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The Irish diaspora is large and the question of voting rights for emigrants and other expatriates has arisen continually since the 1980s. The Oireachtas committee on the constitution considered the matter in 2002; it recommended no extension of the franchise, but that among the senators nominated by the Taoiseach should be "a person or persons ...
A related issue is a proposed right of people in Northern Ireland to vote in the Republic. [11] Arguments in favour of expatriates voting include the economic and cultural importance of the Irish diaspora and the potential benefits of increasing its engagement with the state, and a moral debt owed to reluctant emigrants. [12]
The President of Ireland is formally elected by the citizens of Ireland once in every seven years, except in the event of premature vacancy, when an election must be held within sixty days. The President is directly elected by secret ballot under the system of the instant-runoff voting (although the Constitution describes it as "the system of ...
Voters across Ireland cast their ballots in the country’s general election on 29 November and, ... After achieving its highest vote share since 1922 in 2020, the party’s support has dipped ...
Other countries reserve the right vote solely to citizens living in that country, thereby stripping expatriate citizens of their voting rights once they leave their home country (such as Ireland, with extremely limited exceptions). Postal voting package sent to an Indonesian voter in the United Kingdom for the 2019 Indonesian general election.
An exit poll carried out by Ireland Thinks for the Sunday Independent gave a breakdown of voting patterns based on party support and identified some of the reasons for the No vote in each referendum. It found that only Fine Gael and Green Party supporters had a majority voting Yes in the Care Referendum, with Labour Party supporters evenly split.
Ireland Thinks/Irish Mail on Sunday [p 153] 1,000 30 11 35: 3 5 5 2 2 – [nb 4] 7 28 July 2020 Behaviour and Attitudes/The Sunday Times [p 154] 921 30: 20 29 6 3 1 1 0 – [nb 4] 11 18 July 2020 Ireland Thinks/Irish Mail on Sunday [p 155] 1,000 26 12 38: 5 4 3 2 – [nb 2] – [nb 4] 10 20 June 2020 Ireland Thinks/Irish Mail on Sunday [p 156 ...
The Ninth Amendment of the Constitution Act 1984 (previously bill no. 11 of 1984) is an amendment to the Constitution of Ireland that allowed for the extension of the right to vote in elections to Dáil Éireann (the house of representatives of the Oireachtas) to non-Irish citizens.