1998 Cork South-Central by-election
By-election to the 28th Dáil
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A Dáil by-election was held in the constituency of Cork South-Central in Ireland on Friday, 23 October 1998, to fill a vacancy in the 28th Dáil. It followed the death of Fine Gael Teachta Dála (TD) Hugh Coveney on 14 March 1998.[1]
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23 October 1998
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| Turnout | 43,007 (49.1%) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The writ of election to fill the vacancy was agreed by the Dáil on 30 September 1998.[2]
The by-election was won by the Fine Gael candidate Simon Coveney, son of the deceased TD, Hugh Coveney.[3][4]
The other candidates were Sinead Behan for Fianna Fáil, Cork City Councillor and former TD Toddy O'Sullivan for the Labour Party, Cork City Councillor Dan Boyle for the Green Party, Henry Cremin for Sinn Féin, Peter Kelly for the Progressive Democrats, Brian McEnery for the Natural Law Party, and Benny Cooney and Jim Tallon as independents.
Dan Boyle would later represented the constituency as a TD from 2002 to 2007.
Result
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||
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| Fine Gael | Simon Coveney | 37.7 | 16,212 | 16,720 | 23,230 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Sinead Behan | 29.4 | 12,658 | 13,372 | 16,379 | |
| Labour | Toddy O'Sullivan | 19.0 | 8,171 | 8,689 | ||
| Green | Dan Boyle | 8.1 | 3,461 | 4,017 | ||
| Sinn Féin | Henry Cremin | 2.7 | 1,158 | |||
| Progressive Democrats | Peter Kelly | 2.3 | 971 | |||
| Independent | Benny Cooney | 0.5 | 197 | |||
| Natural Law | Brian McEnery | 0.4 | 150 | |||
| Independent | Jim Tallon | 0.1 | 29 | |||
| Electorate: 87,606 Valid: 43,007 Quota: 21,504 Turnout: 49.1% | ||||||