Seats 3 EP constituency South Seat 3 | County council Cork County Council Founded 1961 | |
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TDs Jim Daly (FG)
Michael Collins (Ind)
Margaret Murphy O'Mahony (FF) Created Irish general election, 1961 | ||
Cork South-West is a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency elects 3 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
It was created for the 1961 general election. The constituency encompasses the Bandon, Bantry, Clonakilty and Skibbereen electoral areas of Cork County Council. It is a largely rural constituency, with many medium-sized towns, and runs from Dursey Island in the west to Ringabella in the east.
The Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013 defines the constituency as:
"The county of Cork, except the parts thereof which are comprised in the constituencies of Cork East, Cork North-Central, Cork North-West and Cork South-Central."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.