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The 26th Seanad was in office from 2020 to 2025. The 2020 Seanad election followed the 2020 general election to the 33rd Dáil on 8 February. The Constitution of Ireland required a general election for Seanad Éireann, the senate of the Oireachtas (Irish parliament), to take place no later than ninety days after the dissolution of the 32nd Dáil on 14 January 2020.
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An indirect election to the 26th Seanad took place after the 2020 Irish general election, with postal ballots due on 30 and 31 March. Seanad Éireann is the upper house of the Oireachtas, with Dáil Éireann as the lower house of representatives.
The Civil Engagement group is separate from the "Independent group", [4] a technical group long established within the Seanad. [ 5 ] Seanad technical groups do not mirror those in the Dáil; while O'Sullivan joined the Civil Engagement group in the 25th Seanad, in the 32nd Dáil , for example, Green Party TDs sat with the Social Democrats to ...
^ #: Member of the 26th Seanad at time of election. ^ §: Returned automatically without standing for election as outgoing Ceann Comhairle , in accordance with Article 16.6 of the Constitution of Ireland .
Forty-three senators are indirectly elected by an electorate of elected politicians, consisting of members of the incoming 34th Dáil, members of the outgoing 26th Seanad, and incumbent city and county councillors, who have ballots for each of the five vocational panels. [9] [10] There are 1,172 electors for the election of panel members. [11]
26 years, 4 months Did not serve 2y, 6m from July 2007 to January 2010 John Counihan: Independent: 6 December 1922 25 July 1951 26 years, 3 months Did not serve in 2nd Seanad Thomas Ruane: Fianna Fáil: 6 December 1934 28 April 1965 25 years, 9 months Service interrupted by the abolition of the Free State Seanad; Did not serve in 4th and 6th Seanad
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