Talk:1920 Cork Corporation election

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Counting people and parties edit

Latest comment: 4 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The summary statistics are hard to pin down for several reasons:

Some candidates ran in multiple constituencies. I count 154 different individuals, not 156 or 160 as various sources give. OTOH I may have incorrectly merged two separate people who happen to have the same name.
Party labels were not cut-and-dried in 1920.
- Party names were not added to ballot papers until the Electoral Act 1963.
- Multiple organisations might endorse the same candidates, either as an alliance like Sinn Féin–Transport Workers or case-by-case like the Ratepayers endorsing some bourgeois nationalists.
- The Sinn Féin–Transport Workers alliance applied in some councils, not all. It applied in Cork, but I haven't established which of the Sinn Féin–Transport Workers candidates were ITGWU rather than Sinn Féin. If one aggregates national totals, the fact the Labour ran against Sinn Féin in some councils complicates things further.
- The Irish Labour Party was allied to the ITGWU, not the Cork and District Labour Council.
- Nationalist Party (Ireland) is too vague a label; Irish Parliamentary Party was the name at Westminster and Irish National League might be better at local level and easier to distinguish from the rival All-for-Ireland League. Some sources list Independent Nationalist under "Irish Nationalist" and others under "Independent".
- I haven't found which of the unsuccessful candidates were endorsed by the ex-servicemen lobby; some are probably listed as "independent". Possibly the servicemen endorsed some Nationalist or Ratepayers as well.

jnestorius^(talk) 12:10, 5 February 2020 (UTC)Reply

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