10th Seanad

The 10th Seanad was in office from 1961 to 1965. An election to Seanad Éireann, the Senate of the Oireachtas (Irish parliament), followed the 1961 general election to the 19th Dáil. The senators served until the close of the poll for the 11th Seanad in 1965.

Composition of the 10th Seanad
There are a total of 60 seats in the Seanad: 43 were elected on five vocational panels, 6 were elected from two university constituencies and 11 were nominated by the Taoiseach.

The following table shows the composition by party when the 10th Seanad first met on 14 December 1961.