Dublin Clontarf (Dáil Éireann constituency)
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Clontarf, a division of Dublin, was a former Dáil Éireann constituency. It existed in two periods.
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[edit] 1918-1921 constituency
It returned one Member of Parliament or MP (altered in 1919 to Teachta Dála or TD) in 1918 to serve in the Irish Republic's First Dáil. It assembled on 21 January 1919 and last met on 10 May 1921. The First Dáil, according to a resolution passed on 10 May 1921, was formally dissolved on the assembly of the Second Dáil. This took place on 16 August 1921.
[edit] 1977-1981 constituency
It returned three Teachtaí Dála to the 21st Dáil.
[edit] Boundaries and Boundary Changes
Prior to the general election of 1918 the city of Dublin was divided into four single-member UK Parliament constituencies. They were the Dublin College Green, Dublin Harbour, Dublin St Patrick's and Dublin St Stephen's Green constituencies.
In 1918 the city was allocated seven single-member seats. The United Kingdom intended them to elect members of the British House of Commons but Sinn Féin decided to use the election to return members of a new revolutionary assembly. The seven borough constituencies were Clontarf, Dublin College Green, Dublin Harbour, Dublin St James's, Dublin St Michan's, Dublin St Patrick's and Dublin St Stephen's Green.
The Clontarf area was to the north of the city.
In 1921 Sinn Féin decided to use the UK authorised elections for the Northern Ireland House of Commons and the House of Commons of Southern Ireland as a poll for the Irish Republic's Second Dáil. A new pattern of multi-member constituencies replaced the old single-member seats. The city of Dublin was divided into three four-member seats; Dublin Mid West, Dublin North-West and Dublin South.
This division seems to have been incorporated in the Dublin North-West seat, as the TD was re-elected there.
The second creation of this constituency, by the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1974, consisted of the following wards in the county borough of Dublin:
Baldoyle, Beann Éadair A, Beann Éadair B, Clontarf East A, Clontarf East B, Clontarf East C, Coolock A, Coolock B, Coolock C, Coolock D, Raheny A, Raheny B.
[edit] Politics
Clontarf (1918-1921) was a strongly republican area. In its only election Sinn Féin defeated the Irish Parliamentary Party candidate by almost 2 to 1.
The 1977-1981 incarnation elected two Fianna Fáil and one Fine Gael TDs.
[edit] Electoral system
The 1918 election in this constituency took place using the first past the post electoral system.
The 1977 election used the single transferable vote system of proportional representation.
[edit] MP/TD
- Elected 14 December 1918, result announced 28 December 1918
- General Richard James Mulcahy (Sinn Féin)
[edit] Election
- 1918 (14 December) general election
- 14,588 electors, 9,202 voted, turnout 63.08%
- Richard James Mulcahy (SF) 5,974 (64.92%)
- Sir Patrick Shortall (IPP) 3,228 (35.08%)
- majority 2,746 (29.84%)
[edit] References
- Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922, edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)
[edit] External links
- http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/default.asp?housetype=0
- http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/en.toc.dail.html
