William Davin

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William Davin (died 1 March 1956) was an Irish Labour Party politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for over thirty years. He was also station-master.

His first candidacy for public office was in the 1922 general election, when he stood as a Labour candidate in the Leix-Offaly constituency. He was returned to the 3rd Dáil, and was re-elected in each successive general election until his death in 1956.

For most of this period, he was the only Labour deputy from Laois-Offaly, but after the June 1927 general election he was joined in the short-lived 5th Dáil by John Gill, who lost his seat at the September 1927 general election.

Since Davin's death, Laois-Offaly has returned a Labour TD only once: at the 1965 general election, when Henry Byrne was elected to the 18th Dáil.