Limerick County (Dáil Éireann constituency)

For the 1801–1885 constituency, see County Limerick (UK Parliament 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
DáilElectionDeputy
(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

2016 general election: Limerick County[4]
Party Candidate % 1st Pref Count 1 Count 2Count 3Count 4Count 5Count 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 Party 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%)

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