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constituency in

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on Friday, 29 November 2019, to fill the vacancy left by the election of

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to the

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. It was held on the same day as three other by-elections in

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, Dublin Fingal and Dublin Mid-West. The Electoral (Amendment) Act 2011 stipulates that a by-election in Ireland must be held within six months of a vacancy occurring. The by-election writ was moved in the Dáil on 7 November 2019. At the 2016 general election, the electorate of Wexford was 109,861, and the constituency elected one Labour Party TD, one

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TD, one I4C TD and two

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TDs. The election was won by Wexford County Councillor Malcolm Byrne of

. Andrew Bolger was co-opted to Byrne's seat on Wexford County Council following his election to the Dáil. Three of the candidates were sitting Wexford County Councillors; Malcolm Byrne, Jim Codd and George Lawlor. Johnny Mythen was a former Wexford County Councillor while Melissa O'Neill was a former Kilkenny County Councillor. This was the first occasion the Irish Freedom Party contested any national election as a registered political party and, alongside

, the first time Aontú contested by-elections. Byrne subsequently lost his seat at the 2020 Irish general election, February 2020 general election. His defeat after only 71 days made him the Records of members of the Oireachtas#Shortest-serving former TDs, TD with the second-shortest term of service. Byrne was subsequently elected to the Seanad Éireann, Seanad in April 2020, with Mythen and Murphy being elected to the Dáil in the 2020 general election.

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