Seats 3 EP constituency Midlands–North-West Seat 3 | County council Kildare County Council Founded 1997 | |
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TDs Martin Heydon (FG)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl (FF)
Fiona O'Loughlin (FF) Created Irish general election, 1997 | ||
Kildare South is a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency elects 3 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs). The method of election is the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).
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History and boundaries
The constituency was created for the 1997 general election, when the former 5 seat Kildare constituency was divided into Kildare South and Kildare North.
The Kildare South constituency spans the more rural southern and western areas of County Kildare, taking in the towns of Newbridge, Kildare, Athy, Caragh and many other areas.
The Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013 defines the constituency as:
"The county of Kildare, except the part thereof which is comprised in the constituency of Kildare North and the part thereof which is comprised in the constituency of Laois."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.