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Topic History of: Irish General Election Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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Al Gershwin
Counting going on now in the 43 constituencies - with the exit polls showing c20% (of first preference votes) being won by Fianna Fail, Fianna Gael and Sinn Fein.
So yet another coalition government is highly probable - and this is unlikely to include Sinn Fein (IRA history), as FF and FG wouldn't serve with them.
Al Gershwin
Voting commenced at 7am today, under the Proportional Representation system - in which vote transfers and preferences are critical.
The counting will take days, as candidates are eliminated in each constituency - one by one. Exit polls at 10pm tonight - expected to predict another coalition.