Vóta

About

Vóta shows how Ireland’s TDs and councillors vote. Choose a county, then a Dáil constituency or local electoral area, to find the people who represent you and every recorded vote they’ve cast.

Where the data comes from

Dáil votes. Every division in the 34th Dáil comes from the Houses of the Oireachtas open data API: the question as recorded, the result, and how each of the 174 TDs voted. The site checks for new votes every night. It currently runs to 11 November 2026 (458 divisions).

Councillors. The 949 seats on the 31 city and county councils are assembled for each council from its own website, its meeting minutes and news reports. That includes everyone who has joined or left since the June 2024 local elections, so that a vote can be matched to whoever held the seat on the day. Each council page lists its sources, and each councillor’s page links the source for their entry. Rosters were last checked between 4 November 2026 and 11 November 2026.

Maps. Local electoral areas and Dáil constituencies from Tailte Éireann, Northern Ireland county outlines from OSNI, and town names from GeoNames.

Council votes

714 named votes from 26 councils are published. All council votes

Councils don’t publish their votes as open data. Named votes appear in meeting minutes, usually as PDFs, and only some councils record how each councillor voted. Votes are drafted from the minutes with the help of AI and checked automatically against the council’s roster and the tallies stated in the minutes. Every vote links to the minutes and the page it came from.

Motions are often long or procedural, so each vote also has a summary of one to three sentences, written by AI from the recorded text alone and marked as such. The motion exactly as the minutes record it is always shown with it.

Dáil votes also have AI-written summaries, based on official division records, debates and, where relevant, bill texts and long titles. Each links to its sources and explains the particular question or amendment being voted on. A new vote is published as soon as it is recorded and its summary is written afterwards; until then its page says “Summary pending”. The recorded question is shown wherever the division record supplies it.

How votes are shown

Votes are shown by shape and label, never by colour:

  • Tá yes
  • Níl no
  • Staon abstained
  • Didn't vote

Each party has a colour, shown as a small square beside its name and in the seat diagram, never instead of the name; Independents are grey. Colour never shows how anyone voted.

  • Fianna Fáil
  • Fine Gael
  • Sinn Féin
  • Labour Party
  • Social Democrats
  • Green Party
  • People Before Profit-Solidarity
  • Aontú
  • Independent Ireland
  • Independent
  • Other parties

Each question is shown exactly as recorded, with a link to the official record. When a TD didn’t vote, the site says so and nothing more: the record doesn’t say why, so it never says “absent”. The Ceann Comhairle chairs the Dáil and votes only to break a tie, so they are left out of participation figures.

Corrections

If something is wrong, email james.doyle9@ucdconnect.ie. Say what’s wrong and, if you can, link to where the correct information is published. The “Report an error” link at the foot of every page names the page in the email.

Privacy and data protection

Vóta is a student project run by James Doyle. For anything about personal data on this site, email james.doyle9@ucdconnect.ie.

Information about representatives

The site publishes information about TDs and councillors in their public role: their name, party, the area they represent, offices held, when they joined or left, the official portrait the Oireachtas publishes for each TD, and how they voted. All of it comes from public sources: the Houses of the Oireachtas open data, council websites and meeting minutes, and news reports, each linked from the page it supports.

It is published because the public has a legitimate interest in knowing how its elected representatives vote (Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR). Party membership and votes reveal political opinions; they appear here only as the representatives themselves have made them public in their public role (Article 9(2)(e)). Records stay on the site for as long as it covers the current Dáil and council terms, including for people who have since left, so that each vote stays with the person who cast it.

Visitors

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  • The site is hosted by Vercel, which keeps standard server logs, including IP addresses, to run and secure the service (Vercel’s privacy policy).
  • TD portraits load directly from the Oireachtas’s servers (data.oireachtas.ie), which receive your IP address when they do. Fonts are served from this site, not by Google.
  • If you email a correction, your address and message are used only to deal with it and aren’t shared.

Your rights

You can ask what information the site holds about you, ask for it to be corrected or erased, or object to it being published, by emailing the address above. You can also complain to the Data Protection Commission.

Council rosters

Each council’s roster and sources, with the date it was last checked.

Licences

Contains Irish Public Sector Data (Houses of the Oireachtas) licensed under the Oireachtas (Open Data) PSI Licence. Boundaries © Tailte Éireann, licensed under CC BY 4.0, and © OSNI, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Town names from GeoNames, licensed under CC BY 4.0.