Seats 3 Founded 2016 | EP constituency South Seat 3 | |
TDs Niall Collins (FF)
Tom Neville (FG)
Patrick O'Donovan (FG) County council Limerick City and County Council Created Irish general election, 2016 Points of interest King John's Castle, Hunt Museum, Foynes Flying Boat & Maritim, Lough Gur, St Mary's Cathedral - Limerick Destinations Limerick, Adare, Newcastle West, Abbeyfeale, Askeaton |
Limerick County is a parliamentary constituency that has been represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas, since the 2016 general election. 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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Map of Co. Limerick, Ireland
History and boundaries
The Constituency Commission proposed in its 2012 report that at the next general election a new constituency called Limerick County be created. The report proposed changes to the constituencies of Ireland so as to reduce the total number of TDs from 166 to 158.
It was established by the Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013. The constituency incorporates all of County Limerick excluding fourteen electoral divisions that are part of the Limerick City constituency in the north-eastern portion of the county.
The 2013 Act defines the constituency as:
"The county of Limerick, except the parts thereof which are comprised in the constituency of Limerick City".TDs since 2016
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.