History and Boundaries
The constituency was created in 1979 for the first direct elections to the European Parliament. From 1979 to 2004, it elected 4 MEPs; this was reduced to 3 for the 2009 election. Its geographic area is the Dublin Region which includes Dublin city and the counties of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Fingal and South Dublin.
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