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The Daily Poll

Poll: Should Ireland stick with Saturday voting for general elections?

Turnout for the election was the fourth-lowest ever in the history of the State.
11.16am, 10 Feb 2020
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AS COUNTING CONTINUES today for the general election, it has emerged that turnout on Saturday was down by 2.2 percentage points on the 65.1% in the 2016 election.

There have been criticisms in the past of the decision to hold elections midweek as voters are busy with work and family commitments and students who are registered in their home counties can not get home to vote.

However the Saturday polling this time has not brought more people out to vote.

We want to know what you think: Should Ireland stick with Saturday voting for general elections?


Poll Results:

Yes (8254)
No (2025)
I'm not sure (569)

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    Nov 8th 2016, 9:07 PM

    The end is nigh.

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    Nov 8th 2016, 9:11 PM

    They’ll have that mess sorted and good as new in about ten days max. Theyre an incredible efficient and hard working people. fair play to them

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    Nov 8th 2016, 8:46 PM

    Holy Fukuoka is right.

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    Nov 8th 2016, 8:55 PM

    The City Engineer will sort it Irish style..turn his phone off.

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    Nov 8th 2016, 9:03 PM

    Build a bridge and get over it

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    Nov 8th 2016, 9:39 PM

    And we moan about our potholes?

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    Nov 8th 2016, 9:19 PM

    Awful thing to japan…..

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    Nov 8th 2016, 9:12 PM

    Holy fuk,u,ok

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    Nov 8th 2016, 8:58 PM

    What a stupid place to put in a public swimming pool..

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    Nov 8th 2016, 8:56 PM

    Hope there are no traffic jams in the morning.

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    Nov 8th 2016, 10:36 PM

    Clearly it was godzilla

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    Nov 8th 2016, 9:26 PM

    Trump will build a wall around!!

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    Nov 8th 2016, 9:10 PM

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    Nov 8th 2016, 8:53 PM

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    Nov 8th 2016, 9:20 PM

    Give them a few days it’ll be as good as new. Now if that happened in Ireland it would take a few years and ever increasing costs.

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    Nov 8th 2016, 11:40 PM

    They’d turn it into a holy landmark tourists could flock to, the ‘holy sink hole of clondalkin’

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    Nov 8th 2016, 9:50 PM

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    Nov 8th 2016, 11:56 PM

    I’m sorry for laughing but look at the name of the town… It is definitely F####ka big hole

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    Nov 8th 2016, 9:34 PM

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:57 PM

    Is the rain getting worse or acidic from all the pollution?

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    Nov 9th 2016, 12:38 AM

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