[1] The following table shows the composition by party when the 1934 Seanad first met on 12 December 1934.

Westropp Bennett received the votes of all twenty-one members of Fine Gael and seven independents.

Comyn received the votes of his eighteen Fianna Fáil colleagues, the seven Labour Party senators, and three independents (Edward Bellingham, Thomas Linehan and Laurence O'Neill).

[3] The following week, Comyn defeated the outgoing Leas-Chathaoirleach, Michael F. O'Hanlon of Fine Gael, by twenty-six votes to twenty-five.

[4][5] On 11 March 1936, David Robinson was elected unanimously as Leas-Chathaoirleach following the appointment of Comyn to the Circuit Court.