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Peter the Lefty
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« on: August 20, 2012, 10:17:50 AM »

All right, in every Irish general election, who would you have voted for?
1921: Sinn Fein
1922: Labour
1923: Labour
June 1927: Labour
September 1927: Labour
1932: Labour
1933: Labour
1937: Labour
1938: Labour
1943: Labour
1944: Labour
1948: Labour
1951: Labour
1954: Labour
1957: Labour
1961: National Progressive Democrats, since I'd be longing for a secular and socially progressive alternative
1965: Labour
1969: Labour
1973: Labour.  Wouldn't be thrilled about the pact b/w them and FG, though I'd probably see it as necessary to get the damn bastards (FF) out.  
1977: Workers' Party thanks to the Tullymandering and Conor Cruise O'Brien's media censorship.  
1981: Socialist Labour
February 1982: Workers' Party
November 1982: Democratic Socialist, even though I'd be pissed off at their pro-Unionist stance on the North
1987: Democratic Socialists
1989: Democratic Socialists
1992: Democratic Left
1997: Labour
2002: Labour
2007: Labour
2011: Labour
Next: If there were a left-wing independent candidate in my constituency, they'd get my first preference.  After that, United Left Alliance.  I like Sinn Fein's policies better, but I can't vote for them because of people like Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness.  If they dropped Adams in the South (and replaced him with Mary Lou McDonald) and McGuinness with some person who's not a terrorist, they'd get my vote.  
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« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2012, 12:33:41 PM »

All the way with SF.
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« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2012, 01:06:09 PM »

Fine Gail. Everytime.
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« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2012, 03:12:22 PM »

I would've scribbled on my ballot at every election. All the Irish parties are dire.
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Peter the Lefty
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« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2012, 07:47:07 PM »

I would've scribbled on my ballot at every election. All the Irish parties are dire.
Hmm...as a someone on the right of the British Labour Party, I'd expect you to be naturally with the Irish Labour Party as well.  Is it the fact that they've done so many coalitions with FG?
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« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2014, 10:52:44 AM »

I hate to respond to a thread bumped by some dolt that's two years old, but voting for Fianna Fáil in 1932, at least, was not only one of the few occasions where voting FF is justifiable but a near-moral imperative.
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« Reply #6 on: May 26, 2014, 06:59:11 AM »

1921: UUP
1922: Businessmen's Party
1923: Cumann na nGaedheal
June 1927: National League Party
September 1927: National League Party
1932: Cumann na nGaedheal
1933: National Centre Party
1937: Fine Gael
1938: Fine Gael
1943: Fine Gael
1944: Fine Gael
1948: Fine Gael
1951: Fine Gael
1954: Fine Gael
1957: Fine Gael
1961: Fine Gael
1965: Fine Gael
1969: Fine Gael
1973: Fine Gael
1977: Fine Gael
1981: Fine Gael
February 1982: Fine Gael
November 1982: Fine Gael
1987: Fine Gael
1989: Fine Gael
1992: Fine Gael
1997: National Party
2002: Fianna Fail
2007: Fine Gael
2011: Fine Gael
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« Reply #7 on: June 08, 2014, 01:31:41 PM »

 
1977: Workers' Party thanks to the Tullymandering and Conor Cruise O'Brien's media censorship.

There were actually a lot of people in SFWP (as it then was) who were quite enthusiastic about "Conor Cruise O'Brien's media censorship".
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« Reply #8 on: June 08, 2014, 01:36:56 PM »

I hate to respond to a thread bumped by some dolt that's two years old, but voting for Fianna Fáil in 1932, at least, was not only one of the few occasions where voting FF is justifiable but a near-moral imperative.

Labour were supporting FF in 1932 but you could probably make a case for the "near-moral imperative" through a lot of the 30s, given CnaG/FG's shirt-wearing during the period. ("NO! We weren't FASCISTS! We just wanted to abolish democracy and install a one-party corporate state with ourselves in charge! THAT'S COMPLETELY DIFFERENT!")

The tragedy about 1977 is that FF could have won it without a lot of the over-the-top goodies (rates, car tax) that they resorted to in the (mistaken) belief that there was no other way to overcome the Tullymander.
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« Reply #9 on: July 10, 2014, 10:54:00 PM »

UUP in 1921
Labour in 1922
Cumann na nGaedheal or FG until the end if Valeira and
FF for, then to 2011 and then Fine Gael in 2011 and FF now.
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« Reply #10 on: July 21, 2014, 01:07:32 PM »

Somewhere in-between Fine Gael and Labour.
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« Reply #11 on: July 21, 2014, 01:36:34 PM »

I hate to respond to a thread bumped by some dolt that's two years old, but voting for Fianna Fáil in 1932, at least, was not only one of the few occasions where voting FF is justifiable but a near-moral imperative.

Labour were supporting FF in 1932 but you could probably make a case for the "near-moral imperative" through a lot of the 30s, given CnaG/FG's shirt-wearing during the period. ("NO! We weren't FASCISTS! We just wanted to abolish democracy and install a one-party corporate state with ourselves in charge! THAT'S COMPLETELY DIFFERENT!")

The tragedy about 1977 is that FF could have won it without a lot of the over-the-top goodies (rates, car tax) that they resorted to in the (mistaken) belief that there was no other way to overcome the Tullymander.
It has never, ever been justified to vote for the utterly corrupt, ah-but-now-oi-went-ta-yer-mammy's-funeral-and-got-yer-kitchen-drains-fixed pork-fest that is Fianna Fail. Never. Ever.

Still less of course is it justified to vote for any independents in Eire, none of whom stand for anything but themselves. That a waster like Flanagan tops the poll in Ulster-Connacht-half of Leinster (or whatever it is) with 130,000 preferences speaks volumes for Ireland.

The sooner Feel and Fail and Fine Gael realise they're absolutely the same bloody thing, just to different degrees, and merge (would 'the Unionist Party' suffice as a name?), with Labour as the opposition, the better.

Until then, abstain, abstain, nuke it, bomb it until it at least attains the Tweedledee-Tweedledum status of the US Dem & Rep parties; yes, Irish politics is even worse than that two-donkey race.
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« Reply #12 on: July 25, 2014, 03:59:20 PM »

ah-but-now-oi-went-ta-yer-mammy's-funeral-and-got-yer-kitchen-drains-fixed
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Seriously, go die in a ditch, hibernophobic scumbag.
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« Reply #13 on: July 30, 2014, 09:28:08 AM »

2011: Socialist
2007: Socialist
2002: Socialist
1997: Socialist
1992: Workers'
1989: Workers'
1987: Workers'
November 1982: Workers'
February 1982: Workers'
1981: Workers'
1977: Workers'
1973: Workers'
1969: Irish Workers'
1965: Irish Workers'
1961: Irish Workers'
1957: Irish Workers'
1954: Irish Workers'
1951: Irish Workers'
1948: Labour
1944: Labour
1943: Labour
1938: Labour
1937: Labour
1933: Labour
1932: Irish Worker League
September 1927: Irish Worker League
June 1927: Sinn Fein
1923: Republican
1922: Sinn Fein (Anti-Treaty)
1921: Sinn Fein
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« Reply #14 on: November 13, 2014, 11:18:34 AM »

1992: Christian Centrist Party
1997: Christian Solidarity Party or National Party
2002: Christian Solidarity Party
2007: Christian Solidarity Party
2011: Christian Solidarity Party
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« Reply #15 on: May 06, 2016, 09:51:57 PM »
« Edited: May 08, 2016, 03:58:52 PM by Northeast Assemblyman Kingpoleon »

1918: Irish Parliamentary Party
1921: Nationalist
1922: Sinn Fein(Pro-Treaty)
1923: CG
1927: Fianna Fáil
1932: Fianna Fáil
1933: Fianna Fáil
1937: Fine Gael
1938: Fianna Fáil
1943: Fianna Fáil
1944: Fianna Fáil
1948: Clann na Poblachta
1951: CP
1954: Clann na Talmhan
1957: CP
1961: National Progressive Democrats
1964: FF
1969: Fine Gael
1973: Sinn Fein
1977: FG
1981: FF
1982: Fine Gael
1987: Progressive Democrats
1989: PD
1992: PD
1997: PD
2002: PD
2007: FF
2011: Green Party
2016: Social Democrats
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« Reply #16 on: June 02, 2016, 02:00:18 PM »

Fine Gael all the way.
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« Reply #17 on: February 24, 2017, 04:47:49 AM »
« Edited: March 15, 2017, 05:09:39 AM by Intell »

Parliament:

1921: Sinn Fein
1922: Labour
1923: Labour
June 1927: Labour
September 1927: Labour
1932: Labour
1933: Labour
1937: Labour
1938: Labour
1943: Labour
1944: Labour
1948: Clann na Poblachta
1951: Labour
1954: Labour
1957: Labour
1961: Labour
1965: Labour
1969: Labour
1973: Labour
1981: Labour
February 1982: Labour
November 1982: Labour
1987: Labour
1989: Labour
1992: Labour

1997: Labour
2002: Labour
2007: Labour
2011: Labour

2016: Social Democrats

EU:

1979: Labour
1984: Labour
1989: Labour
1994: Labour

1999: Labour
2004: Labour
2009: Labour
2014: Labour


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« Reply #18 on: October 04, 2021, 10:17:56 AM »

Lifelong Sinn Fein voter probably.
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« Reply #19 on: October 04, 2021, 12:18:14 PM »

1921: Sinn Fein
1922: Sinn Fein (Anti-Treaty)
1923: Republican
June 1927-1987: Fianna Fáil
1989: Labour
1992: Labour
1997-2007: Fianna Fáil
2011: Labour I guess?
2016: Fianna Fáil
2020: Aontú
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« Reply #20 on: October 16, 2021, 12:07:39 PM »

I would be an anti-Sinn Fein voter but my voting history would be

Labour 2011- or anyone except for the trot sex pests, Fianna Fail, and Sinn Fein
Progressive Democrats 1987-2006
Fine Gael/Anti-Fianna Fail tactical voter before 1987
Anti-Fine Gael voter when Fine Gael was a fascist party
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« Reply #21 on: March 20, 2023, 02:21:11 AM »
« Edited: March 20, 2023, 02:36:28 AM by Dr. MB »

1918: Sinn Féin
1921: Sinn Féin
1922: Sinn Féin (Anti-Treaty)
1923: Republican
June 1927: Sinn Féin

Sept 1927: Irish Worker League
1932: Labour
1933: Labour
1937: Labour
1938: Labour
1943: Labour
1944: Labour
1948: Labour
1951: Labour
1954: Labour

1957: Sinn Féin
1961: Sinn Féin

1964: Labour
1969: Labour

1973: Official Sinn Féin
1977: Sinn Féin – The Workers' Party
1981: Anti-H Block
Feb 1982: Sinn Féin

Nov 1982: idk
1987: Sinn Féin
1989: Sinn Féin
1992: Sinn Féin
1997: Sinn Féin
2002: Sinn Féin
2007: Sinn Féin
2011: Sinn Féin
2016: Sinn Féin
2020: Sinn Féin


President:
1945: Patrick McCartan (Independent) / Seán T. O'Kelly (Fianna Fáil)
1959: Éamon de Valera (Fianna Fáil)
1966: Éamon de Valera (Fianna Fáil)
1973: Erskine H. Childers (Fianna Fáil)

1990: Mary Robinson (Labour)
1997: Adi Roche (Labour)
/ Mary McAleese (Fianna Fáil)
2011: Martin McGuinness (Sinn Féin) / Michael D. Higgins (Labour)
2018: Liadh Ní Riada (Sinn Féin)

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« Reply #22 on: March 20, 2023, 12:38:36 PM »

1921: Ulster Unionist
1922: Labour
1923: Labour
June 1927: National League
September 1927:Labour
1932: Labour
1933: Labour
1937: Labour
1938: Labour
1943: Labour
1944: National Labour Party
1948: National Labour Party
1951: Labour
1954: Labour
1957: Labour
1961: Labour
1965: Labour
1969: Labour
1973: Labour
1977: Labour
1981: Labour
February 1982: Labour
November 1982: Labour
1987: Democratic Socialist
1989: Labour
1992: Labour
1997: Labour
2002: Labour
2007: Labour
2011: Labour
2016: Social Democrats
2020: Social Democrats
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« Reply #23 on: March 22, 2023, 12:10:31 AM »

Parliament:

1922: Pro-Treaty Sinn Féin
1923: Cumann na nGaedheal
June 1927: Cumann na nGaedheal
Sept 1927: Cumann na nGaedheal
1932: Fianna Fail
1933: Fianna Fail
1937: Fine Gael
1938: Fine Gael
1943: Fine Gael
1944: Fine Gael
1948: Fine Gael
1951: Fine Gael
1954: Fine Gael
1957: Fine Gael
1961: Fine Gael
1965: Fine Gael
1969: Fine Gael
1973: Fine Gael
1977: Fine Gael
1981: Fine Gael
Feb 1982: Fine Gael
Nov 1982: Fine Gael
1987: Fine Gael
1989: Fine Gael
1992: Fine Gael
1997: Fine Gael
2002: Fine Gael
2007: Fine Gael
2011: Fine Gael
2016: Fine Gael
2020: Fine Gael
2025: Fine Gael

President:

1945: Sean Mac Eoin (Fine Gael)
1959: Sean Mac Eoin (Fine Gael)
1966: Tom O'Higgins (Fine Gael)
1973: Tom O'Higgins (Fine Gael)
1990: Mary Robinson (Labour)
1997: Mary Banotti (Fine Gael)
2011: Michael Higgins (Labour)
2018: Michael Higgins (Labour)

EU Parliament:

1979: Fine Gael
1984: Fine Gael
1989: Fine Gael
1994: Fine Gael
1999: Fine Gael
2004: Fine Gael
2009: Fine Gael
2014: Fine Gael
2019: Fine Gael
2024: Fine Gael
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« Reply #24 on: March 22, 2023, 12:33:20 AM »

Parliament:

1922: Pro-Treaty Sinn Féin
1923: Cumann na nGaedheal
June 1927: Cumann na nGaedheal
Sept 1927: Cumann na nGaedheal
1932: Fianna Fail
1933: Fianna Fail
1937: Fine Gael
1938: Fine Gael
1943: Fine Gael
1944: Fine Gael
1948: Fine Gael
1951: Fine Gael
1954: Fine Gael
1957: Fine Gael
1961: Fine Gael
1965: Fine Gael
1969: Fine Gael
1973: Fine Gael
1977: Fine Gael
1981: Fine Gael
Feb 1982: Fine Gael
Nov 1982: Fine Gael
1987: Fine Gael
1989: Fine Gael
1992: Fine Gael
1997: Fine Gael
2002: Fine Gael
2007: Fine Gael
2011: Fine Gael
2016: Fine Gael
2020: Fine Gael
2025: Fine Gael

President:

1945: Sean Mac Eoin (Fine Gael)
1959: Sean Mac Eoin (Fine Gael)
1966: Tom O'Higgins (Fine Gael)
1973: Tom O'Higgins (Fine Gael)
1990: Mary Robinson (Labour)
1997: Mary Banotti (Fine Gael)
2011: Michael Higgins (Labour)
2018: Michael Higgins (Labour)

EU Parliament:

1979: Fine Gael
1984: Fine Gael
1989: Fine Gael
1994: Fine Gael
1999: Fine Gael
2004: Fine Gael
2009: Fine Gael
2014: Fine Gael
2019: Fine Gael
2024: Fine Gael
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