National
President of Ireland
- Irish: Uachtarán na hÉireann
How it's filled
- In plain words
- Elected
- Exact method
- Directly elected by the people for a seven-year term by secret ballot using the single transferable vote; a person may serve at most two terms (Constitution of Ireland, Art. 12). A candidate must be nominated by 20 members of the Oireachtas or four county or city councils, or be a former or retiring President.
- Seats
- 1
Who holds it now
Catherine Connolly since November 2025
Report Source: president.ie,
checked
Next vote
- Must be held by November 2032 (no fixed date) General election
Sources
- irishstatutebook.ie · checked Constitution of Ireland, Irish Statute Book, read 2026-10-12: how each office is chosen (Arts. 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 28, 35). Seat counts: Oireachtas members list; Supreme Court composition: supremecourt.ie judges page, read 2026-10-12. For: President of Ireland
- irishstatutebook.ie · checked Bunreacht na hÉireann (Irish text) and oireachtas.ie / logainm.ie: Irish-language names of the State, provinces, institutions and offices. For: President of Ireland in Irish
- president.ie · checked Office of the President, president.ie: Catherine Connolly elected 24 October 2025 and inaugurated 11 November 2025 (Oireachtas API shows her Dáil membership ending 2025-10-25). Fallback for the inauguration date: Wikipedia, Catherine Connolly. For: Catherine Connolly, current term
- irishstatutebook.ie · checked Constitution of Ireland, Irish Statute Book, read 2026-10-12: Art. 12.3.3 ("not later than, and not earlier than the sixtieth day before, the date of the expiration of the term"). Corrected latest possible date from 2032-09-12 (earliest day of the window) to 2032-11-10 (term expiry). For: General election, November 10, 2032
- irishstatutebook.ie · checked Constitution of Ireland Arts. 12.3, 16.3, 18.8: latest legal dates, computed from first meeting of the 34th Dáil on 18 December 2024 and the President's inauguration on 11 November 2025. Seanad by-election 6 November 2026: Polling Day Order of 24 September 2026 as reported on Wikipedia, 2026 Seanad by-election (fallback; official order not fetched). For: General election, November 10, 2032