Limerick County (Dáil constituency)
| Limerick County | |
|---|---|
| Dáil constituency | |
| Major settlements | |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 2016 |
| Seats | 3 |
| TDs | |
| Local government area | Limerick City and County |
| Created from | |
| EP constituency | South |
Limerick County is a parliamentary constituency that has been represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas, since the 2016 general election. The constituency elects 3 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs) on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (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 from territory then in the constituencies of Kerry North–West Limerick and Limerick.[1] This was adopted under the Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013 which came into effect at the 2016 general election. The Constituency Review Report 2023 of the Electoral Commission recommended that no change be made at the next general election.[2]
For the next general election, the Electoral (Amendment) Act 2023 defines the constituency as:[3]
"The city and county of Limerick, except the parts thereof which are comprised in the constituency of Limerick City."
| Years | TDs | Boundaries | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–2020 | 3 | The city and county of Limerick, except the parts in the constituency of Limerick City.[4][5] | Created from Limerick constituency, with the additions of electoral divisions in County Limerick previously part of the Kerry North–West Limerick constituency;
transfer of the electoral divisions of Abington, Ballybricken, Caherconlish East, Caherconlish West, Cappamore, Clonkeen, Doon West, Glenstal, Roxborough in the former rural district of Limerick No. 1, and Bilboa the former Tipperary No. 2 Rural District to the Limerick City constituency.[6] |
| 2020– | 3 | Transfer of the electoral divisions of Cappamore, Doon West and Bilboa from the Limerick City constituency.[7] |
TDs
| Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Limerick County 2016– | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Key to parties
| |||||||
| Dáil | Election | Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) | |||
| 32nd | 2016[8] | Niall Collins (FF) |
Patrick O'Donovan (FG) |
Tom Neville (FG) | |||
| 33rd | 2020[9] | Richard O'Donoghue (Ind) | |||||
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
2020 general election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Niall Collins | 18.4 | 8,436 | 8,631 | 8,885 | 11,870 | |||
| Fine Gael | Patrick O'Donovan | 20.0 | 9,228 | 9,458 | 9,952 | 10,893 | 15,552 | ||
| Independent | Richard O'Donoghue | 13.1 | 6,021 | 6,599 | 7,050 | 7,647 | 8,587 | 10,320 | |
| Sinn Féin | Séighin Ó Ceallaigh | 15.0 | 6,916 | 7,204 | 7,814 | 8,125 | 8,579 | 8,955 | |
| Fine Gael | Tom Neville | 12.6 | 5,810 | 5,970 | 6,358 | 6,765 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Michael Collins | 11.2 | 5,150 | 5,320 | 5,532 | ||||
| Green | Claire Keating | 5.4 | 2,503 | 2,688 | |||||
| Aontú | Conor O'Donoghue | 1.5 | 714 | ||||||
| Independent | Robert O'Donnell | 0.9 | 402 | ||||||
| Independent | Con Cremin | 0.8 | 373 | ||||||
| Renua | John Dalton | 0.7 | 313 | ||||||
| National Party | Cristín Ní Mhaoldhomhnaigh | 0.5 | 224 | ||||||
| Electorate: 72,165 Valid: 46,090 Spoilt: 409 Quota: 11,523 Turnout: 46,499 (64.4%) | |||||||||
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 | |
| Social Democrats | James Heffernan | 7.4 | 3,270 | 3,463 | 3,698 | 4,319 | 5,662 | ||
| Sinn Féin | Seamus Browne | 7.5 | 3,347 | 3,465 | 3,550 | 3,783 | |||
| 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
- Elections in the Republic of Ireland
- Politics of the Republic of Ireland
- List of Dáil by-elections
- List of political parties in the Republic of Ireland
References
- ^ "Constituency Commission Report 2012 – Limerick – Kerry area" (PDF). Constituency Commission. 21 June 2012. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 October 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
- ^ "Constituency Review Report 2023" (PDF). Electoral Commission. p. 7. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 August 2023. Retrieved 30 August 2023.
- ^ Electoral (Amendment) Act 2023, Schedule (No. 40 of 2023, Schedule). Enacted on 19 December 2023. Act of the Oireachtas. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 16 February 2024.
- ^ Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013, Schedule (No. 7 of 2013, Schedule). Act of the Oireachtas. Archived from the original on 13 February 2020. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 16 May 2022.
- ^ Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2017, Schedule (No. 39 of 2017, Schedule). Act of the Oireachtas. Archived from the original on 18 July 2018. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 16 May 2022.
- ^ "Constituency Commission Report 2012: Dáil and European Parliament Constituencies" (PDF). Constituency Commission. 21 June 2012. p. 73. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 July 2022. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
- ^ "Constituency Commission Report 2017" (PDF). Constituency Commission. 27 June 2017. p. 72. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 November 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
- ^ a b "General election 2016: Limerick County". ElectionsIreland.org. Archived from the original on 22 February 2016. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
- ^ a b "General election 2020: Limerick County". Archived from the original on 18 February 2020. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
- ^ "General Election 2020 Results – Limerick County". RTÉ News. Archived from the original on 13 February 2020. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
- ^ "Limerick County: 2020 General Election". Irelandelection.com. Archived from the original on 23 May 2020. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
- ^ "Limerick County Results 2016". Irelandelection.com. Archived from the original on 20 January 2020. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
- ^ "Limerick County Results 2016". RTÉ. Archived from the original on 15 March 2019.