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&lt;/font&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;'&gt;&lt;font color='#000000'&gt;&lt;/font&gt;This
is a map showing the District Electoral Divisions for County Donegal. There are
five DEDs in Donegal, namely, Letterkenny, Inishowen, Stranorlar, Donegal, and
Glenties.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;'&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;'&gt;A
&lt;b&gt;district electoral division&lt;/b&gt; (&lt;b&gt;DED&lt;/b&gt;; &lt;a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_language'&gt;&lt;font color='#0000ff'&gt;Irish&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;i&gt;Toghroinn
ceantair&lt;/i&gt;) is a former name given to a low-level territorial division in
Ireland. In 1994, both district electoral divisions and wards (the equivalent
of district electoral divisions within the five &lt;a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_borough'&gt;&lt;font color='#0000ff'&gt;county boroughs&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)
were renamed as &lt;b&gt;electoral divisions&lt;/b&gt; (the boundaries and names of the
DEDs and wards themselves remained unchanged).[&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed'&gt;&lt;font color='#0000ff'&gt;citation
needed&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;] In the Republic of Ireland, DEDs are the smallest legally
defined administrative areas in the state for which small area population
statistics (SAPS) are published from the Census.&lt;a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_electoral_division#cite_note-1'&gt;&lt;font color='#0000ff'&gt;[1]&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
In the &lt;a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union'&gt;&lt;font color='#0000ff'&gt;European Union&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_administrative_unit'&gt;&lt;font color='#0000ff'&gt;Local
administrative units&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (LAUs) are basic components of &lt;a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomenclature_of_Territorial_Units_for_Statistics'&gt;&lt;font color='#0000ff'&gt;Nomenclature
of Territorial Units for Statistics&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (NUTS) regions. For each &lt;a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_of_the_European_Union'&gt;&lt;font color='#0000ff'&gt;EU
member country&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, two levels of Local Administrative Units (LAU) are defined:
LAU-1 and LAU-2, which were previously called NUTS-4 and NUTS-5 respectively,
until the NUTS regulation went into force in July 2003. The District electoral
division is at the level of LAU-2. There are a total of 3,440 electoral
divisions within the Republic of Ireland.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;font color='#000000' face='Times New Roman' size='3'&gt;

&lt;/font&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;'&gt;Source:
Wikipedia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;font color='#000000' face='Times New Roman' size='3'&gt;

&lt;/font&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;'&gt;In
2013 a Boundary committee released a report to make changes to DEDs and this is
the most recent revisions of DEDs in Ireland. Boundary Committee Report 2013
can be found &lt;a href='http://www.boundarycommittee.ie/reports/2013-Report.pdf' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;font color='#0000ff'&gt;here&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;font color='#000000' face='Times New Roman' size='3'&gt;

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<idPurp>District Electoral Divisions in County Donegal. Map showing the different DED's in County Donegal.</idPurp>
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