Kildare North (Dáil Éireann constituency)
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Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Constituency |
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Location of Kildare North within Ireland
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| Created | 1997 |
| Seats | 3 (1997–2007) 4 (2007–) |
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| County council | Kildare County Council |
| EP constituency | Midlands–North-West |
Kildare North is a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency elects 4 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 1997 general election, when the former 5 seat Kildare constituency was divided into Kildare North and Kildare South. At the 1997 and 2002 elections, Kildare North was a 3-seat constituency, but it was allocated an extra seat for the 2007 general election
The Kildare North parliamentary constituency spans the more densely populated north-eastern corner of County Kildare, taking in the towns of Celbridge, Clane, Leixlip, Maynooth and Naas.
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.
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