Leitrim-Roscommon North (Dáil Éireann constituency)

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Leitrim-Roscommon North is a former parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. Covering all counties of Leitrim and part of Roscommon, it existed from 1921 to 1923. It elected four Teachtaí Dála (TDs) to the Dáil, using the Single Transferable Vote method of proportional representation (PR-STV).

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[edit] History

The constituency was created in 1921, under the Government of Ireland Act 1920, for the 1921 general election to the House of Commons of Southern Ireland, whose members formed the 2nd Dáil. It was used again for the 1922 general election to the 3rd Dáil

Leitrim-Roscommon North was abolished under the Electoral Act 1923, and replaced by the two new constituencies of Leitrim-Sligo and Roscommon.

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[edit] TDs elected

TDs are listed in alphabetical order, not in order of election.

[edit] 3rd Dáil, 1922-1923

[edit] 2nd Dáil, 1921-1922

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