrne	Community Candidate	1903	1942	2287	2376	2466
	William Doran	Fianna Fáil	1775	1808	1878
	Raymond McGran	Sinn Féin the Workers Party	1138	1179
	William Cummiskey	Labour	953

[edit] References

^ Walker, Brian M, ed (1992). Parliamentary election results in Ireland, 1918-92. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0 901714 96 8.
^ "General election 1992, Dublin North Central". electionsireland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=1992&cons=97. Retrieved 2009-02-10.
^ "General election 1997, Dublin North Central". electionsireland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=1997&cons=97. Retrieved 2009-02-10.
^ ^a ^b "General election 2002, Dublin North Central". electionsireland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=2002&cons=97. Retrieved 2009-02-10.
^ ^a ^b "General election 2007, Dublin North Central". electionsireland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=2007&cons=97. Retrieved 2009-02-10.
^ Irish Times, 20-6-1977, p7-10

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

Oireachtas Members Database

[walker-0] Walker, Brian M, ed (1992). Parliamentary election results in Ireland, 1918-92. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0 901714 96 8.

[ei-dublin-nc-1992-1] "General election 1992, Dublin North Central". electionsireland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=1992&cons=97. Retrieved 2009-02-10.

[ei-dublin-nc-1997-2] "General election 1997, Dublin North Central". electionsireland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=1997&cons=97. Retrieved 2009-02-10.

[ei-dublin-nc-2002-3] "General election 2002, Dublin North Central". electionsireland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=2002&cons=97. Retrieved 2009-02-10.

[ei-dublin-nc-2007-4] "General election 2007, Dublin North Central". electionsireland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=2007&cons=97. Retrieved 2009-02-10.

[5] Irish Times, 20-6-1977, p7-10

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