Tipperary South | |
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Former Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Constituency |
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Location of Tipperary South within Ireland
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Former constituency | |
Created | 1948 |
Abolished | 2016 |
Seats | 4 (1948–1977) 3 (1977–1981) 4 (1981–1997) 3 (1997–2016) |
County council |
South Tipperary County Waterford |
Tipperary South was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas, from 1948 to 2016. The method of election was the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).
It was created for the 1948 general election when the former Tipperary constituency was divided into Tipperary North and Tipperary South. It was made up of the administrative county of South Tipperary, some areas in North Tipperary and also a small portion of County Waterford to the south of Clonmel. The principle population centres were Tipperary, Clonmel, Cashel, Carrick-on-Suir and Cahir.
The Electoral (Amendment) Act 2009 defined the constituency as:
It was abolished at the 2016 general election and replaced by the new Tipperary constituency.
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.
Following the death of Fine Gael TD Theresa Ahearn, a by-election was held on 30 June 2001. The seat was won by the Fine Gael candidate Tom Hayes.