Limerick County (Dáil constituency)

For the 1948–2011 constituency, see Limerick West (Dáil constituency). For the 2011–2016 constituency, see Limerick (Dáil constituency).

Limerick County is a parliamentary constituency that has been represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas, since the 2016 general election. The constituency elects three deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs) on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).

Limerick County
Dáil constituency
Location of Limerick County within Ireland
Interactive map of constituency boundaries since the 2024 general election
Major settlements	Abbeyfeale Kilmallock Newcastle West Rathkeale
Current constituency
Created	2016
Seats	3
TDs	Niall Collins (FF)   Richard O'Donoghue (II)   Patrick O'Donovan (FG)
Local government area	Limerick City and County
Created from	Kerry North–West Limerick Limerick
EP constituency	South

History and boundaries

The Constituency Commission proposed in its 2012 report that at the next general election a new constituency called Limerick County be created from territory then in the constituencies of Kerry North–West Limerick and Limerick.^[1] This was adopted under the Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013 which came into effect at the 2016 general election. The Constituency Review Report 2023 of the Electoral Commission recommended that no change be made at the next general election.^[2]

For the 2024 general election, the Electoral (Amendment) Act 2023 defines the constituency as:^[3]

"The city and county of Limerick, except the parts thereof which are comprised in the constituency of Limerick City."

Changes to the Limerick County constituency

Years	TDs	Boundaries	Notes
2016–2020	3	The city and county of Limerick, except the parts in the constituency of Limerick City.[4][5]	Created from Limerick constituency, with the additions of electoral divisions in County Limerick previously part of the Kerry North–West Limerick constituency; transfer of the electoral divisions of Abington, Ballybricken, Caherconlish East, Caherconlish West, Cappamore, Clonkeen, Doon West, Glenstal, Roxborough in the former rural district of Limerick No. 1, and Bilboa the former Tipperary No. 2 Rural District to the Limerick City constituency.[6]
2020–	3		Transfer of the electoral divisions of Cappamore, Doon West and Bilboa from the Limerick City constituency.[7]

TDs

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Limerick County 2016–
Key to parties   FF = Fianna Fáil   FG = Fine Gael   II = Independent Ireland   Ind = Independent
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
32nd	2016[8]		Niall Collins (FF)		Patrick O'Donovan (FG)		Tom Neville (FG)
33rd	2020[9]						Richard O'Donoghue (Ind)
34th	2024[10]						Richard O'Donoghue (II)

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: Limerick County^[10][11]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
	Fine Gael	Patrick O'Donovan[*]	25.4	11,563
	Independent Ireland	Richard O'Donoghue[*]	23.2	10,540	10,576	10,591	10,640	10,663	10,782	10,815	11,034	11,468
	Fianna Fáil	Niall Collins[*]	20.4	9,284	9,331	9,334	9,340	9,350	9,358	9,373	9,468	9,596	9,799	10,095	10,124	11,525
	Sinn Féin	Joanne Collins	13.2	6,005	6,010	6,022	6,037	6,074	6,119	6,335	6,398	6,602	6,899	7,251	7,288	7,505
	Fianna Fáil	Bridie Collins	3.7	1,687	1,695	1,697	1,699	1,706	1,713	1,722	1,750	1,809	1,947	2,088	2,096
	Fine Gael	Noreen Stokes	3.3	1,511	1,580	1,589	1,590	1,603	1,608	1,615	1,645	1,672	1,872	2,107	2,116	2,314
	Aontú	Michael Ryan	2.9	1,309	1,312	1,315	1,348	1,362	1,458	1,474	1,510	1,571	1,647
	Independent	Jim Barrett	2.0	913	918	921	940	964	993	1,013	1,070
	Green	Rob O'Donnell	1.9	873	876	880	886	942	951	1,063	1,084	1,120
	Independent	Richie Crehan	1.2	565	566	568	578	584	602	611
	PBP–Solidarity	Laura Fahey[a]	0.9	413	413	422	424	471	478
	The Irish People	Lorraine O'Sullivan	0.6	281	281	282	377	392
	Irish Freedom	Donna O'Loughlin	0.6	256	256	258
	Party for Animal Welfare	Gerben Uunk	0.6	254	255	266	277
	Independent	April Sheehan Corkery	0.2	82	82
Electorate: 75,018   Valid: 45,536   Spoilt: 332   Quota: 11,385   Turnout: 61.1%

1. Fahey is a member of People Before Profit.

2020 general election

2020 general election: Limerick County^[9][12][13]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Fine Gael	Patrick O'Donovan[*]	20.0	9,228	9,458	9,952	10,893	15,552
	Fianna Fáil	Niall Collins[*]	18.4	8,436	8,631	8,885	11,870
	Sinn Féin	Séighin Ó Ceallaigh	15.0	6,916	7,204	7,814	8,125	8,579	8,955
	Independent	Richard O'Donoghue	13.1	6,021	6,599	7,050	7,647	8,587	10,320
	Fine Gael	Tom Neville[*]	12.6	5,810	5,970	6,358	6,765
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Collins	11.2	5,150	5,320	5,532
	Green	Claire Keating	5.4	2,503	2,688
	Aontú	Conor O'Donoghue	1.5	714
	Independent	Robert O'Donnell	0.9	402
	Independent	Con Cremin	0.8	373
	Renua	John Dalton	0.7	313
	National Party	Cristín Ní Mhaoldhomhnaigh	0.5	224
Electorate: 72,165   Valid: 46,090   Spoilt: 409   Quota: 11,523   Turnout: 46,499 (64.4%)

2016 general election

2016 general election: Limerick County^[14][15][8]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Fianna Fáil	Niall Collins[*]	27.6	12,276
	Fine Gael	Patrick O'Donovan[*]	19.1	8,479	8,637	8,712	9,183	9,498	10,291
	Fine Gael	Tom Neville	18.0	8,013	8,214	8,291	8,874	9,217	10,369
	Independent	Emmett O'Brien	12.2	5,432	5,737	5,879	6,676	7,569	9,481
	Sinn Féin	Seamus Browne	7.5	3,347	3,465	3,550	3,783
	Social Democrats	James Heffernan	7.4	3,270	3,463	3,698	4,319	5,662
	Independent	Richard O'Donoghue	6.4	2,855	3,021	3,118
	Green	Alexander Storey Cosgrave	0.7	311	321
	Direct Democracy	Mark Keogh	0.5	222	231
	Independent	John O'Gorman	0.5	207	219
Electorate: 67,633   Valid: 44,412   Spoilt: 336   Quota: 11,104   Turnout: 44,748 (66.16%)

See also

• Elections in the Republic of Ireland
• Politics of the Republic of Ireland
• List of Dáil by-elections
• List of political parties in the Republic of Ireland