This is a table of
European Parliament
The European Parliament (EP) is one of the legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and informally as the Council of Ministers), it adopts ...
constituencies
An electoral district, also known as an election district, legislative district, voting district, constituency, riding, ward, division, or (election) precinct is a subdivision of a larger state (a country, administrative region, or other polity ...
in
Ireland
Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...
, listing the number of
Members of the European Parliament
A Member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament.
When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the ECSC) first met in 1952, its ...
each elected at each
European Parliament election
Elections to the European Parliament take place every five years by universal adult suffrage; with more than 400 million people eligible to vote, they are considered the second largest democratic elections in the world after India's.
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.
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The names and borders of the constituencies have varied over time, but they have used
single transferable vote
Single transferable vote (STV) is a multi-winner electoral system in which voters cast a single vote in the form of a ranked-choice ballot. Voters have the option to rank candidates, and their vote may be transferred according to alternate p ...
since their creation.
European Parliament constituencies since 1979
Ireland-European-Parliament-Constituencies-1979-2004.svg, 1979–2004
Ireland-European-Parliament-Constituencies-2004-2009.svg, 2004–2009
Eire-European-Parliament-Constits-2009-Labeled-en.svg, 2009–2014
Ireland-European-Parliament-Constituencies-2014-2019.svg, 2014–2019
Ireland-European-Parliament-Constituencies-2019.svg, 2019–present
See also
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Northern Ireland (European Parliament constituency)
Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; Ulster-Scots: ') was a constituency of the European Parliament from 1979 until the UK exit from the European Union on 31 January 2020. It elected three MEPs using the single transferable vote, makin ...
References
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