Seats 3 Seat 3 | Founded 1937 | |
County/City council County Longford
County Roscommon
County Westmeath Created Irish general election, 1937 Abolished Irish general election, 1948 | ||
Athlone–Longford was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas from 1937 to 1948. The constituency elected 3 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs) to the Dáil, using the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).
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History
The constituency was created for the 1937 general election under the Electoral (Revision of Constituencies) Act 1935, replacing the old Longford–Westmeath constituency.
Under the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1947, the constituency was abolished, and the Longford–Westmeath constituency was re-created for the 1948 general election.
Boundaries
The constituency consisted of all of County Longford and parts of counties Roscommon and Westmeath. In the 1935 Act, its boundaries were defined as:
"The administrative County of Longford, The District electoral divisions of: The District Electoral Divisions of:TDs
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.