Politics

Splits and mergers: How the new constituencies will affect Ireland's parties and politicians

The new Dáil will be making room for many new faces, while some old faces fight to maintain support in split electoral areas

Ms Justice Marie Baker, at the Electoral Commission and Art O’Leary, the chief executive at the Commission, at the launch of its constituency review. Picture: Fergal Phillips

As current, future and soon-to-be past TDs agonise over the electoral commission’s new constituency boundaries, the changes will have implications for everything from individual careers to coalition options and the representation of small parties across the island.

So where are the most significant changes coming, and who will those changes affect the most?

Wicklow and Wexford

Among the more controversial recommendations made by the commission this morning was the simultaneous carving up and amalgamation of ...