The Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2017 (No. 39) is a

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which revised

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. It took effect on the dissolution of the

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on 14 January 2020 and a

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for the

33rd Dáil The 33rd Dáil was elected at the 2020 general election on 8 February 2020 and first met on 20 February 2020. The members of Dáil Éireann, the house of representatives of the Oireachtas (legislature) of Ireland, are known as TDs. It sat wit ...

on the revised constituencies took place on 8 February 2020. Following the 2016 census, the

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established an independent

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under terms of the Electoral Act 1997. The commission was chaired by Robert Haughton, judge of the High Court, and delivered its report in June 2017. It proposed several changes to Dáil constituencies, increasing the number of seats in the Dáil from 158 to 160, while the number of constituencies were reduced by 1 to 39. The Act implemented the recommendations of this report and repealed the

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, which had defined the constituencies used since the 2016 general election. It increased the range for future revisions by the

of Dáil constituencies from between 153 and 160 TDs in 2011 legislation, to between 166 and 172 TDs. This act was repealed by the

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, which took effect on the dissolution of the 33rd Dáil and will be in use at the 2024 general election, to be held on 29 November 2024.

Revised constituencies

Change in seats

This table summarises the changes in representation but does not address revisions to the boundaries of constituencies.

Constituencies abolished

New constituencies

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Electoral 2017 2017 in Irish law Acts of the Oireachtas of the 2010s Electoral Acts (Ireland) 2020 Irish general election