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Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 29 Apr 1969

Vol. 240 No. 1

Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Population of Constituencies.

3.

asked the Taoiseach the estimated population of each constituency as defined in the Electoral (Amendment) Act, 1969.

The most recent population figures available for constituencies, as defined in the Schedule to the Electoral (Amendment) Act, 1969, are those derived from the Census of Population, 1966. These are contained in the following statement which, with your permission, a Cheann Comhairle, I propose to circulate in the Official Report.

Estimates of population in intercensal years are made only for the State as a whole. The last such estimate is 2,910,000 in April, 1968. This represents an increase of approximately 26,000 over the 1966 Census figures.

Following is the statement:

POPULATION, as derived from the Census of Population, 1966, of each Constituency as defined in the Schedule to the Electoral (Amendment) Act, 1969.

Name of Constituency

Population in 1966

Carlow-Kilkenny

98,454

Cavan

59,678

Clare

58,832

Clare-South Galway

57,678

Cork City (North-West)

60,989

Cork City (South-East)

61,157

Mid-Cork

76,352

North-East Cork

79,811

South-West Cork

59,370

North-East Donegal

59,208

Donegal-Leitrim

58,338

North County Dublin

81,487

South County Dublin

62,788

Dún Laoghaire and Rathdown

84,097

Dublin Central

83,956

Dublin North-Central

83,938

Dublin North-East

83,839

Dublin North-West

84,018

Dublin South-Central

83,964

Dublin South-East

62,926

Dublin South-West

84,034

North-East Galway

57,513

West Galway

57,827

North Kerry

57,207

South Kerry

57,602

Kildare

61,816

Laoighis-Offaly

96,312

East Limerick

79,334

West Limerick

58,023

Longford-Westmeath

77,865

Louth

61,926

East Mayo

57,997

West Mayo

57,550

Meath

61,124

Monaghan

58,456

Roscommon-Leitrim

61,411

Sligo-Leitrim

61,766

North Tipperary

57,315

South Tipperary

76,246

Waterford

62,331

Wexford

79,039

Wicklow

60,428

I did not even ask the Taoiseach for all of that information, but when information is favourable it is always given.

It is nice to know that.

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