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The following list identifies every constituency used in Parliamentary etc. elections in Ireland (including Northern Ireland). The list consists of 'index names' for the seat and to identify what is potentially to be covered in a single constituency article.
Ireland gained one MEP under this arrangement, increasing from 13 to 14. The Electoral Commission sought submissions on a review of European Parliament Constituencies. [ 5 ] In a report in November 2023, it recommended that the additional seat be given to the constituency of Midlands–North-West , with the transfer of County Laois and County ...
There are 43 multi-member electoral districts, known as Dáil constituencies, to elect 174 TDs to Dáil Éireann, the house of representatives of the Oireachtas, Ireland's parliament, on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV), to a maximum term of five years.
This was the first review of constituencies carried out by the Commission established under the Electoral Reform Act 2022, where previously they had been carried out by a Constituency Commission. This would be the largest size of the Dáil in the history of the State, surpassing the previous number of 166 TDs from 1981 to 2016. [ 27 ]
Constituencies Fianna Fáil: 82 43 Fine Gael: 80 43 Sinn Féin: 71 43 Aontú: 43 43 Green: 43 43 PBP–Solidarity: 42 [a] 42 Labour: 32 31 Independent Ireland: 28 23 Social Democrats: 26 25 The Irish People: 21 [b] 21 Irish Freedom Party: 16 16 National Party: 9 [b] 9 Liberty Republic: 6 6 Centre Party: 3 3 Independents 4 Change: 3 3 Party for ...
In accordance with the provisions of the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020, the number of constituencies allocated to Northern Ireland was unchanged, at 18. [7] Initial proposals were published on 20 October 2021 and, following two periods of public consultation, revised proposals were published on 17 November 2022.
This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by Northern Irish constituencies for the 59th Parliament of the United Kingdom (2024–present). There are 18 such constituencies, nine of which are represented by Nationalists and eight by Unionists.
There were 300 seats in the Irish House of Commons in 1800, elected in 150 2-member constituencies: 32 county constituencies, 117 borough constituencies, and one university constituency. Under the Act of Union 1800 , Ireland was divided into constituencies to elect 100 MPs for elections to the United Kingdom Parliament .