The Electoral (Revision of Constituencies) Act 1935 (No. 5) was a law in Ireland which replaced the Dáil constituencies which had been defined in the Electoral Act 1923.
Unlike the constituencies in the 1923 Act, it included many instances of crossing county boundaries to form constituencies. It reduced the number of seats in the Dáil by 15 from 153 to 138. This was in combination with the abolition of the two university constituencies, which was effected by the Constitution (Amendment No. 23) Act 1936 and the Electoral (University Constituencies) Act 1936, transferring all those on the register for university constituencies to the register for geographical constituencies.
It came into effect on the dissolution of the 8th Dáil and would be first used at the 1937 general election held on 21 July for the 9th Dáil. The constituencies would remain in operation at the 1938, 1943 and 1944 general elections.
The constituencies were revised again by the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1947, which created a scheme of constituencies which came into effect at the dissolution of the 12th Dáil and was first used at 1948 general election.
Constituencies 1937–1948 Explanation of columns Created: The year of the election when a constituency of the same name was last created. Seats: The number of TDs elected from the constituency under the Act. Change: Change in the number of seats since the last distribution of seats (which had been in force from 1923).
Constituency Created Seats ChangeBorough constituenciesCork19214 - 1North-East Dublin19373 NewNorth-West Dublin19375 NewSouth Dublin19217noneDublin Townships19373 NewCounty constituenciesAthlone–Longford19373 NewCarlow–Kildare19374 NewCavan19214noneClare19215noneNorth Cork19234 + 1South-East Cork19373 NewWest Cork19235noneEast Donegal19374 NewWest Donegal19373 NewDublin19215 − 3East Galway19374 NewWest Galway19373 NewNorth Kerry19374 NewSouth Kerry19373 NewKilkenny19373 NewLeitrim19373 NewLeix–Offaly19215noneLimerick19237noneLouth19233noneNorth Mayo19233 − 1South Mayo19235noneMeath–Westmeath19375 NewMonaghan19213noneRoscommon19233 − 1Sligo19373 NewTipperary19237noneWaterford19234noneWexford19215noneWicklow19233none
Abolished constituencies Constituency Created Seats Area moved toCarlow–Kilkenny19215Carlow–Kildare and KilkennyCork East19235North Cork and South-East CorkDonegal19218East Donegal and West DonegalDublin North19238North-East Dublin and North-West DublinGalway19219East Galway and West GalwayKerry19237North Kerry and South KerryKildare19233Carlow–KildareLeitrim–Sligo19237Leitrim and SligoLongford–Westmeath19215Athlone–Longford and Meath–WestmeathMeath19233Meath–Westmeath
See also Elections in the Republic of Ireland
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