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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).
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 Offaly from South.
Before the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU, there was a 3-member single transferable vote constituency covering Northern Ireland. The constituencies covering England, Scotland, and Wales changed several times: Between 1979 and 1994, there were 78 first-past-the-post single-member constituencies.
The Constituency Commission (Irish: An Coimisiún um Thoghlaigh) is an independent commission in Ireland which had advised on redrawing of constituency boundaries of Dáil constituencies for the election of members to Dáil Éireann (the house of representatives of the Oireachtas) and European Parliament constituencies prior to the establishment of the Electoral Commission in 2023.
The Constituency Commission made changes to the constituencies of Ireland so as to reduce the total number of MEPs from 12 to 11, due to the accession of Croatia to the European Union. [4] The North-West and East constituencies were abolished. A new 4-seat constituency called Midlands–North-West was created.
It also provided for the situation that Ireland's representation remained at 11 with an amendment to the rules, "For the purpose of the European elections held in the year 2019, the return made by the chief returning officer […] shall declare that the last candidate deemed to be elected […] in each of the constituencies of Dublin and South ...
Ciarán Cuffe (born 3 April 1963) is an Irish politician who has been co-chair of the European Green Party (EGP) since December 2024. [1] He served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Ireland for the Dublin constituency from July 2019 to July 2024.
European Parliament constituencies in the Republic of Ireland (historic) (5 P) Pages in category "European Parliament constituencies in the Republic of Ireland" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.