Members of the 25th Seanad
| 25th Seanad Éireann | |||
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| 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]
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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.
11 senators were directly nominated by the Taoiseach on 27 May 2016.[6][7]
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 21 March 2016 and the full list of panel nominees was published in Iris Oifigiúil on 1 April 2016.[8]
| Administrative Panel[5] | Agricultural Panel[9] | Cultural and Educational Panel[10] | Industrial and Commercial Panel[11] | Labour Panel[12] | National University of Ireland[13] | University of Dublin | Nominated by the Taoiseach | Total | |||
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| Fianna Fáil | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | ||
| Fine Gael | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 19 | ||
| Sinn Féin | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | ||
| Labour Party | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | ||
| Green Party | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Independent | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 14 | ||
| Total | 7 | 11 | 5 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 60 | ||
List of senators
The eleven members nominated by the Taoiseach were appointed on 27 May 2016.
- Note: The entries for Senators who were elected or appointed to fill vacancies are shown in italics
See also
References
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