Clare (Dáil constituency)

Clare is a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency elects 4 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs). The method of election is the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).

Clare
Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Constituency
Location of Clare within Ireland
Current constituency
Created	1921
Seats	4 (1921–1923) 5 (1923–1948) 4 (1948–1969) 3 (1969–1981) 4 (1981–)
TDs	Violet-Anne Wynne (SF)      Joe Carey (FG)      Cathal Crowe (FF)      Michael McNamara (Ind)
County council	Clare County Council
EP constituency	South

History and boundaries

The constituency's boundaries have varied widely since its formation in 1921, but the boundaries in use for the 2016 general election span almost the entire area of the county, taking in Ennis, Shannon, Kilrush, Newmarket-on-Fergus and Ennistymon. A small part of the south-east of the county around Ballyglass is in the Limerick City constituency.[1]

Clare is historically a Fianna Fáil stronghold. The party founder, Taoiseach and President Éamon de Valera served the constituency for 38 years, from 1921 to 1959. His granddaughter, Síle de Valera, retired as TD for the area at the 2007 general election. Other notable former deputies include President Patrick Hillery, the long-serving Ceann Comhairle (chairman of the Dáil) Patrick Hogan and Moosajee Bhamjee who was the first Muslim TD.

The Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013 defines the constituency as:

"The county of Clare, except the part thereof which is comprised in the constituency of Limerick City."

Since 2020

From the 2020 general election, the constituency spans the entire area of County Clare. The Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2017 defines the constituency as:[2]

"The county of Clare."

TDs

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Clare 1921–[3]
Key to parties   CC = Ceann Comhairle   CnaG = Cumann na nGaedheal   FP = Farmers' Party   FF = Fianna Fáil   FG = Fine Gael   Ind = Independent   Lab = Labour Party   Rep = Republican   SF = Sinn Féin   SF (AT) = Sinn Féin (Anti-Treaty)   SF (PT) = Sinn Féin (Pro-Treaty)
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
2nd	1921[4]		Éamon de Valera (SF)		Brian O'Higgins (SF)		Sean Liddy (SF)		Patrick Brennan (SF)	4 seats 1921–1923
3rd	1922[5]		Éamon de Valera (SF (AT))		Brian O'Higgins (SF (AT))		Sean Liddy (SF (PT))		Patrick Brennan (SF (PT))
4th	1923[6]		Éamon de Valera (Rep)		Brian O'Higgins (Rep)		Conor Hogan (FP)		Eoin MacNeill (CnaG)		Patrick Hogan (Lab)
5th	1927 (Jun)[7]		Éamon de Valera (FF)		Patrick Houlihan (FF)		Thomas Falvey (FP)		Patrick Kelly (CnaG)
6th	1927 (Sep)[8]						Martin Sexton (FF)
7th	1932[9]				Seán O'Grady (FF)				Patrick Burke (CnaG)
8th	1933[10]						Patrick Houlihan (FF)
9th	1937[11]						Thomas Burke (FP)		Patrick Burke (FG)
10th	1938[12]										Peter O'Loghlen (FF)
11th	1943[13]										Patrick Hogan (Lab)
12th	1944[14]										Peter O'Loghlen (FF)
	1945 by-election[15]								Patrick Shanahan (FF)
13th	1948[16]								Patrick Hogan[17] (Lab)	4 seats 1948–1969
14th	1951[18]				Patrick Hillery (FF)		William Murphy (FG)
15th	1954[19]								Patrick Hogan (CC)
16th	1957[20]
	1959 by-election[21]		Seán Ó Ceallaigh (FF)
17th	1961[22]
18th	1965[23]
	1968 by-election[24]						Sylvester Barrett (FF)
19th	1969[25]		Frank Taylor (FG)					3 seats 1969–1981
20th	1973[26]				Brendan Daly (FF)
21st	1977[27]
22nd	1981[28]		Madeleine Taylor (FG)						Bill Loughnane (FF)	4 seats since 1981
23rd	1982 (Feb)[29]		Donal Carey (FG)
24th	1982 (Nov)[30]								Madeleine Taylor-Quinn (FG)
25th	1987[31]						Síle de Valera (FF)
26th	1989[32]
27th	1992[33]				Moosajee Bhamjee (Lab)				Tony Killeen (FF)
28th	1997[34]				Brendan Daly (FF)
29th	2002[35]		Pat Breen (FG)		James Breen (Ind)
30th	2007[36]				Joe Carey (FG)		Timmy Dooley (FF)
31st	2011[37]								Michael McNamara (Lab)
32nd	2016[38]								Michael Harty (Ind)
33rd	2020		Violet-Anne Wynne (SF)				Cathal Crowe (FF)		Michael McNamara (Ind)

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

2020 general election

2020 general election: Clare[39][40][41]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10
	Sinn Féin	Violet-Anne Wynne	15.1	8,987	8,998	9,063	9,142	9,599	9,807	9,889	10,082	10,291	11,903
	Fianna Fáil	Cathal Crowe	14.0	8,355	8,372	8,402	8,508	8,541	8,641	8,834	10,115	10,659	11,471
	Fianna Fáil	Timmy Dooley	13.0	7,763	7,767	7,783	7,805	7,826	7,906	8,087	9,250	9,943	10,630
	Independent	Michael McNamara	12.3	7,332	7,350	7,465	7,588	7,702	8,169	8,535	9,380	10,113	12,205
	Fine Gael	Joe Carey	9.6	5,684	5,688	5,721	5,745	5,771	5,814	6,485	6,669	10,193	11,345
	Green Party	Róisín Garvey	9.5	5,624	5,640	5,735	5,778	6,213	6,337	6,626	6,959	7,339
	Fine Gael	Pat Breen	9.1	5,406	5,409	5,454	5,478	5,494	5,578	5,987	6,401
	Fianna Fáil	Rita McInerney	7.0	4,136	4,146	4,179	4,233	4,250	4,440	4,606
	Fine Gael	Martin Conway	3.8	2,285	2,287	2,310	2,322	2,340	2,424
	Independent	Joseph Woulfe	2.0	1,218	1,226	1,285	1,402	1,504
	Solidarity–PBP	Theresa O'Donohue[n 1]	2.0	1,196	1,207	1,254	1,286
	Irish Freedom	Michael Leahy	1.2	704	764	807
	Independent	David Barrett[n 2]	0.7	400	404
	Independent	Trudy Leyden	0.4	218	222
	Renua	Conor O Brien	0.3	187
Electorate: 91,120   Valid: 59,495   Spoilt: 519   Quota: 11,900   Turnout: 60,014 (65.86%)

1. People Before Profit, Solidarity and RISE contested this election as Solidarity–People Before Profit, so candidates appeared on the ballot under this name. O'Donohue was a member of People Before Profit.
2. Barrett was a member of the Moderate Party. It is an unregistered political party, so candidates appeared on the ballot as non-party.

2016 general election

2016 general election: Clare [42][43][38]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10	Count 11	Count 12
	Fianna Fáil	Timmy Dooley	17.9	10,215	10,292	10,382	10,480	10,624	10,772	12,150
	Independent	Michael Harty	15.1	8,629	8,812	8,978	9,605	9,840	10,360	10,688	10,843	11,962
	Fine Gael	Pat Breen	11.5	6,583	6,621	6,640	6,857	7,337	7,420	7,512	7,537	7,815	7,910	8,292	10,088
	Fine Gael	Joe Carey	10.7	6,071	6,115	6,148	6,195	6,778	6,894	7,032	7,062	7,422	7,535	7,931	9,915
	Fianna Fáil	Michael McDonagh	8.3	4,726	4,749	4,764	4,954	4,997	5,056	5,497	5,887	6,139	6,229	6,929	7,762
	Labour Party	Michael McNamara	7.8	4,472	4,516	4,587	4,672	4,896	5,347	5,498	5,569	5,955	6,090	6,844
	Sinn Féin	Noeleen Moran	7.4	4,216	4,277	4,519	4,611	4,664	4,957	5,058	5,083	5,473	5,601
	Fianna Fáil	Clare Colleran Molloy	4.6	2,639	2,673	2,697	2,716	2,824	2,880
	Independent	Anne Norton	3.9	2,240	2,321	2,442	2,521	2,686	2,982	3,152	3,205
	Fine Gael	Mary Howard	3.6	2,053	2,076	2,098	2,119
	Green Party	Fergal Smith	3.0	1,700	1,764	2,092	2,144	2,193
	Independent	Ian Lynch	2.6	1,494	1,535	1,575
	Fís Nua	Niamh O'Brien	2.0	1,154	1,216
	Independent	Richard Cahill	1.2	699
	Independent	André Sibo Hakizimana	0.1	70
	Independent	Dermot Mulqueen	0.1	39
Electorate: 83,660   Valid: 57,000   Spoilt: 407 (0.7%)   Quota: 11,401   Turnout: 57,407 (68.6%)

2011 general election

2011 general election: Clare [44][37]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10	Count 11	Count 12
	Fine Gael	Pat Breen	17.0	9,855	9,865	9,879	9,896	9,917	9,949	10,084	10,207	10,479	10,988	13,334
	Labour Party	Michael McNamara	14.8	8,572	8,581	8,615	8,659	8,697	8,871	9,071	9,584	9,985	10,552	11,883
	Fine Gael	Joe Carey	13.5	7,840	7,859	7,876	7,888	7,906	7,953	8,028	8,160	8,334	8,617	10,961	12,489
	Fine Gael	Tony Mulcahy	11.8	6,829	6,832	6,861	6,866	6,881	6,932	6,980	7,106	7,228	7,438
	Fianna Fáil	Timmy Dooley	11.7	6,789	6,795	6,806	6,813	6,823	6,858	6,906	6,963	7,071	10,597	10,965	11,021
	Independent	James Breen	11.2	6,491	6,546	6,583	6,599	6,662	6,795	7,029	7,136	7,678	8,732	9,354	9,520
	Fianna Fáil	John Hillery	10.4	6,015	6,020	6,044	6,053	6,066	6,093	6,161	6,242	6,468
	Independent	Brian Markham	2.7	1,543	1,547	1,565	1,585	1,637	1,825	2,064	2,157
	Green Party	Brian Meaney	2.0	1,154	1,158	1,163	1,172	1,187	1,266	1,339
	Independent	Jim Connolly	1.7	978	1,002	1,015	1,031	1,075	1,216
	Independent	Madeline McAleer	0.7	428	429	450	487	509
	Independent	Ann Cronin	0.7	419	429	440	497	521
	Independent	Gerry Walshe	0.6	328	332	340	352
	Independent	Sarah Ferrigan	0.4	252	260	265
	Independent	J. J. McCabe	0.4	248	252
	Independent	Patrick Brassil	0.3	175
Electorate: 82,745   Valid: 57,916   Spoilt: 579 (1.0%)   Quota: 11,584   Turnout: 58,495 (70.7%)

2007 general election

2007 general election: Clare[36]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9
	Fianna Fáil	Timmy Dooley	19.1	10,791	11,013	11,273	11,634
	Fianna Fáil	Tony Killeen	14.8	8,321	8,463	8,660	8,976	9,384	9,696	14,083
	Fine Gael	Pat Breen	12.5	7,036	7,204	7,308	7,695	8,572	10,358	11,112	11,667
	Fine Gael	Joe Carey	10.3	5,818	6,008	6,116	6,664	7,547	9,090	9,417	9,801	9,982
	Fianna Fáil	Brendan Daly	10.1	5,712	5,870	5,993	6,089	6,278	6,807
	Independent	James Breen	9.3	5,218	5,340	5,689	6,481	6,876	7,451	8,203	9,334	9,526
	Fine Gael	Madeleine Taylor-Quinn	6.4	3,592	3,719	3,887	4,419	5,170
	Fine Gael	Tony Mulcahy	6.0	3,408	3,493	3,611	3,833
	Green Party	Brian Meaney	5.1	2,858	3,163	3,605
	Sinn Féin	Anna Prior	3.4	1,929	2,012
	Labour Party	Pascal Fitzgerald	1.6	892
	Progressive Democrats	Murt Collins	1.4	810
Electorate: 79,555   Valid: 56,385   Spoilt: 385 (0.7%)   Quota: 11,278   Turnout: 56,770 (71.4%)

2002 general election

2002 general election: Clare[35]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5
	Independent	James Breen	19.5	9,721	10,054
	Fianna Fáil	Tony Killeen	16.3	8,130	8,252	8,640	9,064	9,482
	Fianna Fáil	Síle de Valera	15.6	7,755	7,866	8,464	8,819	9,370
	Fianna Fáil	Brendan Daly	13.5	6,717	6,786	6,914	7,086	7,683
	Fine Gael	Pat Breen	9.1	4,541	4,701	5,265	6,934	11,396
	Fine Gael	Madeleine Taylor-Quinn	8.3	4,124	4,349	5,034	6,726
	Fine Gael	Donal Carey	8.1	4,015	4,227	4,591
	Green Party	Brian Meaney	5.8	2,903	3,508
	Labour Party	Michael Corley	3.4	1,720
	Christian Solidarity	Derek Whelan	0.4	176
Electorate: 80,412   Valid: 49,802   Spoilt: 539 (1.1%)   Quota: 9,961   Turnout: 50,341 (62.6%)

1997 general election

1997 general election: Clare[45][46]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9
	Fianna Fáil	Tony Killeen	17.4	8,169	8,257	8,377	8,527	8,642	8,902	9,937
	Fianna Fáil	Síle de Valera	17.1	8,025	8,104	8,217	8,403	8,531	8,823	9,709
	Fine Gael	Donal Carey	16.6	7,781	7,857	7,967	8,121	8,664	9,078	9,633
	Fianna Fáil	Brendan Daly	15.8	7,420	7,511	7,566	7,661	7,731	7,838	8,368	8,790	9,042
	Fine Gael	Madeleine Taylor-Quinn	13.5	6,325	6,402	6,472	6,567	7,200	7,655	8,160	8,297	8,376
	Progressive Democrats	Mary Mannion	6.9	3,250	3,280	3,340	3,445	3,531	3,829
	Labour Party	Brídín Twist	3.6	1,684	1,710	1,809	1,882
	Green Party	Brian Meaney	3.6	1,682	1,749	1,900	2,033	2,279
	Independent	Brigid Makowski	2.0	944	982
	National Party	Rita O'Connor	1.9	876	1,025	1,145
	Christian Solidarity	Joe Aston	1.1	499
	Independent	Michael McInerney	0.5	234
Electorate: 71,491   Valid: 46,889   Spoilt: 477 (1.0%)   Quota: 9,378   Turnout: 47,366 (66.3%)

1992 general election

1992 general election: Clare[47][33]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Tony Killeen	6,814	15.3	2	8
	Fianna Fáil	Síle de Valera	6,752	15.1	4	8
	Fine Gael	Donal Carey	6,567	14.7	1	7
	Fianna Fáil	Brendan Daly	5,940	13.3
	Labour Party	Moosajee Bhamjee	5,113	11.5	3	8
	Fine Gael	Madeleine Taylor-Quinn	4,873	10.9
	Fianna Fáil	Colm Wiley	3,582	8.0
	Progressive Democrats	Mary Mannion	3,112	6.9
	Independent	Frankie Neylon	977	2.2
	Sinn Féin	Mike McKee	459	1.0
	Independent	Michael McInerney	419	0.9
Electorate: 66,042   Valid: 44,608   Spoilt: 537 (1.2%)   Quota: 8,922   Turnout: 45,145 (68.4%)

1989 general election

1989 general election: Clare[48][32]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	Donal Carey	8,730	19.7	1
	Fianna Fáil	Brendan Daly	8,130	18.4	3
	Fine Gael	Madeleine Taylor-Quinn	7,384	16.7	2
	Fianna Fáil	Síle de Valera	6,939	15.7	4
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Guerin	5,129	11.6
	Fianna Fáil	William Loughnane	4,252	9.6
	Progressive Democrats	David O'Keeffe	2,853	6.4
	Progressive Democrats	Thomas Meaney	707	1.6
	Progressive Democrats	Noel Moran	184	0.4
Electorate: ?   Valid: 44,308   Quota: 8,862   Turnout:

1987 general election

1987 general election: Clare[49][31]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Síle de Valera	8,530	18.0	1
	Fine Gael	Donal Carey	8,045	17.0	2
	Fianna Fáil	Brendan Daly	7,897	16.7	3
	Fine Gael	Madeleine Taylor-Quinn	5,229	11.0	4
	Fianna Fáil	Frank Barrett	4,799	10.1
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Rourke	3,796	8.0
	Progressive Democrats	David O'Keeffe	3,069	6.5
	Progressive Democrats	Thomas Meaney	2,534	5.4
	Independent	Thomas Brennan	2,230	4.7
	Independent	Brigid Makowski	644	1.4
	Labour Party	Thomas O'Shaughnessy	600	1.3
Electorate: ?   Valid: 47,373   Quota: 9,475   Turnout:

November 1982 general election

November 1982 general election: Clare[30]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Sylvester Barrett	8,793	19.4	1
	Fianna Fáil	Brendan Daly	8,009	17.7	2
	Fine Gael	Madeleine Taylor-Quinn	7,553	16.7	3
	Fianna Fáil	Síle de Valera	6,471	14.3
	Fine Gael	Donal Carey	6,339	14.0	4
	Independent	Bill Loughnane	2,674	5.9
	Labour Party	Agnes McCarthy	2,344	5.2
	Fianna Fáil	Colm Wiley	2,133	4.7
	Fine Gael	Séamus Durack	934	2.1
Electorate: ?   Valid: 45,250   Quota: 9,051   Turnout:

February 1982 general election

February 1982 general election: Clare[29]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6
	Fianna Fáil	Brendan Daly	22.5	9,819
	Fianna Fáil	Bill Loughnane	20.3	8,840
	Fine Gael	Donal Carey	17.4	7,570	7,635	7,660	7,680	7,855	8,778
	Fianna Fáil	Sylvester Barrett	16.6	7,216	8,078	8,111	8,031	8,511	8,855
	Fine Gael	Madeleine Taylor	15.2	6,602	6,718	6,729	6,741	6,952	7,662
	Labour Party	Agnes McCarthy	4.5	1,957	1,985	2,001	2,048	2,214
	Sinn Féin	Joe O'Connell	2.8	1,233	1,255	1,262	1,378
	Irish Republican Socialist	Brigid Makowski	0.5	232	238	243
	Independent Fianna Fáil	Frank McTigue	0.2	100	106
Electorate: 58,727   Valid: 43,569   Spoilt: 347 (0.8%)   Quota: 8,714   Turnout: 43,916 (74.8%)

1981 general election

1981 general election: Clare[28]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Brendan Daly	10,896	24.0	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Sylvester Barrett	8,574	18.9	2
	Fine Gael	Madeleine Taylor	5,881	13.0	3
	Fine Gael	Donal Carey	5,203	11.5
	Fianna Fáil	Bill Loughnane	4,444	9.8	4
	Fine Gael	Michael Howard	2,818	6.2
	Fianna Fáil	Bernard McNamara	2,676	5.9
	Labour Party	Agnes McCarthy	2,471	5.5
	Anti H-Block	Thomas McAllister	2,120	4.7
	Independent	Desmond Crowley	106	0.2
	Independent	Laurence Griffin	62	0.1
	Independent	Gerard Nix	57	0.1
	Independent	Hugh O'Brien	21	0.1
Electorate: ?   Valid: 45,329   Quota: 9,066   Turnout:

1977 general election

1977 general election: Clare[27]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Brendan Daly	11,933	34.9	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Sylvester Barrett	11,626	34.0	2	1
	Fine Gael	Frank Taylor	5,080	14.9	3
	Fine Gael	Donal Carey	3,923	11.5
	Labour Party	Agnes McCarthy	1,495	4.4
	Independent	Hugh O'Brien	153	0.5
Electorate: ?   Valid: 34,210   Quota: 8,553   Turnout:

1973 general election

1973 general election: Clare[26]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Sylvester Barrett	7,203	25.3	1
	Fianna Fáil	Brendan Daly	5,758	20.2	3
	Fine Gael	Frank Taylor	5,330	18.7	2
	Fianna Fáil	Martin Cahill	4,576	16.1
	Fine Gael	Michael Howard	3,832	13.5
	Labour Party	Michael Corley	1,794	6.3
Electorate: ?   Valid: 28,493   Quota: 7,124   Turnout:

1969 general election

1969 general election: Clare[25]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Sylvester Barrett	7,009	25.3	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Hillery	6,848	24.7	2
	Fine Gael	Frank Taylor	4,697	16.9	3
	Fine Gael	Michael Howard	3,690	13.3
	Fianna Fáil	Jack Lynch	3,383	12.2
	Labour Party	Flan Honan	1,597	5.8
	Labour Party	Terence Higgins	533	1.9
Electorate: ?   Valid: 27,757   Quota: 6,940   Turnout:

1968 by-election

Following the death of Fine Gael TD William Murphy, a by-election was held on 14 March 1968. The seat was won by the Fianna Fáil candidate Sylvester Barrett.

The surplus votes of the elected candidate were distributed after being declared elected because there was a possibility another candidate could have reached the threshold of a third of a quota which would have meant their election deposit was returned to them.

1968 by-election: Clare[50]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2
	Fianna Fáil	Sylvester Barrett	58.7	19,066
	Fine Gael	Patrick Bugler	28.7	9,313	10,407
	Labour Party	Flan Honan	11.7	3,799	5,177
	Independent	Jean Grace	0.9	293	651
Electorate: 48,182   Valid: 32,471   Quota: 16,236   Turnout: 67.39%

1965 general election

1965 general election: Clare[23]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Ceann Comhairle	Patrick Hogan	N/A	Automatically Returned	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Hillery	14,372	41.8	2	1
	Fine Gael	William Murphy	8,715	25.3	3	1
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Ó Ceallaigh	5,819	16.9	4
	Fine Gael	Francis Gordon	3,131	9.1
	Labour Party	P. A. Ó Síocháin	2,362	6.9
Electorate: ?   Valid: 34,399   Quota: 8,600   Turnout:

1961 general election

1961 general election: Clare[22]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Ceann Comhairle	Patrick Hogan	N/A	Automatically Returned	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Hillery	12,687	37.7	2	1
	Fine Gael	William Murphy	9,066	27.0	3	1
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Ó Ceallaigh	5,494	16.3	4
	Fine Gael	Francis Gordon	3,197	9.5
	Sinn Féin	Séamus Sabhat	3,174	9.4
Electorate: ?   Valid: 33,618   Quota: 8,405   Turnout:

1959 by-election

Following the election of Éamon de Valera as President of Ireland, a by-election was held on 22 July 1959. The seat was won by the Fianna Fáil candidate Seán Ó Ceallaigh.

1959 by-election: Clare[50]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Ó Ceallaigh	56.1	18,154
	Fine Gael	Francis P. Gordon	27.1	8,770
	Sinn Féin	Séamus Sabhat	16.9	5,464
Electorate: 47,227   Valid: 32,388   Quota: 16,195   Turnout: 68.58%

1957 general election

1957 general election: Clare[20]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Ceann Comhairle	Patrick Hogan	N/A	Automatically Returned	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Éamon de Valera	16,159	44.8	2	1
	Fine Gael	William Murphy	8,976	24.9	3
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Hillery	6,026	16.7	4
	Fine Gael	Bernard Lynch	3,115	8.6
	Fianna Fáil	Sean O'Grady	1,817	5.0
Electorate: ?   Valid: 36,093   Quota: 9,024   Turnout:

1954 general election

1954 general election: Clare[19]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Ceann Comhairle	Patrick Hogan	N/A	Automatically Returned	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Éamon de Valera	12,679	31.3	2	1
	Fine Gael	William Murphy	7,945	19.6	3
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Hillery	6,189	15.3	4
	Labour Party	Gerard Griffin	4,714	11.6
	Fianna Fáil	Thomas O'Meara	4,582	11.3
	Fine Gael	Vincent McHugh	2,044	5.1
	Clann na Poblachta	Seán O'Connor	1,377	3.4
	Sinn Féin	Martin Whyte	979	2.4
Electorate: ?   Valid: 40,509   Quota: 10,128   Turnout:

1951 general election

1951 general election: Clare[50]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
	Fianna Fáil	Éamon de Valera	33.4	13,850
	Fine Gael	William Murphy	19.3	8,016	8,095	9,522
	Labour Party	Patrick Hogan	12.6	5,213	5,466	5,578	6,463	6,855	7,136	7,359
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick John Hillery	9.8	4,063	5,846	5,872	5,891	7,930	11,696
	Independent	Thomas Burke	9.7	4,031	4,306	4,358	4,610	5,009	5,480	7,252
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Considine	6.4	2,634	3,827	3,850	3,867
	Fianna Fáil	Seán O'Grady	4.9	2,028	3,976	3,985	4,037	4,953
	Fine Gael	Vincent McHugh	4.0	1,648	1,670
Electorate: 52,074   Valid: 41,483   Quota: 8,297   Turnout: 79.66%

1948 general election

1948 general election: Clare[50]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10	Count 11
	Fianna Fáil	Éamon de Valera	30.3	12,574
	Labour Party	Patrick Hogan	11.1	4,586	4,923	4,976	5,071	5,156	5,321	5,620	6,614	6,848	7,272	7,580
	Independent	Thomas Burke	11.0	4,576	4,768	4,809	4,862	4,982	5,171	5,929	6,715	7,131	7,873	8,467
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Shanahan	7.8	3,235	3,939	3,956	3,986	4,001	4,132	4,284	4,451	4,943
	Fianna Fáil	Seán O'Grady	7.3	3,020	5,102	5,127	5,149	5,180	5,278	5,492	5,619	7,374	10,370
	Fine Gael	Charles Burke	6.9	2,854	2,888	3,112	3,163	4,025	4,139	4,601	4,889	5,246	5,377	5,413
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Brady	6.5	2,697	3,388	3,392	3,423	3,455	3,474	3,555	3,609
	Clann na Talmhan	Thomas Burke	4.9	2,042	2,111	2,148	2,175	2,225	2,365
	Clann na Poblachta	Peter O'Loughlin	4.2	1,732	1,793	1,828	2,196	2,220	3,139	3,359
	Clann na Poblachta	Thomas Lillis	3.9	1,612	1,649	1,657	1,824	1,883
	Fine Gael	Austin Brennan	2.9	1,183	1,205	1,300	1,314
	Clann na Poblachta	Timothy Smythe	2.1	851	863	886
	Fine Gael	Edward Monahan	1.3	552	582
Electorate: 54,379   Valid: 41,514   Quota: 8,303   Turnout: 76.34%

1945 by-election

Following the death of Fine Gael TD Patrick Burke, a by-election was held on 4 December 1945. The seat was won by the Fianna Fáil candidate Patrick Shanahan.

1945 by-election: Clare[50]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Shanahan	72.2	21,526
	Fine Gael	Edward Monahan	27.8	8,299
Electorate: 60,993   Valid: 29,825   Quota: 14,913   Turnout: 48.90%

1944 general election

1944 general election: Clare[14]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Éamon de Valera	14,200	31.8	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Peter O'Loghlen	6,183	13.9	3
	Fine Gael	Patrick Burke	6,013	13.5	4
	Labour Party	Patrick Hogan	5,376	12.1
	Independent	Thomas Burke	4,993	11.2	5
	Fianna Fáil	Seán O'Grady	4,850	10.9	2
	Independent	Denis Healy	2,985	6.7
Electorate: ?   Valid: 44,600   Quota: 7,434   Turnout:

1943 general election

1943 general election: Clare[13]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Éamon de Valera	14,961	30.9	1	1
	Labour Party	Patrick Hogan	5,177	10.7	5
	Fine Gael	Patrick Burke	4,926	10.2	3
	Independent	Thomas Burke	4,637	9.6	4
	Fianna Fáil	Seán O'Grady	4,167	8.6	2
	Fianna Fáil	Peter O'Loghlen	3,240	6.7
	Independent	John Clancy	2,433	5.0
	Independent	William Clune	1,832	3.8
	Fine Gael	William Counihan	1,639	3.4
	Independent	John Fahy	1,376	2.8
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick McMahon	1,013	2.1
	Independent	Stanislaus Burke	953	2.0
	Fine Gael	Cormac Halpin	789	1.6
	Independent	Seán Hogan	700	1.5
	Labour Party	Joseph Hughes	543	1.1
Electorate: ?   Valid: 48,386   Quota: 8,065   Turnout:

1938 general election

1938 general election: Clare[12]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Éamon de Valera	14,723	29.7	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Seán O'Grady	7,270	14.7	2
	Independent	Thomas Burke	6,525	13.2	4
	Fine Gael	Patrick Burke	6,280	12.7	5
	Labour Party	Patrick Hogan	5,713	11.5
	Fianna Fáil	Martin Sexton	4,305	8.7
	Fianna Fáil	Peter O'Loghlen	3,079	6.2	3
	Fine Gael	Edmund Carroll	1,686	3.4
Electorate: ?   Valid: 49,581   Quota: 8,264   Turnout:

1937 general election

1937 general election: Clare[11]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Éamon de Valera	14,012	28.6	1	1
	Independent	Thomas Burke	6,333	12.9	4
	Fine Gael	Patrick Burke	6,327	12.9	3
	Labour Party	Patrick Hogan	5,262	10.7	5
	Fianna Fáil	Seán O'Grady	4,410	9.0	2
	Fine Gael	Bartholomew Crowley	3,807	7.8
	Independent	Patrick Houlihan	2,821	5.8
	Fianna Fáil	Thomas Shalloo	2,555	5.2
	Fianna Fáil	Séamus Keely	1,764	3.6
	Fine Gael	William Murphy	1,747	3.6
Electorate: ?   Valid: 49,038   Quota: 8,174   Turnout:

1933 general election

1933 general election: Clare[10]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Éamon de Valera	18,574	42.1	1	1
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Patrick Burke	5,254	11.9	3
	Labour Party	Patrick Hogan	4,307	9.8	4
	National Centre Party	Patrick Baxter	4,041	9.2
	Fianna Fáil	Martin Sexton	3,618	8.2
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Houlihan	3,289	7.5	2
	Fianna Fáil	Seán O'Grady	3,079	7.0	5
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Thomas Flavey	1,993	4.5
Electorate: ?   Valid: 44,155   Quota: 7,360   Turnout:

1932 general election

1932 general election: Clare[9]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Éamon de Valera	12,504	30.2	1	1
	Labour Party	Patrick Hogan	5,701	13.8	2
	Fianna Fáil	Martin Sexton	5,444	13.2	4
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Patrick Burke	5,254	12.7	5
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Patrick Kelly	4,301	10.4
	Fianna Fáil	Seán O'Grady	4,002	9.7	3
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Houlihan	2,408	5.8
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Hubert Hunt	1,783	4.3
Electorate: ?   Valid: 41,397   Quota: 6,900   Turnout:

September 1927 general election

September 1927 general election: Clare[8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Éamon de Valera	13,902	34.3	1	1
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Patrick Kelly	5,646	13.9	3
	Labour Party	Patrick Hogan	4,683	11.6	4
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Patrick Burke	4,201	10.4
	Fianna Fáil	Martin Sexton	3,506	8.7	5
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Houlihan	3,003	7.4	2
	Farmers' Party	Thomas Falvey	2,481	6.1
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Seán O'Dea	2,136	5.3
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Dwyer	977	2.4
Electorate: ?   Valid: 40,535   Quota: 6,756   Turnout:

June 1927 general election

June 1927 general election: Clare[7]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Éamon de Valera	13,029	33.8	1	1
	Farmers' Party	Thomas Falvey	5,140	13.3	2
	Labour Party	Patrick Hogan	4,147	10.8	5
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Patrick Kelly	3,612	9.4	3
	National League Party	Thomas O'Donnell	2,830	7.3
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Hubert Hunt	2,382	6.2
	Independent	Denis Healy	2,368	6.1
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Houlihan	1,500	3.9	4
	Sinn Féin	Brian O'Higgins	1,412	3.7
	Cumann na nGaedheal	James O'Flynn	1,327	3.4
	Fianna Fáil	Seán O'Grady	799	2.1
Electorate: ?   Valid: 38,546   Quota: 6,425   Turnout:

1923 general election

1923 general election: Clare[6]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Republican	Éamon de Valera	17,762	45.0	1	1
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Eoin MacNeill	8,196	20.8	2	1
	Labour Party	Patrick MacNamara	2,140	5.4
	Labour Party	Patrick Hogan	2,083	5.3	5	14
	Farmers' Party	Conor Hogan	1,914	4.9	4	14
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Michael Hehir	1,809	4.6
	Farmers' Party	Batt Skehan	1,556	3.9
	Farmers' Party	Patrick Ryan	1,313	3.3
	Cumann na nGaedheal	James O'Regan	918	2.3
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Patrick Kelly	588	1.5
	Republican	Frank Barrett	482	1.2
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Peter O'Loughlin	237	0.6
	Republican	Michael Comyn	219	0.6
	Republican	Brian O'Higgins	114	0.3	3	12
	Republican	Thomas Honan	114	0.3
Electorate: 58,495   Valid: 39,445   Quota: 6,575   Turnout: 67.4%

1922 general election

1922 general election: Clare[5]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Sinn Féin (Pro-Treaty)	Patrick Brennan	Unopposed	N/A	1
	Sinn Féin (Anti-Treaty)	Éamon de Valera	Unopposed	N/A	2
	Sinn Féin (Pro-Treaty)	Sean Liddy	Unopposed	N/A	3
	Sinn Féin (Anti-Treaty)	Brian O'Higgins	Unopposed	N/A	4
Electorate: 46,833   Valid:   Quota:   Turnout:

1921 general election

1921 general election: Clare[4]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Sinn Féin	Patrick Brennan	Unopposed	N/A	1
	Sinn Féin	Éamon de Valera	Unopposed	N/A	2
	Sinn Féin	Sean Liddy	Unopposed	N/A	3
	Sinn Féin	Brian O'Higgins	Unopposed	N/A	4

See also

• Dáil constituencies
• Elections in the Republic of Ireland
• Politics of the Republic of Ireland
• List of Dáil by-elections
• List of political parties in the Republic of Ireland

References

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External links

• Oireachtas Members Database