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1952 Irish presidential election

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Field	Value
election_name	1952 Irish presidential election
country	Ireland
type	presidential
ongoing	no
previous_election	1945 Irish presidential election
previous_year	1945
next_election	1959 Irish presidential election
next_year	1959
election_date	10 June 1952
(Unopposed)
image1	[[File:Sean T O'Kelly, 1949.jpg	150px]]
nominee1	Seán T. O'Kelly
party1	Independent politician (Ireland)
title	President
before_election	Seán T. O'Kelly
before_party	Fianna Fáil
after_election	Seán T. O'Kelly
after_party	Independent politician (Ireland)

(Unopposed) In the 1952 Irish presidential election the outgoing president Seán T. O'Kelly was re-elected without a contest.

Procedure

Under Article 12 of the Constitution of Ireland, candidates could be nominated by:

at least twenty of the 207 serving members of the Houses of the Oireachtas, or
at least four of 31 councils of the administrative counties, including county boroughs, or
themselves, in the case of a former or retiring president.

All Irish citizens on the Dáil electoral register were eligible to vote.

Nomination process

On 25 April 1952, Minister for Local Government made an order under section 6 of the Presidential Elections Act 1937 opening nominations, with noon on 16 May as the deadline for nominations, and 10 June set as the date for a poll (if any).

President Seán T. O'Kelly nominated himself as a candidate, and when no other candidate was nominated, he was declared elected on 16 May. This was the first occasion on which a president nominated themselves for a second term.

Result

O'Kelly was inaugurated for his second term as President of Ireland on 25 June 1952.

References

(26 April 1952). "Presidential election dates fixed". [[The Irish Times]].
"Presidential Elections 1938–2011". [[Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.

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