Cork City South-East (Dáil constituency)

Cork City South-East was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas from 1969 to 1977. The constituency elected 3 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs) to the Dáil, on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).

Cork City South-East
Former Dáil constituency
Former constituency
Created	1969
Abolished	1977
Seats	3
Local government area	County Cork
Created from	Cork Borough
Replaced by	Cork City

History

The constituency was created under the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1969 for the 1969 general election to Dáil Éireann.^[1] The old Cork Borough constituency was divided into the new constituencies of Cork City North-West and Cork City South-East. It was abolished under the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1974, when the Cork City North West and Cork City South East constituencies were replaced by the new constituency of Cork City.

Boundaries

The constituency comprised the southern part of Cork city and suburbs.^[1]

TDs

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Cork City South-East 1969–1977[2]
Key to parties   FF = Fianna Fáil   FG = Fine Gael
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
19th	1969[3]		Pearse Wyse (FF)		Gus Healy (FF)		Peter Barry (FG)
20th	1973[4]
21st	1977	Constituency abolished. See Cork City

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

1973 general election

1973 general election: Cork City South-East^[4][5]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Fianna Fáil	Pearse Wyse	36.2	10,411
	Fine Gael	Peter Barry	22.9	6,566	6,686	6,799	6,841	6,900	7,137	8,489
	Fianna Fáil	Gus Healy	16.8	4,836	7,680
	Fine Gael	Seán O'Leary	10.6	3,057	3,140	3,200	3,224	3,269	3,440	4,526
	Labour	Robert Rice	8.0	2,290	2,361	2,434	2,458	2,543	3,076
	Aontacht Éireann	Gerard Carroll	4.0	1,162	1,230	1,340	1,361	1,462
	Independent	Timothy O'Sullivan	1.0	289	311	375	406
	Independent	Veronica Hartland	0.4	121	140	216
Electorate: 36,476   Valid: 28,732   Quota: 7,184   Turnout: 78.8%

1969 general election

1969 general election: Cork City South-East^[3][6]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	Fianna Fáil	Pearse Wyse	38.6	10,434
	Fine Gael	Peter Barry	21.9	5,908	6,060	6,208	6,373	8,609
	Fianna Fáil	Gus Healy	14.7	3,982	7,164
	Fine Gael	Seán O'Leary	8.8	2,379	2,501	2,581	2,710
	Labour	Con Donovan	8.5	2,295	2,380	2,459	4,412	4,604
	Labour	Kevin Hurley	7.5	2,020	2,158	2,260
Electorate: 35,635   Valid: 27,018   Quota: 6,755   Turnout: 75.8%

See also

• Dáil constituencies
• Politics of the Republic of Ireland
• Historic Dáil constituencies
• Elections in the Republic of Ireland