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The three main parties were deadlocked in an exit poll after voting finished on Friday. Counting starts on Saturday morning, ...
The first reason is that Ireland has a very unusual voting system of proportional representation by single transferable vote, ...
The Republic of Ireland elects its government using a system of proportional representation known as the single transferable ...
Vote counting in Ireland's general election gets underway Saturday with an exit poll indicating a tight finish between the three main parties.
By 10.30am, Fine Gael was at 24pc, Fianna Fáil at 21pc and Brian Stanley at 20pc. As the morning wore on, he dropped back to ...