Constituency profile: Dublin-Rathdown

With an aging population and high costs, house prices, taxes, and crime prevention are important issues here. The five-seater was sliced up under boundary changes, leaving three seats.

In 2011, Shane Ross pulled in 23% of votes, while Fine Gael landed the next three seats with Olivia Mitchell, Peter Mathews, and Alan Shatter in that order. Those three won 36% of votes. Fianna Fáil lost the fifth seat to Labour’s Alex White, only the second party TD to win a place here in 12 years. Many say Ms Mitchell would have kept her seat this time around, but she bowed out after almost 20 years as a TD.

The closure of Stepaside Garda Station in 2014 caused concern. Mr Ross has been to the fore in raising crime issues, to the annoyance of Mr Shatter, who was minister for justice when garda resources were cut.