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Sinn Féin became the largest Northern Ireland party in the House of Commons for the first time, following similar success in the 2022 Assembly election and 2023 local election. Sinn Féin defended their seven seats with an increased majority in each, South Down , Belfast North and especially Fermanagh and South Tyrone are less marginal than ...
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 ...
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.
Northern Ireland will go to the polls later for a General Election involving several constituency battles that remain too close to call. A total of 136 candidates are standing in the region’s 18 ...
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 ...
The dates of these opinion polls range from the previous general election on 4 July 2024 to the present. The next general election must be held no later than 15 August 2029 under the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022. The Act mandates that any Parliament automatically dissolves five years after it first met – unless it is ...
Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris has said a Stormont Assembly election will go ahead, despite not setting a date for the poll. Here, we answer some of the key questions about the ...
When the Dáil is dissolved, the Clerk of the Dáil must issue a writ of election to the returning officer for each constituency. [2] The election must take place on a date set by the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage 18 to 25 days (disregarding any excluded day, being Sundays, public holidays and Good Friday) after the writs ...