IRELAND SOUTH
Similarly, in Dublin the right candidates took over 18% of the vote in a constituency where the quota is 20% and where Niall Boylan of Independent Ireland will need an extremely favourable breakdown of vote transfers from the left if he is to survive and take a seat.
In the South constituency, the overall vote was comfortably over the quota at 21.5% of the total votes. Michael McNamara will probably be elected here but again, a second right seat might have been possible given less fractures and a more disciplined vote. Derek Blighe took 25,000 of the votes in this constituency, polling higher than Paul Gavan of Sinn Féin and Niamh Hourigan of Labour.
Perhaps the main conclusion to be drawn is that while the vote may be fractured, what the media have called the “far right” represent enough voters to become a significant political force, if they weren’t so splintered.
In fact, it is now forming the third main bloc of votes outside of the two main parties in government, and well ahead of Sinn Féin – whose plans to be the largest party after the next general election took a massive hit last Friday.
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Publish date : 2024-06-11 10:53:28
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