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Joseph Barron

Teachta Dála
In office October 1961 – April 1965
Constituency	Dublin South-Central

Personal details
Born	Dublin, Ireland
Died	(1968-07-30)30 July 1968 Dublin, Ireland
Political party	Clann na Poblachta

Joseph Barron (died 30 July 1968) was an Irish Clann na Poblachta politician. A teacher by profession, he first stood unsuccessfully for election at the 1948 general election as a Clann na Poblachta candidate for the Dublin South-Central constituency. He was also an unsuccessful candidate at the 1951, 1954 and 1957 general elections.^[1]

He was elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1961 general election as a Clann na Poblachta Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South-Central constituency.^[2]

The leader of Clann na Poblachta, Seán MacBride, lost his seat at the 1961 election, and Barron became the leader and sole member of the Clann na Poblachta parliamentary party. He lost his seat at the 1965 general election.

References

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^ "Joseph Barron". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 9 April 2009.

^ "Joseph Barron". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 9 April 2009.

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for the Dublin South-Central constituency

Dáil	Election				Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
13th	1948	James Larkin Jnr (Lab)	Seán Lemass (FF)	Con Lehane (CnaP)		Maurice E. Dockrell (FG)		John McCann (FF)
14th	1951			Philip Brady (FF)				John McCann (FF)
15th	1954			Celia Lynch (FF)				Thomas Finlay (FG)
16th	1957	Philip Brady (FF)						Jack Murphy (Ind)
16th	1958 by-election							Patrick Cummins (FF)
17th	1961			Joseph Barron (CnaP)				Patrick Cummins (FF)
18th	1965			Frank Cluskey (Lab)				Thomas J. Fitzpatrick (FF)
19th	1969		Richie Ryan (FG)	Ben Briscoe (FF)		John O'Donovan (Lab)	4 seats 1969–1977
20th	1973		Richie Ryan (FG)	Ben Briscoe (FF)		John Kelly (FG)	4 seats 1969–1977
21st	1977	Frank Cluskey (Lab)	Fergus O'Brien (FG)	Thomas J. Fitzpatrick (FF)	3 seats 1977–1981
22nd	1981	Ben Briscoe (FF)	Fergus O'Brien (FG)			Gay Mitchell (FG)		John O'Connell^[a] (Ind)
23rd	1982 (Feb)		Frank Cluskey (Lab)
24th	1982 (Nov)			Fergus O'Brien (FG)
25th	1987							Mary Mooney (FF)
26th	1989		John O'Connell (FF)					Eric Byrne (WP)
27th	1992		John O'Connell (FF)	Pat Upton (Lab)			4 seats 1992–2002
27th	1994 by-election		Eric Byrne (DL)
28th	1997		Seán Ardagh (FF)
28th	1999 by-election			Mary Upton (Lab)
29th	2002	Aengus Ó Snodaigh (SF)						Michael Mulcahy (FF)
30th	2007					Catherine Byrne (FG)		Michael Mulcahy (FF)
31st	2011		Eric Byrne (Lab)	Joan Collins (PBP)				Michael Conaghan (Lab)
32nd	2016		Bríd Smith (AAA–PBP)	Joan Collins^[b] (I4C)			4 seats from 2016
33rd	2020		Bríd Smith (S–PBP)	Joan Collins^[b] (I4C)		Patrick Costello (GP)	4 seats from 2016

^ O'Connell served as Ceann Comhairle in the 22nd and 23rd Dáil from 1981 to 1983 and was returned automatically at the February 1982 and November 1982 general elections. He joined Fianna Fáil in January 1985.

^ Founded Right to Change in May 2020.