Leitrim–Sligo (Dáil Éireann constituency)

For the 1948–2007 constituency, see Sligo–Leitrim (Dáil Éireann constituency).

Leitrim–Sligo
Former Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Constituency
Former constituency
Created	1923
Abolished	1937
Seats	7
County/City council	County Leitrim County Sligo

Leitrim–Sligo was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas from 1923 to 1937. The constituency elected 7 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs) to the Dáil, using the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).

History

The constituency was created for the 1923 general election,^[1] when the Electoral Act 1923 defined the constituencies to be used in Dáil elections, the first time that the Dáil had not used constituencies defined under British law. Leitrim–Sligo replaced the old Leitrim–Roscommon North and Sligo–Mayo East constituencies, which had been created under the Government of Ireland Act 1920.

Under the Electoral (Revision of Constituencies) Act 1935, the Leitrim–Sligo constituency was abolished, and replaced for the 1937 general election by two separate 3 seat constituencies: Sligo and Leitrim.

Boundaries

Some Dáil Éireann constituencies cross county boundaries, in order to ensure a reasonably consistent ratio of electors to TDs. However, the 1923 Act defined the boundaries of the Leitrim–Sligo constituency simply as:^[1]

"The administrative counties of Leitrim and Sligo."

TDs

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Leitrim–Sligo 1923–1937^[2]
Key to parties CnaG = Cumann na nGaedheal FP = Farmers' Party FF = Fianna Fáil FG = Fine Gael NCP = National Centre Party NL = National League Party Rep = Republican
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
4th	1923^[3]		Martin McGowan (Rep)		Frank Carty (Rep)		Thomas Carter (CnaG)		Seán Farrell (Rep)		James Dolan (CnaG)		John Hennigan (CnaG)		Alexander McCabe (CnaG)
4th	1925 by-election^[4]		Martin McGowan (Rep)		Frank Carty (Rep)		Samuel Holt (Rep)		Seán Farrell (Rep)						Martin Roddy (CnaG)
5th	1927 (Jun)^[5]		John Jinks (NL)		Frank Carty (FF)		Samuel Holt (FF)		Michael Carter (FP)
6th	1927 (Sep)^[6]		Bernard Maguire (FF)				Samuel Holt (FF)		Patrick Reynolds (CnaG)
6th	1929 by-election^[7]						Seán Mac Eoin (CnaG)		Patrick Reynolds (CnaG)
7th	1932^[8]						Stephen Flynn (FF)		William Browne (FF)		Mary Reynolds (CnaG)
8th	1933^[9]						Stephen Flynn (FF)		William Browne (FF)		Patrick Rogers (NCP)		James Dolan (CnaG)
9th	1937	Constituency abolished. See Sligo and Leitrim

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

1933 general election

1933 general election: Leitrim–Sligo^[9]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Bernard Maguire	8,861	15.5	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Frank Carty	7,581	13.3	2	1
	Fianna Fáil	Stephen Flynn	5,731	10.0	3
	Fianna Fáil	William Browne	4,492	7.9	4
	Cumann na nGaedheal	James Dolan	5,114	8.9	5
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Martin Roddy	6,173	10.8	6
	National Centre Party	Patrick Rogers	6,001	10.5	7
	Cumann na nGaedheal	John Hennigan	4,630	8.1
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Mary Reynolds	4,555	8.0
	Fianna Fáil	Andrew Conway	3,185	5.6
	Labour Party	Maurice O'Regan	902	1.6
Electorate: ? Valid: 57,225 Quota: 7,154 Turnout:

1932 general election

1932 general election: Leitrim–Sligo^[8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Frank Carty	8,145	14.8	1	1
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Martin Roddy	7,382	13.4	2	1
	Fianna Fáil	Bernard Maguire	7,356	13.4	3	1
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Mary Reynolds	5,317	9.7	4
	Fianna Fáil	William Browne	3,490	6.3	5
	Fianna Fáil	Stephen Flynn	4,988	9.1	6
	Cumann na nGaedheal	John Hennigan	3,378	6.1	7
	Cumann na nGaedheal	James Dolan	3,699	6.7
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Thomas Armstrong	3,266	5.9
	Fianna Fáil	Eugene Gilbride	2,979	5.4
	Independent	Michael Carter	1,984	3.6
	Labour Party	Hugh O'Donnell	1,934	3.5
	Independent	Andrew Mooney	1,190	2.2
Electorate: ? Valid: 55,108 Quota: 6,889 Turnout:

1929 by-election

Following the death of Fianna Fáil TD Samuel Holt, a by-election was held on 7 June 1929. The seat was won by the Cumann na nGaedheal candidate Seán Mac Eoin.

1929 by-election: Leitrim–Sligo^[7]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Seán Mac Eoin	28,598	53.7	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Eamon Donnelly	24,621	46.3
Electorate: 72,573 Valid: 53,219 Quota: 26,610 Turnout: 73.3%

September 1927 general election

September 1927 general election: Leitrim–Sligo^[6]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Martin Roddy	7,829	15.1	1	1
	Cumann na nGaedheal	John Hennigan	3,336	6.4	2
	Cumann na nGaedheal	James Dolan	5,500	10.6	3
	Fianna Fáil	Frank Carty	5,162	10.0	4
	Fianna Fáil	Samuel Holt	4,883	9.4	5
	Fianna Fáil	Bernard Maguire	3,826	7.4	6
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Patrick Reynolds	3,958	7.6	7
	Farmers' Party	Michael Carter	3,479	6.7
	Farmers' Party	Albert Robinson	3,107	6.0
	Cumann na nGaedheal	James Gilligan	2,948	5.7
	Fianna Fáil	William Browne	2,550	4.9
	Labour Party	Archibald Heron	2,163	4.2
	Fianna Fáil	Edward Hannon	1,601	3.1
	Independent	John Jinks	1,506	2.9
Electorate: ? Valid: 51,848 Quota: 6,482 Turnout:

June 1927 general election

June 1927 general election: Leitrim–Sligo^[5]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Martin Roddy	7,677	15.4	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Frank Carty	4,958	9.9	2	5
	Cumann na nGaedheal	James Dolan	4,383	8.8	3	11
	Cumann na nGaedheal	John Hennigan	2,943	5.9	4	12
	Farmers' Party	Michael Carter	4,081	8.2	5	14
	Fianna Fáil	Samuel Holt	2,384	4.8	6	15
	National League Party	John Jinks	2,224	4.5	7	15
	Sinn Féin	Seán Farrell	3,455	6.9
	Farmers' Party	Albert Robinson	2,956	5.9
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Patrick Briody	2,434	4.9
	Fianna Fáil	Bernard Maguire	2,398	4.8
	Labour Party	Archibald Heron	2,171	4.4
	Cumann na nGaedheal	James Gilligan	2,154	4.3
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Andrew Mooney	1,939	3.9
	Fianna Fáil	Eugene Gilbride	1,770	3.6
	Independent	James McGowan	1,359	2.7
	Clann Éireann	W. J. Tolan	523	1.1
Electorate: ? Valid: 49,809 Quota: 6,227 Turnout:

1925 by-election

Following the resignations of Cumann na nGaedheal TDs Thomas Carter and Alexander McCabe, a by-election for both seats was held on 11 March 1925. The first seat was won by the Republican candidate Samuel Holt, and the second seat was won by the Cumann na nGaedheal candidate Martin Roddy.

1925 by-election: Leitrim–Sligo^[4]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Republican	Samuel Holt	10,062	20.3	1	2
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Martin Roddy	16,332	32.9	2	2
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Andrew Mooney	14,054	28.3
	Republican	Frank O'Beirne	9,232	18.6
Electorate: 79,234 Valid: 49,680 Quota: 16,561 Turnout: 62.7%

1923 general election

1923 general election: Leitrim–Sligo^[3]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Alexander McCabe	8,087	17.7	1	1
	Cumann na nGaedheal	James Dolan	5,556	12.2	2
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Thomas Carter	4,505	9.9	3
	Republican	Frank Carty	5,197	11.4	4
	Republican	Seán Farrell	5,014	11.0	5
	Cumann na nGaedheal	John Hennigan	2,431	5.3	6
	Republican	Martin McGowan	3,756	8.2	7
	Republican	Liam Pilkington	2,089	4.6
	Labour Party	John Lynch	1,470	3.2
	Farmers' Party	Martin Roddy	1,470	3.2
	Farmers' Party	James Gilligan	1,286	2.8
	Farmers' Party	James O'Rourke	901	2.0
	Farmers' Party	Laurence Hayden	745	1.6
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Jeremiah O'Connell	740	1.6
	Independent	Henry Depew	735	1.6
	Farmers' Party	Patrick O'Neill	679	1.5
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Thomas O'Donnell	562	1.2
	Republican	Denis Mulcahy	423	0.9
Electorate: 81,432 Valid: 45,646 Quota: 5,706 Turnout: 56.1%

References

1 2 "Electoral (Amendment) Act, 1923: (Constituencies)". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
↑ 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: Leitrim–Sligo". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 5 March 2009.
1 2 "By-election 1925: Leitrim–Sligo". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 5 March 2009.
1 2 "General election June 1927: Leitrim–Sligo". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 5 March 2009.
1 2 "General election September 1927: Leitrim–Sligo". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 5 March 2009.
1 2 "By-election 1929: Leitrim–Sligo". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 5 March 2009.
1 2 "General election 1932: Leitrim–Sligo". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 5 March 2009.
1 2 "General election 1933: Leitrim–Sligo". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 5 March 2009.

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