Meet the Voters

The Irish Times has created a panel of sample voters in a bid to track the impact of the election campaign on their voting intentions. Each member is broadly representative of a subsection of voters. We spoke to the panel twice during the campaign to ask whether anything has persuaded them to change their vote.

Some of the Meet the Voters participants, clockwise from top left: Kate Lawlor, Catherine O’Brien, Maedbh Donaldson, Jerry Kennelly and John O’Brien.
Meet the Voters: Campaign fails to prompt shift in allegiances

Analyst says election is continuing a trend which sees voters deciding very late

Single parent: ‘I felt like punching the TV screen’ Single parent: ‘I felt like punching the TV screen’

Meet the Voters: ‘I got so annoyed when the party leaders started talking about health’

Squeezed Middle: ‘Fine Gael would be toxic to all teachers’ Squeezed Middle: ‘Fine Gael would be toxic to all teachers’

Meet the Voters: Stephen Donnelly makes sense but 'Lucinda Creighton’s tax policy is for the birds'

Pensioner: ‘I would be in  horror if Sinn Fein was in charge of   finance’ Pensioner: ‘I would be in horror if Sinn Fein was in charge of finance’

Meet the Voters: ‘Lucinda Creighton had the best delivery. She surprised me’

Small business owner: ‘Minority parties are more in touch’ Small business owner: ‘Minority parties are more in touch’

Meet the Voters: ‘Parties have fantastic ideas about health, but no plan for how to pay for it’

Person living with disability: ‘Public doesn’t want false promises’ Person living with disability: ‘Public doesn’t want false promises’

Meet the Voters: ‘Independents have been non-existent in terms of national discussion’

Unemployed: ‘Established party leaders have been exposed as spoofers’ Unemployed: ‘Established party leaders have been exposed as spoofers’

Meet the Voters: ‘Labour and Fine Gael are promising 200,000 jobs, but what kind of jobs?’

High earner: ‘It’s got that feeling of 1982 all over again’ High earner: ‘It’s got that feeling of 1982 all over again’

Meet the Voters: ‘Crime has festered while politicians sit on their hands’

First time voter: Do  migrants even matter to politicians? First time voter: Do migrants even matter to politicians?

Meet the Voters: ‘Nearly 100,000 migrants are eligible to vote. They could make a huge impact’

Fisherman: ‘I’d have a problem with Sinn Féin wanting to keep USC’ Fisherman: ‘I’d have a problem with Sinn Féin wanting to keep USC’

Meet the Voters: ‘Fine Gael talk of keeping the recovery going simply doesn’t apply to Donegal’

Student: ‘Website matched me to Independent candidate Brendan Young’ Student: ‘Website matched me to Independent candidate Brendan Young’

Meet the Voters: ‘The whole set up of the campaign really isn’t aimed at young people’

Results Hub: Every seat, every constituency as it happened
 

Party support nationwide

Percentage of first preference votes per party on a constituency by constituency basis.

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    0-19%
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    20-39%
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    40-50%
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    51+%

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Kerry
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