Local electoral area

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Dublin divided into its eleven local electoral areas, with dots symbolising members of Dublin City Council for each LEA
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Clane LEA, County Kildare, shown divided into its electoral divisions (EDs).

A local electoral area (LEA; Template:Langx)[1] is an electoral area for elections to local authorities in Ireland. All elections use the single transferable vote. Ireland is divided into 166 LEAs, with an average population of 28,700 and average area of Script error: No such module "convert".. The boundaries of LEAs are determined by order of the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, usually based on lower-level units called electoral divisions (EDs), with a total of 3,440 EDs in the state.

As well as their use for electoral purposes, LEAs are local administrative units in Eurostat NUTS classification.[2] They are used in local numbers of cases of COVID-19.[3]

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A municipal district (Template:Langx)[4] is a division of a local authority which can exercise certain powers of the local authority. They came into being on 1 June 2014, ten days after the local elections, under the provisions of the Local Government Reform Act 2014.[5][6] Of the 31 local authorities, 25 are subdivided into municipal districts, which comprise one or more LEA. The exceptions are the three city councils (Cork City, Dublin City and Galway City) and the three county councils in Dublin (Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Fingal and South Dublin). A district associated with a city or borough is termed a metropolitan district (ceantar cathrach) or borough district (ceantar buirge) respectively.[7]

In 2019, John Paul Phelan, Minister of State for Local Government and Electoral Reform, commented in the Dáil:[8]

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Municipal districts have an extensive list of functions currently, but the situation is haphazard ... some local authorities are better at performing some functions than others. I have found that some local authorities have a strong municipal district structure, with the districts being where most of the nitty-gritty work of local authorities is done, be it roads, footpaths or lights. Some do not have that structure, though, with decisions rehashed or debated again at the councils' plenary sessions.

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Boundary changes

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Prior to the establishment of the Electoral Commission in 2023, recommendations on local electoral boundary changes were made by an independent boundary committee established for that purpose.[11] A boundary committee has been required since 1994 for electoral areas.[12][13] The 2012–13 Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee considered both administrative areas (municipal districts, though not counties/cities) and electoral areas.[13] In 2015, separate committees were set up to consider adjustments to county and municipal boundaries passing through each of four urban areas: Athlone, Carlow, Drogheda, and Waterford.[14] A Boundary Committee established in 2017 and which reported in June 2018 recommended alterations to municipal districts and local electoral areas which were implemented in December 2018.

Current LEAs

Below are the districts and local electoral areas as defined by the most recent SI in each case and which were used at the 2019 local elections. The minister ultimately did not alter the areas for the 2024 local elections.[15] Unless otherwise specified, districts are titled "Municipal District of Carlow", etc.

Council Seats District Local electoral area (LEA) Seats
Carlow County Council[16] 18 Carlow 7
Muinebeag 5
Tullow 6
Cavan County Council[17] 18 Bailieborough—Cootehill 6
Ballyjamesduff 6
Cavan–Belturbet 6
Clare County Council[18] 28 Ennis 7
Killaloe 5
Shannon 7
West Clare Ennistymon 4
Kilrush 5
Cork City Council[19] 31 Cork City North-East 6
Cork City North-West 6
Cork City South-Central 6
Cork City South-East 6
Cork City South-West 7
Cork County Council[20] 55 Bandon—Kinsale 6
Carrigaline 6
Cobh 6
East Cork Midleton 7
Fermoy 6
Kanturk—Mallow Kanturk 4
Mallow 5
Macroom 6
West Cork Bantry—West Cork 4
Skibbereen—West Cork 5
Donegal County Council[21] 37 Donegal 6
Glenties 6
Inishowen Buncrana 5
Carndonagh 4
Letterkenny—Milford Letterkenny 7
Milford 3
Lifford—Stranorlar 6
Dublin City Council[22] 63 Artane—Whitehall 6
Ballyfermot—Drimnagh 5
Ballymun—Finglas 6
Cabra—Glasnevin 7
Clontarf 6
Donaghmede 5
Kimmage—Rathmines 6
North Inner City 7
Pembroke 5
South East Inner City 5
South West Inner City 5
Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council[23] 40 Blackrock 6
Dundrum 7
Dún Laoghaire 7
Glencullen—Sandyford 7
Killiney—Shankill 6
Stillorgan 6
Fingal County Council[24] 40 Balbriggan 5
Blanchardstown—Mulhuddart 5
Castleknock 6
Howth—Malahide 7
Ongar 5
Rush—Lusk 5
Swords 7
Galway City Council[25] 18 Galway City West 6
Galway City Central 6
Galway City East 6
Galway County Council[26] 39 Athenry Athenry—Oranmore 7
Ballinasloe 6
Conamara Conamara North 4
Conamara South 5
Loughrea Gort—Kinvara 5
Loughrea 5
Tuam 7
Kerry County Council[27] 33 An Daingean—Castleisland An Daingean 3
Castleisland 4
Kenmare 6
Killarney 7
Listowel 6
Tralee 7
Kildare County Council[28] 40 Athy 5
Celbridge—Leixlip Celbridge 4
Leixlip 3
Clane—Maynooth Clane 5
Maynooth 5
Kildare—Newbridge Kildare 5
Newbridge 6
Naas 7
Kilkenny County Council[29] 24 Callan—Thomastown 6
Castlecomer 6
Kilkenny City Kilkenny 7
Piltown 5
Laois County Council[30] 19 Borris-in-Ossory—Mountmellick 6
Graiguecullen—Portarlington 6
Portlaoise 7
Leitrim County Council[31] 18 Ballinamore 6
Carrick-on-Shannon 6
Manorhamilton 6
Limerick City and County Council[32] 40 Metropolitan District of Limerick City Limerick City East 7
Limerick City North 7
Limerick City West 7
Adare—Rathkeale 6
Cappamore—Kilmallock 7
Newcastle West 6
Longford County Council[33] 18 Ballymahon 6
Granard 5
Longford 7
Louth County Council[34][35] 29 Ardee 6
Borough District of Drogheda Drogheda Rural 4
Drogheda Urban 6
Dundalk Dundalk—Carlingford 6
Dundalk South 7
Mayo County Council[36] 30 Ballina 6
Castlebar 7
Claremorris Claremorris 6
Swinford 4
Westport—Belmullet Westport 4
Belmullet 3
Meath County Council[37][38] 40 Ashbourne 6
Kells 7
Laytown—Bettystown 7
Navan 7
Ratoath 7
Trim 6
Monaghan County Council[39] 18 Ballybay—Clones 5
Carrickmacross—Castleblayney 6
Monaghan 7
Offaly County Council[40] 19 Birr 6
Edenderry 6
Tullamore 7
Roscommon County Council[41] 18 Athlone 6
Boyle 6
Roscommon 6
Sligo County Council[42] 18 Borough District of Sligo Sligo—Strandhill 6
Ballymote—Tobercurry 7
Sligo—Drumcliff 5
South Dublin County Council[43] 40 Clondalkin 7
Firhouse—Bohernabreena 5
Lucan 5
Palmerstown—Fonthill 5
Rathfarnham—Templeogue 7
Tallaght Central 6
Tallaght South 5
Tipperary County Council[44] 40 Borough District of Clonmel Clonmel 6
Cahir—Cashel Cahir 4
Cashel—Tipperary 7
Carrick-on-Suir 5
Nenagh Nenagh 5
Newport 4
Thurles Thurles 5
Roscrea—Templemore 4
Waterford City and County Council[45] 32 Metropolitan District of Waterford City Tramore—Waterford City West 6
Waterford City East 6
Waterford City South 6
Comeragh Portlaw—Kilmacthomas 5
Dungarvan—Lismore Dungarvan 6
Lismore 3
Westmeath County Council[46] 20 Athlone—Moate Athlone 5
Moate 4
Mullingar—Kinnegad Mullingar 6
Kinnegad 5
Wexford County Council[47] 34 Enniscorthy 6
Gorey—Kilmuckridge Gorey 6
Kilmuckridge 4
New Ross 6
Rosslare 5
Borough District of Wexford Wexford 7
Wicklow County Council[48][49] 32 Arklow 6
Baltinglass 6
Bray Bray East 4
Bray West 4
Greystones 6
Wicklow 6

See also

References

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