MAYO EAST (DáIL ÉIREANN CONSTITUENCY)

'Mayo East' was a 3-seat Irish Dail constituency. The constituency was created under the terms of the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1969 [1], taking in parts of the former Mayo North and Mayo South constituncies.
When first contested it returned 2 Fine Gael TDs and 1 Fianna Fáil TD. [2] But at every subsequent election it returned 2 Fianna Fáil and 1 Fine Gael.
It was abolished in 1997 when it was combined with Mayo West to become the Mayo constituency.

Contents

November 1982 - 1992 full election results

February 1982 full result

1981 full result

1977 full result

See also

November 1982 - 1992 full election results

Online at [3]

February 1982 full result

23rd Irish General Election – 18th February, 1982
Candidate		Party	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3
	'Patrick O'Toole'	Fine Gael	7140	7512	'7770'
	'Patrick Morley'	Fianna Fáil	7096	7194	'8504'
	'Sean Calleary'	Fianna Fáil	6876	6927	'8672'
	Jim Higgins	Fine Gael	5134	5937	5937†
	John Bolingbrook	Fianna Fáil	3439	3509
	John Flannery	Fine Gael	1274
	Peter Keane	Independent	134
Electorate=41811, valid=31093, spoiled=208, quota=7774

^† The Irish Times does not give Higgins third count total.

1981 full result

22nd Irish General Election – 11th June, 1981
Candidate		Party	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4
	'Sean Calleary'	Fianna Fáil	7248	'8916'
	'Patrick Morley'	Fianna Fáil	6829	7896	'8592'	'8592'
	'Patrick O'Toole'	Fine Gael	6569	6695	6719	'8022'
	Martin Finn	Fine Gael	4509	4798	4873	7371
	Jim Higgins	Fine Gael	3829	3987	4020
	John Bolingbrook	Fianna Fáil	3387
Electorate=41811, valid=32351, spoiled=260, quota=8088

1977 full result

21st Irish General Election – 16th June, 1977
Candidate		Party	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5
	'Sean Calleary'	Fianna Fáil	7858	8074	'9749'
	'Patrick O'Toole'	Fine Gael	6338	7921	8015	8053	'8096'
	Martin Finn	Fine Gael	6203	7694	7932	7969	8033
	'Patrick Morley'	Fianna Fáil	5115	5251	7007	'8460'
	Sean Flanagan	Fianna Fáil	3722	3859
	Sean McEvoy	Fine Gael	3646
Electorate=43888, valid=32882, spoiled=267, quota=8221

See also

★ East Mayo (UK Parliament constituency) 1885 - 1922