North-West | |
Pushpin Map: | Europe |
Pushpin Mapcaption: | Location within Europe |
Coordinates: | 53.9°N -9.25°W |
Map: | Eire-NW-European-Parliament-Constit-2009.svg |
Mapcaption: | North-West shown within Ireland (2009–2014 boundaries) |
Created: | 2004 |
Dissolved: | 2014 |
Meps: | 3 |
Memberstate: | Ireland |
Memberstatelink: | Republic of Ireland |
Memberstatelink2: | Ireland |
Sources: | http://www.europarl.europa.eu/elections2004/ep-election/sites/en/yourvoice/index.html |
North-West was a constituency of the European Parliament in Ireland between 2004 and 2014. It elected 3 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) using the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).
The constituency was created in 2004 and was a successor to the Connacht–Ulster constituency. For 2004 election, County Clare was moved from the Munster constituency to the new North-West constituency. For the 2009 election the counties of Longford and Westmeath were transferred from the East constituency to North-West.
From 2009 it comprised the counties of Cavan, Clare, Donegal, Galway, Leitrim, Longford, Mayo, Monaghan, Roscommon, Sligo and Westmeath; and the city of Galway.[1]
For the 2014 European Parliament election the constituency was abolished. All of its area became part of the new Midlands–North-West constituency;[2] with the exception of County Clare which was transferred to the South constituency.