Value Your Vote!
The Draft Register of Electors 2022/2023 is currently available for inspection until 25th November 2021 - online at www.voter.ie and at South Dublin County Council offices and at Garda Stations, Libraries and Post Offices in the South Dublin County Council administrative area.
If you are aged 18 or over and are ordinarily resident in the South Dublin County Council area, please check that you are included on the Draft Register and that your name, address and voting rights are correct.
If you are not on the Draft Register, or your details are incorrect please log onto www.voter.ie to apply / update your details, alternatively you can complete the RFA1 registration form and return it to the Franchise Section, South Dublin County Council, County Hall, Tallaght, Dublin 24, D24YNN5 by the 25th November 2021. The RFA1 form is available on the Council’s website www.sdcc.ie .
Below is a sample of multilingual information forms regarding Elections and how to vote. However if you require additional information on eligibility to vote and how elections and referendums are conducted in Ireland please visit www.housing.gov.ie/local-government/voting/voting
There are currently 195,291 Electors on the 2021/22 Register of Electors. If you have any queries regarding the Register of Electors please contact the Franchise Section at 014149100 or alternately you can email registerofelectors@sdublincoco.ie
The Local Electoral Area breakdown is as follows: | ||
Local Electoral Area | No. of Electors Registered | |
Clondalkin | 29,668 | |
Firhouse - Bohernabreena | 26,086 | |
Lucan | 22,095 | |
Palmerstown - Fonthill | 25,149 | |
Rathfarnham- Templeogue | 40,525 | |
Tallaght- Central | 29,230 | |
Tallaght - South | 22,538 | |
Total: | 195,291 | |
The Constituency breakdown is as follows: | ||
Constituency | No. of Electors Registered | |
Dublin Mid-West | 76,912 | |
Dublin South Central | 7,926 | |
Dublin South West | 110,453 | |
Total: | 195,291 |
A person is entitled to be included on the Register if he/she:
- Will be 18 years of age or over on the date the Register comes into effect.
- Is ordinarily resident at the address at which he/she wishes to be registered and is not already registered as an elector at another address.
Categories of Elector. The Register comprises four categories of electors: Presidential elector, Dáil elector, European elector and Local Government elector. A person’s citizenship determines their category and the type of elections at which they may vote.
See table below.
Citizenship | Type of Election at which Electors are eligible to vote at | Letter on Register Book |
Irish Citizens | All elections and referenda | _ |
British Citizens | Dáil and local elections | D |
Other EU Citizens | European and local elections | E |
Non EU Citizens | Local Government elections only | L |
PLEASE NOTE: Any person may inspect the Register of Electors for electoral purposes during working hours at the offices of South Dublin County Council and at Public Libraries, Post Offices and Garda Stations.
Polling Scheme
Under Section 28(1) of the Electoral Act 1992, the Minister for Environment set out the Electoral (Polling Scheme) Regulations 2005which requires that each County Council shall, as soon as may be, and thereafter at least once in every ten years, make a scheme dividing the County into Polling Districts and appointing a polling place for each polling district. South Dublin County Council have made a Polling Scheme which came into effect on the 15th February 2020. link here The Polling Scheme is available for public inspection in South Dublin County Council, County Hall, Tallaght, and Civic Offices, Ninth Lock Road, Clondalkin, and on our website at www.sdcc.ie for two weeks from the publication of this notice.
