Editing County Wicklow (section)

==Governance and politics==
[[File:County Buildings, Wicklow - 2025-03-09 02.jpg|thumb|[[County Buildings, Wicklow]]]]
===Local government===
{{main|Wicklow County Council}}
The local government authority is [[Wicklow County Council]] which returns 32 councillors from six [[local electoral area]]s: Arklow, Baltinglass, Bray East, Bray West, Greystones, and Wicklow.<ref>{{cite Irish legislation|name=County of Wicklow Local Electoral Areas and Municipal Districts Order 2018|year=2018|type=si|number=638|date=19 December 2018}}; {{cite Irish legislation|name=County Of Wicklow Local Electoral Areas And Municipal Districts (Amendment) Order 2019|year=2019|type=si|number=7|date=17 January 2019}}</ref> Wicklow County Council sends three members to the [[Eastern and Midland Regional Assembly]], where it is part of the Eastern Strategic Planning Area.<ref>{{Cite Irish legislation|year=2014|type=si|number=573|name=Local Government Act 1991 (Regional Assemblies) (Establishment) Order 2014|date=16 December 2014|access-date=8 February 2022}}</ref>

{| class=wikitable
|-
!colspan="2"|Political Party
! Members
|-
| {{party name with colour|Fine Gael}}
| align="right"| 9
|-
| {{party name with colour|Fianna Fáil}}
| align="right"| 4
|-
| {{party name with colour|Social Democrats (Ireland)}}
| align="right"| 3
|-
| {{party name with colour|Sinn Féin}}
| align="right"| 2
|-
| {{party name with colour|Green Party (Ireland)}}
| align="right"| 2
|-
| {{party name with colour|Labour Party (Ireland)}}
| align="right"| 1
|-
| {{party name with colour|Independent Ireland}}
| align="right"| 1
|-
| {{party name with colour|Independent politician (Ireland)}}
| align="right"| 10
|}

===Former districts===
County Wicklow was formerly divided into the [[rural district (Ireland)|rural district]]s of Baltinglass No. 1, Rathdown No. 2, Rathdrum, and Shillelagh, and the [[Urban and rural districts (Ireland)|urban districts]] of [[Arklow]], [[Bray, County Wicklow|Bray]] and [[Wicklow]].<ref>{{cite web |title=1926 Census: Table 9: Population, Area and Valuation of urban and rural districts and of all towns with a population of 1,500 inhabitants or over, showing particulars of town and village population and of the number of persons per 100 acres |url=https://www.cso.ie/en/media/csoie/census/census1926results/volume1/C_1926_V1_T9.pdf |publisher=Central Statistics Office |pages=23 |access-date=7 August 2022}}</ref> The rural districts were abolished in 1925.<ref>{{cite Irish legislation|year=1925|parl=ifs|number=5|name=Local Government Act 1925|date=26 March 1925|section=3|stitle=Abolition of rural district councils|access-date=22 December 2021}}</ref> [[Greystones]], in the former rural district of Rathdown No. 2, was given [[town commissioners]] in 1984.<ref>{{cite Irish legislation|type=si|year=1983|number=162|name=Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act 1854 (Greystones) Order 1983|date=1 April 1948}}</ref> The urban districts of Arklow, Bray and Wicklow and the town commissioners of Greystones became [[town council (Ireland)|town councils]] in 2002.<ref>{{cite Irish legislation|name=[[Local Government Act 2001]]|year=2001|schedno=6|stitle=Local Government Areas (Towns)|number=37|date=21 July 2001|access-date=7 August 2022}}</ref> All town councils in Ireland were abolished in 2014.<ref>{{cite Irish legislation|name=[[Local Government Reform Act 2014]]|year=2014|section=24|stitle=Dissolution of town councils and transfer date|number=1|date=27 January 2014|access-date=21 May 2022}}</ref>

===National politics===
The whole county is in the [[Dáil constituency]] of [[Wicklow (Dáil constituency)|Wicklow]] (5 seats).<ref>{{cite Irish legislation|year=2017|number=39|schedule=y|name=[[Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2017]]|date=23 December 2017|access-date=20 December 2021}}</ref>

{| class=wikitable
|-
! TD
! colspan="2"| Party
|-
| [[John Brady (Sinn Féin politician)|John Brady]]
| {{party name with colour|Sinn Féin}}
|-
| [[Jennifer Whitmore]]
| {{party name with colour|Social Democrats (Ireland)}}
|-
| [[Simon Harris]]
| {{party name with colour|Fine Gael}}
|-
| [[Stephen Donnelly]]
| {{party name with colour|Fianna Fáil}}
|-
| [[Steven Matthews]]
| {{party name with colour|Green Party (Ireland)}}
|}