Tipperary South (Dáil Éireann constituency)

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

Tipperary South
Former Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Constituency
Location of Tipperary South within Ireland
Former constituency
Created	1948
Abolished	2016
Seats	4 (1948–1977) 3 (1977–1981) 4 (1981–1997) 3 (1997–2016)
County council	South Tipperary County Waterford

Tipperary South was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas, from 1948 to 2016. The method of election was the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).

History and boundaries

It was created for the 1948 general election when the former Tipperary constituency was divided into Tipperary North and Tipperary South. It was made up of the administrative county of South Tipperary, some areas in North Tipperary and also a small portion of County Waterford to the south of Clonmel. The principle population centres were Tipperary, Clonmel, Cashel, Carrick-on-Suir and Cahir.

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

"The county of South Tipperary, except the part thereof which is comprised in the constituency of Tipperary North;

and, in the former Rural District of Clonmel No. 2 in the county of Waterford, the electoral divisions of:

Kilmacomma, Kilronan;

and the townlands of:

Barravakeen, Bawnard, Boola, Carrickabrone, Coolishal, Derrinlaur Lower, Derrinlaur Upper, Glendaw, Gurteen Lower, Gurteen Upper, Lisheen, Tikincor Lower, Tikincor Upper, in the electoral division of Gurteen;

and the townlands of:

Croan Lower, Croan Upper, Glenary, Glennagad, Kilgainy Lower, Kilgainy Upper, Knocklucas, Knocknagriffin, Lyranearla, Monacalee, Poulboy, Poulnagunoge, Scrothea East, Scrothea West, Spa, in the electoral division of St. Mary's."

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

TDs

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Tipperary South 1948–2016^[2]
Key to parties CC = Ceann Comhairle CnaP = Clann na Poblachta FF = Fianna Fáil FG = Fine Gael Ind = Independent Lab = Labour Party WUA = Workers and Unemployed Action
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
13th	1948^[3]		Dan Breen (FF)		Michael Davern (FF)		Richard Mulcahy (FG)		John Timoney (CnaP)
14th	1951^[4]								Patrick Crowe (FG)
15th	1954^[5]								Patrick Crowe (FG)
16th	1957^[6]								Frank Loughman (FF)
17th	1961^[7]						Patrick Hogan (FG)		Seán Treacy (Lab)
18th	1965^[8]		Jackie Fahey (FF)		Don Davern (FF)
19th	1969^[9]				Noel Davern (FF)
20th	1973^[10]						Brendan Griffin (FG)
21st	1977^[11]	3 seats 1977–1981						Seán Treacy (CC)
22nd	1981^[12]		Seán McCarthy (FF)		Carrie Acheson (FF)				Seán Treacy (Lab)
23rd	1982 (Feb)^[13]				Seán Byrne (FF)
24th	1982 (Nov)^[14]				Seán Byrne (FF)
25th	1987^[15]				Noel Davern (FF)				Seán Treacy (Ind)
26th	1989^[16]		Michael Ferris (Lab)				Theresa Ahearn (FG)		Seán Treacy (CC)
27th	1992^[17]								Seán Treacy (CC)
28th	1997^[18]							3 seats from 1997
	2000 by-election^[19]		Séamus Healy (Ind)
	2001 by-election^[20]						Tom Hayes (FG)
29th	2002^[21]
30th	2007^[22]		Martin Mansergh (FF)		Mattie McGrath (FF)
31st	2011^[23]		Séamus Healy^[24] (WUA)		Mattie McGrath (Ind)
32nd	2016	Constituency abolished. See Tipperary

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: Tipperary South^[23]
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5
	Workers and Unemployed Action	Séamus Healy^[24]	21.3	8,818	9,542	11,265
	Fine Gael	Tom Hayes	21.5	8,896	9,214	10,186	10,463
	Independent	Mattie McGrath	14.7	6,074	6,349	7,078	7,413	9,978
	Fine Gael	Michael Murphy	13.1	5,402	5,563	6,404	6,633	7,948
	Fianna Fáil	Martin Mansergh	13.1	5,419	5,588	5,865	5,948
	Labour Party	Phil Prendergast	10.9	4,525	4,966
	Sinn Féin	Michael Browne	4.5	1,860
	Green Party	Paul McNally	0.9	367
Electorate: 57,420 Valid: 41,361 Spoilt: 432 (1.0%) Quota: 10,341 Turnout: 41,793 (72.8%)

2007 general election

2007 general election: Tipperary South^[22]
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8
	Fine Gael	Tom Hayes	21.1	8,200	8,386	8,823	9,070	10,518
	Fianna Fáil	Mattie McGrath	19.6	7,608	7,711	7,811	7,994	8,463	10,093
	Fianna Fáil	Martin Mansergh	15.8	6,110	6,261	6,406	6,528	6,752	8,813	9,028	9,341
	Independent	Séamus Healy	14.7	5,707	5,884	6,036	6,456	7,548	8,591	9,198	9,282
	Fianna Fáil	Siobhán Ambrose	11.1	4,286	4,414	4,497	4,649	5,097
	Labour Party	Phil Prendergast	8.8	3,400	3,631	3,752	3,907
	Sinn Féin	Liam Browne	3.1	1,198	1,266	1,363
	Independent	Tom Wood	2.9	1,141	1,187
	Green Party	Bernard Lennon	1.5	591
	Progressive Democrats	Richie Molloy	0.9	364
	Progressive Democrats	Peadar O'Donnell	0.5	177
Electorate: 54,637 Valid: 38,782 Spoilt: 330 (0.8%) Quota: 9,696 Turnout: 39,112 (71.6%)

2002 general election

2002 general election: Tipperary South^[21]
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3
	Fine Gael	Tom Hayes	24.5	8,997	9,133	10,724
	Fianna Fáil	Noel Davern	24.2	8,888	9,085	10,029
	Independent	Séamus Healy	20.1	7,350	7,765	9,477
	Fianna Fáil	Martin Mansergh	14.3	5,233	5,433	5,888
	Labour Party	Denis Landy	9.1	3,353	3,555
	Independent	Tom Wood	4.1	1,515	1,631
	Sinn Féin	Muiris Ó Suilleabháin	3.3	1,210
	Christian Solidarity	Michael Larkin	0.3	120
Electorate: 56,092 Valid: 36,666 Spoilt: 390 (1.1%) Quota: 9,167 Turnout: 37,056 (66.1%)

2001 by-election

Following the death of Fine Gael TD Theresa Ahearn, a by-election was held on 30 June 2001. The seat was won by the Fine Gael candidate Tom Hayes.

2001 by-election: Tipperary South^[20]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	Tom Hayes	11,446	35.9	1	3
	Independent	Phil Prendergast	7,897	24.8
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Maguire	8,461	26.5
	Labour Party	Denis Landy	4,103	12.9
Electorate: 54,542 Valid: 31,907 Quota: 15,954 Turnout: 58.5%

2000 by-election

Following the death of Labour Party TD Michael Ferris, a by-election was held on 22 June 2000. The seat was won by the Independent candidate Séamus Healy.

2000 by-election: Tipperary South^[19]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Independent	Séamus Healy	9,419	30.8	1	3
	Fine Gael	Tom Hayes	8,184	26.8
	Fianna Fáil	Barry O'Brien	6,959	22.8
	Labour Party	Ellen Ferris	5,133	16.8
	Christian Solidarity	Mary Heaney	784	2.6
	Natural Law	Raymond McInerney	97	0.3
Electorate: 52,740 Valid: 30,576 Quota: 15,289 Turnout: 57.9%

1997 general election

1997 general election: Tipperary South^[18]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Noel Davern	8,995	25.5	1	1
	Fine Gael	Theresa Ahearn	8,494	24.1	2	3
	Labour Party	Michael Ferris	5,681	16.1	3	5
	Independent	Séamus Healy	5,814	16.5
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Maguire	4,151	11.8
	National Party	John Harold Barry	2,125	6.0
Electorate: 51,925 Valid: 35,260 Spoilt: 374 (1.1%) Quota: 8,816 Turnout: 35,634 (68.6%)

1992 general election

1992 general election: Tipperary South^[17]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Ceann Comhairle	Seán Treacy	Automatically returned	N/A	1	1
	Fine Gael	Theresa Ahearn	8,103	20.4	2	3
	Fianna Fáil	Noel Davern	7,463	18.8	3	5
	Labour Party	Michael Ferris	8,306	20.9	4	5
	Independent	Séamus Healy	4,023	10.1
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Byrne	3,851	9.7
	Fianna Fáil	Seán McCarthy	3,849	9.7
	Fine Gael	Brendan Griffin	2,854	7.2
	Independent	Joe O'Gorman	1,016	2.6
	Sinn Féin	Terry Crowe	205	0.5
Electorate: 56,800 Valid: 39,670 Spoilt: 533 (1.3%) Quota: 9,918 Turnout: 40,203 (70.8%)

1989 general election

1989 general election: Tipperary South^[16]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Ceann Comhairle	Seán Treacy	Automatically returned	N/A	1
	Fianna Fáil	Noel Davern	9,497	24.3	2
	Fine Gael	Theresa Ahearn	5,462	13.9	3
	Labour Party	Michael Ferris	7,080	18.1	4
	Fianna Fáil	Seán McCarthy	7,360	18.8
	Fine Gael	Brendan Griffin	5,648	14.4
	Independent	Séamus Healy	2,859	7.3
	Progressive Democrats	Thomas Lonergan	1,171	3.0
	Independent	William Fitzsimon	93	0.2
Electorate: ? Valid: 39,170 Quota: 9,793 Turnout:

1987 general election

1987 general election: Tipperary South^[15]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	Brendan Griffin	4,542	10.9	1
	Independent	Seán Treacy	5,126	12.4	2
	Fianna Fáil	Seán McCarthy	6,877	16.6	3
	Fianna Fáil	Noel Davern	5,412	13.0	4
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Byrne	5,372	12.9
	Fine Gael	John Crowe	3,938	9.5
	Labour Party	Michael Ferris	3,820	9.2
	Progressive Democrats	Anthony Kehoe	2,524	6.1
	Progressive Democrats	Thomas Lonerga	1,878	4.5
	Independent	Séamus Healy	1,457	3.5
	Workers' Party	Seán Hill	407	1.0
	Independent	Nicholas Quigley	76	0.2
	Independent	Patrick Ryan	72	0.2
Electorate: ? Valid: 41,501 Quota: 8,301 Turnout:

November 1982 general election

November 1982 general election: Tipperary South^[14]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Byrne	8,080	20.1	1	1
	Labour Party	Seán Treacy	8,050	20.0	2
	Fianna Fáil	Seán McCarthy	6,996	17.4	3
	Fine Gael	Brendan Griffin	6,905	17.1	4
	Fine Gael	Michael Fitzgerald	4,407	10.9
	Fianna Fáil	Tom Ambrose	3,634	9.0
	Fine Gael	Anthony Kehoe	2,215	5.5
Electorate: ? Valid: 40,287 Quota: 8,058 Turnout:

February 1982 general election

February 1982 general election: Tipperary South^[13]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Byrne	8,705	22.0	1	1
	Fine Gael	Brendan Griffin	7,434	18.8	2
	Labour Party	Seán Treacy	7,758	19.6	3
	Fianna Fáil	Seán McCarthy	5,711	14.4	4
	Fianna Fáil	Carrie Acheson	4,751	12.0
	Fine Gael	Michael Fitzgerald	3,180	8.0
	Fine Gael	Terence Darmody	1,883	4.8
	Independent	William Fitzsimon	158	0.4
Electorate: ? Valid: 39,580 Quota: 7,917 Turnout:

1981 general election

1981 general election: Tipperary South^[12]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Labour Party	Seán Treacy	8,989	21.5	1	1
	Fine Gael	Brendan Griffin	6,590	15.8	2
	Fianna Fáil	Seán McCarthy	5,716	13.7	3
	Fianna Fáil	Carrie Acheson	5,838	14.0	4
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Byrne	5,737	13.7
	Independent	T. J. Maher	3,728	8.9
	Fine Gael	John Crowe	2,596	6.2
	Fine Gael	Terence Darmody	1,413	3.4
	Fine Gael	Louise Farrell	1,144	2.7
Electorate: ? Valid: 41,751 Quota: 8,351 Turnout:

1977 general election

1977 general election: Tipperary South^[11]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Ceann Comhairle	Seán Treacy	Automatically returned	N/A	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Noel Davern	11,715	34.8	2	1
	Fine Gael	Brendan Griffin	6,298	18.7	3
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Byrne	6,412	19.1
	Labour Party	Michael Ferris	5,462	16.2
	Fine Gael	Hubert Burke	3,400	10.1
	Independent	Patrick Leahy	275	0.8
	Independent	Paschal Ryan	104	0.3
Electorate: ? Valid: 33,666 Quota: 11,223 Turnout:

1973 general election

1973 general election: Tipperary South^[10]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Labour Party	Seán Treacy	7,611	20.6	1	1
	Fine Gael	Brendan Griffin	5,777	15.6	2
	Fianna Fáil	Jackie Fahey	7,317	19.8	3
	Fianna Fáil	Noel Davern	6,117	16.6	4
	Fianna Fáil	William Ryan	4,793	13.0
	Fine Gael	Terence Darmody	2,982	8.1
	Fine Gael	Michael Smyth	2,360	6.4
Electorate: ? Valid: 36,957 Quota: 7,392 Turnout:

1969 general election

1969 general election: Tipperary South^[9]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Noel Davern	9,357	25.2	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Jackie Fahey	6,098	16.5	2
	Fine Gael	Patrick Hogan	6,499	17.5	3
	Labour Party	Seán Treacy	4,955	13.4	4
	Fianna Fáil	William Ryan	3,742	10.1
	Fine Gael	Brendan Griffin	2,871	7.7
	Fine Gael	Peter Powell	1,705	4.6
	Independent	Seán Healy	1,073	2.9
	Labour Party	Patrick O'Brien	770	2.1
Electorate: ? Valid: 37,070 Quota: 7,415 Turnout:

1965 general election

1965 general election: Tipperary South^[8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Don Davern	8,540	23.2	1	1
	Labour Party	Seán Treacy	7,005	19.0	2
	Fianna Fáil	Jackie Fahey	4,595	12.5	3
	Fine Gael	Patrick Hogan	4,359	11.8	4
	Fine Gael	Denis Burke	4,433	12.0
	Fianna Fáil	William Ryan	4,340	11.8
	Fine Gael	Timothy O'Donoghue	3,560	9.7
Electorate: ? Valid: 36,832 Quota: 7,367 Turnout:

1961 general election

1961 general election: Tipperary South^[7]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Labour Party	Seán Treacy	7,260	19.5	1
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Davern	6,070	16.3	2
	Fianna Fáil	Dan Breen	5,717	15.3	3
	Fine Gael	Patrick Hogan	5,787	15.5	4
	Fine Gael	Michael Fitzgerald	3,864	10.4
	Fine Gael	Denis Burke	3,465	9.3
	Fianna Fáil	Jackie Fahey	2,625	7.0
	Fianna Fáil	Frank Loughman	1,689	4.5
	Sinn Féin	Pilib Ó Cinneide	834	2.2
Electorate: ? Valid: 37,311 Quota: 7,463 Turnout:

1957 general election

1957 general election: Tipperary South^[6]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Davern	7,563	22.4	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Dan Breen	6,359	18.9	2
	Fine Gael	Richard Mulcahy	4,407	13.1	3
	Fianna Fáil	Frank Loughman	4,579	13.6	4
	Fine Gael	Patrick Crowe	4,456	13.2
	Labour Party	Seán Treacy	4,352	12.9
	Fine Gael	John Morrissey	1,990	5.9
Electorate: ? Valid: 33,706 Quota: 6,742 Turnout:

1954 general election

1954 general election: Tipperary South^[5]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Dan Breen	8,291	23.0	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Davern	6,941	19.2	2
	Fine Gael	Richard Mulcahy	4,828	13.4	3
	Fine Gael	Patrick Crowe	5,513	15.3	4
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Lacey	3,962	11.0
	Fine Gael	John Morrissey	3,171	8.8
	Labour Party	Patrick Walsh	1,727	4.8
	Labour Party	Michael Kilkelly	1,695	4.7
Electorate: ? Valid: 36,128 Quota: 7,226 Turnout:

1951 general election

1951 general election: Tipperary South^[4]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	Richard Mulcahy	5,745	15.6	1
	Fianna Fáil	Dan Breen	6,842	18.5	2
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Davern	6,833	18.5	3
	Fine Gael	Patrick Crowe	2,384	6.5	4
	Fianna Fáil	Frank Loughman	5,019	13.6
	Fine Gael	John Morrissey	2,272	6.2
	Labour Party	Patrick Walsh	2,182	5.9
	Independent	Colm O'Donnell	1,892	5.1
	Labour Party	Michael Kilkelly	1,585	4.3
	Clann na Poblachta	John Timoney	1,506	4.1
	Independent	George Furlong	638	1.7
Electorate: ? Valid: 36,898 Quota: 7,380 Turnout:

1948 general election

1948 general election: Tipperary South^[3]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fianna Fáil	Dan Breen	7,931	21.8	1	1
	Fine Gael	Richard Mulcahy	5,225	14.4	2
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Davern	6,176	17.0	3
	Clann na Poblachta	John Timoney	1,914	5.3	4
	Fianna Fáil	Frank Loughman	3,909	10.8
	Clann na Talmhan	Michael Fitzgerald	3,257	9.0
	Clann na Poblachta	Denis O'Driscoll	1,674	4.6
	Fine Gael	Patrick Crowe	1,626	4.5
	Fine Gael	John Morrissey	1,587	4.4
	Labour Party	Denis O'Sullivan	1,487	4.1
	Labour Party	Richard Stapleton	821	2.3
	Clann na Poblachta	John Murray	722	2.0
Electorate: ? Valid: 36,329 Quota: 7,266 Turnout:

References

↑ "Electoral (Amendment) Act 2009: Schedule". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 29 September 2010.
↑ Walker, Brian M, ed. (1992). Parliamentary election results in Ireland, 1918–92. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0-901714-96-8. ISSN 0332-0286.
1 2 "General election 1948: Tipperary South". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 3 October 2010.
1 2 "General election 1951: Tipperary South". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 3 October 2010.
1 2 "General election 1954: Tipperary South". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 3 October 2010.
1 2 "General election 1957: Tipperary South". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 3 October 2010.
1 2 "General election 1961: Tipperary South". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 3 October 2010.
1 2 "General election 1965: Tipperary South". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 3 October 2010.
1 2 "General election 1969: Tipperary South". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 3 October 2010.
1 2 "General election 1973: Tipperary South". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 3 October 2010.
1 2 "General election 1977: Tipperary South". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 3 October 2010.
1 2 "General election 1981: Tipperary South". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 3 October 2010.
1 2 "General election February 1982: Tipperary South". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 3 October 2010.
1 2 "General election November 1982: Tipperary South". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 3 October 2010.
1 2 "General election 1987: Tipperary South". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 3 October 2010.
1 2 "General election 1989: Tipperary South". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 3 October 2010.
1 2 "General election 1992: Tipperary South". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 26 February 2009.
1 2 "General election 1997: Tipperary South". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 26 February 2009.
1 2 "By-election 2000: Tipperary South". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 26 February 2009.
1 2 "By-election 2001: Tipperary South". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 26 February 2009.
1 2 "General election 2002: Tipperary South". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 26 February 2009.
1 2 "General election 2007: Tipperary South". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 26 February 2009.
1 2 "General election 2011: Tipperary South". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 1 March 2011.
1 2 Healy campaigned as a member of the United Left Alliance.

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