Editing County Leitrim (section)

==Local government and politics==
[[Leitrim County Council]] is the [[Local government in the Republic of Ireland|local authority]] for the county. The county is divided into three [[local electoral area]]s, each of which is also a municipal district: [[Ballinamore]] (6 councillors), [[Carrick-on-Shannon]] (6 councillors), and [[Manorhamilton]] (6 councillors).<ref>{{cite Irish legislation|year=2018 |type=si |number=623 |name=County of Leitrim Local Electoral Areas and Municipal Districts Order 2018 |date=19 December 2018 |access-date=1 September 2020 |archive-date=23 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191123113736/http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2018/si/623/made/en/print}}</ref> Leitrim County Council has two representatives on the [[Northern and Western Regional Assembly]].<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=25 February 2022}}</ref>

===2019 seats summary===
The following were elected at the [[2019 Leitrim County Council election]]:
{| class="wikitable"
|- 
!colspan=2|Party
!Seats
|-
| {{party name with colour|Fianna Fáil}}
|align="right"|6
|-
| {{party name with colour|Fine Gael}}
|align="right"|6
|-
| {{party name with colour|Sinn Féin}}
|align="right"|2
|-
| {{party name with colour|Independent politician (Ireland)}}
|align="right"|4
|}

===National politics===
Leitrim is part of the [[Dáil constituency]] of [[Sligo–Leitrim (Dáil constituency)|Sligo–Leitrim]]. This constituency existed from 1948 to 2007, and previously from 1923 to 1937 as Leitrim–Sligo. From 1937 to 1948, the county formed the [[Leitrim (Dáil constituency)|Leitrim]] constituency. From 2007 until 2016, County Leitrim was divided between two constituencies: [[Roscommon–South Leitrim (Dáil constituency)|Roscommon–South Leitrim]] and [[Sligo–North Leitrim (Dáil constituency)|Sligo–North Leitrim]]. This proved controversial, and at the [[2007 Irish general election|2007 general election]] there was no [[Teachta Dála|TD]] elected whose domicile was in the county. Sligo–Leitrim was recreated at the [[2016 Irish general election|2016 general election]].