Electoral (Amendment) Act 1947

Electoral (Amendment) Act 1947
Oireachtas
Long title AN ACT TO FIX THE NUMBER OF MEMBERS OF DAIL EIREANN AND TO REVISE THEIR CONSTITUENCIES AND TO AMEND THE LAW RELATING TO THE ELECTION OF SUCH MEMBERS.
Citation	No. 31 of 1947
Signed	27 November 1947
Commenced	27 November 1947 & 18 February 1948
Repealed	15 September 1961
Legislative history
Bill citation	No. 34 of 1947
Introduced by	Minister for Local Government (Seán McEntee)
Introduced	4 July 1947
Amends
Electoral Act 1923
Repeals
Electoral (Revision of Constituencies) Act 1935
Repealed by
Electoral (Amendment) Act 1961
Status: Repealed

The Electoral (Amendment) Act 1947 (No. 31) was a law in Ireland which revised Dáil constituencies. The new constituencies were first used for the 13th Dáil, elected at the 1948 general election on 4 February 1948.

This Act repealed the Electoral (Revision of Constituencies) Act 1935, which defined the constituencies since the 1937 general election. It also increased the number of seats in the Dáil by 9 from 138 to 147. It was used at the 1951, 1954 and 1957 general elections.

The 1947 revision was repealed by the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1961, which created a new schedule of constituencies first used at the 1961 general election for the 17th Dáil.^[1]