Tipperary (Dáil constituency)

Tipperary is a parliamentary constituency that has been represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas, since the 2016 general election. 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). Another constituency of the same name existed between 1923 and 1948.

Tipperary
Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Constituency
Current constituency
Created	2016
Seats	5
TDs	Martin Browne (SF)      Jackie Cahill (FF)      Alan Kelly (Lab)      Michael Lowry (Ind)      Mattie McGrath (Ind)
County council	Tipperary County Council
EP constituency	South

History and boundaries

Tipperary
Former Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Constituency
Former constituency
Created	1923
Abolished	1948
Seats	7
County council	County Tipperary

1923–1948

The constituency was created under the Electoral Act 1923, and was first used at the 1923 general election, replacing the previous Tipperary Mid, North and South constituency and the Tipperary part of the Waterford–Tipperary East constituency.

It consisted of the administrative counties of North Tipperary and South Tipperary.[1] The constituency elected 7 deputies.

Under the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1947 Tipperary was abolished and divided into two new constituencies: Tipperary South and Tipperary North. These constituencies were first used for the 1948 general election

2016–2020

The Constituency Commission proposed in its 2012 report that at the next general election a new constituency called Tipperary be created.[2] The report proposed changes to the constituencies of Ireland so as to reduce the total number of TDs from 166 to 158.[3]

It was established by the Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013.[4] It replaced the constituencies of Tipperary North and Tipperary South. The new constituency incorporates all of South Tipperary, and most of North Tipperary except for the electoral divisions of: Aglishcloghane, Ballingarry, Ballylusky, Borrisokane, Carrig, Cloghjordan, Cloghprior, Clohaskin, Finnoe, Graigue, Kilbarron, Lorrha East, Lorrha West, Mertonhall, Rathcabban, Redwood, Riverstown, Terryglass, and Uskane, in the former Rural District of Borrisokane; and Ardcrony, Ballygibbon, Ballymackey, Knigh, and Monsea, in the former Rural District of Nenagh, which are in the new Offaly constituency.

The 2013 Act defines the constituency as:[4]

"The county of South Tipperary;

and the county of North Tipperary, except the part thereof which is comprised in the constituency of Offaly."

Since 2020

The Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2017 defines the constituency as:[5]

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

TDs

TDs 1923–1948

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Tipperary 1923–1948[6]
Key to parties   CnaT = Clann na Talmhan   CnaP = Clann na Poblachta   CnaG = Cumann na nGaedheal   FP = Farmers' Party   FF = Fianna Fáil   FG = Fine Gael   Ind = Independent   Lab = Labour Party   NCP = National Centre Party   Rep = Republican
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
4th	1923[7]		Dan Breen (Rep)		Patrick Ryan (Rep)		Michael Heffernan (FP)		Louis Dalton (CnaG)		Séamus Burke (CnaG)		Daniel Morrissey (Lab)		Seán McCurtin (CnaG)
5th	1927 (Jun)[8]		Seán Hayes (FF)		William X. O'Brien (Lab)				Andrew Fogarty (FF)						John Hassett (CnaG)
6th	1927 (Sep)[9]				Timothy Sheehy (FF)
7th	1932[10]						Dan Breen (FF)						Daniel Morrissey (Ind)
8th	1933[11]				Martin Ryan (FF)								Daniel Morrissey (CnaG)		Richard Curran (NCP)
9th	1937[12]		William X. O'Brien (Lab)								Séamus Burke (FG)		Jeremiah Ryan (FG)		Daniel Morrissey (FG)
10th	1938[13]		Frank Loughman (FF)								Richard Curran (FG)
11th	1943[14]		Richard Stapleton (Lab)								William O'Donnell (CnaT)
12th	1944[15]		Frank Loughman (FF)		Mary Ryan (FF)								Richard Mulcahy (FG)
	1947 by-election[16]										Patrick Kinane (CnaP)
13th	1948	Constituency abolished. See Tipperary North and Tipperary South

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 2016

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Tipperary 2016–
Key to parties   FF = Fianna Fáil   Ind = Independent   Lab = Labour Party   SF = Sinn Féin   WUA = Workers and Unemployed Action
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
32nd	2016[17]		Séamus Healy (WUA)		Alan Kelly (Lab)		Jackie Cahill (FF)		Michael Lowry (Ind)		Mattie McGrath (Ind)
33rd	2020[18]		Martin Browne (SF)

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: Tipperary[19][20]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9
	Independent	Michael Lowry	18.1	14,802
	Sinn Féin	Martin Browne	12.2	10,004	10,126	10,304	10,834	11,207	11,805	11,964	14,046
	Independent	Mattie McGrath	11.4	9,321	9,533	9,815	10,152	11,147	11,727	12,478	15,127
	Fianna Fáil	Jackie Cahill	9.7	7,940	8,171	8,948	9,114	10,809	11,684	12,118	12,535	12,939
	Labour Party	Alan Kelly	9.6	7,857	7,979	8,445	9,282	9,618	11,390	12,135	12,773	13,222
	Fine Gael	Garret Ahearn	7.6	6,206	6,273	6,327	6,553	6,837	7,034	10,626	11,086	11,499
	Independent	Séamus Healy[n 1]	7.1	5,829	5,866	5,950	6,306	6,656	6,936	7,058
	Fine Gael	Mary Newman Julian	6.0	4,926	5,054	5,149	5,518	5,730	6,206
	Independent	Joe Hannigan	5.8	4,715	4,826	5,133	5,313	5,461
	Fianna Fáil	Imelda Goldsboro	5.0	4,082	4,139	4,631	4,749
	Green Party	Rob O'Donnell	3.9	3,170	3,201	3,315
	Fianna Fáil	Sandra Farrell	2.7	2,233	2,275
	Irish Freedom	Dolores Cahill	0.6	521	527
	Independent	Marese Skehan[n 2][21]	0.2	182	186
Electorate: 126,781   Valid: 81,788   Spoilt: 635   Quota: 13,632   Turnout: 65.01%

1. Healy was a member of the Workers and Unemployed Action party but was officially a non party/independent candidate on this occasion.
2. The existing ballot paper, which contained the name of the deceased candidate, Marese Skehan, was still used.

On 3 February 2020, following the sudden death of independent candidate, Marese Skehan, the election in the Tipperary constituency was due to be postponed, with nominations to be re-opened.[22][23][24] However, on 5 February the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government issued a Special Difficulty Order allowing the election to proceed on the same date as other constituencies. This was in consideration of the constitutional requirement that elections take place within 30 days of the dissolution of the Dáil.[21][25]

2016 general election

2016 general election: Tipperary[26][27][28][17]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
	Independent	Michael Lowry	16.8	13,064
	Independent	Mattie McGrath	14.4	11,237	11,781	12,819	13,064
	Labour Party	Alan Kelly	9.9	7,746	8,209	8,387	9,456	9,958	11,067	11,750
	Independent	Séamus Healy[n 1]	9.6	7,452	7,834	8,477	8,572	11,427	12,029	12,874
	Fianna Fáil	Jackie Cahill	9.5	7,414	7,542	9,103	9,530	10,114	15,062
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Smith	8.6	6,718	6,817	7,565	8,165	8,891
	Fine Gael	Tom Hayes	8.0	6,218	6,821	7,026	9,373	9,560	9,943	10,437
	Sinn Féin	Seamus Morris	7.3	5,724	5,921	6,038	6,205
	Fine Gael	Noel Coonan	6.1	4,782	5,140	5,193
	Fianna Fáil	Siobhán Ambrose	5.7	4,472	4,687
	Fine Gael	Marie Murphy	2.0	1,542
	Green Party	Gearóid Fitzgibbon	1.7	1,341
	Independent	Michael Dillon	0.3	238
Electorate: 112,615   Valid: 77,948   Spoilt: 646   Quota: 12,992   Turnout: 69.8%

1. Healy was a member of the Workers and Unemployed Action party but was officially a non party/independent candidate on this occasion.

1947 by-election

Following the death of Clann na Talmhan TD William O'Donnell, a by-election was held on 29 October 1947. The seat was won by the Clann na Poblachta candidate Patrick Kinane.

1947 by-election: Tipperary[29]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Hayes	32.1	17,169	18,156	19,868	21,647
	Clann na Poblachta	Patrick Kinane	21.4	11,471	13,004	16,281	23,265
	Fine Gael	Jeremiah Ryan	21.2	11,341	14,386	15,795
	Labour Party	Denis O'Sullivan	13.5	7,201	7,427
	Clann na Talmhan	Michael Fitzgerald	11.8	6,328
Electorate: 81,112   Valid: 53,510   Quota: 26,756   Turnout: 65.97%

1944 general election

1944 general election: Tipperary[15]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Dan Breen	10,571	17.3	1	1
	Fine Gael	Richard Mulcahy	7,989	13.0	2	1
	Fianna Fáil	Mary Ryan	7,330	12.0	3
	Fine Gael	Daniel Morrissey	6,578	9.8	6
	Fianna Fáil	Andrew Fogarty	5,791	9.5	4
	Fianna Fáil	Frank Loughman	4,705	7.7	5
	Clann na Talmhan	William O'Donnell	4,638	7.6	7
	Labour Party	J A Boland	3,420	5.6
	Independent	John Stakelum	3,026	4.9
	Labour Party	Richard Stapleton	2,821	4.6
	Fianna Fáil	James Gardiner	2,758	4.5
	Fianna Fáil	Thomas Bourke	2,079	3.4
	Ailtirí na hAiséirghe	Tomás Ó Dochartaigh	1,072	1.8
Electorate: ?   Valid: 61,261   Quota: 7,658   Turnout:

1943 general election

1943 general election: Tipperary[14]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Dan Breen	8,742	13.4	1	1
	Fine Gael	Daniel Morrissey	5,178	7.9	2
	Fianna Fáil	Martin Ryan	4,775	7.3	4
	Fianna Fáil	Andrew Fogarty	4,010	6.1	3
	Fine Gael	Jeremiah Ryan	3,796	5.8	5
	Clann na Talmhan	William O'Donnell	3,582	5.5	6
	Independent	Daniel Kennedy	3,538	5.4
	Independent	Séamus Burke	3,300	5.0
	Fianna Fáil	Frank Loughman	2,747	4.2
	Fianna Fáil	Thomas Meagher	2,681	4.1
	Fine Gael	Denis Bourke	2,489	3.8
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Hayes	2,481	3.8
	Fine Gael	Thomas Bourke	2,272	3.5
	Labour Party	Richard Stapleton	2,258	3.5	7
	Labour Party	Patrick Tierney	2,010	3.1
	Independent	Timothy Sheehy	1,796	2.8
	Independent	John Lee	1,758	2.7
	Labour Party	William Cotter	1,744	2.7
	Fine Gael	Richard Curran	1,426	2.2
	Labour Party	Thomas Malone	1,383	2.1
	Córas na Poblachta	Denis J. O'Driscoll	1,297	2.0
	Fine Gael	Anthony Esmonde	1,289	2.0
	Independent	Mary Corbett	466	0.7
	Independent	Mary Phillips	408	0.6
Electorate: ?   Valid: 65,426   Quota: 8,179   Turnout:

1938 general election

1938 general election: Tipperary[13]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Dan Breen	9,984	14.7	1	1
	Fine Gael	Jeremiah Ryan	7,745	11.4	7
	Fianna Fáil	Andrew Fogarty	7,529	11.1	3
	Fianna Fáil	Martin Ryan	7,174	10.6	2
	Fine Gael	Daniel Morrissey	6,976	10.3	6
	Labour Party	William X. O'Brien	6,009	8.9
	Fine Gael	Richard Curran	5,960	8.8	5
	Fine Gael	Séamus Burke	5,657	8.3
	Fianna Fáil	Frank Loughman	5,495	8.1	4
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Gaynor	5,361	7.9
Electorate: ?   Valid: 67,890   Quota: 8,487   Turnout:

1937 general election

1937 general election: Tipperary[12]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Dan Breen	8,849	13.1	1	1
	Fine Gael	Daniel Morrissey	7,770	11.5	2
	Fine Gael	Séamus Burke	6,743	10.0	4
	Labour Party	William X. O'Brien	6,380	9.5	7
	Fianna Fáil	Martin Ryan	5,611	8.3	6
	Fianna Fáil	Andrew Fogarty	5,550	8.2	3
	Fianna Fáil	Timothy Sheehy	5,423	8.0
	Fine Gael	Jeremiah Ryan	5,027	7.4	5
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Hayes	4,671	6.9
	Fine Gael	Richard Curran	4,420	6.6
	Independent	Daniel Kennedy	4,072	6.0
	Fine Gael	James Timoney	3,009	4.5
Electorate: ?   Valid: 67,525   Quota: 8,441   Turnout:

1933 general election

1933 general election: Tipperary[11]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Andrew Fogarty	9,362	13.5	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Hayes	6,909	10.0	5
	National Centre Party	Richard Curran	6,896	10.0	3
	Fianna Fáil	Martin Ryan	6,732	9.7	6
	Fianna Fáil	Dan Breen	5,811	8.4	7
	Fianna Fáil	Timothy Sheehy	5,707	8.2
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Daniel Morrissey	5,104	7.4	2
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Séamus Burke	4,940	7.1	4
	National Centre Party	Joseph McCann	4,405	6.4
	Labour Party	William X. O'Brien	4,102	5.9
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Jeremiah Ryan	3,997	5.8
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Seán McCurtin	3,252	4.7
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Michael Heffernan	2,005	2.9
Electorate: ?   Valid: 69,222   Quota: 8,653   Turnout:

1932 general election

1932 general election: Tipperary[10]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Dan Breen	8,817	13.6	1	1
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Séamus Burke	8,056	12.4	2
	Independent	Daniel Morrissey	6,388	9.8	3
	Fianna Fáil	Timothy Sheehy	5,332	8.2	4
	Fianna Fáil	Martin Ryan	4,806	7.4
	Fianna Fáil	Andrew Fogarty	4,787	7.4	5
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Hayes	4,611	7.1	6
	Fianna Fáil	James Davin	4,308	6.6
	Cumann na nGaedheal	John Hassett	4,196	6.5	7
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Michael Heffernan	4,043	6.2
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Seán McCurtin	3,517	5.4
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Patrick Henehan	3,111	4.8
	Labour Party	Daniel Kennedy	1,632	2.5
	Labour Party	Richard Stapleton	1,354	2.1
Electorate: ?   Valid: 64,958   Quota: 8,120   Turnout:

September 1927 general election

September 1927 general election: Tipperary[9]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Séamus Burke	9,852	16.8	1	1
	Labour Party	Daniel Morrissey	8,344	14.2	2	1
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Hayes	6,567	11.2	3	6
	Farmers' Party	Michael Heffernan	5,914	10.1	5	9
	Fianna Fáil	Andrew Fogarty	4,943	8.4	4	8
	Fianna Fáil	Timothy Sheehy	4,860	8.3	7	9
	Cumann na nGaedheal	John Hassett	4,031	6.9	6	9
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Gleeson	3,701	6.3
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Jeremiah Ryan	3,682	6.3
	Labour Party	William X. O'Brien	2,668	4.6
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Laurence Tobin	2,398	4.1
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Richard Trecey	1,672	2.9
Electorate: 81,381   Valid: 58,632   Quota: 7,330   Turnout: 72.1%

June 1927 general election

June 1927 general election: Tipperary[8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Labour Party	Daniel Morrissey	10,307	17.2	1	1
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Séamus Burke	8,043	13.4	1	2
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Hayes	5,232	8.7	6	15
	Farmers' Party	Michael Heffernan	4,723	7.9	3	12
	Fianna Fáil	Andrew Fogarty	3,795	6.3	5	15
	Fianna Fáil	Timothy Sheehy	3,626	6.1
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Gleeson	2,998	5.0
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Patrick Ryan	2,991	5.0
	Cumann na nGaedheal	John Hassett	2,385	4.0	7	15
	Labour Party	William X. O'Brien	2,224	3.7	4	15
	Farmers' Party	John Seymour	2,011	3.4
	Independent	Thomas Condon	1,908	3.2
	Independent	Frank McGrath	1,859	3.1
	Independent	Dan Breen	1,480	2.5
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Kennedy	1,401	2.3
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Patrick Morris	1,283	2.1
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Martin Maher	1,227	2.1
	Independent	John Hackett	1,192	2.0
	Independent	John Cronin	1,175	2.0
Electorate: 81,381   Valid: 59,860   Quota: 7,483   Turnout: 73.6%

1923 general election

1923 general election: Tipperary[7]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Séamus Burke	12,257	22.4	1	1
	Republican	Dan Breen	9,026	16.5	2	1
	Labour Party	Daniel Morrissey	5,580	10.2	6
	Republican	Patrick Ryan	5,507	10.1	5
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Seán McCurtin	5,088	9.3	4
	Farmers' Party	Michael Heffernan	3,130	5.7	7
	Labour Party	Patrick Doherty	2,955	5.4
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Louis Dalton	2,793	5.1	3
	Farmers' Party	Martin Meagher	1,609	2.9
	Republican	William Quirke	1,569	2.9
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Martin Dwyer	1,427	2.6
	Farmers' Party	John O'Meara	1,321	2.4
	Independent	Patrick Ryan	1,037	1.9
	Farmers' Party	Peter Moloney	733	1.3
	Independent	William Gleeson	655	1.2
Electorate: 86,703   Valid: 54,687   Quota: 6,836   Turnout: 63.1%

See also

• Tipperary (UK Parliament constituency, pre-1885)
• 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