Wexford (Dáil constituency)

Wexford is a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency elects 5 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs). The method of election is the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).

For other similarly named constituencies, see Wexford (disambiguation).

Wexford
Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Constituency
Location of Wexford within Ireland
Current constituency
Created	1921
Seats	4 (1921–1923) 5 (1923–1961) 4 (1961–1981) 5 (1981–)
TDs	Paul Kehoe (FG)      Johnny Mythen (SF)      Brendan Howlin (Lab)      James Browne (FF)      Verona Murphy (Ind)
County council	Wexford County Council
EP constituency	South

History and boundaries

The constituency was created for the 1921 elections electing 4 deputies. For the 1923 general election, it gained a fifth seat. From 1961, it was reduced to 4 seats and from 1981 it has again elected 5 deputies. It spans the entire area of County Wexford, taking in Wexford, Enniscorthy, New Ross and Gorey.[1]

The Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013 defines the constituency as:[1]

"The county of Wexford."

TDs

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Wexford 1921–[2]
Key to parties   CnaG = Cumann na nGaedheal   FP = Farmers' Party   FF = Fianna Fáil   FG = Fine Gael   Ind = Independent   I4C = Inds. 4 Change   Lab = Labour Party   NLP = National Labour Party   NL = National League Party   Rep = Republican   SF (AT) = Sinn Féin (Anti-Treaty)   SF = Sinn Féin
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
2nd	1921[3]		Richard Corish (SF)		James Ryan (SF)		Séamus Doyle (SF)		Seán Etchingham (SF)	4 seats 1921–1923
3rd	1922[4]		Richard Corish (Lab)		Daniel O'Callaghan (Lab)		Séamus Doyle (SF (AT))		Michael Doyle (FP)
4th	1923[5]				James Ryan (Rep)		Robert Lambert (Rep)				Osmond Esmonde (CnaG)
5th	1927 (Jun)[6]				James Ryan (FF)		James Shannon (Lab)				John Keating (NL)
6th	1927 (Sep)[7]						Denis Allen (FF)		Michael Jordan (FP)		Sir Osmond Esmonde (CnaG)
7th	1932[8]								John Keating (CnaG)
8th	1933[9]						Patrick Kehoe (FF)
	1936 by-election[10]										Denis Allen (FF)
9th	1937[11]						John Keating (FG)		John Esmonde (FG)
10th	1938[12]
11th	1943[13]						John O'Leary (Lab)
12th	1944[14]						John O'Leary (NLP)		John Keating (FG)
	1945 by-election[15]		Brendan Corish (Lab)
13th	1948[16]								Sir John Esmonde (FG)
14th	1951[17]						John O'Leary (Lab)		Sir Anthony Esmonde (FG)
15th	1954[18]
16th	1957[19]						Seán Browne (FF)
17th	1961[20]						Lorcan Allen (FF)			4 seats 1961–1981
18th	1965[21]				James Kennedy (FF)
19th	1969[22]				Seán Browne (FF)
20th	1973[23]								John Esmonde (FG)
21st	1977[24]								Michael D'Arcy (FG)
22nd	1981[25]				Ivan Yates (FG)						Hugh Byrne (FF)
23rd	1982 (Feb)[26]		Seán Browne (FF)
24th	1982 (Nov)[27]		Avril Doyle (FG)				John Browne (FF)
25th	1987[28]								Brendan Howlin (Lab)
26th	1989[29]		Michael D'Arcy (FG)								Séamus Cullimore (FF)
27th	1992[30]		Avril Doyle (FG)								Hugh Byrne (FF)
28th	1997[31]		Michael D'Arcy (FG)
29th	2002[32]		Paul Kehoe (FG)		Liam Twomey (Ind)						Tony Dempsey (FF)
30th	2007[33]				Michael W. D'Arcy (FG)						Seán Connick (FF)
31st	2011[34]				Liam Twomey (FG)						Mick Wallace (Ind)
32nd	2016[35]				Michael W. D'Arcy (FG)		James Browne (FF)				Mick Wallace (I4C)
	2019 by-election[36]										Malcolm Byrne (FF)
33rd	2020				Johnny Mythen (SF)						Verona Murphy (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: Wexford[37][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
	Sinn Féin	Johnny Mythen	24.9	18,717
	Labour Party	Brendan Howlin	12.3	9,223	9,911	10,120	10,271	10,451	11,320	12,307	12,930
	Fianna Fáil	James Browne	10.7	8,058	8,462	8,858	8,913	9,075	9,151	9,246	10,432	11,085	11,188	11,660
	Fine Gael	Michael W. D'Arcy	8.6	6,472	6,577	6,610	6,656	6,692	6,857	6,922	7,020	7,357	7,395
	Fine Gael	Paul Kehoe	8.4	6,337	6,455	6,483	6,522	6,574	6,677	6,712	7,060	7,416	7,488	11,537
	Fianna Fáil	Malcolm Byrne	8.2	6,145	6,338	6,541	6,564	6,640	6,750	6,843	7,535	7,909	7,994	9,537
	Independent	Verona Murphy	7.8	5,825	6,498	6,664	6,841	7,118	7,250	7,820	9,014	10,995	11,114	11,849
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Sheehan	5.8	4,366	4,508	4,674	4,714	4,817	4,881	4,932
	Independent	Ger Carthy	4.0	3,024	3,603	3,746	3,923	4,437	4,636	5,738	6,004
	Green Party	Paula Roseingrave	2.7	2,028	2,374	2,399	2,584	2,683
	Aontú	Jim Codd	2.0	1,518	1,865	1,905	2,015
	Fianna Fáil	Lisa McDonald	1.8	1,351	1,411
	Solidarity–PBP	Deirdre Wadding[n 1]	1.5	1,116	2,902	2,932	3,376	3,599	4,359
	Inds. 4 Change	Seanie O'Shea	1.1	825	1,553	1,590
	Independent	Bart Murphy	0.1	68	103
Electorate: 113,092   Valid: 75,073   Spoilt: 549   Quota: 12,513   Turnout: 75,622 (66.9%)

1. People Before Profit, Solidarity and RISE contested this election as Solidarity–People Before Profit, so candidates appeared on the ballot under this name. Wadding was a member of People Before Profit.

2019 by-election

A by-election was held in the constituency on 29 November 2019, to fill the seat vacated by Mick Wallace on his election to the European Parliament in May 2019.[39]

2019 Wexford by-election
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5
	Fianna Fáil	Malcolm Byrne	31.2	12,506	12,660	13,082	14,729	18,830
	Fine Gael	Verona Murphy	23.8	9,543	9,620	9,943	10,836
	Labour Party	George Lawlor	20.0	8,024	8,112	8,517	10,907	14,476
	Sinn Féin	Johnny Mythen	10.3	4,125	4,344	4,665
	Green Party	Karin Dubsky	6.2	2,490	2,745	3,037
	Aontú	Jim Codd	5.2	2,102	2,395
	Solidarity–PBP	Cinnamon Blackmore	1.6	659
	Irish Freedom	Melissa O'Neill	1.2	489
	Independent	Charlie Keddy	0.3	130
Electorate: 114,483   Valid: 40,068   Spoilt: 314 (0.8%)   Quota: 20,035   Turnout: 40,382 (35.3%)

2016 general election

2016 general election: Wexford[40][41][35]
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	Count 13	Count 14
	Labour Party	Brendan Howlin	14.8	10,574	10,635	10,731	10,907	11,140	11,200	11,311	11,769	12,071
	Fianna Fáil	James Browne	13.7	9,827	9,850	9,937	9,983	10,007	10,066	10,095	10,150	11,699	12,434
	Inds. 4 Change	Mick Wallace	11.1	7,917	8,013	8,237	8,398	8,468	8,853	9,575	10,213	10,625	11,817	11,887	11,930	13,420
	Fine Gael	Michael W. D'Arcy	10.9	7,798	7,803	7,830	7,913	8,334	8,357	8,390	8,490	8,574	8,884	8,917	8,950	11,371	11,645
	Fine Gael	Paul Kehoe	10.7	7,696	7,703	7,764	7,808	8,152	8,259	8,284	8,344	8,522	8,874	8,922	8,949	9,593	9,704
	Sinn Féin	Johnny Mythen	10.1	7,260	7,357	7,415	7,451	7,466	7,712	8,036	8,248	8,350	8,795	8,824	8,832	9,405	9,652
	Fianna Fáil	Malcolm Byrne	8.5	6,115	6,123	6,139	6,204	6,222	6,241	6,286	6,367	6,950	7,122	7,393	7,409
	Fianna Fáil	Aoife Byrne	4.4	3,164	3,181	3,252	3,292	3,357	3,462	3,513	3,585
	Independent	Ger Carthy	4.4	3,134	3,189	3,268	3,307	3,351	3,428	3,563	3,855	4,041
	Social Democrats	Leonard Kelly	2.3	1,635	1,677	1,707	1,883	1,907	1,939	2,179
	AAA–PBP	Deirdre Wadding	2.1	1,472	1,558	1,616	1,731	1,749	1,843
	Independent	John Dwyer	1.8	1,265	1,279	1,323	1,355	1,362
	Fine Gael	Julie Hogan	1.7	1,214	1,233	1,266	1,305
	Green Party	Ann Walsh	1.5	1,056	1,064	1,093
	Independent	Caroline Foxe	1.3	930	956
	Independent	Emmet Moloney	0.7	476
	Direct Democracy	David Lloyd	0.2	128
Electorate: 109,861   Valid: 71,661   Spoilt: 691 (1.0%)   Quota: 11,944   Turnout: 72,352 (65.9%)

2011 general election

2011 general election: Wexford[42][34]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
	Independent	Mick Wallace	17.6	13,329
	Labour Party	Brendan Howlin	14.6	11,005	11,166	11,662	14,514
	Fine Gael	Liam Twomey	12.2	9,230	9,349	9,525	9,693	10,453	10,874	11,596
	Fine Gael	Michael W. D'Arcy	11.1	8,418	8,466	8,595	8,960	9,492	9,986	10,410
	Fine Gael	Paul Kehoe	11.1	8,386	8,459	8,627	9,125	9,674	10,256	11,046
	Fianna Fáil	John Browne	9.7	7,352	7,394	7,470	7,749	8,175	8,400	12,757
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Connick	8.8	6,675	6,744	7,014	7,144	7,396	7,515
	Labour Party	Pat Cody	5.9	4,457	4,505	4,752
	Sinn Féin	Anthony Kelly	5.8	4,353	4,422	4,901	5,181
	Independent	John Dwyer	1.2	908	943
	People Before Profit	Seamus O'Brien[43]	1.0	741	778
	Green Party	Danny Forde	0.5	391	399
	Independent	Siobhán Roseingrave	0.2	175	195
	Independent	Ruairí de Valera	0.2	119	129
Electorate: 111,063   Valid: 75,539   Spoilt: 812 (1.1%)   Quota: 12,590   Turnout: 76,351 (68.7%)

2007 general election

2007 general election: Wexford[33]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
	Fianna Fáil	John Browne	18.6	12,768
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Connick	14.3	9,826	10,396	10,476	10,862	11,850
	Labour Party	Brendan Howlin	13.8	9,445	9,540	10,008	10,413	11,852
	Fine Gael	Paul Kehoe	12.3	8,459	8,628	8,728	8,931	9,567	12,879
	Fine Gael	Michael W. D'Arcy	11.2	7,692	7,756	7,861	8,274	8,730	10,373	11,673
	Fianna Fáil	Lisa McDonald	9.3	6,355	6,669	6,757	7,189	7,752	8,430	8,572
	Fine Gael	Liam Twomey	8.0	5,507	5,531	5,678	5,927	6,308
	Sinn Féin	John Dwyer	7.4	5,065	5,125	5,302	5,431
	Progressive Democrats	Colm O'Gorman	3.1	2,162	2,188	2,322
	Green Party	Tom Harpur	1.2	802	807
	Independent	Alan McGuire	0.8	532	539
Electorate: 103,562   Valid: 68,616   Spoilt: 827 (1.2%)   Quota: 11,437   Turnout: 69,443 (67.1%)

2002 general election

2002 general election: Wexford[32]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8
	Fianna Fáil	John Browne	15.1	9,150	9,181	9,518	9,609	10,178
	Labour Party	Brendan Howlin	13.2	7,995	8,073	8,201	8,924	10,135
	Fianna Fáil	Hugh Byrne	12.5	7,556	7,574	7,620	7,755	8,236	8,702	9,013	9,072
	Fianna Fáil	Tony Dempsey	12.4	7,520	7,560	7,635	7,793	8,196	8,823	9,102	9,150
	Fine Gael	Paul Kehoe	11.7	7,048	7,099	7,387	8,791	9,195	12,631
	Independent	Liam Twomey	9.6	5,815	6,010	6,213	6,574	8,062	8,740	10,082
	Sinn Féin	John Dwyer	8.2	4,964	5,020	5,148	5,217
	Fine Gael	Michael D'Arcy	7.5	4,564	4,597	4,625	5,645	5,835
	Fine Gael	Avril Doyle	6.5	3,940	3,969	4,011
	Independent	Seán Doyle	2.1	1,274	1,315
	Independent	Miranda Ó Bulguidhir	0.7	424
	Christian Solidarity	Michael O'Connor	0.3	173
Electorate: 94,586   Valid: 60,423   Spoilt: 1,017 (1.7%)   Quota: 10,071   Turnout: 61,440 (64.9%)

1997 general election

1997 general election: Wexford[44]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8
	Fine Gael	Ivan Yates	18.0	10,024
	Labour Party	Brendan Howlin	17.1	9,510
	Fianna Fáil	John Browne	15.5	8,646	8,744	8,854	8,994	9,153	9,176	9,570
	Fianna Fáil	Hugh Byrne	12.6	7,003	7,035	7,084	7,179	7,304	7,323	7,720	8,416
	Fine Gael	Michael D'Arcy	11.8	6,561	6,786	6,876	6,998	7,256	7,290	11,046
	Fianna Fáil	Denis Asple	10.5	6,038	6,070	6,152	6,281	6,430	6,456	7,183	7,958
	Fine Gael	Avril Doyle	8.8	4,896	5,196	5,251	5,418	6,168	6,294
	Democratic Left	Michael Enright	2.6	1,454	1,484	1,513	1,798
	Green Party	Marie Percival	1.7	938	957	1,105
	Independent	Michael O'Connor	1.1	616	622
Electorate: 83,775   Valid: 55,686   Spoilt: 678 (1.2%)   Quota: 9,282   Turnout: 56,364 (67.3%)

1992 general election

1992 general election: Wexford[45]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8
	Labour Party	Brendan Howlin	19.8	10,338
	Fianna Fáil	John Browne	16.1	8,407	8,502	8,572	8,662	9,233
	Fianna Fáil	Hugh Byrne	14.0	7,299	7,384	7,426	7,534	7,780	7,915	8,145	8,423
	Fine Gael	Ivan Yates	13.5	7,043	7,371	7,403	7,673	10,716
	Fianna Fáil	Séamus Cullimore	12.3	6,436	6,622	6,696	7,105	7,351	7,460	7,581	7,783
	Fine Gael	Michael D'Arcy	10.8	5,626	5,757	5,805	5,936
	Fine Gael	Avril Doyle	10.2	5,314	5,673	5,680	6,045	7,527	9,303
	Democratic Left	Michael Enright	1.5	797	1,195	1,244
	Independent	Michael O'Connor	1.0	502	533	582
	Sinn Féin	Oliver Murray	0.8	410	439
Electorate: 75,886   Valid: 52,172   Spoilt: 765 (1.5%)   Quota: 8,696   Turnout: 52,937 (69.8%)

1989 general election

1989 general election: Wexford[29]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Labour Party	Brendan Howlin	9,253	18.0	1	1
	Fine Gael	Ivan Yates	7,161	14.0	3
	Fianna Fáil	John Browne	6,983	13.6	2
	Fianna Fáil	Séamus Cullimore	6,893	13.4	5
	Fine Gael	Michael D'Arcy	5,161	10.1	4
	Fianna Fáil	Hugh Byrne	5,128	10.0
	Fine Gael	Avril Doyle	4,596	9.0
	Fianna Fáil	Lorcan Allen	4,489	8.8
	Workers' Party	Michael Enright	1,049	2.0
	Progressive Democrats	William Willoughby	599	1.2
Electorate: ?   Valid: 51,312   Quota: 8,553   Turnout:

1987 general election

1987 general election: Wexford[28]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	John Browne	9,457	17.9	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Hugh Byrne	7,551	14.3	2
	Fianna Fáil	Lorcan Allen	6,225	11.8
	Fine Gael	Ivan Yates	6,018	11.4	3
	Fine Gael	Avril Doyle	5,518	10.4	4
	Fine Gael	Michael D'Arcy	5,247	9.9
	Labour Party	Brendan Howlin	5,086	9.6	5
	Progressive Democrats	Eoin Minihan	2,630	5.0
	Progressive Democrats	Gerald Doyle	2,078	3.9
	Independent	Padge Reck	1,829	3.5
	Workers' Party	Michael Enright	1,250	2.4
	Independent	Jim Tallon	33	0.1
Electorate: ?   Valid: 52,922   Quota: 8,821   Turnout:

November 1982 general election

November 1982 general election: Wexford[27]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	Michael D'Arcy	7,943	15.8	1
	Fine Gael	Ivan Yates	7,166	14.2	2
	Fianna Fáil	Hugh Byrne	6,492	12.9	3
	Fianna Fáil	Lorcan Allen	5,976	11.9
	Fianna Fáil	John Browne	5,891	11.7	5
	Fine Gael	Avril Doyle	5,753	11.4	4
	Labour Party	Brendan Howlin	4,962	9.9
	Fianna Fáil	Gus Byrne	4,895	9.7
	Workers' Party	John Roche	920	1.8
	Independent	James Hayes	363	0.7
Electorate: ?   Valid: 50,361   Quota: 8,394   Turnout:

February 1982 general election

February 1982 general election: Wexford[26]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	Michael D'Arcy	8,787	18.0	1	1
	Fine Gael	Ivan Yates	8,005	16.4	2
	Fianna Fáil	Hugh Byrne	6,772	13.9	3
	Fianna Fáil	Lorcan Allen	5,902	12.1	5
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Browne	5,863	12.0	4
	Fianna Fáil	Gus Byrne	5,184	10.6
	Labour Party	Desmond Corish	3,692	7.6
	Independent	Seán Doyle	1,622	3.3
	Fine Gael	Louise Hennessy	1,590	3.3
	Labour Party	William Moroney	1,002	2.1
	Independent	James Hayes	396	0.8
Electorate: ?   Valid: 48,815   Quota: 8,136   Turnout:

1981 general election

1981 general election: Wexford[25]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	Michael D'Arcy	10,290	20.7	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Lorcan Allen	7,465	15.0	3
	Fianna Fáil	Hugh Byrne	6,353	12.8	5
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Browne	5,859	11.8
	Fine Gael	Ivan Yates	5,522	11.1	2
	Labour Party	Brendan Corish	5,265	10.6	4
	Fianna Fáil	Gus Byrne	4,350	8.7
	Fine Gael	Louise Hennessy	2,210	4.4
	Labour Party	Denis North	1,523	3.1
	Independent	James Hayes	536	1.1
	Socialist Labour	John Teehan	447	0.9
Electorate: ?   Valid: 49,820   Quota: 9,965   Turnout:

1977 general election

1977 general election: Wexford[24]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Browne	8,701	19.7	2
	Labour Party	Brendan Corish	7,886	17.8	1
	Fianna Fáil	Lorcan Allen	7,733	17.5	4
	Fianna Fáil	Séamus Whelan	5,139	11.6
	Fine Gael	Michael D'Arcy	4,541	10.3	3
	Fine Gael	John Esmonde	4,142	9.4
	Fine Gael	Pat Codd	2,681	6.1
	Labour Party	Denis North	2,036	4.6
	Labour Party	William Rossiter	1,406	3.2
Electorate: ?   Valid: 44,265   Quota: 8,854   Turnout:

1973 general election

1973 general election: Wexford[23]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Labour Party	Brendan Corish	7,863	20.8	1
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Browne	6,289	16.6	2
	Fianna Fáil	Lorcan Allen	5,978	15.8	3
	Fine Gael	John Esmonde	5,074	13.4	4
	Fine Gael	Michael D'Arcy	4,487	11.9
	Fianna Fáil	Seán O'Gorman	3,487	9.2
	Labour Party	Andrew Doyle	2,781	7.4
	Fine Gael	Patrick Ronan	1,887	5.0
Electorate: ?   Valid: 37,846   Quota: 7,570   Turnout:

1969 general election

1969 general election: Wexford[22]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Labour Party	Brendan Corish	6,939	18.5	1
	Fianna Fáil	Lorcan Allen	6,632	17.7	3
	Fine Gael	Anthony Esmonde	6,380	17.0	2
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Browne	4,354	11.6	4
	Fianna Fáil	Seán O'Gorman	3,730	9.9
	Labour Party	Andrew Doyle	3,115	8.3
	Fine Gael	James Jenkins	2,229	5.9
	Fine Gael	Michael Hart	1,601	4.3
	Independent	Leo Carthy	900	2.4
	Labour Party	Patrick McDonald	817	2.2
	Independent	James Mahoney	813	2.2
Electorate: ?   Valid: 37,510   Quota: 7,503   Turnout:

1965 general election

1965 general election: Wexford[21]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Labour Party	Brendan Corish	9,014	25.4	1	1
	Fine Gael	Anthony Esmonde	6,042	17.0	2
	Fianna Fáil	Lorcan Allen	5,362	15.1	4
	Fianna Fáil	James Kennedy	5,269	14.8	3
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Browne	3,935	11.1
	Fine Gael	William Rackard	3,450	9.7
	Labour Party	Martin Dunbar	2,443	6.9
Electorate: ?   Valid: 35,515   Quota: 7,104   Turnout:

1961 general election

1961 general election: Wexford[20]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Labour Party	Brendan Corish	9,834	28.8	1	1
	Fine Gael	Anthony Esmonde	7,081	20.8	2
	Fianna Fáil	Lorcan Allen	5,221	15.3	3
	Fianna Fáil	James Ryan	5,170	15.2	4
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Browne	3,226	9.5
	Fine Gael	William Esmonde	1,405	4.1
	Sinn Féin	Morgan Dunne	1,304	3.8
	Independent	Thaddeus O'Loughlin	855	2.5
Electorate: ?   Valid: 34,096   Quota: 6,820   Turnout:

1957 general election

1957 general election: Wexford[19]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Denis Allen	7,112	18.8	1	1
	Labour Party	Brendan Corish	6,205	16.4	3
	Fianna Fáil	James Ryan	6,055	16.0	2
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Browne	5,788	15.3	4
	Fine Gael	Anthony Esmonde	5,650	14.9	5
	Labour Party	John O'Leary	5,086	13.4
	Fine Gael	Michael Fardy	1,236	3.3
	Independent	Eoin "the Pope" O'Mahony	759	2.0
Electorate: ?   Valid: 37,891   Quota: 6,316   Turnout:

1954 general election

1954 general election: Wexford[18]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	James Ryan	7,214	17.3	1	1
	Labour Party	Brendan Corish	7,001	16.8	2	1
	Fine Gael	Anthony Esmonde	6,247	15.0	3
	Fianna Fáil	Denis Allen	6,173	14.8	4
	Labour Party	John O'Leary	6,150	14.8	5
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Browne	3,834	9.2
	Fine Gael	James Bowe	3,510	8.4
	Fine Gael	John Doran	1,498	3.6
Electorate: ?   Valid: 41,627   Quota: 6,938   Turnout:

1951 general election

1951 general election: Wexford[46]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
	Fianna Fáil	Denis Allen	17.5	7,352
	Fianna Fáil	James Ryan	15.3	6,440	6,479	6,558	6,673	6,724	10,101
	Labour Party	Johnny Leary	14.7	6,179	6,458	7,040
	Labour Party	Brendan Corish	14.1	5,914	6,046	6,894	6,909	7,061
	Fine Gael	Anthony C. Esmonde	9.6	4,047	4,137	4,163	4,173	5,218	5,352	5,526
	Fine Gael	James Joseph Bowe	9.2	3,852	3,935	3,951	3,990	4,798	4,913	5,088
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Browne	9.1	3,827	3,871	3,899	4,057	4,090
	Fine Gael	James Galvin	4.9	2,060	2,123	2,148	2,151
	Labour Party	James Sinnott	3.7	1,561	1,643
	Clann na Poblachta	Séamus O'Neill	2.0	837
Electorate: 54,180   Valid: 42,069   Quota: 7,012   Turnout: 77.65%

1948 general election

1948 general election: Wexford[46]
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	Denis Allen	16.3	6,872	6,886	6,900	6,922	6,931	6,936	6,983	7,047
	Labour Party	Brendan Corish	15.6	6,590	6,625	6,685	7,147
	Fianna Fáil	James Ryan	14.4	6,103	6,122	6,126	6,130	6,151	6,153	6,191	6,267	6,344	6,370	8,960
	Fine Gael	John L. Esmonde	14.1	5,968	6,039	6,232	6,270	6,315	6,327	6,446	7,213
	National Labour Party	John O'Leary	13.1	5,513	5,553	5,562	5,629	5,682	5,718	5,849	6,062	6,467	6,539	6,754
	Fianna Fáil	Thomas O'Hanlon	7.1	3,008	3,025	3,028	3,038	3,048	3,050	3,080	3,143	3,274	3,298
	Fine Gael	James J. Bowe	4.3	1,799	1,813	1,884	1,897	1,906	1,907	1,921	2,057
	Clann na Poblachta	Patrick V. Carson	3.4	1,431	1,450	1,465	1,480	1,931	1,944	2,973	3,053	3,255	3,302	3,357
	Independent	John Keating	3.1	1,314	1,464	1,475	1,494	1,517	1,527	1,555
	Clann na Poblachta	Séamus O'Neill	2.8	1,189	1,199	1,209	1,243	1,488	1,510
	Clann na Poblachta	Thomas Cullimore	2.0	862	872	905	911
	Labour Party	Martin Dunbar	1.6	674	676	713
	Fine Gael	William M. Corcoran	1.2	518	523
	Independent	Robert J. Murphy	1.0	418
Electorate: 55,282   Valid: 42,259   Quota: 7,044   Turnout: 76.44%

1945 by-election

Following the death of Labour Party TD Richard Corish, a by-election was held on 4 December 1945. The seat was won by the Labour Party candidate Brendan Corish, son of the deceased TD.

1945 by-election: Wexford[46]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1
	Labour Party	Brendan Corish	50.2	16,263
	Fianna Fáil	Robert Moran	36.5	11,816
	Clann na Talmhan	Patrick Kinsella	9.4	3,051
	Independent	Robert Joseph Murphy	3.9	1,250
Electorate: 59,369   Valid: 32,380   Quota: 16,191   Turnout: 54.54%

1944 general election

1944 general election: Wexford[14]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	James Ryan	8,005	18.6	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Denis Allen	7,644	17.7	2	1
	National Labour Party	John O'Leary	6,864	15.9	3
	Fine Gael	John Keating	5,937	13.8	5
	Fine Gael	John Esmonde	5,337	12.4
	Labour Party	Richard Corish	5,118	11.9	4
	Fianna Fáil	Robert Moran	2,543	5.9
	Independent	Thomas Byrne	1,173	2.7
	Labour Party	John Kelly	536	1.2
Electorate: ?   Valid: 43,157   Quota: 7,193   Turnout:

1943 general election

1943 general election: Wexford[13]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	James Ryan	7,518	16.4	4
	Fianna Fáil	Denis Allen	7,320	16.0	3
	Labour Party	Richard Corish	6,986	15.2	1
	Fine Gael	John Esmonde	6,004	13.1	2
	Fine Gael	John Keating	4,502	9.8
	Labour Party	John O'Leary	4,197	9.1	5
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Kehoe	3,554	7.7
	Fine Gael	James Bowe	3,362	7.3
	Labour Party	Christopher Culleton	2,458	5.4
Electorate: ?   Valid: 45,901   Quota: 7,651   Turnout:

1938 general election

1938 general election: Wexford[12]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Denis Allen	9,647	20.7	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	James Ryan	9,214	19.7	2	1
	Labour Party	Richard Corish	9,162	19.6	3	1
	Fine Gael	John Keating	6,218	13.3	5
	Fine Gael	John Esmonde	5,944	12.7	4
	Fianna Fáil	Robert Moran	3,368	7.2
	Fine Gael	Edward Dundon	3,157	6.8
Electorate: ?   Valid: 46,710   Quota: 7,786   Turnout:

1937 general election

1937 general election: Wexford[11]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Denis Allen	10,078	21.6	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	James Ryan	9,163	19.6	2	1
	Labour Party	Richard Corish	8,410	18.0	3	1
	Fine Gael	John Keating	6,142	13.1	5
	Fine Gael	John Esmonde	5,932	12.7	4
	Fine Gael	James Bowe	4,421	9.5
	Fianna Fáil	Thomas Redmond	2,594	5.6
Electorate: ?   Valid: 46,740   Quota: 7,791   Turnout:

1936 by-election

Following the death of Fine Gael TD Osmond Esmonde, a by-election was held on 17 August 1936. The seat was won by the Fianna Fáil candidate Denis Allen.

1936 by-election: Wexford[10]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1
	Fianna Fáil	Denis Allen	51.0	23,263
	Fine Gael	John Esmonde	36.7	16,734
	Labour Party	Michael Murphy	9.4	4,276
	Cumann Poblachta na hÉireann	Stephen Hayes	2.9	1,301
Electorate: 57,688   Valid: 45,574   Quota: 22,788   Turnout: 79.0%

1933 general election

1933 general election: Wexford[9]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Labour Party	Richard Corish	8,214	17.3	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Kehoe	7,365	15.5	4
	Fianna Fáil	James Ryan	6,818	14.4	5
	Cumann na nGaedheal	John Keating	6,773	14.3	2
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Osmond Esmonde	6,305	13.3	3
	Fianna Fáil	Denis Allen	5,384	11.4
	National Centre Party	Michael Doyle	3,606	7.6
	Cumann na nGaedheal	James Walsh	2,944	6.2
Electorate: ?   Valid: 47,409   Quota: 7,902   Turnout:

1932 general election

1932 general election: Wexford[8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	James Ryan	7,813	18.1	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Denis Allen	6,888	16.0	2
	Labour Party	Richard Corish	5,803	13.4	3
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Osmond Esmonde	5,364	12.4	4
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Kehoe	4,229	9.8
	Cumann na nGaedheal	John Keating	3,848	8.9	5
	Independent	Michael Doyle	3,322	7.7
	Labour Party	James Shannon	2,715	6.3
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Michael Jordan	2,612	6.1
	Labour Party	John Noctor	574	1.3
Electorate: ?   Valid: 43,168   Quota: 7,195   Turnout:

September 1927 general election

September 1927 general election: Wexford[7]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Denis Allen	7,270	18.6	1	1
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Osmond Esmonde	6,362	16.3	3
	Fianna Fáil	James Ryan	5,987	15.3	2
	Labour Party	Richard Corish	4,989	12.7	5
	Labour Party	James Shannon	4,546	11.6
	Farmers' Party	Michael Jordan	3,944	10.1	4
	Farmers' Party	Michael Doyle	3,407	8.7
	Independent	John Keating	2,654	6.8
Electorate: ?   Valid: 39,159   Quota: 6,527   Turnout:

June 1927 general election

June 1927 general election: Wexford[6]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Labour Party	Richard Corish	6,644	16.6	1
	Fianna Fáil	James Ryan	5,166	12.9	2
	Fianna Fáil	Denis Allen	4,059	10.1
	Farmers' Party	Michael Doyle	4,022	10.1	3
	Labour Party	James Shannon	3,757	9.4	5
	Farmers' Party	Michael Jordan	3,533	8.8
	National League Party	John Keating	3,402	8.5	4
	Independent	Patrick Fanning	2,667	6.7
	Fianna Fáil	John Roche	1,965	4.9
	Cumann na nGaedheal	James Stafford	1,733	4.3
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Seán O'Kennedy	1,673	4.2
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Thomas McCarthy	1,411	3.5
Electorate: ?   Valid: 40,032   Quota: 6,673   Turnout:

1923 general election

1923 general election: Wexford[5]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Labour Party	Richard Corish	7,744	20.3	1	1
	Farmers' Party	Michael Doyle	7,176	18.9	2	1
	Republican	Robert Lambert	6,751	17.7	3	1
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Osmond Esmonde	5,434	14.3	4
	Republican	James Ryan	3,557	9.3	5
	Farmers' Party	Michael Jordan	1,976	5.2
	Labour Party	James Shannon	1,845	4.9
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Thomas McCarthy	1,270	3.3
	Labour Party	Daniel O'Callaghan	863	2.3
	Independent	John Cummins	625	1.6
	Independent	Barry Brereton	500	1.3
	Independent	Hector Hughes	330	0.9
Electorate: 60,171   Valid: 38,071   Quota: 6,346   Turnout: 63.3%

1922 general election

1922 general election: Wexford[4]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Labour Party	Richard Corish	11,692	35.5	1	1
	Farmers' Party	Michael Doyle	6,263	19.0	2	2
	Sinn Féin (Anti-Treaty)	James Ryan	3,879	11.8
	Sinn Féin (Anti-Treaty)	Séamus Doyle	2,819	8.6	4	7
	Sinn Féin (Pro-Treaty)	John O'Byrne	2,370	7.2
	Labour Party	Daniel O'Callaghan	2,229	6.8	3	5
	Sinn Féin (Anti-Treaty)	Seán Etchingham	2,185	6.6
	Farmers' Party	Michael Jordan	1,524	4.6
Electorate: 49,058   Valid: 32,961   Quota: 6,593   Turnout: 67.2%

1921 general election

1921 general election: Wexford[3]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Sinn Féin	Richard Corish	Unopposed	N/A	1
	Sinn Féin	Séamus Doyle	Unopposed	N/A	2
	Sinn Féin	Seán Etchingham	Unopposed	N/A	3
	Sinn Féin	James Ryan	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

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External links

• Oireachtas Members Database