Re: [COLOUR="BLACK"]Eire Politics[/COLOUR]Election time
That is incorrect.In your system, you only get to choose which party you wish to vote for, not who gets the nomination within the party.
A person stands as a candidate for the constituency. They declare which party they belong to, such as FG, FF, Labour etc, or else as belonging to no party - being independent.
The elector then votes for the individual candidates in their constituency in order of preference. The party that has the greatest number of candidates elected becomes the government.
And it was a 68% turnout in my polling office. Was a bugger to get up at 6am, though I had fun with the presiding officer who was dead on.
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