Limerick County (Dáil constituency)
| Limerick County | |
|---|---|
| Dáil Éireann Parliamentary constituency | |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 2016 |
| Seats | 3 |
| TDs | |
| County council | Limerick City and County Council |
| EP constituency | South |
Limerick County is a parliamentary constituency which will be represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas, from the 2016 general election. The constituency will elect 3 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs). The method of election is the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).
History and boundaries
The Constituency Commission proposed in its 2012 report that at the next general election a new constituency called Limerick County be created.[1] The report proposed changes to the constituencies of Ireland so as to reduce the total number of TDs from 166 to 158.[2]
It was established by the Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013.[3] The constituency incorporates all of County Limerick excluding fourteen electoral divisions which are to be part of the Limerick City constituency in the North Eastern portion of the county.
The 2013 Act defines the constituency as:[3]
- "The county of Limerick, except the parts thereof which are comprised in the constituency of Limerick City.
TDs since 2016
| Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Limerick County 2016– | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Key to parties
| |||||||
| Dáil | Election | Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) | |||
| 32nd | 2016[4] | Niall Collins (FF) |
Patrick O'Donovan (FG) |
Tom Neville (FG) | |||
Note: The columns in this table are used only for presentational purposes, and no significance should be attached to the order of columns. For details of the order in which seats were won at each election, see the detailed results of that election.
Elections
2016 general election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Niall Collins | 27.6% | 12,276 | ||||||
| Fine Gael | Patrick O'Donovan | 19.1% | 8,479 | 8,637 | 8,712 | 9,183 | 9,498 | 10,291 | |
| Fine Gael | Tom Neville | 18.0% | 8,013 | 8,214 | 8,291 | 8,874 | 9,217 | 10,369 | |
| Independent | Emmett O'Brien | 12.2% | 5,432 | 5,737 | 5,879 | 6,676 | 7,569 | 9,481 | |
| Sinn Féin | Seamus Browne | 7.5% | 3,347 | 3,465 | 3,550 | 3,783 | |||
| Social Democrats | James Heffernan | 7.4% | 3,270 | 3,463 | 3,698 | 4,319 | 5,662 | ||
| Independent | Richard O'Donoghue | 6.4% | 2,855 | 3,021 | 3,118 | ||||
| Green | Alexander Storey Cosgrave | 0.7% | 311 | 321 | |||||
| Direct Democracy | Mark Keogh | 0.5% | 222 | 231 | |||||
| Independent | John O'Gorman | 0.5% | 207 | 219 | |||||
| Electorate: 67,633 Valid: 44,412 Spoilt: 336 Quota: 11,104 Turnout: 44,748 (66.16%) | |||||||||
See also
- Parliamentary constituencies in the Republic of Ireland
- Politics of the Republic of Ireland
- Elections in the Republic of Ireland
References
- ^ "Constituency Commission Report 2012 – Limerick – Kerry area" (PDF). Constituency Commission. 21 June 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
- ^ "Constituency Commission Report 2012 – Introduction and summary of recommendation" (PDF). Constituency Commission. 21 June 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
- ^ a b "Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013: Schedule". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
- ^ a b "General election 2016: Limerick County". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 20 February 2016.