Dublin County Mid was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland which from 1977–1981 was represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. It returned 3 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known in English as TDs) to the Dáil, elected using the Single Transferable Vote method of proportional representation (PR–STV).

The constituency covered the Rathfarnham, Terenure and Tallaght areas of County Dublin, as well as Blessington and other areas of northern County Wicklow.

Contents 1 History 2 Boundaries 3 TDs 4 1977 election result 5 References 6 See also 7 External links

[edit] History

The constituency was created under the terms of the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1974, drawing its electorate from 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. It drew its electorate from the existing North County Dublin and South County Dublin constituencies.

It was abolished by the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1980 and divided between the constituencies of Dublin South, Dublin South West and Dublin South Central. It was therefore used only for the 1977 general election to the 21st Dáil.

[edit] Boundaries

The Electoral (Amendment) Act 1974 the boundaries of Dublin County Mid as consisting of:-

In the administrative county of Dublin, the district electoral divisions of:

Rathfarnham Number One, Rathfarnham Number Two, Tallaght Number One, Tallaght Number Two Tallaght Number Three, Terenure Number Two, Terenure Number Three, Terenure Number Four, Whitechurch;

and, in the administrative county of Wicklow, the district electoral divisions of:

Blessington, Burgage Kilbride, Lackan, in the former Rural District of Baltinglass No. 1;

and the following wards in the county borough of Dublin:

Rathfarnham B, Rathfarnham C, Rathfarnham D, Rathfarnham South. ^[1]

[edit] TDs

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Dublin County Mid 1977–1981[2]
Key to parties   FF = Fianna Fáil ·   FG = Fine Gael
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
21st	1977[3]		Sean Walsh (FF)		Larry McMahon (FG)		Síle de Valera (FF)
22nd	1981	Constituency abolished

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] 1977 election result

Electorate=54,949, Valid votes =40,777, Spoilt votes=?, Quota=10,195 ^[4]

Candidate		Party	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6
	Sean Walsh	Fianna Fáil	10927	10927	10927
	Larry McMahon	Fine Gael	6593	6716	7729	7756	9913	10118
	Mervyn Taylor	Labour	6430	7684	7975	8012	8487	8727
	Síle de Valera	Fianna Fáil	5969	5998	6031	6346	6370	11461
	Richard Conroy	Fianna Fáil	5252	5274	5297	5554	5633
	George Laing	Fine Gael	2338	2380	2785	2789
	Noel Murphy	Fine Gael	1701	1786
	Paul Mulhern	Labour	1567

[edit] References

[edit] See also

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

[edit] External links

• Oireachtas Members Database

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