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The constituency was created in 1979 for the first direct elections to the European Parliament. [3] It has always contained the whole of County Dublin and the city of Dublin only (with the county defined since 1994 as the counties of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Fingal, South Dublin).
In June 2023, the European Parliament adopted a resolution to add 11 MEPs. [2] [3] This was adopted by the European Council in September 2023. [4] 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]
Dublin (4 seats); Midlands–North-West (5 seats); and; South (5 seats). Thirteen MEPs were elected in 2019. However, the last candidate elected in Dublin and in South did not take their seats until January 2020, as part of the post-Brexit redistribution of seats. Ireland was allocated an additional seat in 2023 after a pre-election assessment ...
Fianna Fail’s Barry Andrews, Fine Gael’s Regina Doherty, Sinn Fein’s Lynn Boylan and Labour’s Aodhan O Riordain have been elected.
2019 European Parliament Ireland constituencies. The 2019 European Parliament election in Ireland is the Irish component of the 2019 European Parliament election and was held on Friday, 24 May 2019, on the same day as the 2019 local elections and a referendum easing restrictions on divorce. [1]
The 1979 European Parliament election in Ireland was the Irish component of the 1979 European Parliament election.These were the first direct elections to the European Parliament, and the first election to be held simultaneously across the entire Island of Ireland since the 1921 Irish elections.
This is a list of the members of the European Parliament for Ireland elected at the 2019 European Parliament election.They served in the 2019 to 2024 session, but two of them did not take their seats until the reallocation of seats which took place when the MEPs elected for the United Kingdom vacated their seats on the implementation of Brexit on 31 January 2020.
The 2009 European Parliament election in Ireland was the Irish component of the 2009 European Parliament election and was held on Friday, 5 June 2009, coinciding with the 2009 local elections. Two by-elections ( Dublin South and Dublin Central ) were also held on the same day.