Dublin Fingal | |
Type: | Dáil |
Year: | 2016 |
Map Size: | 200px |
Members Label: | TDs |
Seats: | 5 |
Local Council Label: | Local government area |
Local Council: | Fingal |
Blank1 Name: | EP constituency |
Blank1 Info: | Dublin |
Dublin Fingal is a parliamentary constituency which is represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas, from the 2016 general election onwards. The constituency elects 5 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs) on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).
The constituency was established by the Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013.[1] It incorporated all of the old Dublin North, Swords-Forrest and Kilsallaghan from Dublin West, and Balgriffin and Turnapin from Dublin North-East. The name Dublin Fingal for the constituency that became Dublin North had been proposed by John Boland in 1980.[2]
The Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2017 defines the constituency as:[3]
In August 2023, the Electoral Commission published its review of constituency boundaries in Ireland, which recommended that the constituency of Dublin Fingal be abolished, with the creation of two new three-seat constituencies: Dublin Fingal East and Dublin Fingal West.[4] Each new constituency would elect 3 deputies. These changes would commence at the next general election.
A by-election was held in the constituency on 29 November 2019, to fill the seat vacated by Clare Daly on her election to the European Parliament in May 2019.[5] [6]