Seats 3 Seat 3 | Founded 1977 | |
County/City council County Dublin
Dublin City
County Kildare Created Irish general election, 1977 Abolished Irish general election, 1981 | ||
Dublin County West was a short-lived parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas from 1977 to 1981. 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 and boundaries
The constituency was created by the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1974, for the 1977 general election. It was abolished by the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1980. It became part of the Dublin West constituency, created for the 1981 general election.
It consisted of the following areas:
"In the administrative county of Dublin, the district electoral divisions of: and, in the administrative county of Kildare, the district electoral divisions of: and the following wards in the county borough of Dublin: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.