Dublin (European Parliament constituency)

Dublin
European Parliament constituency
Location among the 2014 constituencies
Dublin shown within Ireland
Member state	Ireland
Created	1979
MEPs	4 (1979–2009) 3 (2009–)
Sources
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Dublin is a constituency of the European Parliament in Ireland. It elects 3 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) using the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).

The constituency was created in 1979 for the first direct elections to the European Parliament. From 1979 to 2004, it elected 4 MEPs; this was reduced to 3 for the 2009 election. It comprises the city of Dublin and the counties of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Fingal and South Dublin.

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.

For the 2009 election, the constituency was reduced from 4 seats to 3.