Electoral (Amendment) Act 1947
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The Electoral (Amendment) Act 1947 (No. 31) was a law in Ireland which revised Dáil constituencies. The new constituencies were first used for the 13th Dáil, elected at the 1948 general election on 4 February 1948.
Electoral (Amendment) Act 1947 | |
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Oireachtas | |
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Citation | No. 31 of 1947 |
Signed | 27 November 1947 |
Commenced | 27 November 1947 & 18 February 1948 |
Repealed | 15 September 1961 |
Legislative history | |
Bill citation | No. 34 of 1947 |
Introduced by | Minister for Local Government (Seán McEntee) |
Introduced | 4 July 1947 |
Amends | |
Electoral Act 1923 | |
Repeals | |
Electoral (Revision of Constituencies) Act 1935 | |
Repealed by | |
Electoral (Amendment) Act 1961 | |
Status: Repealed |
This Act repealed the Electoral (Revision of Constituencies) Act 1935, which defined the constituencies since the 1937 general election. It also increased the number of seats in the Dáil by 9 from 138 to 147. It was used at the 1951, 1954 and 1957 general elections.
The 1947 revision was repealed by the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1961, which created a new schedule of constituencies first used at the 1961 general election for the 17th Dáil.[1]