Dublin Fingal West (Dáil constituency)
| Dublin Fingal West | |
|---|---|
| Dáil constituency | |
_2024.svg) Location of Dublin Fingal West within County Dublin | |
| Major settlements | |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 2024 |
| Seats | 3 |
| TDs | |
| Local government area | Fingal |
| Created from | Dublin Fingal |
| EP constituency | Dublin |
Dublin Fingal West is a Dáil constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas, since the 2024 general election. Established through the Electoral (Amendment) Act 2023, the constituency elects three deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs) on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).
History and boundaries
[edit]The 2023 Report of the Electoral Commission recommended that at the next general election, the five-seat constituency of Dublin Fingal be divided into two new three-seat constituencies of Dublin Fingal East and Dublin Fingal West. The report also recommended a transfer of territory from Dublin North-West.[1]
The Electoral (Amendment) Act 2023 defines the constituency as:[2]
"In the county of Fingal the electoral divisions of:
- Airport, Balbriggan Rural, Balbriggan Urban, Ballyboghil, Balscadden, Clonmethan, Dubber, Garristown, Hollywood, Holmpatrick, Kilsallaghan, Lusk, Rush, Skerries, Turnapin."
TDs
[edit]| Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Dublin Fingal West 2024– | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dáil | Election | Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) | |||
| 34th | 2024[3] | Louise O'Reilly (SF) |
Robert O'Donoghue (Lab) |
Grace Boland (FG) | |||
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.
Elections
[edit]^ *: Outgoing TD
2024 general election
[edit]| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Sinn Féin | Louise O'Reilly[*] | 23.1 | 6,965 | 7,079 | 7,361 | 8,261 | |||
| Labour | Robert O'Donoghue | 16.8 | 5,044 | 5,098 | 5,203 | 6,465 | 6,862 | 8,071 | |
| Fine Gael | Grace Boland | 15.2 | 4,583 | 4,609 | 4,680 | 5,183 | 5,218 | 7,897 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Lorraine Clifford-Lee | 14.7 | 4,417 | 4,446 | 4,575 | 4,835 | 4,885 | ||
| Independent | Tony Murphy | 11.9 | 3,588 | 3,880 | 4,393 | 4,768 | 4,923 | 5,508 | |
| Green | Joe O'Brien[*] | 6.1 | 1,844 | 1,866 | 1,905 | ||||
| PBP–Solidarity | Bryn Edwards[a] | 4.6 | 1,392 | 1,486 | 1,594 | ||||
| Aontú | Robbie Loughlin | 3.9 | 1,163 | 1,486 | |||||
| Liberty Republic | Ben Gilroy | 1.4 | 417 | ||||||
| Irish Freedom | John Oakes | 1.3 | 392 | ||||||
| The Irish People | Mark Parsons | 0.5 | 157 | ||||||
| Independent | Oghenetano John Uwhumiakpor | 0.5 | 155 | ||||||
| Electorate: 51,455 Valid: 30,117 Spoilt: 168 Quota: 7,530 Turnout: 30,285 (58.9%) | |||||||||
- ^ Edwards is a member of People Before Profit.
References
[edit]- ^ "Constituency Review Report 2023" (PDF). Electoral Commission. pp. 105, 129, 139.
- ^ Electoral (Amendment) Act 2023, Schedule (No. 40 of 2023, Schedule). Enacted on 19 December 2023. Act of the Oireachtas. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 16 February 2024.
- ^ a b "General election 2024: Dublin Fingal West". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 5 December 2024.
- ^ "General Election 2024 Results – Dublin Fingal West". RTÉ News. November 2024. Retrieved 3 November 2024.