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Various organisations conduct regular opinion polls to gauge voting intentions. Results of such polls are displayed in the lists below. On 1 November, Coimisiún na Meán announced the lifting of the reporting moratorium that had been in place since 1997, and which had prevented election coverage from 14:00 on the day prior to the election until the close of polls.
The 2024 general election featured 686 candidates and 20 registered political parties. [69] A record 248 candidates are women, which is 36% of the total and a 53% increase from 2020. This was driven by a new 40% gender quota for both men and women in political party nominations, though women remain significantly underrepresented in the Dáil ...
There were 685 candidates in the 2024 general election. 248 of the candidates were women, making a record 36% of the total. There were 171 independent candidates. The five-seat Louth had the most candidates at 25, while the three-seat Wicklow–Wexford had the fewest at 10. Twenty registered political parties fielded candidates. Five parties ...
At 538, we publish rolling averages for a variety of elections and questions, such as the 2024 presidential race nationally and in swing states, the president's approval rating, the favorability ...
After the 2020 general election delivered an inconclusive result, Fine Gael and Fianna Fail, two parties forged from opposing sides of Ireland’s Civil War of the 1920s, agreed to set aside ...
Posters depicting the candidates of political parties are pictured in Dublin, Ireland, Nov. 25, 2024, ahead of Ireland's general election. / Credit: PAUL FAITH/AFP/Getty
Under the system of single transferable vote (STV), each voter may mark any number of the candidates in order of preference. The quota is determined at the first count in each constituency by dividing the number of valid ballots by one more than the number of seats (for example, a quarter of the valid ballots in a three-seat constituency, a ...
Voters across Ireland cast their ballots in the country’s general election on 29 November and, with all seats counted, the Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael coalition is likely to continue as support ...