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Laois
Laois
Former Dáil constituency
Former constituency
Created	2016
Abolished	2020
Seats	3
Local government area	County Laois; County Kildare;
Created from	Laois–Offaly
Replaced by	Kildare South; Laois–Offaly;

Laois
Laois
Dáil constituency
	Location of Laois within Ireland
Major settlements	Abbeyleix; Mountmellick; Portarlington; Portlaoise; Stradbally;
Current constituency
Created	2024
Seats	3
TDs	William Aird (FG); Seán Fleming (FF); Brian Stanley (Ind);
Local government area	County Laois
Created from	Laois–Offaly

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Laois is a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. 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).

History and boundaries

The Constituency Commission proposed in its 2012 report that at the 2016 general election a new constituency called Laois be created.^[1] The report proposed changes to the constituencies of Ireland to reduce the total number of TDs from 166 to 158.^[2]

It was established by the Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013.^[3] The constituency incorporated all of County Laois from the previous Laois–Offaly constituency, and six electoral divisions from Kildare South.

It was abolished at the 2020 general election, along with the Offaly constituency. They were replaced by a re-created Laois–Offaly constituency, with the transfer of four electoral divisions in County Offaly to Kildare South.^[4]

In 2023, the Electoral Commission recommended the establishment of a three-seat constituency of Laois comprising the entire county of Laois.^[5]

For the 2024 general election, the Electoral (Amendment) Act 2023 defines the constituency as:^[6]

"The county of Laois."

TDs

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Laois 2016–2020
Key to parties FF = Fianna Fáil FG = Fine Gael Ind = Independent SF = Sinn Féin
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
32nd	2016^[7]		Brian Stanley (SF)		Seán Fleming (FF)		Charles Flanagan (FG)
33rd	2020	Constituency abolished. See Laois–Offaly.
34th	2024^[8]		Brian Stanley (Ind)		Seán Fleming (FF)		William Aird (FG)

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: Laois^[8]^[9]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Fine Gael	William Aird	24.2	9,269	9,289	9,376	9,470	9,619
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Fleming^[*]	21.2	8,123	8,132	8,405	8,469	8,590	8,872	9,382	10,693
	Independent	Brian Stanley^[*]	17.7	6,782	6,804	6,858	6,945	7,015	7,344	8,170	9,512
	Sinn Féin	Maria McCormack	12.8	4,914	4,925	4,934	4,984	5,040	5,538	5,888	6,565
	Independent	Aisling Moran	7.8	2,970	2,996	3,013	3,130	3,274	3,652	4,371
	Independent	Elaine Mullally	6.4	2,438	2,463	2,484	2,561	2,606	2,959
	Aontú	Mary Hand	2.7	1,038	1,042	1,051	1,091	1,108
	Green	Rosie Palmer	2.0	747	752	760	788
	PBP–Solidarity	Ken Mooney^[a]	2.0	745	757	767	795	954
	Independent	Pauline Flanagan	1.5	578	604	610
	Fianna Fáil	Austin Stack	1.3	502	502
	Independent	Jason Lynch	0.4	170
Electorate: 65,873 Valid: 38,276 Spoilt: 231 Quota: 9,570 Turnout: 58.5%

^ Mooney is a member of People Before Profit.

2016 general election

2016 general election: Laois^[10]^[11]^[7]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Fleming^[*]	35.1	13,626
	Fine Gael	Charles Flanagan^[*]	21.5	8,370	9,298	9,525
	Sinn Féin	Brian Stanley^[*]	21.2	8,242	9,562	10,092
	Fine Gael	Thomasina Connell	10.9	4,233	4,735	5,140
	Labour	John Whelan	7.3	2,856	3,394	3,896
	Green	Sinead Moore	4.0	1,541	2,161
Electorate: 63,295 Valid: 38,868 Spoilt: 352 Quota: 9,718 Turnout: 61.96%

References

^ "Constituency Commission Report 2012 – Waterford – Tipperary – Laois – Offaly – Kildare area" (PDF). Constituency Commission. 21 June 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
^ "Constituency Commission Report 2012 – Introduction and summary of recommendation" (PDF). Constituency Commission. 21 June 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
^ Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013, Schedule (No. 7 of 2013, Schedule). Act of the Oireachtas. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 7 April 2013.
^ Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2017, Schedule (No. 39 of 2017, Schedule). Act of the Oireachtas. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 12 April 2018.
^ Miller, Steven (30 August 2023). "Laois to return to a three-seater constituency as Dáil set to increase to 174 TDs". Laois Today.
^ Electoral (Amendment) Act 2023, Schedule (No. 40 of 2023, Schedule). Enacted on 19 December 2023. Act of the Oireachtas. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 16 February 2024.
^ ^a ^b "General election 2016: Laois". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
^ ^a ^b "General election 2024: Laois". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
^ "General Election 2024 Results – Laois". RTÉ News. December 2024. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
^ "Laois Results 2016". Irelandelection.com. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
^ "Laois Results 2016". RTÉ. Archived from the original on 15 March 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2020.

[PBP-10] Mooney is a member of People Before Profit.

[1] "Constituency Commission Report 2012 – Waterford – Tipperary – Laois – Offaly – Kildare area" (PDF). Constituency Commission. 21 June 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2013.

[2] "Constituency Commission Report 2012 – Introduction and summary of recommendation" (PDF). Constituency Commission. 21 June 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2013.

[ea_2013-3] Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013, Schedule (No. 7 of 2013, Schedule). Act of the Oireachtas. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 7 April 2013.

[ea_2017-4] Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2017, Schedule (No. 39 of 2017, Schedule). Act of the Oireachtas. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 12 April 2018.

[5] Miller, Steven (30 August 2023). "Laois to return to a three-seater constituency as Dáil set to increase to 174 TDs". Laois Today.

[ea-2023-6] Electoral (Amendment) Act 2023, Schedule (No. 40 of 2023, Schedule). Enacted on 19 December 2023. Act of the Oireachtas. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 16 February 2024.

[ei-laois-2016-7] "General election 2016: Laois". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 20 February 2016.

[ei-laois-2024-8] "General election 2024: Laois". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 6 December 2024.

[RTE_laois_2024-9] "General Election 2024 Results – Laois". RTÉ News. December 2024. Retrieved 6 December 2024.

[11] "Laois Results 2016". Irelandelection.com. Retrieved 21 January 2020.

[12] "Laois Results 2016". RTÉ. Archived from the original on 15 March 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2020.

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