Limerick was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas elected on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).

Bennett, Bourke, Colbert, Crowley, O'Shaughnessy, Reidy and Ryan were all elected.

Following the resignation of Cumann na nGaedheal TD Richard Hayes, a by-election was held on 28 May 1924.

The seat was won by the Cumann na nGaedheal candidate Richard O'Connell.

The following are the number of votes unsuccessful candidates had at the time of their elimination though the counts which some eliminations occurred are unknown due to data being unavailable; Mackey 143, Larkin 509, J. O'Brien 766, Cleary 996, O'Callaghan 1,159, W. O'Brien 1,273, Walshe 1,706, Laffin 2,197, Colivet 2,249, Quaide 2,468, Keyes 2,808 and Smyth 3,509 Michael Gallagher notes[16] that newspapers at the time reported there was a 'discrepancy' with the original first count results, leading to a recount.