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Dáil Member Party Constituency Date of death Age at death (years) Cause 1st: Pierce McCan Sinn Féin: Tipperary East: 6 March 1919 36 Spanish flu [1] 1st: Terence MacSwiney: Sinn Féin: Cork Mid: 25 October 1920 41 Hunger strike in prison during the Irish War of Independence [2] 2nd: Frank Lawless: Sinn Féin (Pro-Treaty) Dublin County: 16 ...
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.
Dáil constituencies for the 2024 general election. The 2024 Irish general election to elect the 34th Dáil took place on Friday, 29 November 2024, following the dissolution of the 33rd Dáil on 8 November by President Michael D. Higgins at the request of Taoiseach Simon Harris. Polls were open from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m UTC.
The number of TDs and constituencies will both increase for the 2024 election after a 2023 review. There are now 43 Dáil constituencies (up from 39 in 2020) which will elect between three and ...
This is a list of by-elections to Dáil Éireann, the house of representatives of the Oireachtas, the Irish legislature. By-elections in Ireland occur to fill vacant seats which can be caused by the death, resignation, disqualification or expulsion of a sitting Teachta Dála (member of parliament).
Currently every Dáil constituency elects three, four or five TDs. Membership of the Dáil is open to Irish citizens who are 21 or older. [7] A member of the Dáil is a Teachta Dála and is known generally as a TD or Deputy. The Dáil electorate consists of Irish and British citizens over 18 years of age who are registered to vote in Ireland. [8]
Meath was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas from 1923 to 1937 and from 1948 to 2007. The method of election was proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).
On 3 February 2020, following the death of independent candidate, Marese Skehan, the election in the Tipperary constituency was due to be postponed, with nominations to be re-opened. [ 25 ] [ 26 ] [ 27 ] However, on 5 February the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government issued a Special Difficulty Order allowing the election to ...