Donegal (Dáil constituency)

Donegal is a parliamentary constituency which is 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).

Donegal
Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Constituency
Current constituency
Created	2016
Seats	5
TDs	Pearse Doherty (SF)   Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (SF)   Charlie McConalogue (FF)   Joe McHugh (FG)   Thomas Pringle (Ind)
County council	Donegal County Council
EP constituency	Midlands–North-West

Donegal
Former Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Constituency
Former constituency
Created	1921
Abolished	1937
Seats	6 (1921–1923) 8 (1923–1937)
County council	County Donegal

Donegal
Former Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Constituency
Former constituency
Created	1977
Abolished	1981
Seats	5
County council	County Donegal

It covers the current County Donegal with the exception of nine southern electoral divisions which are part of the neighbouring Sligo–Leitrim constituency.

History and boundaries

1921 to 1937

The Donegal constituency was created in 1921 under the Government of Ireland Act 1920, for the 1921 election to the House of Commons of Southern Ireland, whose members formed the 2nd Dáil. It elected 6 deputies in 1921, and again at the 1922 general election. It covered the whole territory of County Donegal in north-west Ireland.

Under the Electoral Act 1923, the constituency's boundaries remained unchanged, and were defined simply as "the administrative county of Donegal". However, its representation was increased from 6 to 8 seats.[1]

The Donegal constituency was abolished by the Electoral (Revision of Constituencies) Act 1935, with effect from the 1937 general election. It was replaced by two new constituencies: the 4 seat Donegal East and the 3 seat Donegal West.[2]

1977 to 1981

A Donegal constituency was re-established under the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1974, and first used at the 1977 general election to the 21st Dáil. The new 5 seat constituency did not cover all of County Donegal; an area in the south of the county, including the rural hinterland of Ballyshannon and the town of Bundoran, was included in the Sligo–Leitrim constituency.[3]

The revived constituency was short-lived, as under the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1980, it was replaced by two new 3 seat constituencies, Donegal North-East and Donegal South-West.[4]

Since 2016

In 2012 the Constituency Commission proposed that at the next general election a new constituency called Donegal be created.[5] The report proposed changes to the constituencies of Ireland so as to reduce the total number of TDs from 166 to 158.[6]

It was established by the Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013.[7] It replaced the constituencies of Donegal North-East and Donegal South-West and comprises the county of Donegal except for the area south of Donegal town around Ballyshannon and Bundoran, which is in the Sligo–Leitrim constituency.[5]

The 2013 Act defines the constituency as:[7]

"The county of Donegal, except the part thereof which is comprised in the constituency of Sligo–Leitrim."

TDs

TDs 1921–1937

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Donegal 1921–1937[8]
Key to parties   CnaG = Cumann na nGaedheal   FF = Fianna Fáil   FG = Fine Gael   FP = Farmers' Party   Ind = Independent   Lab = Labour   NL = National League Party   NCP = National Centre Party   Rep = Republican   SF = Sinn Féin   SF (AT) = Sinn Féin (Anti-Treaty)   SF (PT) = Sinn Féin (Pro-Treaty)
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
2nd	1921[9]		Joseph O'Doherty (SF)		Samuel O'Flaherty (SF)		Patrick McGoldrick (SF)		Joseph McGinley (SF)		Joseph Sweeney (SF)		Peter Ward (SF)	6 seats 1921–1923
3rd	1922[10]		Joseph O'Doherty (SF (AT))		Samuel O'Flaherty (SF (AT))		Patrick McGoldrick (SF (PT))		Joseph McGinley (SF (PT))		Joseph Sweeney (SF (PT))		Peter Ward (SF (PT))
4th	1923[11]		Joseph O'Doherty (Rep)		Peadar O'Donnell (Rep)		Patrick McGoldrick (CnaG)		Eugene Doherty (CnaG)		Patrick McFadden (CnaG)		Peter Ward (CnaG)		James Myles (Ind)		John White (FP)
	1924 by-election[12]												Denis McCullough (CnaG)
5th	1927 (Jun)[13]		Frank Carney (FF)		Neal Blaney (FF)		Daniel McMenamin (NL)				Michael Óg McFadden (CnaG)		Hugh Law (CnaG)
6th	1927 (Sep)[14]						Archie Cassidy (Lab)
7th	1932[15]						Brian Brady (FF)				Daniel McMenamin (CnaG)		John White (CnaG)				James Dillon (Ind)
8th	1933[16]		Joseph O'Doherty (FF)						Hugh Doherty (FF)				Michael Óg McFadden (CnaG)				James Dillon (NCP)
9th	1937	Constituency abolished. See Donegal East and Donegal West

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 1977–1981

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Donegal 1977–1981[8]
Key to parties   FF = Fianna Fáil   FG = Fine Gael   IFF = Independent Fianna Fáil
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
21st	1977[17]		Hugh Conaghan (FF)		Joseph Brennan (FF)		Neil Blaney (IFF)		James White (FG)		Paddy Harte (FG)
	1980 by-election[18]				Clement Coughlan (FF)
22nd	1981	Constituency abolished. See Donegal North-East and Donegal South-West

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

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Donegal 2016–
Key to parties   FF = Fianna Fáil   FG = Fine Gael   Ind = Independent   SF = Sinn Féin
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
32nd	2016[19]		Pearse Doherty (SF)		Pat "the Cope" Gallagher (FF)		Thomas Pringle (Ind)		Charlie McConalogue (FF)		Joe McHugh (FG)
33rd	2020				Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (SF)

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

2020 general election

2020 general election: Donegal[20][21][22]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Sinn Féin	Pearse Doherty	27.2	21,044
	Sinn Féin	Pádraig Mac Lochlainn	17.9	13,891
	Fianna Fáil	Charlie McConalogue	10.8	8,347	8,871	9,022	9,078	9,425	9,633	10,054	10,270	11,432
	Fine Gael	Joe McHugh	9.8	7,621	8,093	8,129	8,170	8,309	8,740	8,988	10,920	12,104
	Fianna Fáil	Pat "the Cope" Gallagher	9.6	7,469	8,661	8,688	8,729	8,905	9,035	9,518	10,146	11,074
	Independent	Thomas Pringle	7.1	5,472	8,270	8,521	8,621	8,947	9,637	10,241	10,755	12,245
	Independent	John O'Donnell	6.1	4,735	5,620	5,780	5,891	6,168	6,294	6,956	7,106
	Fine Gael	Martin Harley	3.9	3,056	3,491	3,502	3,526	3,650	3,771	3,896
	Aontú	Mary T. Sweeney	3.1	2,382	2,827	2,907	3,128	3,349	3,600
	Green	Michael White	2.1	1,656	2,113	2,194	2,220	2,339
	Independent	Peter Casey	1.5	1,143	1,804	1,950	2,132
	Independent	Niall McConnell	0.7	580	803	832
	Independent	Arthur McGuinness	0.1	56	99	109
Electorate: 125,911   Valid: 77,452   Spoilt: 647   Quota: 12,909   Turnout: 78,099 (62.0%)

2020 Donegal opinion poll

Last date of polling	Polling firm / Commissioner	Sample size	FF	SF	FG	Pringle	GP	Aon	O'Donnell	Casey	McConnell	Lead
23 January 2020	TG4/Ipsos MRBI[23]	550	22	39	20	6	4	3	4	2	1	17
26 February 2016	General election		31.0	27.5	15.4	8.5	0.6					3.5

2016 general election

2016 general election: Donegal [24][25][19]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
	Fianna Fáil	Charlie McConalogue	17.1	12,533
	Sinn Féin	Pearse Doherty	14.1	10,300	10,305	10,330	10,524	10,870	11,053	11,190	14,600
	Fianna Fáil	Pat "the Cope" Gallagher	13.9	10,198	10,203	10,362	10,504	10,694	10,941	11,160	11,267	11,398	11,832	13,138
	Fine Gael	Joe McHugh	11.5	8,412	8,414	8,443	8,704	8,795	8,965	11,016	11,040	11,061	11,784	12,469
	Independent	Thomas Pringle	8.5	6,220	6,239	6,247	6,498	6,689	7,389	7,522	7,617	7,722	8,491	9,462	9,888	10,082
	Sinn Féin	Pádraig Mac Lochlainn	7.8	5,742	5,743	5,773	5,893	5,961	6,008	6,032	6,567	8,509	9,143	9,716	9,852	9,898
	Sinn Féin	Gary Doherty	5.6	4,136	4,138	4,142	4,183	4,377	4,420	4,456
	Independent	Dessie Shiels	5.1	3,724	3,724	3,739	3,986	4,166	4,288	4,463	4,497	4,540
	Independent	Tim Jackson	4.9	3,580	3,585	3,601	3,752	4,034	4,319	4,524	4,650	4,790	5,864
	Fine Gael	Paddy Harte Jnr	3.9	2,831	2,832	2,838	2,934	3,133	3,244
	Independent	Frank McBrearty Jnr	2.6	1,914	1,917	1,921	1,981
	Independent	Niamh Kennedy	2.5	1,836	1,842	1,848	1,983	2,057
	Independent	Ian McGarvey	1.3	982	982	989
	Green	Paula Flanagan	0.6	428	442	443
	Independent	Michael Mooney	0.5	397	402	407
	Fís Nua	Cordelia Nic Fhearraigh	0.1	70
Electorate: 117,675   Valid: 73,303   Spoilt: 654   Quota: 12,218   Turnout: 73,957 (62.85%)

2016 Donegal opinion poll

Last date of polling	Polling firm / Commissioner	Sample size	FF	SF	FG	Pringle	Shiels	McBrearty	Jackson	McGarvey	Kennedy	Lead
08 February 2016	TG4/Ipsos MRBI[26]	~500	30	30	17	7	7	4	3	2	2	0
26 February 2016	General election		31.0	27.5	15.4	8.5	5.1	2.6	4.9	1.3	2.5	3.5

1980 by-election

A by-election was held on 6 November 1980 to fill the vacancy caused by the death on 13 July 1980 of the Fianna Fáil TD Joseph Brennan. It was won by the Fianna Fáil candidate Clement Coughlan, who died in a road accident in early 1983, triggering a by-election in the Donegal South-West constituency.

1980 by-election: Donegal[27]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3
	Fianna Fáil	Clement Coughlan	39.0	23,456	24,000	29,219
	Fine Gael	Denis McGinley	33.3	20,022	20,793	24,085
	Independent Fianna Fáil	Paddy Kelly	23.6	14,198	14,992
	Sinn Féin – The Workers' Party	Séamus Rodgers	4.0	2,401
Electorate: 81,340   Valid: 60,077   Quota: 30,039   Turnout: 73.86%

1977 general election

1977 general election: Donegal[17]

Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	James White	10,672	17.6	1	1
	Independent Fianna Fáil	Neil Blaney	10,499	17.3	2	1
	Fine Gael	Paddy Harte	8,483	13.9	3
	Fianna Fáil	Joseph Brennan	6,448	10.6	4
	Fianna Fáil	Bernard McGlinchey	5,693	9.4
	Fianna Fáil	Hugh Conaghan	5,413	8.9	5
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Delap	4,583	7.5
	Independent	Paddy Keaveney	3,325	5.5
	Fine Gael	Séamus Gill	2,946	4.8
	Sinn Féin – The Workers' Party	Séamus Rodgers	2,505	4.1
	Independent	Charles Long	256	0.4
Electorate: 77,813   Valid: 60,823   Quota: 10,138   Turnout: 78.2%

1933 general election

1933 general election: Donegal[16]

Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Independent	James Myles	10,784	15.5	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Brian Brady	7,615	11.0	5
	Fianna Fáil	Joseph O'Doherty	7,384	10.6	7
	Fianna Fáil	Neal Blaney	7,310	10.5	6
	Fianna Fáil	Hugh Doherty	7,055	10.1	8
	Fianna Fáil	Archie Cassidy	6,036	8.7
	National Centre Party	James Dillon	5,319	7.7	4
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Daniel McMenamin	5,261	7.6	3
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Michael Óg McFadden	4,725	6.8	2
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Michael McGilligan	4,306	6.2
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Eugene Doherty	3,779	5.4
Electorate: 88,666   Valid: 69,574   Quota: 7,731   Turnout: 78.5%

1932 general election

1932 general election: Donegal[15]

Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Independent	James Myles	10,077	15.6	1	1
	Independent	James Dillon	7,645	11.8	2	1
	Fianna Fáil	Neal Blaney	7,416	11.4	3	1
	Fianna Fáil	Brian Brady	4,955	7.6	8
	Fianna Fáil	Hugh Doherty	4,691	7.2
	Cumann na nGaedheal	John White	4,654	7.2	5
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Eugene Doherty	4,313	6.7	6
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Daniel McMenamin	4,050	6.3	4
	Fianna Fáil	Frank Carney	3,874	6.0	7
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Michael Óg McFadden	3,737	5.8
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Doherty	3,370	5.2
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Hugh Law	2,795	4.3
	Labour	Archie Cassidy	2,506	3.9
	Labour	Charles Sweeney	733	1.1
Electorate: 87,413   Valid: 64,816   Quota: 7,202   Turnout: 74.1%

September 1927 general election

September 1927 general election: Donegal[14]

Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Independent	James Myles	7,934	14.5	1	1
	Fianna Fáil	Neal Blaney	6,877	12.6	2	1
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Eugene Doherty	6,108	11.2	3	1
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Hugh Law	5,224	9.6	5
	Fianna Fáil	Frank Carney	4,811	8.8	4
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Michael Óg McFadden	4,740	8.7	7
	Farmers' Party	John White	4,637	8.5	8
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Patrick McGoldrick	3,889	7.1
	Labour	Archie Cassidy	3,675	6.7	6
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick McGinley	2,463	4.5
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Edward Kelly	2,067	3.8
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Flaherty	1,973	3.6
	Independent	Kate McCarry	164	0.3
Electorate: 90,224   Valid: 54,552   Quota: 6,062   Turnout: 60.5%

June 1927 general election

June 1927 general election: Donegal[13]

Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Independent	James Myles	7,557	15.1	1	1
	National League Party	Daniel McMenamin	5,828	11.7	2	1
	Fianna Fáil	Neal Blaney	5,681	11.4	4
	Farmers' Party	John White	5,031	10.1	3
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Eugene Doherty	4,005	8.0	6
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Hugh Law	3,596	7.2	7
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Michael Óg McFadden	3,105	6.2	8
	Fianna Fáil	Frank Carney	3,002	6.0	5
	Fianna Fáil	Seamus Monaghan	2,899	5.8
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Patrick McGoldrick	2,750	5.5
	Labour	Archie Cassidy	2,491	5.0
	Labour	Denis Houston	2,005	4.0
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Patrick McFadden	1,975	3.9
Electorate: 90,224   Valid: 49,925   Quota: 5,548[28]   Turnout: 55.3%

1924 by-election

A by-election was held on 20 November 1924 to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation on 1 August 1924 of the Cumann na nGaedheal TD Peter Ward. There were only two candidates, and the winner was the Cumann na nGaedheal candidate Denis McCullough.

1924 by-election: Donegal[12]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Denis McCullough	57.6	24,919
	Republican	Thomas Daly	42.4	18,371
Electorate: 96,777   Valid: 43,290   Quota: 21,646   Turnout: 44.7%

1923 general election

The 1923 general election to the 4th Dáil was the first in the Donegal constituency where the number of candidates exceeded the number of seats. Under the Electoral Act 1923, Donegal's representation had been increased from six to eight seats, and these were contested by no less than 19 candidates.

1923 general election: Donegal[11]

Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Independent	James Myles	6,954	13.2	1	1
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Peter Ward	5,513	10.5	2
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Eugene Doherty	5,261	10.0	3
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Patrick McGoldrick	3,743	7.1	6
	Republican	Brian Monaghan	3,678	7.0
	Farmers' Party	John White	3,673	7.0	4
	Republican	Peadar O'Donnell	3,621	6.9	7
	Cumann na nGaedheal	Patrick McFadden	3,492	6.6	5
	Republican	Joseph O'Doherty	3,213	6.1	8
	Labour	Denis Houston	2,456	4.7
	Farmers' Party	Hugh Law	1,718	3.3
	Republican	Samuel O'Flaherty	1,647	3.1
	Cumann na nGaedheal	H. J. O'Kelly	1,489	2.8
	Ratepayers' Association	Michael McNelis	1,432	2.7
	Farmers' Party	Neil Faulkner	1,209	2.3
	Farmers' Party	Andrew Lowry	1,127	2.1
	Independent	Daniel McMenamin	927	1.8
	Republican	Edward Gallen	908	1.7
	Independent	Henry McGowan	69	1.3
Electorate: 96,977   Valid: 52,730   Quota: 5,859   Turnout: 54.4%

1922 general election

As at the 1921 general election, Sinn Féin stood one candidate for every seat, except those for two Dublin constituencies; the treaty had divided the party between 65 pro-treaty candidates, 57 anti-treaty and 1 nominally on both sides. Unlike the elections a year earlier, other parties stood in most constituencies forcing single transferable vote elections, with Sinn Féin losing 30 seats.

In Donegal, Sinn Féin's six outgoing TDs from the 2nd Dáil were elected unopposed, Socialist Republican, Jack White having withdrawn his candidacy.[29] Two had opposed the treaty, and four supported it; they are listed here in alphabetical order

1922 general election: Donegal[10]

Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Sinn Féin (Pro-Treaty)	Joseph McGinley	Unopposed	N/A	1
	Sinn Féin (Pro-Treaty)	Patrick McGoldrick	Unopposed	N/A	2
	Sinn Féin (Anti-Treaty)	Joseph O'Doherty	Unopposed	N/A	3
	Sinn Féin (Anti-Treaty)	Samuel O'Flaherty	Unopposed	N/A	4
	Sinn Féin (Pro-Treaty)	Joseph Sweeney	Unopposed	N/A	5
	Sinn Féin (Pro-Treaty)	Peter Ward	Unopposed	N/A	6

1921 general election

At the 1921 general election to the 2nd Dáil, no seats were contested in the 26 counties which became the Irish Free State. In Donegal, six Sinn Féin candidates were nominated for the constituency's eight seats. Major Robert L Moore, who had contested East Donegal in 1918, was selected as the Unionist candidate by 22 April 1921[30] but was described on 15 May 1921 as 'having at the last moment withdrawn'.[31][32] No ballot was needed, and all six candidates were elected unopposed after the close of nominations on 24 May 1921. The 6 TDs elected are listed here in alphabetical order:[8]

1921 general election: Donegal[9]

Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Sinn Féin	Joseph McGinley	Unopposed	N/A	1
	Sinn Féin	Patrick McGoldrick	Unopposed	N/A	2
	Sinn Féin	Joseph O'Doherty	Unopposed	N/A	3
	Sinn Féin	Samuel O'Flaherty	Unopposed	N/A	4
	Sinn Féin	Joseph Sweeney	Unopposed	N/A	5
	Sinn Féin	Peter Ward	Unopposed	N/A	6

See also

• Dáil constituencies
• Elections in the Republic of Ireland
• Politics of the Republic of Ireland
• List of Dáil by-elections
• List of political parties in the Republic of Ireland

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32. New-York tribune., May 14, 1921, Page 2, Image 2, citing Associated Press

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• Oireachtas Members Database