Cork East and North East
Dáil constituency (1921–1923)
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Cork East and North East was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas from 1921 to 1923. 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 East and North East | |
|---|---|
| Former Dáil constituency | |
| Former constituency | |
| Created | 1921 |
| Abolished | 1923 |
| Seats | 3 |
| Local government area | County Cork |
| Created from | |
| Replaced by | |
History and boundaries
The constituency was created in 1921 as a 3 seat-constituency under the Government of Ireland Act 1920, for the 1921 general election to the House of Commons of Southern Ireland, whose members formed the Second Dáil.
It succeeded the constituencies of Cork East and Cork North East which were used to elect the Members of the 1st Dáil and earlier UK House of Commons members.
It was abolished under the Electoral Act 1923, when it was replaced by the new Cork East and Cork North constituencies which were first used at the 1923 general election for the 4th Dáil.[1]
It covered the northern eastern and eastern parts of County Cork.
TDs
| Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Cork East and North East 1921–1923[2] | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Key to parties
| |||||||
| Dáil | Election | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | |||
| 2nd | 1921[3] | Séamus Fitzgerald (SF) |
Thomas Hunter (SF) |
David Kent (SF) | |||
| 3rd | 1922[4] | John Dinneen (FP) |
Michael Hennessy (BP) |
David Kent (AT-SF) | |||
| 4th | 1923 | Constituency abolished. See Cork East and Cork North | |||||
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
1922 general election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Farmers' Party | John Dinneen | 29.4 | 6,989 | |||
| Sinn Féin (Anti-Treaty) | David Kent[*] | 21.8 | 5,198 | 5,284 | 6,396 | |
| Businessmen's Party | Michael Hennessy | 21.1 | 5,029 | 5,814 | 6,374 | |
| Sinn Féin (Anti-Treaty) | Thomas Hunter[*] | 14.3 | 3,409 | 3,445 | 4,926 | |
| Sinn Féin (Anti-Treaty) | Séamus Fitzgerald[*] | 13.4 | 3,189 | 3,317 | ||
| Electorate: 39,233 Valid: 23,814 Quota: 5,954 Turnout: 60.7% | ||||||
1921 general election
| 1921 general election: Cork East and North East[3] (uncontested) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | |
| Sinn Féin | Séamus Fitzgerald | |
| Sinn Féin | Thomas Hunter[*] | |
| Sinn Féin | David Kent[*] | |