Wicklow–Wexford | |
Type: | Dáil |
Future: | proposed |
Map4: | Wicklow–Wexford (Dáil constituency) 2025.svg |
Map Entity: | Ireland |
Map Size: | 200px |
Members Label: | TDs |
Seats: | 3 |
Local Council Label: | Local government area |
Blank1 Name: | EP constituency |
Blank1 Info: | South |
Wicklow–Wexford is a Dáil constituency to be represented in Dáil Éireann, the house of representatives of the Oireachtas, the Irish parliament, from the next general election. Established through the Electoral (Amendment) Act 2023, the constituency will elect 3 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs) on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).
The 2023 report of the Electoral Commission recommended that at the next general election, a new three-seat constituency of Wicklow–Wexford be created, with a transfer of territory from the constituencies of Wexford and Wicklow.[1]
This was done to ensure compliance with the constitutional requirement for one TD per 20,000 to 30,000 of the population and with an overall increase from 160 to 174 TDs.[2] The Commission found that the constituencies of Wexford and Wicklow had a combined population sufficient to justify the allocation of 11 seats and therefore decided to create a new constituency called Wicklow–Wexford in order to meet the criteria set out under the scope of its review. The two pre-existing five-seat constituencies of Wicklow and Wexford transferred one seat each to the new constituency which then gained an additional seat to meet the three-seat minimum for a constituency.
For the next general election, the Electoral (Amendment) Act 2023 defines the constituency as:[3]
None of the ten TDs who had been elected in the 2020 Irish general election for the constituencies of Wexford and Wicklow are resident in the proposed constituency.[4] [5]