Galway East (Dáil Éireann constituency)

Galway East
Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Constituency
Location of Galway East within Ireland
Current constituency
Created	1977
Seats	4 (1977–1981) 3 (1981–1997) 4 (1997–2016) 3 (2016–)
TDs	Ciarán Cannon (FG)      Seán Canney (Ind)      Anne Rabbitte (FF)
County council	Galway County Council
EP constituency	Midlands–North-West

Galway East is a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency elects 3 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs). The method of election is the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).

The constituency was created for the 1937 general election, under the Electoral (Revision of Constituencies) Act 1935, when the former Galway constituency was split into Galway East and Galway West. It was abolished in 1948 and recreated in 1961. It was abolished again in 1969 and recreated in its current form in 1977.

It spans the entire area of the eastern half of County Galway, taking in the towns of Ballinasloe, Tuam, Portumna and Loughrea and many other areas.

The Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013 defines the constituency as:

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.

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.