| Limerick County | |
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| Dáil constituency | |
Location of Limerick County within Ireland
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| Current constituency | |
| Created | 2016 |
| Seats | 3 |
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| Local government area | Limerick City and County |
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| EP constituency | South |
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) on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).
The Constituency Commission proposed in its 2012 report that at the next general election a new constituency called Limerick County be created from territory then in the constituencies of Kerry North–West Limerick and Limerick.[1] This was adopted under the Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013 which came into effect at the 2016 general election. The Constituency Review Report 2023 of the Electoral Commission recommended that no change be made at the next general election.[2]
For the next general election, the Electoral (Amendment) Act 2023 defines the constituency as:[3]
"The city and county of Limerick, except the parts thereof which are comprised in the constituency of Limerick City."
| Years | TDs | Boundaries | Notes |
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| 2016–2020 | 3 | The city and county of Limerick, except the parts in the constituency of Limerick City.[4][5] | Created from Limerick constituency, with the additions of electoral divisionsinCounty Limerick previously part of the Kerry North–West Limerick constituency;
transfer of the electoral divisions of Abington, Ballybricken, Caherconlish East, Caherconlish West, Cappamore, Clonkeen, Doon West, Glenstal, Roxborough in the former rural district of Limerick No. 1, and Bilboa the former Tipperary No. 2 Rural District to the Limerick City constituency.[6] |
| 2020– | 3 | Transfer of the electoral divisions of Cappamore, Doon West and Bilboa from the Limerick City constituency.[7] |
| Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Limerick County 2016– | |||||||
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| Dáil | Election | Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) | |||
| 32nd | 2016[8] | Niall Collins (FF) |
Patrick O'Donovan (FG) |
Tom Neville (FG) | |||
| 33rd | 2020[9] | Richard O'Donoghue (Ind) | |||||
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.
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Niall Collins | 18.4 | 8,436 | 8,631 | 8,885 | 11,870 | |||
| Fine Gael | Patrick O'Donovan | 20.0 | 9,228 | 9,458 | 9,952 | 10,893 | 15,552 | ||
| Independent | Richard O'Donoghue | 13.1 | 6,021 | 6,599 | 7,050 | 7,647 | 8,587 | 10,320 | |
| Sinn Féin | Séighin Ó Ceallaigh | 15.0 | 6,916 | 7,204 | 7,814 | 8,125 | 8,579 | 8,955 | |
| Fine Gael | Tom Neville | 12.6 | 5,810 | 5,970 | 6,358 | 6,765 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Michael Collins | 11.2 | 5,150 | 5,320 | 5,532 | ||||
| Green | Claire Keating | 5.4 | 2,503 | 2,688 | |||||
| Aontú | Conor O'Donoghue | 1.5 | 714 | ||||||
| Independent | Robert O'Donnell | 0.9 | 402 | ||||||
| Independent | Con Cremin | 0.8 | 373 | ||||||
| Renua | John Dalton | 0.7 | 313 | ||||||
| National Party | Cristín Ní Mhaoldhomhnaigh | 0.5 | 224 | ||||||
| Electorate: 72,165 Valid: 46,090 Spoilt: 409 Quota: 11,523 Turnout: 46,499 (64.4%) | |||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Niall Collins | 27.6 | 12,276 | ||||||
| Fine Gael | Patrick O'Donovan | 19.1 | 8,479 | 8,637 | 8,712 | 9,183 | 9,498 | 10,291 | |
| Fine Gael | Tom Neville | 18.0 | 8,013 | 8,214 | 8,291 | 8,874 | 9,217 | 10,369 | |
| Independent | Emmett O'Brien | 12.2 | 5,432 | 5,737 | 5,879 | 6,676 | 7,569 | 9,481 | |
| Social Democrats | James Heffernan | 7.4 | 3,270 | 3,463 | 3,698 | 4,319 | 5,662 | ||
| Sinn Féin | Seamus Browne | 7.5 | 3,347 | 3,465 | 3,550 | 3,783 | |||
| Independent | Richard O'Donoghue | 6.4 | 2,855 | 3,021 | 3,118 | ||||
| Green | Alexander Storey Cosgrave | 0.7 | 311 | 321 | |||||
| Direct Democracy | Mark Keogh | 0.5 | 222 | 231 | |||||
| Independent | John O'Gorman | 0.5 | 207 | 219 | |||||
| Electorate: 67,633 Valid: 44,412 Spoilt: 336 Quota: 11,104 Turnout: 44,748 (66.16%) | |||||||||
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Parliamentary constituencies in County Limerick and Borough/City
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