Kildare-Wicklow (Dáil Éireann constituency)

Kildare-Wicklow is a former Irish parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas, from 1921–1923. It elected five Teachtaí Dála (TDs) to the Dáil, using the using the Single Transferable Vote method of proportional representation (PR-STV).

The constituency was created under the Government of Ireland Act 1920, and first used at the 1921 general election to the short-lived House of Commons of Southern Ireland, all but four of whose members took their seats instead in the Second Dáil. (See Government of Ireland Act 1920 (Parliamentary and Dáil constituencies) for fuller details of the constituencies created for the 1921 election).

Kildare-Wicklow was used again for the 1922 general election to the Third Dáil. Under the Electoral Act 1923, it was replaced by the two new single-county constitituencies of Kildare and Wicklow.

ee also

*County Kildare
*County Wicklow

External links

* http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/default.asp?housetype=0
* http://acts.oireachtas.ie/