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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 proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote"). While both Irish and British citizens resident in the state may vote in Dáil elections, only Irish citizens, who must ...
The Seanad (upper house) voting age was 30 for both sexes from its establishment in 1922 until 1928, when direct election was abolished. [8] [17] The only direct election was in 1925. [18] In 1935, the voting age for women was reduced from 30 to 21 for local elections. [19] In 1972, the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution reduced the voting ...
Elections to Dáil Éireann, the house of representatives in the Oireachtas, are governed by Article 16 of the Constitution. [4]In 1959, the Fianna Fáil government of Éamon de Valera put the Third Amendment of the Constitution Bill to a referendum, which proposed to replace the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV) with first-past ...
The former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern had defended the flawed system in the Dáil, bemoaning the use of "stupid old pencils". [6] The voting machines bought by the government from Dutch firm Nedap were kept in storage as the cabinet pondered what to do after the Commission on Electronic Voting said it could not recommend the system. Approximately ...
The Third Amendment of the Constitution Bill 1958 – At present, members of Dáil Éireann are elected on a system of proportional representation for constituencies returning at least three members, each voter having a single transferable vote. It is proposed in the Bill to abolish the system of proportional representation and to adopt ...
The Representation of the People (Ireland) Act 1832, commonly called the Irish Reform Act 1832, was an Act of Parliament that introduced wide-ranging changes to the election laws of Ireland. The act was passed at approximately the same time as the Reform Act 1832 , which applied to England and Wales .
Elections in Ireland may refer to: Elections in the Republic of Ireland; Elections in Northern Ireland; Elections in the United Kingdom (from 1801 to 1918) Elections to the Irish House of Commons (abolished in 1800)
The two attempts of Fianna Fáil to alter the voting system (1959 and 1968) were campaigned against by the British Electoral Reform Society, led by Enid Lakeman. The single transferable vote electoral system continues to be used in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.