Cork East (Dáil constituency)

Cork East 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).

Cork East
Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Constituency
Location of Cork East within Ireland
Current constituency
Created	1981
Seats	4
TDs	David Stanton (FG)      Seán Sherlock (Lab)      Pat Buckley (SF)      James O'Connor (FF)
County council	Cork County Council
EP constituency	South

Cork East
Former Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Constituency
Former constituency
Created	1923
Abolished	1937
Seats	4
County/City council	County Cork

Cork East
Former Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Constituency
Former constituency
Created	1948
Abolished	1961
Seats	3
County/City council	County Cork

History

The constituency was first created in 1923 under the Electoral Act 1923 as a 4-seat constituency and was first used for the 1923 general election. It was abolished under the Electoral (Revision of Constituencies) Act 1935. It was recreated under the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1947 as a 3-seat constituency and used for the 1948 general election until it was abolished under the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1961. It was recreated under the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1980 as a 4-seat constituency for the 1981 general election, and has been used at all elections since then.[1]

Boundaries

The constituency runs from Mitchelstown and Mallow in the north, through Fermoy, to Cobh, Midleton and Youghal in the south. It encompasses almost all of the Fermoy, Midleton, and Mallow electoral areas of Cork County Council.[2]

The Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2017 defines the constituency as:

"In the county of Cork the electoral divisions of:

Cobh Rural, Knockraha, in the former Rural District of Cork;

Aghern, Ballyhooly, Ballynoe, Castlecooke, Castle Hyde, Castlelyons, Castletownroche, Coole, Curraglass, Fermoy Rural, Glanworth East, Glanworth West, Gortnaskehy, Gortroe, Kilcor, Kilcummer, Killathy, Kilworth, Knockmourne, Leitrim, Rathcormack, in the former Rural District of Fermoy;

Ballyclogh, Buttevant, Caherduggan, Carrig, Clenor, Doneraile, Kilmaclenine, Mallow Rural, Monanimy, Shanballymore, Skahanagh, Wallstown, in the former Rural District of Mallow;

Ballintemple, Ballycottin, Ballyspillane, Carrigtohill, Castlemartyr, Clonmult, Cloyne, Corkbeg, Dangan, Dungourney, Garryvoe, Ightermurragh, Inch, Lisgoold, Midleton Rural, Mogeely, Rostellan, Templebodan, Templenacarriga, in the former Rural District of Midleton;

Ballyarthur, Derryvillane, Farahy, Kildorrery, Kilgullane, Kilphelan, Marshalstown, Mitchelstown, Templemolaga, in the former Rural District of Mitchelstown No. 1;

Ardagh, Clonpriest, Kilcronat, Killeagh, Kilmacdonagh, Youghal Rural, in the former Rural District of Youghal No. 1;

and Cobh Urban, Fermoy Urban, Mallow North Urban, Mallow South Urban, Midleton Urban and Youghal Urban."

TDs

TDs 1923–1937

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Cork East 1923–1937[3]
Key to parties   CnaG = Cumann na nGaedheal   FP = Farmers' Party   FF = Fianna Fáil   Ind = Independent   NCP = National Centre Party   Rep = Republican   SF = Sinn Féin
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
4th	1923[4]		John Daly (Ind)		Michael Hennessy (CnaG)		David Kent (Rep)		John Dinneen (FP)		Thomas O'Mahony (CnaG)
	1924 by-election[5]										Michael K. Noonan (CnaG)
5th	1927 (Jun)[6]						David Kent (SF)		David O'Gorman (FP)		Martin Corry (FF)
6th	1927 (Sep)[7]		John Daly (CnaG)				William Kent (FF)		Edmond Carey (CnaG)
7th	1932[8]				William Broderick (CnaG)		Brook Brasier (Ind)		Patrick Murphy (FF)
8th	1933[9]		Patrick Daly (CnaG)				William Kent (NCP)
9th	1937	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.

TDs 1948–1961

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Cork East 1948–1961[3]
Key to parties   FF = Fianna Fáil   FG = Fine Gael   Lab = Labour Party
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
13th	1948[10]		Martin Corry (FF)		Patrick O'Gorman (FG)		Seán Keane (Lab)
14th	1951[11]
	1953 by-election[12]						Richard Barry (FG)
15th	1954[13]				John Moher (FF)
16th	1957[14]
17th	1961	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.

TDs since 1981

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Cork East 1981–[3]
Key to parties   FF = Fianna Fáil   FG = Fine Gael   Lab = Labour Party   SFWP = Sinn Féin - The Workers' Party   WP = Workers' Party   SF = Sinn Féin
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
22nd	1981[15]		Carey Joyce (FF)		Myra Barry (FG)		Patrick Hegarty (FG)		Joe Sherlock (SFWP)
23rd	1982 (Feb)[16]		Michael Ahern (FF)
24th	1982 (Nov)[17]								Ned O'Keeffe (FF)
25th	1987[18]				Joe Sherlock (WP)
26th	1989[19]						Paul Bradford (FG)
27th	1992[20]				John Mulvihill (Lab)
28th	1997[21]				David Stanton (FG)
29th	2002[22]						Joe Sherlock (Lab)
30th	2007[23]						Seán Sherlock (Lab)
31st	2011[24]		Sandra McLellan (SF)						Tom Barry (FG)
32nd	2016[25]		Pat Buckley (SF)						Kevin O'Keeffe (FF)
33rd	2020[26]								James O'Connor (FF)

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: Cork East[27][28][29]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8
	Sinn Féin	Pat Buckley	23.1	12,587
	Fianna Fáil	Kevin O'Keeffe	13.6	7,414	7,502	7,537	7,611	7,916	8,065	8,786	9,078
	Fianna Fáil	James O'Connor	12.9	7,026	7,132	7,143	7,188	7,365	7,769	8,093	9,731
	Labour Party	Seán Sherlock	12.1	6,610	6,842	6,926	7,129	7,289	8,933	9,894	11,237
	Fine Gael	David Stanton	11.3	6,143	6,207	6,214	6,245	6,318	6,957	9,576	10,309
	Fine Gael	Pa O'Driscoll	8.3	4,554	4,591	4,604	4,654	4,736	4,974
	Independent	Mary Linehan-Foley	7.2	3,903	4,288	4,363	4,685	5,063	5,884	5,986
	Green Party	Liam Quaide	6.9	3,749	4,024	4,075	4,228	4,442
	Aontú	Conor Hannon	2.5	1,337	1,500	1,522	1,698
	Irish Freedom	Frank Shinnick	0.8	455	560	598
	Independent	Thomas Kiely	0.8	435	579	629
	Independent	Shane O’Grady	0.5	267	334
	Independent	Sean O’Leary	0.1	64	76
Electorate: 89,998   Valid: 54,544   Spoilt: 401   Quota: 10,909   Turnout: 54,945 (61.1%)

2016 general election

2016 general election: Cork East[30][31][25]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10
	Fianna Fáil	Kevin O'Keeffe	15.6	8,264	8,290	8,347	8,416	8,548	8,875	9,254	9,880	11,035
	Fine Gael	David Stanton	13.6	7,171	7,296	7,401	7,484	7,593	8,312	9,099	9,647	11,558
	Labour Party	Seán Sherlock	13.2	6,949	7,124	7,394	7,486	7,780	8,674	8,986	9,916	11,803
	Sinn Féin	Pat Buckley	10.1	5,358	5,437	5,572	5,969	6,776	6,861	7,681	8,175	8,457	8,639
	Fianna Fáil	Barbara Ahern	8.7	4,594	4,635	4,730	4,824	4,986	5,081	5,553	6,216	6,432	6,781
	Fine Gael	Noel McCarthy	8.3	4,406	4,425	4,479	4,565	4,718	5,688	5,779	6,203
	Fine Gael	Tom Barry	6.6	3,461	3,495	3,520	3,532	3,573
	Renua	Paul Bradford	6.1	3,244	3,327	3,460	3,531	3,834	4,191	4,596
	Independent	Mary Linehan Foley	6.0	3,145	3,280	3,365	3,515	4,104	4,132
	AAA–PBP	Ciara Leonardi Roche	3.8	1,999	2,176	2,586	3,237
	Independent	Kieran McCarthy	3.1	1,635	1,692	1,813
	Social Democrats	Ken Curtin	2.6	1,386	1,570
	Green Party	Natasha Harty	1.5	806
	Independent	Patrick Bullman	0.5	241
	Independent	Ross Cannon	0.3	147
Electorate: 83,236[32]   Valid: 52,806   Spoilt: 445   Quota: 10,562   Turnout: 64%

2011 general election

2011 general election: Cork East[24]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
	Labour Party	Seán Sherlock	20.8	11,862
	Fine Gael	David Stanton	17.6	10,019	10,047	10,618	11,081	12,471
	Sinn Féin	Sandra McLellan	11.1	6,292	6,345	6,877	7,203	7,528	7,586	9,785
	Fine Gael	Tom Barry	10.2	5,798	5,888	6,097	6,397	8,898	9,726	11,450
	Labour Party	John Mulvihill	10.0	5,701	5,873	6,388	6,790	6,976	7,097
	Fine Gael	Pa O'Driscoll	8.8	5,030	5,086	5,236	5,444
	Fianna Fáil	Kevin O'Keeffe	8.8	5,024	5,066	5,145	7,811	8,401	8,478	9,136
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Ahern	8.1	4,618	4,634	4,798
	New Vision	Paul O'Neill	1.9	1,056	1,064
	Green Party	Malachy Harty	1.1	635	640
	Independent	Claire Cullinane	0.9	510	513
	Independent	Patrick Bulman	0.4	212	213
	Independent	Paul Burke	0.3	176	177
Electorate: 83,651   Valid: 56,933   Spoilt: 526 (0.9%)   Quota: 11,387   Turnout: 57,459 (68.7%)

2007 general election

2007 general election: Cork East[23]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Ahern	19.2	10,350	10,536	11,221
	Fianna Fáil	Ned O'Keeffe	18.7	10,081	10,189	10,741	11,033
	Fine Gael	Paul Bradford	16.6	8,916	9,110	9,375	9,398	9,837	9,863
	Fine Gael	David Stanton	14.3	7,686	8,038	8,717	8,777	10,349	10,386
	Labour Party	Seán Sherlock	13.6	7,295	7,650	8,287	8,324	10,100	10,162
	Labour Party	John Mulvihill	7.4	3,954	4,232	4,773	4,820
	Sinn Féin	Sandra McLellan	6.8	3,672	3,943
	Green Party	Sarah Iremonger	2.9	1,572
	Fathers Rights	Christy Carr	0.3	166
	Independent	John Cronin	0.2	116
Electorate: 84,354   Valid: 53,808   Spoilt: 477 (0.9%)   Quota: 10,762   Turnout: 54,285 (64.4%)

2002 general election

2002 general election: Cork East[22]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4
	Fianna Fáil	Ned O'Keeffe	23.1	10,574
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Ahern	18.2	8,340	9,204
	Fine Gael	Paul Bradford	15.4	7,053	7,224	7,718	8,231
	Fine Gael	David Stanton	13.7	6,269	6,324	6,978	8,438
	Labour Party	John Mulvihill	10.5	4,813	4,838	5,559
	Labour Party	Joe Sherlock	10.5	4,792	5,015	6,192	8,660
	Sinn Féin	June Murphy	5.7	2,624	2,685
	Green Party	Martin O'Keeffe	2.5	1,136	1,151
	Christian Solidarity	Patrick Manning	0.4	187	189
Electorate: 72,702   Valid: 45,788   Spoilt: 546 (1.2%)   Quota: 9,158   Turnout: 46,334 (63.7%)

1997 general election

1997 general election: Cork East[33]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8
	Fianna Fáil	Ned O'Keeffe	20.3	8,737
	Fine Gael	Paul Bradford	18.3	7,859	7,907	7,922	8,009	8,302	8,538	8,733
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Ahern	16.2	6,959	7,200	7,274	7,665	8,137	9,295
	Fine Gael	David Stanton	11.9	5,117	5,182	5,185	5,315	5,527	5,820	5,998	7,735
	Democratic Left	Joe Sherlock	10.7	4,622	4,681	4,698	4,921	5,186	5,357	5,510	6,972
	Labour Party	John Mulvihill	8.1	3,500	3,969	3,970	4,298	4,419	4,560	4,669
	Progressive Democrats	J. J. Flavin	4.3	1,830	1,872	1,878	2,046	2,242
	National Party	Máiread Scannell	3.8	1,637	1,754	1,757	1,912
	Sinn Féin	Kieran McCarthy	3.6	1,534	1,711	1,713
	Independent	Seán O'Connor	3.0	1,281
Electorate: 63,653   Valid: 43,076   Spoilt: 331 (0.8%)   Quota: 8,616   Turnout: 43,407 (68.2%)

1992 general election

1992 general election: Cork East[20]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Ned O'Keeffe	8,380	20.2	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Ahern	7,418	17.9	3	7
	Fine Gael	Paul Bradford	6,750	16.3	2	7
	Labour Party	John Mulvihill	5,703	13.8	4	7
	Democratic Left	Joe Sherlock	5,351	12.9
	Fine Gael	Patrick Hegarty	4,594	11.1
	Fine Gael	Michael Hegarty	2,562	6.2
	Sinn Féin	Kieran McCarthy	366	0.9
	Independent	Maurice Quinlan	212	0.5
	Workers' Party	Sandra Doyle Condon	153	0.4
Electorate: 58,556   Valid: 41,489   Spoilt: 684 (1.6%)   Quota: 8,298   Turnout: 42,173 (72.0%)

1989 general election

1989 general election: Cork East[19]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Ned O'Keeffe	8,851	21.6	1
	Fine Gael	Paul Bradford	7,663	18.7	2
	Workers' Party	Joe Sherlock	7,414	18.1	3
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Ahern	7,396	18.0	4
	Fine Gael	Patrick Hegarty	7,068	17.2
	Labour Party	Anthony Hobbs	1,377	3.4
	Progressive Democrats	Thomas Nagle	1,098	2.7
	Independent	William Fitzsimon	131	0.3
Electorate: ?   Valid: 40,998   Quota: 8,200   Turnout:

1987 general election

1987 general election: Cork East[18]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Ned O'Keeffe	8,178	19.6	2
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Ahern	8,169	19.6	1
	Workers' Party	Joe Sherlock	6,986	16.7	4
	Fine Gael	Patrick Hegarty	6,831	16.4	3
	Fine Gael	Paul Bradford	5,908	14.1
	Progressive Democrats	John Guinevan	2,340	5.6
	Progressive Democrats	Hugh Hall	1,936	4.6
	Labour Party	Anthony Hobbs	888	2.1
	Sinn Féin	Kieran McCarthy	534	1.3
Electorate: ?   Valid: 41,770   Quota: 8,355   Turnout:

November 1982 general election

November 1982 general election: Cork East[17]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	Myra Barry	8,461	20.4	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Ned O'Keeffe	8,324	20.0	2	1
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Ahern	8,061	19.4	4
	Fine Gael	Patrick Hegarty	7,662	18.4	3
	Workers' Party	Joe Sherlock	6,186	14.9
	Fine Gael	Tommy Sheahan	1,565	3.8
	Labour Party	Tomás Ó Conaill	1,191	2.9
	Independent	Mary Duggan	117	0.3
Electorate: ?   Valid: 41,567   Quota: 8,314   Turnout:

February 1982 general election

February 1982 general election: Cork East[16]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5
	Fine Gael	Myra Barry	21.5	8,870
	Fine Gael	Patrick Hegarty	20.2	8,309
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Ahern	17.0	7,011	7,149	8,830
	Sinn Féin - The Workers' Party	Joe Sherlock	16.2	6,677	7,200	7,674	8,102	8,137
	Fianna Fáil	Carey Joyce	13.6	5,601	5,659	7,257	7,456	8,008
	Fianna Fáil	William Cronin	9.2	3,799	3,845
	Labour Party	Tomás Ó Conaill	2.3	946
Electorate: 52,647   Valid: 41,213   Spoilt: 321 (0.8%)   Quota: 8,243   Turnout: 41,534 (78.9%)

1981 general election

1981 general election: Cork East[15]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	Myra Barry	9,373	21.9	1	1
	Fine Gael	Patrick Hegarty	7,686	17.9	2
	Sinn Féin - The Workers' Party	Joe Sherlock	6,241	14.6	3
	Fianna Fáil	Carey Joyce	5,661	13.2	4
	Fianna Fáil	John Brosnan	4,401	10.3
	Fianna Fáil	Joe Dowling	3,489	8.1
	Fianna Fáil	Charles Mortell	2,773	6.5
	Fine Gael	Tommy Sheahan	2,363	5.5
	Labour Party	Edward Allen	457	1.1
	Labour Party	Mary Noonan	267	0.6
	Independent	Mary Duggan	150	0.4
Electorate: ?   Valid: 42,861   Quota: 8,573   Turnout:

1957 general election

1957 general election: Cork East[14]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Martin Corry	6,873	25.0	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	John Moher	6,628	24.1	2
	Fine Gael	Richard Barry	5,255	19.1	3
	Fine Gael	Patrick O'Gorman	4,618	16.8
	Sinn Féin	Liam Ó Mochloir	2,365	8.6
	Labour Party	Michael Devane	1,750	6.4
Electorate: ?   Valid: 27,489   Quota: 6,873   Turnout:

1954 general election

1954 general election: Cork East[13]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	Richard Barry	7,026	23.6	1
	Fianna Fáil	Martin Corry	6,714	22.6	2
	Fianna Fáil	John Moher	5,925	19.9	3
	Fine Gael	Patrick O'Gorman	4,489	15.1
	Labour Party	Seán Keane, Jnr	4,081	13.7
	Clann na Talmhan	Denis Heskin	1,492	5.0
Electorate: ?   Valid: 29,727   Quota: 7,432   Turnout:

1953 by-election

Following the death of Labour Party TD Seán Keane, Snr, a by-election was held on 18 June 1953. The seat was won by the Fine Gael candidate Richard Barry.

1953 by-election: Cork East[34]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2
	Fine Gael	Richard Barry	42.8	12,479	15,761
	Fianna Fáil	John Moher	40.4	11,823	12,784
	Labour Party	Seán Keane, Jnr	16.8	4,902
Electorate: 37,057   Valid: 29,204   Quota: 14,603   Turnout: 78.81%

1951 general election

1951 general election: Cork East[34]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6
	Fianna Fáil	Martin John Corry	24.6	7,430	7,798
	Labour Party	Seán Keane, Snr	17.6	5,296	5,678	5,738	5,841	6,704	8,414
	Fianna Fáil	John Moher Jnr.	17.4	5,261	5,311	5,433	5,660	5,952	6,080
	Fine Gael	Patrick J. O'Gorman	15.5	4,688	5,028	5,077	5,756	9,380
	Fine Gael	Richard Barry	14.4	4,337	4,433	4,452	5,106
	Independent	John G. W. Ryall	5.9	1,792	1,835	1,841
	Independent	Veronica A. E. Hartland	4.5	1,360
Electorate: 37,561   Valid: 30,164   Quota: 7,542   Turnout: 80.31%

1948 general election

1948 general election: Cork East[34]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9
	Fianna Fáil	Martin J. Corry	24.5	7,172	7,341
	Fine Gael	Patrick J. O'Gorman	13.9	4,072	4,175	4,176	4,199	4,539	4,818	6,557	8,952
	Labour Party	Seán Keane, Snr	13.9	4,066	4,339	4,340	4,472	4,627	5,216	5,421	5,835	6,267
	Fianna Fáil	Leo B. Skinner	13.7	4,013	4,043	4,050	4,113	4,346	4,528	4,557	4,879	4,987
	Clann na Talmhan	Daniel Cashman	11.4	3,352	3,366	3,367	3,416	3,494	3,662	3,962
	Fine Gael	Joseph Ahern	7.4	2,170	2,230	2,231	2,243	2,384	2,537
	Clann na Poblachta	Michael Burke	5.6	1,638	1,699	1,700	2,240	2,364
	Independent	William Dwyer	4.0	1,167	1,215	1,217	1,231
	Clann na Poblachta	Garrett Roche	2.8	833	861	861
	National Labour Party	Patrick J. O'Brien	2.8	823
Electorate: 39,226   Valid: 29,306   Quota: 7,327   Turnout: 74.71%

1933 general election

1933 general election: Cork East[9]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Martin Corry	10,923	25.0	1	1
	National Centre Party	William Kent	7,712	17.6	2	1
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Murphy	5,092	11.6	3
	Cumann na nGaedheal	William Broderick	4,432	10.1	4
	Independent	Brook Brasier	4,389	10.0
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick O'Brien	4,244	9.7
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Patrick Daly	3,645	8.3	5
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Edward Cronin	3,324	7.6
Electorate: ?   Valid: 43,761   Quota: 7,294   Turnout:

1932 general election

1932 general election: Cork East[8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Murphy	5,518	13.9	4
	Cumann na nGaedheal	William Broderick	5,453	13.8	1
	Fianna Fáil	Martin Corry	4,939	12.5	5
	Fianna Fáil	William Kent	4,870	12.3
	Cumann na nGaedheal	John Daly	4,477	11.3	2
	Independent	Brook Brasier	4,245	10.7	3
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Edmond Carey	3,519	8.9
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Michael Hennessy	2,703	6.8
	Labour Party	Eamonn Lynch	2,154	5.4
	Farmers' Party	David O'Gorman	1,746	4.4
Electorate: ?   Valid: 39,624   Quota: 6,605   Turnout:

September 1927 general election

September 1927 general election: Cork East[7]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Michael Hennessy	5,130	14.4	3
	Cumann na nGaedheal	John Daly	5,125	14.4	2
	Fianna Fáil	Martin Corry	4,208	11.8	1
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Edmond Carey	3,851	10.8	4
	Fianna Fáil	William Kent	3,014	8.5	5
	Farmers' Party	David O'Gorman	2,988	8.4
	Labour Party	Eamonn Lynch	2,918	8.2
	Fianna Fáil	John Barry	2,888	8.1
	Farmers' Party	Brook Brasier	1,951	5.5
	Independent	Philip Barry	1,812	5.1
	Fianna Fáil	Séamus Fitzgerald	1,700	4.8
Electorate: ?   Valid: 35,585   Quota: 5,931   Turnout:

June 1927 general election

June 1927 general election: Cork East[6]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Sinn Féin	David Kent	3,870	11.4	4
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Michael Hennessy	3,743	11.1	1
	Independent	John Daly	3,704	10.9	2
	Fianna Fáil	Martin Corry	3,666	10.8	3
	Independent	Edmond Carey	2,976	8.8
	Independent	Frederick McCabe	2,714	8.0
	Farmers' Party	David O'Gorman	2,251	6.7	5
	Fianna Fáil	John Barry	2,210	6.5
	Farmers' Party	John Dinneen	1,853	5.5
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Michael Cahill	1,830	5.4
	Labour Party	Patrick Murphy	1,793	5.3
	Farmers' Party	Brook Brasier	1,724	5.1
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Michael K. Noonan	1,379	4.1
	Independent	Eugene Joyce	161	0.5
Electorate: ?   Valid: 33,874   Quota: 5,646   Turnout:

1924 by-election

Following the death of Cumann na nGaedheal TD Thomas O'Mahony, a by-election was held on 18 November 1924. The seat was won by the Cumann na nGaedheal candidate Michael K. Noonan.

1924 by-election: Cork East[5]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Michael K. Noonan	58.8	17,717
	Republican	Michael Walsh	41.2	12,399
Electorate: 53,752   Valid: 30,116   Quota: 15,059   Turnout: 56.0%

1923 general election

1923 general election: Cork East[4]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Independent	John Daly	6,391	21.1	1	1
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Michael Hennessy	6,152	20.3	2	1
	Republican	David Kent	5,524	18.2	3	1
	Farmers' Party	John Dinneen	3,927	12.9	4	6
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Thomas O'Mahony	2,023	6.7	5	8
	Farmers' Party	David O'Gorman	1,672	5.5
	Farmers' Party	William Fahy	1,539	5.1
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Daniel Hegarty	1,516	5.0
	Republican	Séamus Fitzgerald	1,428	4.7
	Republican	Cornelius Molan	179	0.6
Electorate: 56,600   Valid: 30,351   Quota: 5,059   Turnout: 53.6%

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

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External links

• Oireachtas Members Database