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Irish presidential elections marked by record number of spoiled ballots

10/26/2025 TLB Staff WORLD 0

ER Editor: Well well, yet another election that goes against the popular will.

From the Politico report below, it sounds as if the left-wing parties managed, curiously, to overcome their differences and let in this candidate who supports the globalist immigration and multicultural agenda. This after Dublin recently had major protests over the alleged rape and/or sexual assault of a 10 year old girl by a migrant —

Riot erupts in Dublin after asylum seeker accused of raping ten-year-old girl (VIDEOS)

And this from last May —

Dubliners turn out for mass protest against Govt Immigration Policies

An inordinate number of ballots were spoiled in protest at the range of choice among the candidates, however. Gript media has this —

“Record-shattering protest”: 213,738 spoiled votes

It has been described today as “a political earthquake” and “a record shattering protest vote”: more than 200,000 people have spoiled their votes in the Presidential election, sending an unprecedented message to the political establishment. 

As the last of the 43 constituencies announced completed counts on a low turnout of just 45.8% –  the final tally of spoiled votes reached an astonishing 213,738 or 13% of the total ballot. In the 2018 presidential election, just 1.2 per cent of votes were spoiled, while the 2024 general election saw just 0.7pc of spoilt votes.

For many, the record number of protest votes was a clear signal to the government that a huge section of the electorate feel disenfranchised and unrepresented.

As expected, Catherine Connolly won the election by a landslide, but for many the real story of the day is the sheer number of spoiled votes with many referencing either blocked candidates like Maria Steen, immigration, or the alleged sexual assault of a 10-year-old girl in Citywest.

While the national average percentage of spoiled votes has reached an historic 13%, some constituencies recorded a far higher share, with the percentage of votes spoiled in Dublin Mid West reaching a high of 20% on the final count. Within constituencies there were also some astonishing results.

Corbyn’s had his good moments, but nobody in the prevailing political climate would ever vote for him and what he represents —

The young man asking pertinent questions of Catherine Connolly is no less than the university-attending brother of militant teacher standing up for his constitutional rights, Enoch Burke —

#SpoilTheVote2025

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Ireland elects left-wing president in anti-government landslide

Catherine Connolly’s lop-sided victory to be Ireland’s next head of state was accompanied by a surge in vandalized ballots from right-wing voters.

SHAWN POGATCHNIK

DUBLIN — Independent socialist Catherine Connolly swept to a landslide victory Saturday to become Ireland’s next president, dealing a record-breaking rebuke to the two center-ground parties of government.

Jubilant supporters of the 68-year-old Connolly, a lawmaker from the western city of Galway, embraced and kissed her as final results from Friday’s election were announced at the Dublin Castle count center.

Irish presidential election
Catherine Connolly, a lawmaker from Galway, won a record 63.4 percent of valid votes. | Brian Lawless/PA Images via Getty Images
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In her victory speech, Connolly struck an immediate note of unity. She stood side by side with Ireland’s government leaders — and pledged to challenge the far right and its anti-immigrant agenda.

“Together we can shape a new republic that values everybody, that values and champions diversity … and the new people that have come to our country,” she said. “I will be an inclusive president for all of you.”

Connolly won a record 63.4 percent of valid votes. Heather Humphreys of the government coalition party Fine Gael finished a distant second with 29.5 percent.

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Connolly won, in no small part, thanks to backing from Ireland’s five left-wing parties, most crucially Sinn Féin. All stood aside to give her a clean run on an anti-government platform, a political first for the normally fractious left.

While the left celebrated from Dublin Castle to Galway, Ireland’s disgruntled conservatives left their own mark on the election — by vandalizing their ballots in unprecedented numbers.

More than 200,000 ballots — or about one of every eight cast — had to be discarded. Many voters had written in the names of their own invalid choices, or drawn disparaging X marks across all three candidates. Others defaced their ballots, often with anti-immigrant messages expressed in nativist or racist terms.

Their alienation reflects how the government parties, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, since the 1990s have largely ditched their previous bonds with Catholic conservatism and have become, like Connolly and the wider left, socially progressive and welcoming to immigrants. (ER: A shift to the globalist agenda.)

A Catholic conservative, Maria Steen, narrowly failed to qualify for the ballot, falling two short of the required backing from 20 lawmakers. Mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor, who often denounces immigrants in his social media posts, tapped out after attracting virtually no official support.

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