Laois (Dáil Éireann constituency)
| Laois | |
|---|---|
| Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Constituency |
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| Future constituency | |
| Created | 2016 |
| Seats | 3 |
| TDs | |
| County council | Laois County Council Kildare County Council |
| EP constituency | Midlands–North-West |
Laois 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).
Contents
History and boundaries
The Constituency Commission proposed in its 2012 report that at the next general election a new constituency called Laois 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 new constituency will incorporate all of County Laois from the existing Laois–Offaly constituency, and six electoral divisions from Kildare South.
The 2013 Act defines the constituency as:[3]
- "The county of Laois;
- and in the county of Kildare the electoral divisions of:
- Ballybrackan, Churchtown, Harristown, Kilberry, Kildangan, Monasterevin, in the former Rural District of Athy No. 1."
TDs
| Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Laois 2016– | |||||||
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Key to parties
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| Dáil | Election | Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
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| 32nd | 2016[4] | Brian Stanley (SF) |
Seán Fleming (FF) |
Charles Flanagan (FG) |
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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: Laois[4] | ||||||
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| Party | Candidate | % 1st Pref | Count 1 | Count 2 | Count 3 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Seán Fleming | 35.1% | 13,626 | |||
| Sinn Féin | Brian Stanley | 21.2% | 8,242 | 9,562 | 10,092 | |
| Fine Gael | Charles Flanagan | 21.5% | 8,370 | 9,298 | 9,525 | |
| Fine Gael | Thomasina Connell | 10.9% | 4,233 | 4,735 | 5,140 | |
| Labour Party | John Whelan | 7.3% | 2,856 | 3,394 | 3,896 | |
| Green Party | Sinead Moore | 4.0% | 1,541 | 2,161 | ||
| Electorate: 63,295 Valid: 38,868 Spoilt: 352 Quota: 9,718 Turnout: 61.96% | ||||||
See also
- Parliamentary constituencies in the Republic of Ireland
- Politics of the Republic of Ireland
- List of political parties in the Republic of Ireland
- List of Irish by-elections
- Elections in the Republic of Ireland
