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Dublin Clontarf
Dublin Clontarf
Former Dáil constituency
Former constituency
Created	1977
Abolished	1981
Seats	3
Local government area	Dublin City

Dublin Clontarf was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas from 1977 to 1981. The constituency elected 3 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs) to the Dáil, using proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).

History and boundaries

A similarly named constituency existed from 1918 to 1922, for elections of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, but the Member of Parliament elected in 1918, Richard Mulcahy, chose not to take his seat at Westminster, and joined the revolutionary First Dáil.

The Dáil constituency was created by the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1974, and used at the 1977 general election. It consisted of the Baldoyle, Clontarf, Coolock and Raheny areas of North Dublin.^[1] The constituency was abolished in 1981.

TDs

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Dublin Clontarf 1977–1981^[2]
Key to parties FF = Fianna Fáil FG = Fine Gael
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
21st	1977^[3]		George Colley (FF)		Michael Woods (FF)		Michael Joe Cosgrave (FG)
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.

1977 general election

^ *: Outgoing TD

1977 general election: Dublin Clontarf^[2]^[3]^[4]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	Fianna Fáil	George Colley^[*]	28.3	8,768
	Fine Gael	Michael Joe Cosgrave	12.9	3,991	4,007	4,012	4,072	4,220	4,302	4,351	4,562	6,548	7,662
	Labour	Conor Cruise O'Brien^[*]	11.6	3,588	3,600	3,601	3,642	3,693	4,205	4,239	4,519	5,366	6,629
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Woods	10.0	3,093	3,401	3,404	3,433	3,456	3,494	5,450	5,909	6,029	7,352
	Independent	Seán Dublin Bay Loftus	9.7	3,003	3,040	3,047	3,199	3,230	3,310	3,414	4,432	4,819
	Fine Gael	Ted Nealon	9.1	2,821	2,828	2,829	2,857	3,107	3,214	3,242	3,520
	Independent	Vincent Manning	6.7	2,076	2,100	2,109	2,228	2,269	2,355	2,431
	Fianna Fáil	Eoghan Fitzsimons	5.1	1,590	2,195	2,197	2,241	2,246	2,278
	Labour	Tom Duffy	3.0	917	924	926	958	969
	Fine Gael	Dermot Melia	1.8	549	551	552	566
	Independent	Brian Bell	1.7	527	535	543
	Independent	John Malone	0.1	40	41
Electorate: 41,132 Valid: 30,963 Quota: 7,741 Turnout: 75.0%

References

^ "Electoral (Amendment) Act, 1974: Schedule (Constituencies)". Irish Statute Book database. Archived from the original on 20 January 2012. Retrieved 12 February 2009.
^ ^a ^b Walker, Brian M, ed. (1992). Parliamentary election results in Ireland, 1918–92. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0-901714-96-8. ISSN 0332-0286.
^ ^a ^b "General election 1977: Dublin Clontarf". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 6 March 2009.
^ "21st Dáil 1977 general election results" (PDF). Houses of the Oireachtas. February 1978. Retrieved 12 November 2023.