Electoral (Amendment) Act 2009

The Electoral (Amendment) Act 2009 (No. 4/2009) was a law in Ireland which provided for parliamentary constituencies for the 31st Dáil Éireann.^[1] The 31st Dáil was elected at the 2011 general election in March 2011.

This Act replaced the Electoral (Amendment) Act 2005, which defined the constituencies used for the 30th Dáil (elected in 2007). The 2007 report of the Constituency Commission,^[2] an independent body established by the Government of Ireland to review constituency boundaries, proposed several changes to Dáil constituencies. These changes were provided for by the Act.

Summary of changes

This table below, summarises the changes in representation. It does not address revisions to the boundaries of constituencies.

Constituency	Created	Seats	Change
Dublin West	1981	4	gains 1 seat
Dún Laoghaire	1977	4	loses 1 seat
Kerry North	1937	3	abolished
Kerry North–West Limerick	2011	3	new constituency
Limerick	2011	3	new constituency
Limerick City	2011	4	new constituency
Limerick East	1948	5	abolished
Limerick West	1948	3	abolished
Louth	1923	5	gains 1 seat

There were further boundary changes to 18 constituencies, these were: Cork East, Cork North–Central, Cork North–West, Donegal North–East, Donegal South–West, Dublin North, Dublin North–Central, Dublin North–East, Dublin South, Kerry South, Kildare North, Kildare South, Laois–Offaly, Meath East, Meath West, Roscommon–South Leitrim, Sligo–North Leitrim and Tipperary North.

List of constituencies for the 31st Dáil

Explanation of columns

• No.: The number of the constituency (in alphabetical order).
• Constituency: The name of the constituency. Compass points follow the area name in this list, which is not always the case in the official version of the name.
• Created: The year of the election when a constituency of the same name was last created.
• Seats: The number of TDs elected from the constituency under the Act.
• Change: Change in the number of seats since the last distribution of seats (which took effect in 2007).

No.	Constituency	Created	Seats	Change
01	Carlow–Kilkenny	1948	5	none
02	Cavan–Monaghan	1977	5	none
03	Clare	1921	4	none
04	Cork East	1981	4	none
05	Cork North–Central	1981	4	none
06	Cork North–West	1981	3	none
07	Cork South–Central	1981	5	none
08	Cork South–West	1961	3	none
09	Donegal North–East	1981	3	none
10	Donegal South–West	1981	3	none
11	Dublin Central	1981	4	none
12	Dublin Mid–West	2002	4	none
13	Dublin North	1981	4	none
14	Dublin North–Central	1948	3	none
15	Dublin North–East	1981	3	none
16	Dublin North–West	1981	3	none
17	Dublin South	1981	5	none
18	Dublin South–Central	1948	5	none
19	Dublin South–East	1948	4	none
20	Dublin South–West	1981	4	none
21	Dublin West	1981	4	plus 1
22	Dún Laoghaire	1977	4	minus 1
23	Galway East	1977	4	none
24	Galway West	1937	5	none
25	Kerry North–West Limerick	2011	3	plus 3
26	Kerry South	1937	3	none
27	Kildare North	1997	4	none
28	Kildare South	1997	3	none
29	Laois–Offaly	2007	5	none
30	Limerick	2011	3	plus 3
31	Limerick City	2011	4	plus 4
32	Longford–Westmeath	2007	4	none
33	Louth	1923	5	plus 1
34	Mayo	1997	5	none
35	Meath East	2007	3	none
36	Meath West	2007	3	none
37	Roscommon–South Leitrim	2007	3	none
38	Sligo–North Leitrim	2007	3	none
39	Tipperary North	1948	3	none
40	Tipperary South	1948	3	none
41	Waterford	1923	4	none
42	Wexford	1921	5	none
43	Wicklow	1923	5	none

Constituencies abolished

Constituency	Created	Seats	Change
Kerry North	1937	3	minus 3
Limerick East	1948	5	minus 5
Limerick West	1948	3	minus 3

See also

• List of historic Dáil Éireann constituencies
• Parliamentary constituencies in the Republic of Ireland
• Irish general election timetable

References

1. "Electoral (Amendment) Act 2009". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 28 September 2010.
2. "Report on Dáil and European Parliament Constituencies 2007" (PDF). Constituency Commission. 23 October 2007. Retrieved 14 June 2008.

External links

• Irish Statute Book – Acts of the Oireachtas