| Dublin Cabra | |
|---|---|
| FormerDáil constituency | |
| Former constituency | |
| Created | 1977 |
| Abolished | 1981 |
| Seats | 3 |
| Local government area | Dublin City |
| Created from | |
| Replaced by | |
Dublin Cabra was aparliamentary constituency represented inDáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament orOireachtas from 1977 to 1981. The constituency elected 3 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs) to the Dáil, usingproportional representation by means of thesingle transferable vote (PR-STV).
The constituency was created in 1977, under theElectoral (Amendment) Act 1974,[1] taking in parts of the formerDublin North-West andDublin Central constituencies, as part of the redistribution of constituencies which attempted to secure the re-election of the outgoingFine Gael–Labour Party government. The constituency was abolished in 1981 with most of it going into a revived Dublin Central constituency. There were 16 electoral areas in Dublin Cabra; 13 went to Dublin Central for the 1981 election, with three going to the newDublin West (the areas of Phoenix Park, Cabra West A and Cabra West C).
It covered theCabra,Arran Quay andPhoenix Park areas ofDublin city.[1]
| Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Dublin Cabra 1977–1981[2] | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Key to parties
| |||||||
| Dáil | Election | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | Deputy (Party) | |||
| 21st | 1977[3] | Tom Leonard (FF) | Vivion de Valera (FF) | Hugh Byrne (FG) | |||
| 22nd | 1981 | 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.
^ *: Outgoing TD
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Vivion de Valera[*] | 22.9 | 5,830 | 5,836 | 5,852 | 6,017 | 6,071 | 7,278 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Hugh Byrne[*] | 19.9 | 5,042 | 5,050 | 5,776 | 5,953 | 6,206 | 6,287 | 6,307 | 6,748 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Tom Leonard | 14.7 | 3,728 | 3,741 | 3,756 | 4,019 | 4,055 | 4,929 | 5,740 | 5,956 | 5,988 | |
| Labour | Patrick Carroll | 11.1 | 2,817 | 2,831 | 2,875 | 3,097 | 3,702 | 3,796 | 3,821 | 5,625 | 5,850 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Richard Gogan[*] | 8.8 | 2,224 | 2,235 | 2,252 | 2,375 | 2,436 | |||||
| Labour | David Thornley[*] | 6.4 | 1,615 | 1,628 | 1,671 | 1,860 | ||||||
| Labour | Michael Mullen | 6.3 | 1,603 | 1,612 | 1,693 | 1,965 | 2,766 | 2,846 | 2,858 | |||
| Independent | Frank Sherwin | 5.6 | 1,427 | 1,469 | 1,511 | |||||||
| Fine Gael | John McKay | 3.9 | 991 | 997 | ||||||||
| Independent | Frank Hall | 0.5 | 126 | |||||||||
| Electorate: 37,656 Valid: 25,403 Quota: 6,351 Turnout: 67.4% | ||||||||||||