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Adrian Kavanagh, 26th February 2016 The RTE-Behaviour & Attitudes exit poll was published within the last few minutes Figures are similar to last night’s exit poll, but slightly worse for the government parties. These figures suggest that support levels for both government … Continue reading →

Adrian Kavanagh, 26th February 2016 The Irish Times-Ipsos MRBI exit poll was published literally within an hour of polls closing These figures suggest that support levels for both government parties have fallen by nearly ten percent relative to their 2011 … Continue reading →

Adrian Kavanagh, 26th February 2016 This post offers an in-depth geographical study of voter turnout levels at the last general election in 2011. The geographical variations in General Election 2011 turnout levels illustrated in this study are likely to be … Continue reading →

Adrian Kavanagh, 31st December 2015 During the past year (2015), I carried out constituency-level analyses of thirty one different national opinion polls in order to produce Dail-seat estimates based on those support levels. These analyses involved fourteen Red C (Sunday Business … Continue reading →

By Claire McGing, Government of Ireland IRCHSS scholar and John and Pat Hume scholar, NUI Maynooth In May 2011, Phil Hogan, Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, announced his intention to introduce legislation whereby political parties must ensure … Continue reading →

Adrian Kavanagh, 15 April 2011 With significantly higher numbers of eligible voters and candidates, as detailed in the previous two posts, it would be expected that a similar spatial pattern would be observed when looking at the number of votes … Continue reading →

Adrian Kavanagh, Thursday 10th March This post will look at the recent ministerial appointments by constituency and by region and will consider whether Geography had an influence on these.

Adrian Kavanagh, 10th March 2011 Tally figures are being/have been published in a number of local papers in the weeks after the 2011 General Election, but which ones?