Kildare-Wicklow (Dáil Éireann constituency)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kildare-Wicklow is a former Irish parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas, from 1921–1923. It elected five Teachtaí Dála (TDs) to the Dáil, using the using the Single Transferable Vote method of proportional representation (PR-STV).

The constituency was created under the Government of Ireland Act 1920, and first used at the 1921 general election to the short-lived House of Commons of Southern Ireland, all but four of whose members took their seats instead in the Second Dáil. (See Government of Ireland Act 1920 (Parliamentary and Dáil constituencies) for fuller details of the constituencies created for the 1921 election).

Kildare-Wicklow was used again for the 1922 general election to the Third Dáil. Under the Electoral Act 1923, it was replaced by the two new single-county constitituencies of Kildare and Wicklow.

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

Parliamentary constituencies in the Republic of Ireland
Carlow-Kilkenny \| Cavan-Monaghan \| Clare \| Cork East \| Cork North Central \| Cork North West \| Cork South Central \| Cork South West \| Donegal North East \| Donegal South West \| Dublin Central \| Dublin Mid West \| Dublin North \| Dublin North Central \| Dublin North East \| Dublin North West \| Dublin South \| Dublin South Central \| Dublin South East \| Dublin South West \| Dublin West \| Dún Laoghaire \| Galway East \| Galway West \| Kerry North \| Kerry South \| Kildare North \| Kildare South \| Laois-Offaly \| Limerick East \| Limerick West \| Longford-Roscommon \| Louth \| Mayo \| Meath \| Sligo-Leitrim \| Tipperary North \| Tipperary South \| Waterford \| Westmeath \| Wexford \| Wicklow
in use 2007 general election: Longford-Westmeath \| Meath East \| Meath West \| Roscommon-South Leitrim \| Sligo-North Leitrim