Members of the 25th Seanad
| 25th Seanad Éireann | |||
|---|---|---|---|
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| Legislative body | Seanad Éireann | ||
| Jurisdiction | Ireland | ||
| Meeting place | Leinster House | ||
| Members | 60 | ||
This is a list of the members of the 25th Seanad Éireann, the upper house of the Oireachtas (legislature) of Ireland. These Senators were elected in April 2016 when postal voting closed. The Taoiseach's nominees are usually selected soon afterwards. The Seanad election takes place after the 2016 general election for the Dáil Éireann.[1]
Electoral system
Article 18.8 of the Constitution requires that an election for Seanad Éireann must take place not later than 90 days after a dissolution of the Dáil. On 9 February, Minister for the Environment Alan Kelly signed the orders for the Seanad Election.
Forty-three Vocational Panel seats in the Seanad are filled by an electorate of public representatives, comprising the 158 members of the incoming 32nd Dáil, the 60 members of the outgoing 24th Seanad, and the 949 members of city and county councils, each of whom has one vote in each of the five panels. The total electorate was 1,155: there were 8 council vacancies, and 7 ex-Senators elected as TDs had only one vote.[2][3] Polling closed at 11 a.m. on Monday 25 April 2016, with the count beginning immediately afterwards. A total of 1,124 of the electorate voted.[3] Each panel is subdivided into an Oireachtas ("inside") subpanel and Nominating Bodies ("outside") subpanel, and a portion of seats must be filled from each subpanel; John Dolan was elected despite having fewer votes than Tom Sheahan and Thomas Welby when they were eliminated, because they were on the inside panel and all remaining seats were reserved for the outside panel.[4][5]
Three seats are elected by graduates of the National University of Ireland and Three seats are elected by graduates and scholars of the University of Dublin (Trinity College).
Polls for these two university constituencies closed at 11.00 a.m. on Tuesday 26 April 2016.
Eleven senators will be directly nominated by the Taoiseach who is eventually chosen by the Dáil after the general election to lead the government.[6]
Composition of the 25th Seanad
There are a total of 60 seats in the Seanad. 43 Senators are elected by the Vocational Panels, 6 elected by the two University constituencies, and 11 are nominated by the Taoiseach.
Nominations for the 43 Vocational Panel Seats closed at noon on the 21st of March 2016 and the full list of panel nominees was published in Iris Oifigiúil on 1 April 2016.[7]
| Administrative Panel[5] | Agricultural Panel[8] | Cultural and Educational Panel[9] | Industrial and Commercial Panel[10] | Labour Panel[11] | National University of Ireland[12] | University of Dublin | Nominated by the Taoiseach | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fianna Fáil | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 14 | |||
| Fine Gael | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 13 | |||
| Sinn Féin | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |||
| Labour Party | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | |||
| Green Party | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||
| Independent | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 | |||
| Total | 7 | 11 | 5 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 60 | ||
List of senators
The eleven members nominated by the Taoiseach cannot be appointed until the 32nd Dáil has nominated a Taoiseach.
- Note: The entries for Senators who were elected or appointed to fill vacancies are shown in italics
See also
References
- ↑ Under the terms of the Constitution of Ireland, an election for Seanad Éireann must take place within 90 days of the dissolution of Dáil Éireann by the President.
- ↑ "Seanad Electoral (Panel Members) Acts 1947 and 1954: Electoral roll" (PDF). Iris Oifigiúil (27A). 1 April 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
- 1 2 O'Halloran, Marie (26 April 2016). "Sinn Féin candidates top Seanad poll on Agriculture panel". The Irish Times. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
the small electorate of 1,155. A total of 1,124 of the electorate voted ... Those entitled to vote on the vocational panels are the 158 new TDs, 53 of the 60 outgoing Senators (as seven were elected to the Dáil in the recent election) and 941 city and county councillors.
- ↑ O'Halloran, Marie (28 April 2016). "Fine Gael transfers help Labour win four Seanad seats". The Irish Times. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
- 1 2 "Administrative Panel Full Results". seanadcount.ie. Oireachtas. April 2016. Archived from the original (Microsoft Excel) on 28 April 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
- ↑ "Minister Kelly signs order for the dates & times for the Seanad Éireann General Election". Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
- ↑ "Panels of candidates prepared by the Seanad Returning Officer pursuant to Section 43 of the Seanad Electoral (Panel Members) Act 1947, as amended by the Seanad Electoral (Panel Members) Act 1954." (PDF). Iris Oifigiúil (27B). 1 April 2016. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
- ↑ "Agricultural Panel Full Results". seanadcount.ie. Oireachtas. April 2016. Archived from the original (Microsoft Excel) on 28 April 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
- ↑ "Cultural and Educational Panel Full Results". seanadcount.ie. Oireachtas. April 2016. Archived from the original (Microsoft Excel) on 28 April 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
- ↑ "Industrial and Commercial Panel Full Results". seanadcount.ie. Oireachtas. April 2016. Archived from the original (Microsoft Excel) on 28 April 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
- ↑ "Labour Panel Full Results". seanadcount.ie. Oireachtas. April 2016. Archived from the original (Microsoft Excel) on 28 April 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
- ↑ "National University of Ireland Elections Page". NUI. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
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