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Cork Mid
Cork Mid
Former Dáil constituency
Former constituency
Created	1961
Abolished	1981
Seats	4 (1961–1977); 5 (1977–1981);
Local government areas	County Cork; (1961–1981); Cork county borough (1977–1981);
Created from	Cork North
Replaced by	Cork North-Central; Cork South-Central;

Cork Mid was a Dáil constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas (the Irish legislature) from 1961 to 1981. The constituency was represented by 4 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs) from 1961 to 1977, and then 5 from 1977 until its abolition in 1981. The method of election was proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).

Boundaries

From 1961 to 1969, its boundaries were defined as: "The administrative county of Cork except the portions thereof which are comprised in the borough constituency of Cork and the county constituencies of North-East Cork and South-West Cork."^[1]

From 1961 to 1977, its boundaries were defined as: "The administrative county of Cork except the portions thereof which are comprised in the borough constituency of Cork and the county constituencies of North-East Cork, South-West Cork and South Kerry."^[2]

From 1977 to 1981, its boundaries were defined as: "The administrative county of Cork, except the parts thereof which are comprised in the constituencies of Cork North-East, Cork South-West and Kerry South; and the following wards in the county borough of Cork: Bishopstown E, Gillabbey B, Gillabbey C, Glasheen A, Glasheen B, Glasheen C, Pouladuff A, Pouladuff B, The Lough, Togher A, Togher B."^[3]

TDs

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Cork Mid 1961–1981^[4]
Key to parties FF = Fianna Fáil FG = Fine Gael Lab = Labour
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
17th	1961^[5]		Dan Desmond (Lab)		Seán McCarthy (FF)		Con Meaney (FF)		Denis J. O'Sullivan (FG)	4 seats 1961–1977
17th	1965 by-election^[6]		Eileen Desmond (Lab)		Seán McCarthy (FF)		Con Meaney (FF)		Denis J. O'Sullivan (FG)
18th	1965^[7]		Eileen Desmond (Lab)		Flor Crowley (FF)		Thomas Meaney (FF)		Donal Creed (FG)
19th	1969^[8]		Philip Burton (FG)		Paddy Forde (FF)
19th	1972 by-election^[9]		Philip Burton (FG)		Gene Fitzgerald (FF)
20th	1973^[10]		Eileen Desmond (Lab)
21st	1977^[11]		Eileen Desmond (Lab)								Barry Cogan (FF)
22nd	1981	Constituency abolished. See Cork North-Central and Cork South-Central

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

^ *: Outgoing TD

1977 general election

1977 general election: Cork Mid^[11]^[12]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5
	Fianna Fáil	Gene Fitzgerald^[*]	19.9	12,179
	Fianna Fáil	Thomas Meaney^[*]	19.4	11,877
	Labour	Eileen Desmond^[*]	14.5	8,902	9,001	9,112	10,276
	Fine Gael	Donal Creed^[*]	13.2	8,088	8,163	8,241	10,413
	Fianna Fáil	Barry Cogan	10.7	6,563	7,545	8,151	8,259	8,595
	Fine Gael	Frank Crowley	7.6	4,681	4,695	4,777	5,614
	Fianna Fáil	John Dennehy	7.4	4,522	5,292	6,069	6,188	6,470
	Fine Gael	Seán O'Leary	7.2	4,436	4,468	4,480
Electorate: 75,031 Valid: 61,248 Spoilt: 446 (0.7%) Quota: 10,209 Turnout: 61,694 (82.2%)^[13]

1973 general election

1973 general election: Cork Mid^[10]^[14]^[15]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3
	Fianna Fáil	Thomas Meaney	25.6	10,400
	Fianna Fáil	Gene Fitzgerald	23.6	9,584
	Fine Gael	Donal Creed	19.1	7,728	8,273
	Labour	Eileen Desmond	15.2	6,170	7,152	8,188
	Fine Gael	Philip Burton	13.9	5,629	6,245	6,406
	Fine Gael	Daniel O'Leary	2.6	1,055	1,198	1,471
Electorate: 49,402 Valid: 40,566 Quota: 8,114 Turnout: 82.1%

1972 by-election

Following the death of Fianna Fáil TD Paddy Forde on 13 May 1972, a by-election was held on 2 August 1972. The seat was won by the Fianna Fáil candidate Gene Fitzgerald.

1972 by-election: Cork Mid^[9]^[14]^[15]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2
	Fianna Fáil	Gene Fitzgerald	49.5	19,959	20,214
	Fine Gael	Denis J. O'Sullivan	31.6	12,530	12,788
	Labour	Eileen Desmond	15.9	6,301	6,711
	Aontacht Éireann	Paddy O'Callaghan	3.0	1,172
Electorate: 49,402 Valid: 39,962 Quota: 19,982 Turnout: 80.9%

1969 general election

1969 general election: Cork Mid^[8]^[16]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6
	Fianna Fáil	Thomas Meaney	23.0	8,978
	Fine Gael	Donal Creed	18.9	7,400	7,491	8,583
	Fine Gael	Philip Burton	13.6	5,310	5,351	5,686	6,297	6,626	7,358
	Labour	Eileen Desmond	12.6	4,936	4,997	5,129	6,762	7,000	7,088
	Fianna Fáil	Paddy Forde	11.0	4,284	4,774	4,917	5,004	8,000
	Fianna Fáil	Batt Donegan	8.9	3,468	3,859	3,878	4,102
	Labour	Neil Lehane	7.3	2,866	2,962	2,986
	Fine Gael	Patrick Lombard	4.7	1,821	1,836
Electorate: 47,880 Valid: 39,063 Quota: 7,813 Turnout: 81.6%

1965 general election

1965 general election: Cork Mid^[7]^[14]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6
	Labour	Eileen Desmond	25.0	10,041
	Fianna Fáil	Flor Crowley	19.7	7,884	8,185
	Fine Gael	Donal Creed	15.2	6,103	6,792	6,949	7,461	7,890	8,011
	Fianna Fáil	Thomas Meaney	14.2	5,683	5,870	5,939	5,969	6,130	8,948
	Fine Gael	Denis J. O'Sullivan	12.3	4,935	5,278	5,328	5,602	5,939	6,044
	Fianna Fáil	Paddy Forde	7.7	3,099	3,304	3,425	3,464	3,578
	Independent	Thomas O'Sullivan	2.7	1,089	1,143	1,189	1,199
	Fine Gael	Edward McCarthy	2.0	789	897	937
	Independent	Sylvester Cotter	1.2	498	627
Electorate: 50,220 Valid: 40,121 Quota: 8,025 Turnout: 79.9%

1965 by-election

Following the death of Labour Party TD Dan Desmond on 9 December 1964, a by-election was held on 10 March 1965. The seat was won by the Labour Party candidate Eileen Desmond, widow of the deceased TD.

1965 by-election: Cork Mid^[6]^[14]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3
	Fianna Fáil	Flor Crowley	36.2	13,779	13,932	15,093
	Labour	Eileen Desmond	33.5	12,752	12,937	20,756
	Fine Gael	Donal Creed	28.8	10,957	11,105
	Independent	Sylvester P. Cotter	1.6	590
Electorate: 50,220 Valid: 38,078 Quota: 19,040 Turnout: 75.8%

1961 general election

1961 general election: Cork Mid^[5]^[14]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4
	Labour	Dan Desmond	27.3	10,035
	Fine Gael	Denis J. O'Sullivan	21.2	7,787
	Fianna Fáil	Con Meaney	17.9	6,586	7,039	7,101	7,736
	Fianna Fáil	Seán MacCarthy	17.7	6,499	7,315	7,335	8,523
	Fine Gael	Timothy Desmond	10.8	3,976	5,115	5,457	5,575
	Fianna Fáil	David McGrath	5.1	1,890	2,162	2,170
Electorate: 49,390 Valid: 36,773 Quota: 7,355 Turnout: 74.5%

References

^ Electoral (Amendment) Act 1961, Schedule: Constituencies (No. 19 of 1961, Schedule). Enacted on 14 July 1961. Act of the Oireachtas. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 21 April 2022.
^ Electoral (Amendment) Act 1969, Schedule: Constituencies (No. 3 of 1969, Schedule). Enacted on 26 March 1969. Act of the Oireachtas. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 21 April 2022.
^ Electoral (Amendment) Act 1974, Schedule: Constituencies (No. 7 of 1974, Schedule). Enacted on 7 May 1974. Act of the Oireachtas. Archived from the original on 20 January 2012. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 24 December 2021.
^ Walker, Brian M, ed. (1992). Parliamentary election results in Ireland, 1918–92. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0-901714-96-8. ISSN 0332-0286.
^ ^a ^b "General election 1961: Cork Mid". ElectionsIreland.org. Archived from the original on 21 February 2011. Retrieved 19 October 2010.
^ ^a ^b "By-election 1965: Cork Mid". ElectionsIreland.org. Archived from the original on 30 November 2010. Retrieved 19 October 2010.
^ ^a ^b "General election 1965: Cork Mid". ElectionsIreland.org. Archived from the original on 21 February 2011. Retrieved 19 October 2010.
^ ^a ^b "General election 1969: Cork Mid". ElectionsIreland.org. Archived from the original on 21 February 2011. Retrieved 19 October 2010.
^ ^a ^b "By-election 1972: Cork Mid". ElectionsIreland.org. Archived from the original on 30 November 2010. Retrieved 19 October 2010.
^ ^a ^b "General election 1973: Cork Mid". ElectionsIreland.org. Archived from the original on 21 February 2011. Retrieved 19 October 2010.
^ ^a ^b "General election 1977: Cork Mid". ElectionsIreland.org. Archived from the original on 21 February 2011. Retrieved 19 October 2010.
^ "21st Dáil 1977 general election results" (PDF). Houses of the Oireachtas. February 1978. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
^ The Irish Times, 20 June 1977, p7–10
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Gallagher, Michael (2009). Irish Elections 1948–77: Results and Analysis Sources for the Study of Irish Politics 2. Routledge. ISBN 9781138973343.
^ ^a ^b "20th Dáil 1973 general election results" (PDF). Houses of the Oireachtas. October 1973. Retrieved 30 October 2024.
^ "19th Dáil 1969 general election results" (PDF). Houses of the Oireachtas. January 1970. Retrieved 9 December 2024.