Tipperary North (Dáil Éireann constituency)

Tipperary North
Former Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Constituency
Location of Tipperary North within Ireland
Former constituency
Created	1948
Abolished	2016
Seats	3
County council	North Tipperary South Tipperary County Offaly

Tipperary North was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas, from 1948 to 2016. The constituency elected 3 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs). The method of election was the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).

It was created for the 1948 general election when the former Tipperary constituency was divided into Tipperary North and Tipperary South. The constituency underwent a significant revision to its boundaries at the 2007 general election. A population of 4,276 in the former Roscrea No 2 Rural District was transferred into constituency from the Laois–Offaly constituency. As well as the administrative county of North Tipperary and some parts of South Tipperary, it also included the southern tip of County Offaly. The 2006 population of the constituency using these revised boundaries was 80,203. The principle population centres were Thurles, Templemore, Nenagh and Roscrea.

The Electoral (Amendment) Act 2009 defined the constituency as:

Tipperary North was a rare example of a bellwether constituency in Ireland; since 1982, it returned two government supporting deputies out of three. Since the formation of the constituency, it returned at least one TD for Fianna Fáil from 1948 until the 2011 general election.