Constituency profile: Galway East

With huge tracts of this constituency hived off into the new Roscommon-Galway region, a number of TDs have seen their home bases ripped asunder.

The constituency dropped from four seats to three and has lost 32 electoral divisions, with a population of 20,521 being moved into Roscommon.

As a result, a huge tranche of east and north-east Galway from Ballinasloe through Ahascragh, to Glenamaddy, Creggs, and Castleblakeney right up to the north of Dunmore has been lost.