Irish general election, 1933
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The Irish general election of 1933 was held on 24 January 1933. The newly elected members of the 8th Dáil
Members of the 8th Dáil
This is a list of the members who were elected to the 8th Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas of the Irish Free State. These TDs were elected at the 1933 general election on 24 January 1933 and met on 8 February 1933. The 8th Dáil was dissolved on 14 June 1937...

 assembled at Leinster House
Leinster House
Leinster House is the name of the building housing the Oireachtas, the national parliament of Ireland.Leinster House was originally the ducal palace of the Dukes of Leinster. Since 1922, it is a complex of buildings, of which the former ducal palace is the core, which house Oireachtas Éireann, its...

 on 8 February when the new President of the Executive Council
President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State
The President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State was the head of government or prime minister of the Irish Free State which existed from 1922 to 1937...

 and Executive Council
Executive Council of the Irish Free State
The Executive Council was the cabinet and de facto executive branch of government of the 1922–1937 Irish Free State. Formally, the role of the Executive Council was to "aid and advise" the Governor-General who would exercise the executive authority on behalf of the King...

 of the Irish Free State
Irish Free State
The Irish Free State was the state established as a Dominion on 6 December 1922 under the Anglo-Irish Treaty, signed by the British government and Irish representatives exactly twelve months beforehand...

 were appointed.

The general election took place in 30 parliamentary constituencies
Parliamentary constituencies in the Republic of Ireland
The lower house of the Oireachtas , Dáil Éireann, contains 166 Teachtaí Dála , representing 43 parliamentary constituencies throughout the Republic of Ireland. Depending on its size, each constituency must have at least 3 members and a maximum of five members. The most recent ratio indicates that...

 throughout the Irish Free State for 153 seats in the lower house of parliament, Dáil Éireann
Dáil Éireann (Irish Free State)
Dáil Éireann served as the directly elected lower house of the Oireachtas of the Irish Free State from 1922 to 1937. The Free State constitution described the role of the house as that of a "Chamber of Deputies". Until 1936 the Free State Oireachtas also included an upper house known as the Seanad...

.

Result

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  • Fianna Fáil minority government formed.

Excluding the Ceann Comhairle (speaker), Fianna Fáil, had won exactly half the seats and formed a government with support from the Labour Party, eventually winning enough by-elections to govern without Labour Party support.

First time TDs

  • James Burke
    James Burke (Cork politician)
    James Michael Burke was an Irish Cumann na nGaedheal politician and barrister. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Cumann na nGaedhael Teachta Dála for the Cork West constituency at the 1933 general election. He died in office in 1936, but no by-election was held for his seat.-References:...

  • John A. Costello
    John A. Costello
    John Aloysius Costello , a successful barrister, was one of the main legal advisors to the government of the Irish Free State after independence, Attorney General of Ireland from 1926–1932 and Taoiseach from 1948–1951 and 1954–1957....

  • Patrick Daly
  • Robert Davitt
    Robert Davitt
    Robert Emmet Davitt was an Irish Fine Gael politician and medical practitioner. He was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Cumann na nGaedheal Teachta Dála for the Meath constituency at the 1933 general election. He did not contest the 1937 general election. He was a son of Michael Davitt.-References:...

  • Hugh Doherty
    Hugh Doherty (Irish politician)
    Hugh Doherty was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician. He was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála for the Donegal constituency at the 1933 general election. He did not contest the 1937 general election.-References:...

  • Eamon Donnelly
    Eamon Donnelly
    Eamon Donnelly was an Irish politician.Born in Ulster and living in Newry, Donnelly was elected as an independent independent republican member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland in Armagh at the 1925 general election. Shortly after his election, he was served with an order excluding him from...

  • Séamus Keely
    Séamus Keely
    Séamus P. Keely was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician. He was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála for the Galway constituency at the 1933 general election. He did not contest the 1937 general election....

  • Patrick Kehoe
    Patrick Kehoe
    Patrick Kehoe was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician and farmer. He was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála for the Wexford constituency at the 1933 general election. He did not contest the 1937 general election. In the 1938 Seanad election, he was elected to the 2nd Seanad on the...

  • James McGuire
    James McGuire (Irish politician)
    James Ivan McGuire was an Irish politician and barrister-at-law. He was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Cumann na nGaedheal Teachta Dála for the Dublin South constituency at the 1933 general election. He lost his seat at the 1937 general election.-References:...

  • James Morrisroe
    James Morrisroe
    James Morrisroe was an Irish politician. He was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Cumann na nGaedheal Teachta Dála for the Mayo North constituency at the 1933 general election. He lost his seat at the 1937 general election.-References:...


Outgoing TDs

  • Eamonn Duggan
    Eamonn Duggan
    Eamonn or Edmund S. Duggan was an Irish lawyer, nationalist and politician, a member of Sinn Féin and then Cumann na nGaedheal....

     (Retired)
  • Margaret Collins-O'Driscoll
    Margaret Collins-O'Driscoll
    Margaret Collins-O'Driscoll was an Irish Cumann na nGaedheal politician. She was the sister of the Irish revolutionary leader Michael Collins. She was educated at Baggot Street Training College and was a schoolteacher and school principal before entering politics...

     (Lost seat)
  • Francis Gormley
    Francis Gormley
    Francis Gormley was an Irish soldier and politician. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála for the Longford–Westmeath constituency at the 1932 general election. He lost his seat at the 1933 general election...

     (Lost seat)
  • Patrick Gorry
    Patrick Gorry
    Patrick J. Gorry was an Irish politician and farmer. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála for the Leix–Offaly constituency at the September 1927 general election. He was re-elected at the 1932 general election but lost his seat at the 1933 general election...

     (Lost seat)
  • Raphael Keyes
    Raphael Keyes
    Raphael Patrick Keyes was an Irish politician, born in Cork. During the war of independence he was captain of the Bantry company of the fifth battalion of IRA in West Cork, listed as a Cinema Proprietor when elected to the oireachtas. He was elected to the Free State Senate in 1931...

     (Lost seat)
  • John Kiersey
    John Kiersey
    John Kiersey was an Irish politician and farmer. He was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Cumann na nGaedheal Teachta Dála for the Waterford constituency at the 1932 general election. He lost his seat at the 1933 general election.-References:...

     (Lost seat)
  • Joseph Mongan
    Joseph Mongan
    Joseph W. Mongan was an Irish politician. He was an unsuccessful candidate at the June 1927 general election, but was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Cumann na nGaedheal Teachta Dála for the Galway constituency at the September 1927 general election. He was re-elected at the 1932 general election...

     (Lost seat)
  • Eugene O'Brien (Lost seat)
  • Patrick O'Hara
    Patrick O'Hara
    Patrick O'Hara was an Irish politician, general merchant and farmer. He was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Cumann na nGaedheal Teachta Dála for the Mayo North constituency at the 1932 general election. He did not contest the 1933 general election....

     (Retired)
  • Martin Sexton (Lost seat)
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