Dublin County North (Dáil Éireann constituency)

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North County Dublin is a former parliamentary constituency in the Republic of Ireland which from 1969–1981 returned deputies to Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. It elected four (and later three) Teachtaí Dála (TDs) to the Dáil. Elections were held using the Single Transferable Vote method of proportional representation (PR–STV).

1 History
2 Boundaries
3 1977 election result
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

[edit] History

The constituency was created by the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1969, and abolished by the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1980. It initially returned four TDs but under the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1974, it was reduced to three from 1977 onwards.

[edit] Boundaries

[edit] 1977 election result

Electorate=52,608, Valid votes =35,711, spoiled votes=309, quota=8,928 ^[1]

	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
Ray Burke, (Fianna Fáil)	11794
John Boland, (Fine Gael)	7367	7456	7575	9101	9101
Patricia McGill, (Fianna Fáil)	4340	5108	5140	5230	5677	5692	6571
Joe Fox, (Fianna Fáil)	3618	5479	5514	5578	5896	5906	6870
Patrick Murphy, (Labour)	3373	3415	4334	4464	5536	5684
Eamonn O'Brien, (Socialist)	2189	2226	2337	2364
John Corry, (Fine Gael)	1770	1808	1866
Seán Ryan, (Labour)	1260	1291