2018 Erse presidential election
The Erse presidential election of 2018 teuk place on Friday, 26 October, atween 7.00 a.m. an 10.00 p.m. President Michael D. Higgins, wha wis electit in 2011, wis seeking re-election.[2] This wis the first time sin the 1966 election that an incumbent president faced a contest for a seicont term, an the first occasion on whit an incumbent president nominatin thairsels for re-election haed been opponed, as Éamon de Valera wis nominated bi Fianna Fáil when he socht re-election in 1966. It wis forby the first election wi twa candidates (Higgins an Seán Gallagher) wha contested the umwhile election. Higgins wis re-eleckit on the first coont wi naur 56% o the vote, becomin the first president sin de Valera tae win a seicont term in a contestit election; Seán T. O'Kelly (1952), Patrick Hillery (1983) an Mary McAleese (2004) haed been re-eleckit wanopponed. He wis inaugurated for his seicont term on 11 November.[3]
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The election wis hauldit on the same date as a referendum on blasphemy.[4]
References
eedit- ↑ "Presidential election results". The Irish Times. October 2018. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
- ↑ "Minister Murphy makes Presidential Election Order | Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government". web.archive.org. 28 August 2018. Archived frae the original on 28 August 2018. Retrieved 16 September 2024.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
- ↑ "Higgins re-elected for seven more years as President". RTE (in Inglis). 27 October 2018.
- ↑ "Thirty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution (Repeal of offence of publication or utterance of blasphemous matter) Bill 2018 | Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government". web.archive.org. 28 September 2018. Archived frae the original on 28 September 2018. Retrieved 16 September 2024.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
External links
eedit- Presidential Election 2018 – Presidential Returning Officer Archived 2018-11-01 at the Wayback Machine
- TheJournal.ie - #Aras 2018 #Aras 18
- The Irish Times - Presidential Election
- RTÉ.ie - Presidential Election
- RTÉ - candidate video pitches Archived 2019-01-14 at the Wayback Machine web page
Campaign websites
eedit- Peter Casey
- Gavin Duffy Archived 2018-10-29 at the Wayback Machine
- Joan Freeman Archived 2018-10-29 at the Wayback Machine
- Sean Gallagher Archived 2018-10-29 at the Wayback Machine
- Michael D. Higgins
- Liadh Ní Riada Archived 2018-10-29 at the Wayback Machine
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