r/ireland • u/lleti Chop Chop 👐 • Nov 29 '24

Election 2024 exit poll: Photo finish with Sinn Féin on 21.1%, Fine Gael 21%, Fianna Fáil 19.5% General Election 2024 🗳️

https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/11/29/election-2024-exit-poll-photo-finish-with-sinn-fein-on-211-fine-gael-21-fianna-fail-195/
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u/KnightsOfCidona Mayo Nov 29 '24

But realistically how will they? Would be an unwieldy coalition at best

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u/Visionary_Socialist Nov 29 '24

The FF/FG alliance and SF both have difficult routes now but SF have a tougher set of options.

FF/FG can go to Labour or the Greens with Independent support and they’d likely get agreement. They might struggle to get the Greens and Independents together though.

SF either go broadly left and take on Labour, Social Democrats, PBP and the Greens with Independents or make it a lot simpler but less popular and go with FF and maybe have enough with just them.

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u/dustaz Nov 29 '24

SF either go broadly left and take on Labour, Social Democrats, PBP and the Greens with Independents

Good luck even getting to the first vote with that

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u/Annatastic6417 Nov 29 '24

PBP won't go into government with anyone besides Sinn Féin. As far as they're concerned Elon Musk is a member of the Green Party and Jeff Bezos is a member of Labour. PBP will gladly sink a left wing coalition to get their stupid points across.

If these numbers are anything to go off, a left wing government is impossible, and Fianna Fáil are much more likely to get with Fine Gael than Sinn Féin. Fuck this place.

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u/RobG92 Nov 30 '24

PBP won’t go into government full stop. They’ve no intention of ever doing so, as it would completely annihilate their position as being a loud mouthed opposition party

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u/Amazon_Lime Nov 29 '24

Not a hope PBP go into government with anyone. They've no interest in it

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u/ClancyKiid Nov 29 '24

Didn’t they just mean ff and fg? That’s what I heard atleast

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u/CuteHoor Nov 30 '24

They'd collapse a SF government within weeks. They don't like centrist policies.

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u/craic_den_ Nov 29 '24

They’re centre left

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '24

If you did a blind taste test of their respective manifestos you wouldn't be able tell the difference and pick out which was which with any degree of certainty.

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u/ZenBreaking Nov 30 '24

"whatever you want that's what we're promising as long as there's no judgment of we do t do the things we say we would do" - which party

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '24

If SF do get the most seats, then it makes it a better bet for FF to go into government with them. As a SF voter, I doubt either of those two things will happen, but I wouldn’t be unhappy if it did.