Kerry (Dáil Éireann constituency)

Kerry
Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Constituency
Current constituency
Created	2016
Seats	5
TDs	John Brassil (FF) Martin Ferris (SF) Brendan Griffin (FG) Danny Healy-Rae (Ind) Michael Healy-Rae (Ind)
County council	Kerry County Council
EP constituency	South

Kerry
Former Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Constituency
Location of Kerry within Ireland
Former constituency
Created	1923
Abolished	1937
Seats	7
County council	County Kerry

Kerry is a parliamentary constituency that has been represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas, since the 2016 general election. The constituency elects 5 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs). The method of election is the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV). Another constituency of the same name existed between 1923 and 1937.

History and boundaries

1923–1937

The constituency was created under the Electoral Act 1923, and first used at the 1923 general election to elect the Members of the 4th Dáil. It replaced the Kerry–Limerick West constituency which was used to elect members of the 2nd Dáil and members of the 3rd Dáil. It consisted of the administrative county of Kerry.^[1] The constituency elected 7 deputies.

It was abolished by the Electoral (Revision of Constituencies) Act 1935 and the new Kerry South and Kerry North constituencies were created. They were first used at the 1937 general election for the members of the 9th Dáil.

Since 2016

The Constituency Commission proposed in its 2012 report that at the next general election a new constituency called Kerry 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] The new constituency replaces the constituencies of Kerry North–West Limerick and Kerry South. It comprises the whole of County Kerry with the Limerick part of the Kerry North–West Limerick transferred to Limerick County.

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

"The county of Kerry."

TDs

TDs 1923–1937

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Kerry 1923–1937^[5]
Key to parties CnaG = Cumann na nGaedheal FF = Fianna Fáil Rep = Republican
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
4th	1923^[6]		Tom McEllistrim (Rep)		Austin Stack (Rep)		Patrick Cahill (Rep)		Thomas O'Donoghue (Rep)		James Crowley (CnaG)		Fionán Lynch (CnaG)		John O'Sullivan (CnaG)
5th	1927 (Jun)^[7]		Tom McEllistrim (FF)		Austin Stack (FF)		William O'Leary (FF)		Thomas O'Reilly (FF)
6th	1927 (Sep)^[8]				Frederick Crowley (FF)		William O'Leary (FF)
7th	1932^[9]						John Flynn (FF)				Eamonn Kissane (FF)
8th	1933^[10]						John Flynn (FF)		Denis Daly (FF)		Eamonn Kissane (FF)
9th	1937	Constituency abolished. See Kerry North and Kerry South

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.

TDs since 2016

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Kerry 2016–
Key to parties FF = Fianna Fáil FG = Fine Gael Ind = Independent SF = Sinn Féin
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
32nd	2016^[11]		Martin Ferris (SF)		John Brassil (FF)		Michael Healy-Rae (Ind)		Danny Healy-Rae (Ind)		Brendan Griffin (FG)

Elections

2016 general election

2016 general election: Kerry^[11]
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10	Count 11
	Independent	Michael Healy-Rae	25.7	20,378
	Independent	Danny Healy-Rae	12.6	9,991	13,826
	Fine Gael	Brendan Griffin	12.2	9,674	10,381	10,520	10,608	10,661	10,827	10,999	11,223	11,396	12,545	14,050
	Sinn Féin	Martin Ferris	11.9	9,458	10,098	10,214	10,321	10,364	10,418	10,490	10,583	11,722	12,184	12,964
	Fianna Fáil	John Brassil	10.3	8,156	8,642	8,719	8,764	8,957	9,005	9,137	9,242	9,495	11,955	12,792
	Fine Gael	Jimmy Deenihan	8.2	6,489	6,827	6,872	6,901	6,944	7,168	7,257	7,326	7,630	7,849
	Labour Party	Arthur Spring	6.1	4,813	5,011	5,036	5,067	5,093	5,281	5,356	5,601	5,887	6,139
	Fianna Fáil	Norma Moriarty	5.5	4,348	4,893	5,012	5,032	5,081	5,114	5,172	5,252	5,392
	Independent	Michael O'Gorman	1.6	1,236	1,364	1,380	1,487	1,529	1,536	1,589	1,674
	AAA–PBP	Brian Finucane	1.2	981	1,046	1,058	1,129	1,161	1,169	1,261	1,429
	Green Party	Michael Fitzgerald	1.3	1,011	1,050	1,059	1,085	1,123	1,135	1,222
	Renua Ireland	Donal Corcoran	0.9	716	769	780	801	886	900
	Fine Gael	Grace O'Donnell	1.0	776	817	827	836	854
	Independent	Mary Fitzgibbon	0.8	635	690	707
	Independent	Kevin Murphy	0.6	464	491
	Independent	Henry Gaynor	0.2	147	155
Electorate: 112,751 Valid: 79,273 Spoilt: 476 (0.6%) Quota: 13,213 Turnout: 79,749 (70.7%)

1933 general election

1933 general election: Kerry^[10]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Eamonn Kissane	10,238	15.2	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Tom McEllistrim	9,694	14.4	2	1
	Fianna Fáil	John Flynn	9,372	13.9	3	1
	Fianna Fáil	Denis Daly	8,290	12.3	4
	Fianna Fáil	Frederick Crowley	8,039	11.9	5
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Fionán Lynch	6,578	9.8	6
	Cumann na nGaedheal	John O'Sullivan	6,259	9.3	7
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Con Brosnan	5,867	8.7
	National Centre Party	Edmond O'Connor	3,141	4.7
Electorate: ? Valid: 67,478 Quota: 8,435 Turnout:

1932 general election

1932 general election: Kerry^[9]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	John Flynn	7,638	12.7	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Eamonn Kissane	7,364	12.2	2
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Fionán Lynch	6,266	10.4	3
	Fianna Fáil	Tom McEllistrim	6,930	11.5	4
	Fianna Fáil	Frederick Crowley	7,134	11.8	5
	Fianna Fáil	Thomas O'Reilly	6,691	11.1	6
	Cumann na nGaedheal	John O'Sullivan	5,686	9.4	7
	Cumann na nGaedheal	James Crowley	4,644	7.7
	Farmers' Party	Patrick Trant	4,548	7.5
	Cumann na nGaedheal	John Moore	3,409	5.7
Electorate: ? Valid: 60,310 Quota: 7,539 Turnout:

September 1927 general election

September 1927 general election: Kerry^[8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Fionán Lynch	6,866	12.3	1
	Cumann na nGaedheal	John O'Sullivan	6,296	11.3	2
	Cumann na nGaedheal	James Crowley	5,651	10.1	3
	Fianna Fáil	Tom McEllistrim	6,190	11.1	4
	Fianna Fáil	William O'Leary	5,993	10.7	5
	Fianna Fáil	Frederick Crowley	5,762	10.3	6
	Fianna Fáil	Thomas O'Reilly	6,039	10.8	7
	Fianna Fáil	Michael O'Donnell	5,027	9.0
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Thomas Slattery	3,473	6.2
	Farmers' Party	Patrick O'Shea	2,903	5.2
	Farmers' Party	Maurice Lawlor	1,691	3.0
Electorate: ? Valid: 55,891 Quota: 6,987 Turnout:

June 1927 general election

June 1927 general election: Kerry^[7]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Fionán Lynch	5,483	10.2	1
	Sinn Féin	Austin Stack	5,140	9.5	2
	Cumann na nGaedheal	John O'Sullivan	4,569	8.5	3
	Cumann na nGaedheal	James Crowley	4,246	7.9	4
	Fianna Fáil	William O'Leary	3,849	7.1	5
	Fianna Fáil	Tom McEllistrim	3,207	6.0	6
	Fianna Fáil	Thomas O'Reilly	4,492	8.3	7
	Fianna Fáil	Frederick Crowley	3,370	6.3
	Fianna Fáil	Michael O'Donnell	2,975	5.5
	Independent	Eugene O'Sullivan	2,405	4.5
	Farmers' Party	Patrick O'Shea	2,205	4.1
	Labour Party	Patrick Casey	2,141	4.0
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Florence Harty	2,063	3.8
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Thomas Dennehy	1,749	3.3
	Farmers' Party	Charles Roche	1,637	3.0
	Independent	William McElligott	1,109	2.1
	Labour Party	Diarmuid O'Leary	1,054	2.0
	Independent	Kate Breen	978	1.8
	Independent	John Kavanagh	729	1.4
	Independent	Eamon Horan	484	0.9
Electorate: ? Valid: 53,885 Quota: 6,736 Turnout:

1923 general election

1923 general election: Kerry^[6]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Republican	Austin Stack	10,333	18.8	1	1
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Fionán Lynch	8,982	16.4	2	1
	Republican	Tom McEllistrim	7,277	13.3	3	1
	Republican	Thomas O'Donoghue	4,414	8.1	4
	Cumann na nGaedheal	John O'Sullivan	3,759	6.9	5
	Cumann na nGaedheal	James Crowley	3,759	6.9	6
	Republican	Patrick Cahill	2,708	4.9	7
	Farmers' Party	Denis Brosnan	3,182	5.8
	Labour Party	Patrick Casey	2,329	4.3
	Labour Party	Cormac Walsh	1,974	3.6
	Farmers' Party	John O'Neill	1,674	3.1
	Independent	Thomas O'Donnell	1,640	3.0
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Thomas Dennehy	1,308	2.4
	Independent	Jeremiah McSweeney	1,124	2.1
	Independent	E. J. Gleeson	382	0.7

References

↑ "Electoral Act, 1923". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 8 September 2010.
↑ "Constituency Commission Report 2012 – Kerry – Limerick area" (PDF). Constituency Commission. 21 June 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
↑ "Constituency Commission Report 2012 – Introduction and summary of recommendation" (PDF). Constituency Commission. 21 June 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
1 2 "Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013: Schedule". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
↑ Walker, Brian M, ed. (1992). Parliamentary election results in Ireland, 1918–92. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0-901714-96-8. ISSN 0332-0286.
1 2 "General election 1923: Kerry". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 8 September 2010.
1 2 "General election June 1927: Kerry". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 8 September 2010.
1 2 "General election September 1927: Kerry". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 8 September 2010.
1 2 "General election 1932: Kerry". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 8 September 2010.
1 2 "General election 1933: Kerry". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 8 September 2010.
1 2 "General election 2016: Kerry". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 20 February 2016.

External links

Oireachtas Members Database

Current Parliamentary constituencies in the Republic of Ireland

Parliamentary constituencies in County Kerry

Parliament of Ireland
to 1800

Ardfert (1639–1800)
Dingle (1607–1800)
Kerry (????–1800)
Tralee (1613–1800)

Westminster 1801–1922
and First Dáil 1918

Kerry (1801–85)
Tralee (1801–85)
East Kerry (1885–1922)
North Kerry (1885–1922)
South Kerry (1885–1922)
West Kerry (1885–1922)

Dáil Éireann
1921–present

Historic	Kerry–Limerick West (1921–23) Kerry North (1937–2011) Kerry South (1937–2016) Kerry North–West Limerick (2011–16)

Current	Kerry (1923–37, 2016–)

European Parliament
1979–present

Munster (1979–2004)
South (2004–)

Constituencies in Ireland by county

Republic of Ireland	Carlow Cavan Clare Cork Donegal Dublin Galway Kerry Kildare Kilkenny Laois Leitrim Limerick Longford Louth Mayo Meath Monaghan Offaly Roscommon Sligo Tipperary Waterford Westmeath Wexford Wicklow

Northern Ireland	Antrim Armagh Down Fermanagh Londonderry Tyrone

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