County/City council Cork City Council Founded 1981 | EP constituency South | |
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Seats 5 (1981–2016)
4 (2016–) TDs Simon Coveney (FG)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (SF)
Micheál Martin (FF)
Michael McGrath (FF) Created Irish general election, 1981 | ||
Cork South-Central is a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency elects 4 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs). The method of election is the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).
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History and boundaries
The constituency was created for the first time under the terms of the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1980, mainly drawing its electorate from the existing Cork Mid and Cork City constituencies.
Cork South-Central is predominantly an urban constituency but with a rural hinterland in the south. It encompasses the electoral areas of Cork City Council south of the river Lee, together with most of the Carrigaline electoral area of Cork County Council, including the Ringaskiddy and Passage West areas. The Ballincollig area of County Cork was moved to the Cork North-West constituency for the 2007 general election. At the 2016 general election, the Bishopstown area of Cork city was moved to the Cork North-Central constituency, and it was also reduced from five to four seats.
The Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013 defines the constituency as:
"The city of Cork, except the part thereof which is comprised in the constituency of Cork North-Central; and, in the county of Cork, the electoral divisions of: Ballygarvan, Carrigaline, Douglas, Iniskenny, Lehenagh, Monkstown Rural, Monkstown Urban, and the townland of Ballinaspig More in the electoral division of Bishopstown (part) in the former Rural District of Cork; Carrigaline, Kilpatrick, Liscleary, Templebreedy, in the former Rural District of Kinsale."TDs
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.
1998 by-election
Following the death of Fine Gael TD Hugh Coveney, a by-election was held on 23 October 1998. It was won by the Fine Gael candidate Simon Coveney, son of the deceased TD.
1994 by-election
Following the resignation of Progressive Democrats TD Pat Cox after his election to the European Parliament, a by-election was held on 10 November 1994. It was won by the Fine Gael candidate Hugh Coveney.