1999 Dublin South-Central by-election
A by-election was held in the Dáil Éireann Dublin South-Central constituency in Ireland on 27 October 1999. It followed the death of Labour Party Teachta Dála (TD) Pat Upton on 22 February 1999.
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The election was won by Mary Upton of the Labour Party and sister of Pat Upton. The other candidates being Dublin City Councillor Michael Mulcahy for Fianna Fáil, Dublin City Councillor Catherine Byrne for Fine Gael, Aengus Ó Snodaigh for Sinn Féin, John Goodwillie for the Green Party, Shay Kelly for the Workers' Party, Manus MacMeanmain for Christian Solidarity, Eammon Murphy as an Independent and John Burns for Natural Law. Mulcahy, Byrne and Ó Snodaigh would all go on to represent the constituency as TDs in the future.
Result
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
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| Fianna Fáil | Michael Mulcahy | 30.1 | 6,050 | 6,059 | 6,108 | 6,157 | 6,330 | 6,497 | 7,005 | 7,901 | |
| Labour | Mary Upton | 28.0 | 5,637 | 5,648 | 5,683 | 5,831 | 5,913 | 6,545 | 7,148 | 10,274 | |
| Fine Gael | Catherine Byrne | 20.1 | 4,037 | 4,064 | 4,093 | 4,154 | 4,240 | 4,559 | 4,778 | ||
| Sinn Féin | Aengus Ó Snodaigh | 8.4 | 1,686 | 1,689 | 1,708 | 1,800 | 1,849 | 2,051 | |||
| Green | John Goodwillie | 6.3 | 1,263 | 1,297 | 1,330 | 1,477 | 1,588 | ||||
| Workers' Party | Shay Kelly | 2.8 | 555 | 561 | 566 | ||||||
| Christian Solidarity | Manus MacMeanmain | 2.0 | 399 | 404 | 601 | 616 | |||||
| Independent | Eammon Murphy | 1.9 | 383 | 387 | |||||||
| Natural Law | John Burns | 0.5 | 106 | ||||||||
| Electorate: 69,771 Valid: 20,116 Quota: 10,059 Turnout: 28.8% | |||||||||||
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