Dublin Fingal West (Dáil constituency)

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Dublin Fingal West
Dáil constituency
Location of Dublin Fingal West within County Dublin
Major settlements	Balbriggan Lusk Rush Skerries
Current constituency
Created	2024
Seats	3
TDs	Louise O'Reilly (SF)
Local government area	Fingal
Created from	Dublin Fingal
EP constituency	Dublin

Dublin Fingal West is a Dáil constituency to be represented in Dáil Éireann, the house of representatives of the Oireachtas, the Irish parliament, from the 2024 general election. Established through the Electoral (Amendment) Act 2023, the constituency will elect three deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs) on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).

History and boundaries

The 2023 Report of the Electoral Commission recommended that at the next general election, the five-seat constituency of Dublin Fingal be divided into two new three-seat constituencies of Dublin Fingal East and Dublin Fingal West. The report also recommended a transfer of territory from Dublin North-West.

For the next general election, the Electoral (Amendment) Act 2023 defines the constituency as:

"In the county of Fingal the electoral divisions of:
Airport, Balbriggan Rural, Balbriggan Urban, Ballyboghil, Balscadden, Clonmethan, Dubber, Garristown, Hollywood, Holmpatrick, Kilsallaghan, Lusk, Rush, Skerries, Turnapin."

TDs

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Dublin Fingal West 2024–
Key to parties FG = Fine Gael Lab = Labour SF = Sinn Féin
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
34th	2024		Louise O'Reilly (SF)		Robert O'Donoghue (Lab)		Grace Boland (FG)

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.

Elections

*: Outgoing TD

2024 general election

2024 general election: Dublin Fingal West
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5
	Sinn Féin	Louise O'Reilly	23.13	6,965	7,079	7,361	8,261
	Labour	Robert O'Donoghue	16.75	5,044	5,098	5,203	6,465	6,862
	Fine Gael	Grace Boland	15.22	4,583	4,609	4,680	5,183	5,218
	Fianna Fáil	Lorraine Clifford-Lee	14.67	4,417	4,446	4,575	4,835	4,885
	Independent	Tony Murphy	11.91	3,588	3,880	4,393	4,768	4,923
	Green	Joe O'Brien	6.12	1,844	1,866	1,905
	PBP–Solidarity	Bryn Edwards	4.62	1,392	1,486	1,594
	Aontú	Robbie Loughlin	3.86	1,163	1,486
	Liberty Republic	Ben Gilroy	1.38	417
	Irish Freedom	John Oakes	1.30	392
	The Irish People	Mark Parsons	0.52	157
	Independent	Oghenetano John Uwhumiakpor	0.51	155
Electorate: 51,455 Valid: 30,117 Spoilt: 168 Quota: 7,530 Turnout: 30,285 (58.86%)

Edwards is a member of People Before Profit.

References

"Constituency Review Report 2023" (PDF). Electoral Commission. pp. 105, 129, 139.
Electoral (Amendment) Act 2023, Schedule (No. 40 of 2023, Schedule). Enacted on 19 December 2023. Act of the Oireachtas. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 16 February 2024.
"General Election 2024 Profiles – Dublin Fingal West". RTÉ News. November 2024. Retrieved 3 November 2024.

External links

Oireachtas Members Database

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