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27th Seanad
The 27th Seanad is due to take office in 2025. The 2025 Seanad election is scheduled to take place in January 2025, to follow the 2024 general election to the 34th Dáil on 29 November 2024. BackgroundThe Constitution of Ireland requires a general election for Seanad Éireann, the senate of the Oireachtas (Irish parliament), to take place no later than ninety days after the dissolution of the Dáil. The 33rd Dáil was dissolved on 8 November 2024. There are 60 seats in the Seanad: 43 are elected on five vocational panels by serving politicians; 6 are elected in two university constituencies; and 11 are nominated by the Taoiseach who is appointed after the assembly of the 34th Dáil. It will remain in office until the close of poll for the 28th Seanad. On 15 November 2024, the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Darragh O'Brien, signed an order for the Seanad elections, providing 29 January as the deadline for ballots for the vocational panels and 30 January as the deadline for ballots in the university constituencies.[1][2] On 06 December 2024, 16 candidates for the Dublin University constituency were announced, including outing senators Lynn Ruane and Tom Clonan.[3] 12 candidates were confirmed for the National University of Ireland constituency, including all three outgoing senators Alice-Mary Higgins, Michael McDowell and Rónán Mullen.[4] It was also confirmed this would be the final Seanad general election in which the two university constituencies would exist. On 18 December, it was reported that outgoing Green Party senators Róisín Garvey and Vincent P. Martin, as well as Sinn Féin's Fintan Warfield would not be contesting the elections for the new Seanad.[5] Green Party Minister of State and senator Pippa Hackett and Fine Gael's John McGahon said they would be taking a step back from politics.[6] A fourth Green Party senator Pauline O'Reilly also confirmed she would not be returning to the Seanad.[7] References
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