(With apologies to Bernard Mulvaney if he is on here. I couldn’t find an a/c).

Next steps! Please consider getting involved in tenants/workers unions and in community groups, especially if you're also a young person.

Change is about more than voting once every 5 years; it is something we must all collectively fight for day-to-day!

#WeAllThrive #Democratise #Decentralise #Decarbonise #Democracy #Waterford #Déise #GE2024 #GE24 #IrishElection #IrishElection24 #IrishElection2024 #Ireland #Irish #Progressive #Independent #EcoSocialist
#Activism #Climate #Housing #Diversity

I'm so grateful to all who gave me a vote and who supported me in any way over the past few weeks and months!

The momentum continues to grow from the locals, with double the votes in half the time canvassing, and I'm proud of how the campaign went!

‘Anti-immigration candidates failed in the real world proving online support is no guarantee of success in a general election.’

#GE24 #GE2024

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/elections-2024/anti-immigration-candidates-failed-in-the-real-world-proving-online-support-is-no-guarantee-of-success-in-a-general-election/a626908427.html

Once again I wish we had an easy to navigate website & data base, to look up how TDs & Senators have voted on bills as they progress. #GE2024 #Ireland #speirgorm #GE24

Catherine Martin becomes the 10th Green TD to lose her seat, being excluded on the 9th count in Dublin Rathdown.

Only two Green TDs remain in the running.

STATE OF THE PARTIES AT 17:00 GMT:

More than half of the Dáil has now been filled, with half still to come in.

Fianna Fáil will be the largest party and will have a choice of coalition partners. Fine Gael and Sinn Féin are both still chasing second place.

@klillington it’s a pipe dream fantasy but by jiminy wouldn’t the thoughtful deliberation inherent in #sortition be better. No chance of politician turkeys voting for Christmas however. #ge24 #ge2024 #irishelection

Ok, this is officially the stupidest timeline.

Dublin Central are replacing their Green TD with the fucking *Monk*

Fuck.

I've always liked the apocryphal politician's quote: "The people have spoken, the bastards"

It's Christmas Day for election nerds in Ireland today. Forget hurling, forget Gaelic football, our national sport is Proportional Representation - Single Transferrable Vote (PR-STV), and today we're about to witness it in all its glorious beauty!

There will be tallies, there will be spreadsheets, there will be speculation and analysis, and eventually, there will be people elected to Dáil Éireann. There is no greater spectacle in global democracy!

Irish Election Literature's collection of election leaflets from #ge24

https://irishelectionliterature.com/2024/10/22/index-of-2024-general-election-leaflets/

WALES WESTMINSTER OPINION POLL

Headline Welsh Westminster voting intention from #Survation:

Labour: 33% (-4)
Reform UK: 21% (+4)
Conservatives: 18% (=)
Plaid Cymru: 13% (-2)
Liberal Democrats: 9% (+2)
Green Party: 5% (=)

Labour lead of 12 points.

Conducted 18 October - 4 November 2024. Changes with GE 2024.

I remember in 1997 millions of South Africans sat for hours in the blazing sun waiting to #vote for the first time & Desmond Tutu crying for joy after casting his vote. #democracy is a privilege & so many people, especially women, have no vote. Whatever else you do today in Ireland, get out & vote. #ge2024

I highly recommend a bit of preparation before you go and vote tomorrow.

There will undoubtedly be candidates on your ballot that you won't know anything about.

Check them all out before you go and make a plan for how you're going to vote.

You don't need to vote all the way down the ballot but voting at least half way down will give you the best chance of having your vote counted.

You can check out your candidates here:
https://www.thejournal.ie/section/ge24/

I thought I knew who would be on Friday’s ballot paper from looking at posters on poles, and from leaflets through the letterbox (only one candidate has turned up in person). But using #WhichCandidate I realised about a 1/3 of the candidates in my constituency are unpreferrable to me in every way, and about 3 or 4 were unknown to me. WhichCandidate helped me make a plan for Friday #IrePol #IrishPol #GE2024 #DBN #Mastodaoine #GE24 #IrelandVotes

From: @lexiconista
https://mastodon.ie/@lexiconista/113545287758245995

What's your plan to go vote?

Our ballot papers arrived, I will be going to vote with my adult kids.

We plan to go around 6pm.

If you make a plan, you are more likely to go vote.

We need a good turn out, despite the weather & dark.

Another Ireland is Possible.

One in which ordinary people are put first above the profits of landlords, vulture funds, and big business.

But to do so we must end 100 years of FF/FG rule.

People Before Profit are the only party that have ruled out voting for Harris or Martin as Taoiseach.

In Galway West a vote for Maisie McMaster No. 1 is the strongest message you can send that you want a Left government instead.