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European Elections
The European Parliament is elected to promote the interests of the citizens of the European Union. It has legislative, budgetary and supervisory powers through which it plays an important part in the EU legislative process, in shaping the annual EU budget and in the supervision of the economy.
Direct elections to the European Parliament are held every five years. Elections take place within a four day period in the month of June throughout the European Union.The Minister for the Environment. Heritage and Local Government appoints the polling day and the polling period, which must be a least 12 hours between 7:00am andd 10:30pm.
Further information is available in the related documents on the right hand side of your screen or on the citizens information website
Publications & Documents
- How Ireland's MEPs are Elected (pdf, 189 kb)
- How Ireland's MEPS are Elected -Lithuanian (pdf, 344 kb)
- How Ireland's MEPs are Elected - Latvian (pdf, 344 kb)
- How Ireland's MEPs are Elected - Polish (pdf, 353 kb)
- How Ireland's MEPS are Elected - Romanian (pdf, 348 kb)
- How Ireland's MEPs are Elected - Slovak (pdf, 349 kb)
- 2009 European Parliament Election Results (pdf, 2,301 kb)
- more publications
News and Speeches
- 23/04/09: Minister Gormley announces Government decision to end electronic voting and counting project
- 08/04/09: Period for Reckoning Election Expenses at the 2009 Local Elections
- 23/07/08: Gormley announces public consultation on Election Posters
- 01/07/08: Mr. John Gormley T.D., Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, today (27 June 2008) published the Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2008.
- Press/Media
Legislation
- Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) for the Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2007 (pdf, 48 kb)
- SI 355 of 2007 Constituency Commission Membership Order (doc, 22 kb)
- SI 231 of 2007 Seanad Electoral Panel Members (Prescribed Forms) Amendment No 3 Regulations (doc, 37 kb)
- Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) for the Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2008 (pdf, 71 kb)
- more legislation
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