Kerry South (Dáil constituency)

Kerry South was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas, from 1937 to 2016. The constituency elected 3 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs). The method of election was the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).

For the 1885–1922 constituency, see South Kerry (UK Parliament constituency).

Kerry South
Former Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Constituency
Location of Kerry South within Ireland
Former constituency
Created	1937
Abolished	2016
Seats	3
County council	County Kerry

History and boundaries

The constituency was located in the southern half of County Kerry taking in the Dingle and Iveragh peninsulas, including the towns of Killarney, Dingle, Cahirciveen, Killorglin and Kenmare.[1]

It was established by the Electoral (Revision of Constituencies) Act 1935 when the former Kerry constituency was divided into the constituencies of Kerry North and Kerry South. It was first used at the 1937 general election electing members of the 9th Dáil.

The Electoral (Amendment) Act 2009 defined the constituency as:[1]

"The county of Kerry, except the part thereof which is comprised in the constituency of Kerry North–West Limerick."

It was abolished at the 2016 general election and replaced by the new Kerry constituency.

TDs

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Kerry South 1937–2016[2]
Key to parties   FF = Fianna Fáil   FG = Fine Gael   Ind = Independent   Lab = Labour Party   SF = Sinn Féin
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
9th	1937[3]		John Flynn (FF)		Frederick Crowley (FF)		Fionán Lynch (FG)
10th	1938[4]
11th	1943[5]		John Healy (FF)
12th	1944[6]
	1944 by-election[7]						Donal O'Donoghue (FF)
	1945 by-election[8]				Honor Crowley (FF)
13th	1948[9]		John Flynn (Ind)				Patrick Palmer (FG)
14th	1951[10]
15th	1954[11]		John Flynn (FF)
16th	1957[12]		John Joe Rice (SF)
17th	1961[13]		Timothy O'Connor (FF)				Patrick Connor (FG)
18th	1965[14]
	1966 by-election[15]				John O'Leary (FF)
19th	1969[16]						Michael Begley (FG)
20th	1973[17]
21st	1977[18]
22nd	1981[19]		Michael Moynihan (Lab)
23rd	1982 (Feb)[20]
24th	1982 (Nov)[21]
25th	1987[22]		John O'Donoghue (FF)
26th	1989[23]						Michael Moynihan (Lab)
27th	1992[24]						Breeda Moynihan-Cronin (Lab)
28th	1997[25]				Jackie Healy-Rae (Ind)
29th	2002[26]
30th	2007[27]						Tom Sheahan (FG)
31st	2011[28]		Tom Fleming (Ind)		Michael Healy-Rae (Ind)		Brendan Griffin (FG)
32nd	2016	Constituency abolished. See Kerry

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

2011 general election

2011 general election: Kerry South[28]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6
	Fine Gael	Brendan Griffin	19.8	8,808	8,943	10,014	10,865	12,636
	Independent	Michael Healy-Rae	15.0	6,670	6,789	7,412	9,146	10,129	10,326
	Independent	Tom Fleming	14.5	6,416	6,548	7,357	8,746	10,389	10,697
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Donoghue	13.3	5,917	5,960	6,200
	Fine Gael	Tom Sheahan	12.8	5,674	5,736	6,577	7,326	8,668	9,409
	South Kerry Independent	Michael Gleeson	11.1	4,939	5,222	6,378	7,037
	Labour Party	Marie Moloney	11.1	4,926	5,132
	Green Party	Oonagh Comerford	0.9	401
	Independent	Richard Behal	0.8	348
	Independent	Dermot Finn	0.6	281
Electorate: 59,629   Valid: 44,380   Spoilt: 299 (0.7%)   Quota: 11,096   Turnout: 44,679 (74.9%)

2007 general election

2007 general election: Kerry South[27]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Donoghue	23.4	9,128	9,407	9,956
	Fianna Fáil	Tom Fleming	17.3	6,740	6,972	7,221	7,278	8,393	8,855
	Independent	Jackie Healy-Rae	15.4	5,993	6,356	6,828	6,882	8,526	9,315
	Fine Gael	Tom Sheahan	14.3	5,600	5,819	7,927	7,960	11,010
	Labour Party	Breeda Moynihan-Cronin	13.5	5,263	5,904	6,774	6,827
	Fine Gael	Séamus Cosaí FitzGerald	10.7	4,195	4,419
	Sinn Féin	Lynn Ní Bhaoigheallain	3.5	1,375
	Green Party	John Hickey	1.9	738
Electorate: 53,660   Valid: 39,032   Spoilt: 293 (0.8%)   Quota: 9,759   Turnout: 39,325 (73.3%)

2002 general election

2002 general election: Kerry South[26]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Donoghue	25.8	9,445
	Fianna Fáil	Tom Fleming	18.9	6,912	6,995	7,255	7,407	7,593	8,276	8,381
	Independent	Jackie Healy-Rae	17.0	6,229	6,455	6,819	6,893	7,147	8,409	8,584
	Labour Party	Breeda Moynihan-Cronin	14.5	5,307	5,480	5,946	5,979	6,432	9,442
	Fine Gael	Séamus Cosaí FitzGerald	12.4	4,539	4,732	4,791	4,811	6,083
	Fine Gael	Sheila Casey	5.3	1,934	2,033	2,216	2,220
	Independent	Donal Grady	3.7	1,346	1,449
	Independent	Donal Barry	2.5	934
Electorate: 51,761   Valid: 36,646   Spoilt: 376 (1.0%)   Quota: 9,162   Turnout: 37,022 (61.0%)

1997 general election

1997 general election: Kerry South[29]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
	Independent	Jackie Healy-Rae	20.3	7,220	7,563	8,131	8,318	9,163
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Donoghue	20.3	7,204	7,280	7,408	7,487	10,346
	Labour Party	Breeda Moynihan-Cronin	14.1	4,988	5,265	5,550	5,898	6,250	6,706	9,960
	Independent	Breandan MacGearailt	11.8	4,172	4,265	4,402	4,547	4,686	5,332	5,975
	Fianna Fáil	Brian O'Leary	11.5	4,079	4,248	4,464	4,493
	Fine Gael	Aidan O'Connor	8.6	3,041	3,204	3,353	4,578	4,729	4,904
	Fine Gael	Jim Kelly	5.2	1,847	1,928	2,060
	Independent	P. J. Cronin	4.4	1,557	1,717
	South Kerry Independent	Michael Gleeson	3.9	1,388
Electorate: 48,164   Valid: 35,496   Spoilt: 303 (0.9%)   Quota: 8,875   Turnout: 35,799 (74.3%)

1992 general election

1992 general election: Kerry South[24]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Donoghue	8,263	26.4	1	1
	Labour Party	Breeda Moynihan-Cronin	7,537	24.1	2	5
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Leary	6,113	19.5	3	6
	Fine Gael	Michael Connor Scarteen	3,576	11.4
	Fine Gael	Paul Coghlan	2,658	8.5
	Independent	P. J. Cronin	2,481	7.9
	Sinn Féin	Dan Daly	331	1.1
	Independent	Pól Ó Criochain	267	0.9
	Independent	Liam West	112	0.4
Electorate: 44,591   Valid: 31,338   Spoilt: 486 (1.5%)   Quota: 7,835   Turnout: 31,824 (71.4%)

1989 general election

1989 general election: Kerry South[23]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Leary	8,398	26.8	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Donoghue	8,375	26.7	2	1
	Fine Gael	Michael Begley	6,477	20.7
	Labour Party	Michael Moynihan	6,408	20.5	3
	Progressive Democrats	John Kelly	1,458	4.7
	Independent	Barbara Hyland	202	0.6
Electorate: ?   Valid: 31,318   Quota: 7,830   Turnout:

1987 general election

1987 general election: Kerry South[22]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Leary	7,839	23.6	1
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Donoghue	5,606	16.9	2
	Fine Gael	Michael Begley	5,036	15.3	3
	Labour Party	Michael Moynihan	4,559	13.7
	Fianna Fáil	Breandan Mac Gearailt	4,481	13.5
	Progressive Democrats	Michael Ahern	3,215	9.7
	Fine Gael	Denis Sheahan	910	2.7
	Workers' Party	Seán O'Grady	735	2.2
	Independent	Marcus Counihan	708	2.1
	Independent	James Falvey	122	0.4
Electorate: ?   Valid: 33,211   Quota: 8,303   Turnout:

November 1982 general election

November 1982 general election: Kerry South[21]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Leary	7,898	24.0	3
	Labour Party	Michael Moynihan	7,609	23.1	2
	Fine Gael	Michael Begley	7,524	22.8	1
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Donoghue	7,201	21.9
	Fine Gael	Thomas Randles	890	2.7
	Independent	Joseph O'Shea	845	2.6
	Workers' Party	Seán O'Grady	679	2.1
	Independent	Colm O'Sullivan	236	0.7
	Independent	Stephen Doyle	57	0.2
Electorate: ?   Valid: 32,939   Quota: 8,235   Turnout:

February 1982 general election

February 1982 general election: Kerry South[20]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Leary	23.1	7,510	7,515	7,758	7,764	8,811
	Labour Party	Michael Moynihan	21.6	7,038	7,077	7,732	7,877	8,285
	Fine Gael	Michael Begley	20.8	6,758	6,770	8,292
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Donoghue	15.3	4,977	4,999	5,100	5,105	7,094
	Fianna Fáil	Tom Fitzgerald	10.8	3,523	3,544	3,582	3,585
	Fine Gael	Michael Connor Scarteen	8.0	2,584	2,599
	Independent	Stephen Doyle	0.4	141
Electorate: 41,807   Valid: 32,531   Spoilt: 279 (0.9%)   Quota: 8,133   Turnout: 32,810 (78.5%)

1981 general election

1981 general election: Kerry South[19]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Labour Party	Michael Moynihan	8,221	24.5	1
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Leary	7,383	22.0	2
	Fine Gael	Michael Begley	6,144	18.3	3
	Fianna Fáil	Timothy O'Connor	4,702	14.0
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Donoghue	3,780	11.3
	Fine Gael	Patrick O'Connor	1,763	5.3
	Independent	Michael O'Connell	1,600	4.8
Electorate: ?   Valid: 33,593   Quota: 8,399   Turnout:

1977 general election

1977 general election: Kerry South[18]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Leary	8,002	24.5	1
	Fianna Fáil	Timothy O'Connor	7,917	24.2	3
	Fine Gael	Michael Begley	6,655	20.4	2
	Labour Party	Michael Moynihan	5,799	17.7
	Fine Gael	Michael Connor Scarteen	3,256	10.0
	Sinn Féin - The Workers' Party	Redmond Sullivan	1,065	3.3
Electorate: ?   Valid: 32,694   Quota: 8,174   Turnout:

1973 general election

1973 general election: Kerry South[17]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Leary	8,286	30.3	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Timothy O'Connor	5,819	21.3	2
	Fine Gael	Michael Begley	5,390	19.7	3
	Labour Party	Michael Moynihan	3,806	13.9
	Fine Gael	Daniel Barry	3,025	11.1
	Sinn Féin (Official)	Patrick O'Callaghan	1,014	3.7
Electorate: ?   Valid: 27,340   Quota: 6,836   Turnout:

1969 general election

1969 general election: Kerry South[16]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Leary	8,656	30.6	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Timothy O'Connor	6,490	22.9	2
	Fine Gael	Michael Begley	4,564	16.1	3
	Fine Gael	Patrick Connor	3,891	13.8
	Labour Party	Tadhg O'Sullivan	2,652	9.4
	Fine Gael	Daniel Barry	2,038	7.2
Electorate: ?   Valid: 28,291   Quota: 7,073   Turnout:

1966 by-election

Following the death of Fianna Fáil TD Honor Crowley, a by-election was held on 7 December 1966. The seat was won by the Fianna Fáil candidate John O'Leary.

1966 by-election: Kerry South[30]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Leary	45.9	12,499	13,590
	Fine Gael	Michael Begley	36.3	9,875	12,807
	Labour Party	Michael Moynihan	17.8	4,849
Electorate: 35,832   Valid: 27,223   Quota: 13,612   Turnout: 75.97%

1965 general election

1965 general election: Kerry South[14]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Timothy O'Connor	5,977	22.5	2
	Fianna Fáil	Honor Crowley	5,746	21.6	3
	Fine Gael	Patrick Connor	5,501	20.7	1
	Labour Party	Michael Moynihan	4,712	17.7
	Fine Gael	Michael Begley	3,250	12.2
	Independent	James Courtney	1,370	5.2
Electorate: ?   Valid: 26,556   Quota: 6,640   Turnout:

1961 general election

1961 general election: Kerry South[13]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Honor Crowley	5,640	22.3	2
	Fine Gael	Patrick Connor	5,402	21.3	1
	Fianna Fáil	Timothy O'Connor	5,244	20.7	3
	Labour Party	Michael Moynihan	3,630	14.3
	Sinn Féin	John Joe Rice	3,240	12.8
	Fine Gael	Michael O'Sullivan	2,158	8.5
Electorate: ?   Valid: 25,314   Quota: 6,329   Turnout:

1957 general election

1957 general election: Kerry South[12]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	Patrick Palmer	5,899	26.6	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Honor Crowley	5,632	25.4	2	1
	Sinn Féin	John Joe Rice	5,582	25.1	3	1
	Fianna Fáil	John Flynn	5,101	23.0
Electorate: ?   Valid: 22,214   Quota: 5,554   Turnout:

1954 general election

1954 general election: Kerry South[11]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	Patrick Palmer	6,376	25.6	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	John Flynn	5,834	23.4	2
	Fianna Fáil	Honor Crowley	5,732	23.0	3
	Labour Party	Michael Moynihan	2,690	10.8
	Clann na Talmhan	William Dennehy	2,461	9.9
	Clann na Poblachta	John O'Leary	1,853	7.4
Electorate: ?   Valid: 24,946   Quota: 6,237   Turnout:

1951 general election

1951 general election: Kerry South[30]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5
	Fine Gael	Patrick Palmer	29.5	7,437
	Independent	John Flynn	21.2	5,337	5,614	6,023	7,521
	Fianna Fáil	Honor Mary Crowley	18.6	4,679	4,739	4,772	5,236	5,438
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick J. Lane	16.8	4,232	4,312	4,405	4,555	4,648
	Clann na Poblachta	John Joe O'Leary	9.3	2,330	2,723	3,579
	Clann na Poblachta	Jeremiah O'Riordan	4.7	1,170	1,500
Electorate: 33,680   Valid: 25,185   Quota: 6,297   Turnout: 74.78%

1948 general election

1948 general election: Kerry South[30]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6
	Fine Gael	Patrick W. Palmer	18.9	4,924	5,400	5,548	5,689	6,059	6,161
	Independent	John Flynn	15.7	4,107	4,374	4,767	4,920	6,473	6,944
	Fianna Fáil	Honor Mary Crowley	15.7	4,091	4,244	4,274	5,973	7,900
	Fianna Fáil	John B. Healy	15.3	3,992	4,033	4,164	4,398
	Clann na Poblachta	Pádraig O'Donoghue	12.2	3,179	3,468	4,791	4,935	5,079	5,115
	Fianna Fáil	Donal J. O'Donoghue	8.7	2,278	2,357	2,462
	Clann na Poblachta	Patrick Jones	8.1	2,121	2,183
	Independent	Patrick J. O'Shea	5.5	1,424
Electorate: 35,580   Valid: 26,116   Quota: 6,530   Turnout: 73.40%

1945 by-election

Following the death of Fianna Fáil TD Frederick Crowley, a by-election was held on 4 December 1945. The seat was won by the Fianna Fáil candidate Honor Crowley, widow of the deceased TD.

1945 by-election: Kerry South[30]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1
	Fianna Fáil	Honor Mary Crowley	56.7	10,483
	Clann na Talmhan	Edmund Horan	43.3	8,018
Electorate: 36,029   Valid: 18,501   Quota: 9,251   Turnout: 51.35%

1944 by-election

Following the resignation of Fine Gael TD Fionán Lynch upon his appointment as a judge, a by-election was held on 10 November 1944. The seat was won by the Fianna Fáil candidate Donal O'Donoghue.

1944 by-election: Kerry South[30]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2
	Fianna Fáil	Donal J O'Donoghue	48.6	10,986	11,771
	Clann na Talmhan	Edmund Horan	30.1	6,795	9,348
	Fine Gael	Eoin O'Connell	21.3	4,822
Electorate: 35,940   Valid: 22,603   Quota: 11,302   Turnout: 62.89%

1944 general election

1944 general election: Kerry South[6]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Frederick Crowley	6,693	26.6	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	John Healy	6,526	25.9	2	1
	Fine Gael	Fionán Lynch	6,057	24.1	3
	Independent	Edmund Horan	5,908	23.5
Electorate: ?   Valid: 25,184   Quota: 6,297   Turnout:

1943 general election

1943 general election: Kerry South[5]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Frederick Crowley	5,934	22.4	1
	Fianna Fáil	John Healy	5,323	20.1	3
	Fine Gael	Fionán Lynch	4,771	18.0	2
	Independent	Daniel Allman	4,446	16.8
	Labour Party	William Myers	4,384	16.5
	Independent	John Duffy	1,685	6.4
Electorate: ?   Valid: 26,543   Quota: 6,636   Turnout:

1938 general election

1938 general election: Kerry South[4]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	John Flynn	Unopposed	N/A	1
	Fianna Fáil	Frederick Crowley	Unopposed	N/A	2
	Fine Gael	Fionán Lynch	Unopposed	N/A	3

1937 general election

1937 general election: Kerry South[3]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	John Flynn	7,268	28.3	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Frederick Crowley	6,772	26.4	2	1
	Fine Gael	Fionán Lynch	4,741	18.5	3
	Independent	Patrick O'Shea	3,532	13.7
	Fine Gael	William O'Sullivan	3,384	13.2
Electorate: ?   Valid: 25,697   Quota: 6,425   Turnout:

See also

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

References

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External links

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