Irish exit polls point to hung parliament as austerity anger hits government parties

‘Irish voters face the possibility of having to return to the polls for a rerun election, with exit polls for the 2016 General Election suggesting support for the coalition government has fallen significantly, leaving no party with a working majority.

The Irish electoral system of “single transferable voting” allows voters to rank candidates in order of preference, seeing votes redistributed to subsequent candidates if the higher preferences have been eliminated or elected in earlier counts.

An exit poll published by the Irish Times after voting stations closed Friday night shows at least a 10 percent drop in first preference votes for the two government parties, Fine Gael and Labour.’

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