Shortest-serving Former TDs
This is a list of former TDs who served for less than 1 year in the Dáil. Unless otherwise specified, start and end dates given are those of the relevant general election.
| Name | Party | Elected |
Vacated seat | Months | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kieran Doherty | Anti H-Block | 1981 | Died on 2 August 1981 | 2m | Died after 73 days on hunger strike | |
| Pierce McCan | Sinn Féin | 1918 | Died on 6 March 1919 | 3m | The Westminster election was on 14 December 1918, but the First Dáil did not sit until 21 January 1919 | |
| Patrick Gaffney | Farmers' Party | 1922 | Resigned September 1922 | 3m | Resigned after refusing to take the Oath of Allegiance | |
| Michael Carter | Farmers' Party | June 1927 | Lost seat in September 1927 | 3m | ||
| Arthur Clery | Independent | June 1927 | Lost seat in September 1927 | 3m | ||
| Denis Cullen | Labour Party | June 1927 | Lost seat in September 1927 | 3m | ||
| William Duffy | National League Party | June 1927 | Did not contest September 1927 | 3m | ||
| Thomas Falvey | Farmers' Party | June 1927 | Lost seat in September 1927 | 3m | ||
| Hugh Garahan | Farmers' Party | June 1927 | Lost seat in September 1927 | 3m | ||
| John Gill | Labour Party | June 1927 | Lost seat in September 1927 | 3m | ||
| Gilbert Hewson | Independent | June 1927 | Lost seat in September 1927 | 3m | ||
| John Horgan | National League Party | June 1927 | Lost seat in September 1927 | 3m | ||
| John Jinks | National League Party | June 1927 | Lost seat in September 1927 | 3m | ||
| Gilbert Lynch | Labour Party | June 1927 | Lost seat in September 1927 | 3m | ||
| Eugene Mullen | Fianna Fáil | June 1927 | Lost seat in September 1927 | 3m | ||
| David O'Gorman | Farmers' Party | June 1927 | Lost seat in September 1927 | 3m | ||
| Timothy Quill | Labour Party | June 1927 | Lost seat in September 1927 | 3m | ||
| James Shannon | Labour Party | June 1927 | Lost seat in September 1927 | 3m | ||
| Thomas Tynan | Fianna Fáil | June 1927 | Lost seat in September 1927 | 3m | ||
| Frank Drohan | Sinn Féin | 1921 | Resigned on 5 January 1922 | 7m | Returned unopposed on 24 May 1921; the Second Dáil convened on 16 August 1921. | |
| George Lee | Fine Gael | June 2009 b | Resigned on 8 February 2010 | 8m | ||
| Carrie Acheson | Fianna Fáil | 1981 | Lost seat in February 1982 | 9m | ||
| Paddy Agnew | Anti H-Block | 1981 | Did not contest February 1982 | 9m | ||
| Carey Joyce | Fianna Fáil | 1981 | Lost seat in February 1982 | 9m | ||
| Seán Dublin Bay Loftus | Independent | 1981 | Lost seat in February 1982 | 9m | ||
| Hugh Kennedy | Cumann na nGaedheal | October 1923 b | Resigned on 25 June 1924 | 9m | Resigned to become Chief Justice of the Irish Free State | |
| Thomas Bellew | Fianna Fáil | February 1982 | Lost seat in November 1982 | 10m | ||
| Gerry Brady | Fianna Fáil | February 1982 | Lost seat in November 1982 | 10m | ||
| Ned Brennan | Fianna Fáil | February 1982 | Lost seat in November 1982 | 10m | ||
| Jim Corr | Fine Gael | February 1982 | Did not contest November 1982 | 10m | ||
| Henry Coyle | Cumann na nGaedheal | 1923 | Disqualified on 9 May 1924 | 10m | Sentenced to three years' imprisonment for bouncing cheques | |
| Alexis FitzGerald, Jnr | Fine Gael | February 1982 | Lost seat in November 1982 | 10m | ||
| Patrick Gallagher | Sinn Féin (Workers Party) | February 1982 | Lost seat in November 1982 | 10m | ||
| Thomas O'Mahony | Cumann na nGaedheal | 1923 | Died on 20 July 1924 | 11m | ||
| Richard Stapleton | Labour Party | 1943 | Lost seat in 1944 | 11m | ||
The following were eligible for membership of the Dáil, but as Unionists, they did not recognise it. Those elected to Westminster in 1918 were eligible for the First Dáil.
| Name | Party | Elected | Vacated Westminster seat | Months | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hugh Anderson | Irish Unionist Alliance | 1918 | Resignation in 1919 | < 3m | By-election was held on 4 March 1919 | |
| Robert McCalmont | Irish Unionist Alliance | 1918 | Appointment as Commander of the Irish Guards in 1919 | < 6m | By-election was held on 27 May 1919 | |
| Arthur Warren Samuels | Irish Unionist Alliance | 1918 | Appointment to the King's Bench in 1919 | < 8m | By-election was held on 28 July 1919 | |
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