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1937 Irish general election

Election to the 9th Dáil

Field	Value
election_name	1937 Irish general election
country	Ireland
type	parliamentary
ongoing	no
previous_election	1933 Irish general election
previous_year	1933
election_date	1 July 1937
next_election	1938 Irish general election
next_year	1938
seats_for_election	138 seats in Dáil Éireann
majority_seats	70
turnout	76.2% 5.1 pp
previous_mps	8th Dáil
elected_mps	9th Dáil
image1
leader1	Éamon de Valera
party1	Fianna Fáil
leader_since1	26 March 1926
leaders_seat1	Clare
last_election1	77 seats, 49.7%
seats1	69
seat_change1	8
popular_vote1	599,040
percentage1	45.2%
swing1	4.5 pp
image2
leader2	W. T. Cosgrave
leader_since2	September 1934
party2	Fine Gael
leaders_seat2	Cork Borough
last_election2	59 seats, 39.6%
seats2	48
seat_change2	11
popular_vote2	461,171
percentage2	34.8%
swing2	4.8 pp
image3
leader3	William Norton
leader_since3	19 July 1932
party3	Labour Party (Ireland)
leaders_seat3	Carlow–Kildare
last_election3	8 seats, 5.7%
seats3	13
seat_change3	5
popular_vote3	135,758
percentage3	10.3%
swing3	4.6 pp
map_image	{{Switcher
title	President of the Executive Council
before_election	Éamon de Valera
before_party	Fianna Fáil
posttitle	President of the Executive Council after election
after_election	Éamon de Valera
after_party	Fianna Fáil

| [[File:1937 Irish general election.svg|400px]] | Election results and first-preference votes in each constituency | [[File:Irish_general_election_1937.png|400px]] | Number of seats gained by each party in each constituency}}

The 1937 Irish general election to the 9th Dáil was held on Thursday, 1 July, following the dissolution of the 8th Dáil on 14 June by Ceann Comhairle Frank Fahy on the direction of the Executive Council. The general election took place in 34 parliamentary constituencies throughout the Irish Free State for 138 seats in Dáil Éireann. The number of seats in the Dáil was reduced by 15, from 153 to 138 seats, under the Electoral (Revision of Constituencies) Act 1935.

A plebiscite on whether to approve the new Constitution of Ireland was held on the same day. It was approved with the support of 56.5% of voters and would come into operation on 29 December 1937.

The 9th Dáil met at Leinster House on 21 July 1937 to elect the President of the Executive Council and approve the appointment of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State. Outgoing president Éamon de Valera was re-elected leading a single-party Fianna Fáil government. On the day the new Constitution took effect, De Valera became Taoiseach with greatly expanded powers.

Result

|seats_% = 50.0 |fpv_% = 45.2 |seats_% = 34.8 |fpv_% = 34.8 |seats_% = 9.4 |fpv_% = 10.3 |seats_% = 5.8 |fpv_% = 9.7 |}

Voting summary

Seats summary

Changes in membership

First time TDs

Ernest Benson
Cormac Breslin
Patrick Browne
Thomas Burke
A. P. Byrne
Michael Colbert
Matthew Davis
John Esmonde
John Friel
Archie Heron
Timothy Linehan
Gerrard McGowan
John Munnelly
Jeremiah Ryan
Laurence Walsh

Re-elected TDs

Patrick Gorry
Joseph Mongan

Defeated TDs

William Broderick
William Browne
Eamonn Cooney
Robert Davitt
Stephen Jordan
James McGuire
James Morrisroe
Patrick Murphy
Patrick O'Dowd
Margaret Mary Pearse
James Reidy

Retiring TDs

Hugh Doherty
Eamon Donnelly
Séamus Keely
Patrick Kehoe
William Kent

Vacancies

Conor Maguire (Resigned on appointment as judge in 1936)

Government formation

Fianna Fáil formed a minority government, the 8th Executive Council of the Irish Free State, with the support of the Labour Party. This became the 1st Government of Ireland on 29 December 1937 on the coming into operation of the Constitution.

Seanad election

After the coming into operation of the Constitution, an election took place under Article 53 of the Constitution for the 2nd Seanad in March 1938.

Notes

References

{{cite Irish legislation. (1927). (19 March 1927)
{{cite Irish legislation. (1927). (22 May 1927)
{{cite Irish legislation. (1935). (27 February 1935)
"9th Dáil 1937: Galway East".
"9th Dáil 1937 General Election". ElectionsIreland.org.
"Dáil elections since 1918". ARK Northern Ireland.
(2010). "Elections in Europe: A data handbook". Nomos.

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