The Irish general election of June 1927 was held on 9 June 1927. The newly elected members of the 5th Dáil

Members of the 5th Dáil

This is a list of the members who were elected to the 5th Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas of the Irish Free State. These TDs were elected at the June 1927 general election on 9 June 1927 and met on 23 June 1927...

 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 23 June 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 election saw the establishment of Fianna Fáil

Fianna Fáil

Fianna Fáil – The Republican Party , more commonly known as Fianna Fáil is a centrist political party in the Republic of Ireland, founded on 23 March 1926. Fianna Fáil's name is traditionally translated into English as Soldiers of Destiny, although a more accurate rendition would be Warriors of Fál...

 as a participant in the Dáil, taking most of the support and many of the members of the abstentionist

Abstentionism

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 Anti-Treaty

Anglo-Irish Treaty

The Anglo-Irish Treaty , officially called the Articles of Agreement for a Treaty Between Great Britain and Ireland, was a treaty between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and representatives of the secessionist Irish Republic that concluded the Irish War of...

 Sinn Féin

Sinn Féin

Sinn Féin is a left wing, Irish republican political party in Ireland. The name is Irish for "ourselves" or "we ourselves", although it is frequently mistranslated as "ourselves alone". Originating in the Sinn Féin organisation founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith, it took its current form in 1970...

. The impact of this shift was to remove Cumann na nGaedheal's working majority among TDs attending, making the Dáil short-lived.

Result

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• Cumann na nGaedheal minority government formed.

First time TDs

• Patrick Boland
  Patrick Boland (Irish politician)
  Patrick Boland 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 June 1927 general election. He was re-elected at each subsequent general election until he retired from politics at the 1954 general...
  
  
• Andrew Fogarty
  Andrew Fogarty
  Andrew Fogarty was an Irish politician and farmer. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála for the Tipperary constituency at the June 1927 general election. He was re-elected at each subsequent general election until lost his seat at the 1948 general election. He was...
  
  
• John Jinks
• Michael Keyes
  Michael Keyes
  Michael J. Keyes was an Irish Labour Party politician. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann on his second attempt in 1927 as a Labour Party TD for Limerick. He lost his seat in the second election in 1927 and failed to be elected in 1932, however, he returned to the Dáil in 1933. In 1949 he joined...
  
  
• Michael Óg McFadden
  Michael Óg McFadden
  Michael Óg McFadden was an Irish Fine Gael politician, merchant and auctioneer. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Cumann na nGaedheal Teachta Dála for the Donegal constituency at the June 1927 general election. He was re-elected at the September 1927 general election but lost his seat at...
  
  
• Thomas Mullins
  Thomas Mullins (Irish politician)
  Thomas Lincoln Mullins was an American-born Irish Fianna Fáil politician. A journalist, Mullins was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála for the Cork West constituency at the June 1927 general election and was re-elected at the September 1927 general election. He did not...
  
  
• Matthew O'Reilly
  Matthew O'Reilly
  Matthew O'Reilly was an Irish politician and farmer. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála for the Meath constituency at the June 1927 general election. He was re-elected at each subsequent general election until lost his seat at the 1954 general election.-References:...
  
  

Outgoing TDs

• Cornelius Connolly
  Cornelius Connolly
  Cornelius Connolly was an Irish politician. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Cumann na nGaedheal Teachta Dála for the Cork West constituency at the 1923 general election. He did not contest the June 1927 general election. He stood as an independent candidate at the 1944 general election...
  
   (Retired)
• Patrick McFadden
  Patrick McFadden (Irish politician)
  Patrick McFadden was an Irish Cumann na nGaedheal politician. He was elected as a Teachta Dála for Donegal at the 1923 general election. He lost his seat at the June 1927 general election.-References:...
  
  (Lost seat)