Irish Elections and Referendums, 2015

[ObserverIE]

Final tally from Carlow-Kilkenny

FF 28.0
FG 21.1
SF 16.1
Renua 9.4
Lab 6.5
GP 5.4
Ind Gardiner 4.4
SWP t/a PBP 3.4
SP t/a AAA 3.2
Others 2.6

[Јas]

Carlow-Kilkenny, Complete Tally

[Clyde1998]

Final tally from Carlow-Kilkenny

FF 28.0
FG 21.1
SF 16.1
Renua 9.4
Lab 6.5
GP 5.4
Ind Gardiner 4.4
SWP t/a PBP 3.4
SP t/a AAA 3.2
Others 2.6

Is that a Fianna Fáil gain?

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Final tally from Carlow-Kilkenny

FF 28.0
FG 21.1
SF 16.1
Renua 9.4
Lab 6.5
GP 5.4
Ind Gardiner 4.4
SWP t/a PBP 3.4
SP t/a AAA 3.2
Others 2.6

Is that a Fianna Fáil gain?

Well it go transfers but it would be, yes, if it holds to be case. (Given the gap, I would say it is quite likely).

[Tetro Kornbluth]

I just want to add that Aodhan O Riordan is why politicians shouldn't use twitter.

[Clyde1998]

Final tally from Carlow-Kilkenny

FF 28.0
FG 21.1
SF 16.1
Renua 9.4
Lab 6.5
GP 5.4
Ind Gardiner 4.4
SWP t/a PBP 3.4
SP t/a AAA 3.2
Others 2.6

Is that a Fianna Fáil gain?

Well it go transfers but it would be, yes, if it holds to be case. (Given the gap, I would say it is quite likely).

I forgot about transfers...

[Clyde1998]

Sligo-North Leitrim
Yes - 19,043 (53.6%)
No - 16,502 (46.4%)

Waterford
Yes - 28,313 (60.3%)
No - 18,620 (39.7%)

[ObserverIE]

I just want to add that Aodhan O Riordan is why politicians shouldn't use twitter.

Are we talking fyck yeah?

[Clyde1998]

Wicklow
Yes - 44,059 (68.4%)
No - 20,384 (31.6%)

[Clyde1998]

Overall Result (3/43)
Yes - 91,415 (62.2%)
No - 55,506 (37.8%)

[Tender Branson]

Nice.

Looks like 2/3 YES when all is counted, right ?

[ObserverIE]

Nice.

Looks like 2/3 YES when all is counted, right ?

A little less than that, I suspect - 64%? Dublin will push the average up, Connacht, Ulster, the midlands and rural Munster will push it back down a bit.

[Badger]

please forgive the off track question, but I wonder if this landslide result might encourage social liberals to seek legalization of abortion. Or even a partial legalization. Does anyone have any idea what the most recent polling shows on the issue?

[ObserverIE]

please forgive the off track question, but I wonder if this landslide result might encourage social liberals to seek legalization of abortion. Or even a partial legalization. Does anyone have any idea what the most recent polling shows on the issue?

Oh, the Twitterers had started on it already last night. The most recent polling shows majorities in favour in certain circumstances (rape, incest, fatal foetal abnormalities) but not in favour of abortion on demand/request. The Twitterers are not going to be satisfied with anything less than no restrictions and no time limits - the Canadian model.

It is, I think, a much more emotive issue in this country than gay marriage and one on which the same "live and let live" attitude is not going to exist (I suspect that gay marriage is actually the least contentious of the potential culture wars available, behind both abortion and attempts to impose laicité in education and the public sphere more generally). A majority on one issue is unlikely to easily translate into a majority on another.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Yes, one thing the NO campaign really didn't understand is that Ireland is not America.

[Oakvale]

The real story today is the HISTORIC COMEBACK FOR FF.


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[ObserverIE]

Yes, one thing the NO campaign really didn't understand is that Ireland is not America.

To be fair, Gully, I'm not sure that everyone on the "liberal" side entirely gets it either.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Yes, one thing the NO campaign really didn't understand is that Ireland is not America.

To be fair, Gully, I'm not sure that everyone on the "liberal" side entirely gets it either.

Oh I agree with that. I was just responding to your post on abortion and laicité in education.

Thank god the campaign is over.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

This looks like the first time a Fianna Fáil TD will be elected via by-election since the 90's.

[minionofmidas]

This looks like the first time a Fianna Fáil TD will be elected via by-election since the 90's.

And the first time FF gains a seat from another party* at a by-election since 1970.

*weasel words included to dismiss Neil Blaney's successor

[Clyde1998]

Why are the areas around Northern Ireland more likely to vote against same-sex marriage?

[Clyde1998]

Overall Result (34/43)
Yes - 964,616 (61.7%)
No - 599,505 (38.3%)
Turnout - 1,575,489 (60.3%)

[ObserverIE]

Why are the areas around Northern Ireland more likely to vote against same-sex marriage?

Rural, older (partly due to emigration), more likely to be religiously observant (and Protestants in the border areas are not going to be any more liberal on gay marriage than Catholics are).

[ObserverIE]

Yes, one thing the NO campaign really didn't understand is that Ireland is not America.

To be fair, Gully, I'm not sure that everyone on the "liberal" side entirely gets it either.

Oh I agree with that. I was just responding to your post on abortion and laicité in education.

Thank god the campaign is over.

Amen.

I was always a definite Yes voter but I was doing it through gritted teeth at the end because I was absolutely sick of the attitude of both sides, particularly on social media.

[Simfan34]

When exactly did Ireland cease to be the ultra-Catholic society we all seem to vaguely think it is?