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Longford-Westmeath is a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas since the 2007 general election. The constituency returns 4 Teachtaí Dála (TDs), elected by the Single Transferable Vote method of proportional representation (PR-STV).

The constituency previously existed from 1921 to 1937 and from 1948 to 1992, but was abolished for the 1992 election. It was re-created by the Electoral (Amendment) Act 2005 which gave effect to the 2004 Constituency Commission Report on Dáil Constituencies, and was first used in the 2007 election. It succeeded the County Longford part of the Longford-Roscommon constituency and most of the Westmeath constituency apart from the north-eastern area around Castlepollard and Delvin which became part of the new Meath West constituency.

2007 General Election: Longford-Westmeath
	Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
Labour	Willie Penrose	9,692	17.6	1	5
Fianna Fáil	Mary O'Rourke	8,215	15.0	2	7
Fianna Fáil	Peter Kelly	7,720	14.1	3	7
Fine Gael	James Bannon	7,652	13.9	4	7
Fianna Fáil	Donie Cassidy	6,664	12.1
Fine Gael	Nicky McFadden	5,359	9.8
Fine Gael	Peter Burke	3,988	7.3
Progressive Democrats	Mae Sexton	2,298	4.2
Sinn Féin	Paul Hogan	2,136	3.9
Green	Betty Doran	960	1.7
Christian Solidarity	Colm Callanan	124	0.2
Independent (politician)	Noel O'Gara	84	0.2
Independent	Seamus Cunningham	24	0.0