Seats 5 Seat 5 | EP constituency South | |
TDs Jackie Cahill (FF)
Séamus Healy (Ind)
Alan Kelly (Lab)
Michael Lowry (Ind)
Mattie McGrath (Ind) County council Tipperary County Council Created Irish general election, 2016 | ||
Tipperary is a parliamentary constituency that has been represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas, since the 2016 general election. The constituency elects 5 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs). The method of election is the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV). Another constituency of the same name existed between 1923 and 1948.
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1923–1948
The constituency was created under the Electoral Act 1923, and was first used at the 1923 general election, replacing the previous Tipperary Mid, North and South constituency and the Tipperary part of the Waterford–Tipperary East constituency.
It consisted of the administrative counties of North Tipperary and South Tipperary. The constituency elected 7 deputies.
Under the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1947 Tipperary was abolished and divided into two new constituencies: Tipperary South and Tipperary North. These constituencies were first used for the 1948 general election
Since 2016
The Constituency Commission proposed in its 2012 report that at the next general election a new constituency called Tipperary be created. The report proposed changes to the constituencies of Ireland so as to reduce the total number of TDs from 166 to 158.
It was established by the Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013. It replaced the constituencies of Tipperary North and Tipperary South. The new constituency incorporates all of South Tipperary, and most of North Tipperary except for the electoral divisions of: Aglishcloghane, Ballingarry, Ballylusky, Borrisokane, Carrig, Cloghjordan, Cloghprior, Clohaskin, Finnoe, Graigue, Kilbarron, Lorrha East, Lorrha West, Mertonhall, Rathcabban, Redwood, Riverstown, Terryglass, and Uskane, in the former Rural District of Borrisokane; and Ardcrony, Ballygibbon, Ballymackey, Knigh, and Monsea, in the former Rural District of Nenagh, which are in the new Offaly constituency.
The 2013 Act defines the constituency as:
"The county of South Tipperary; and the county of North Tipperary, except the part thereof which is comprised in the constituency of Offaly."TDs 1923–1948
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.
TDs since 2016
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.
1947 by-election
Following the death of Clann na Talmhan TD William O'Donnell, a by-election was held on 29 October 1947. The seat was won by the Clann na Poblachta candidate Patrick Kinane.