Posted on 05/25/2018 2:56:46 PM PDT by Simon Green
Exit poll result suggests huge majority of younger people voted Yes
Ireland has voted by a landslide margin to change the constitution so that abortion can be legalised, according to an exit poll conducted for The Irish Times by Ipsos/MRBI.
The poll suggests that the margin of victory for the Yes side in the referendum will be 68 per cent to 32 per cent – a stunning victory for the Yes side after a long and often divisive campaign. See here for liveblog coverage of events across Friday in the referendum vote.
More than 4,500 voters were interviewed by Ipsos/MRBI as they left polling stations on Friday. Sampling began at 7am and was conducted at 160 locations across every constituency throughout the day. The margin of error is estimated at +/- 1.5 per cent.
Counting of votes begins on Saturday morning at 9am with an official result expected to be declared in the afternoon.
However, the size of the victory predicted by the exit poll leaves little doubt that, whatever the final count figures, the constitutional ban on abortion, inserted in a referendum in 1983, is set to be repealed.
Wave of support
Although polls had predicted victory for the Yes side, few anticipated the great wave of support for repeal of Eighth Amendment that swept the country. The highest Yes vote was in Dublin, where 77 per cent of voters backed the proposals, the poll predicts.
However, the expectation amongst No campaigners that rural Ireland would vote against changing the constitution was wide of the mark.
While the majority in favour of repeal in rural Ireland at 60 per cent was smaller than in urban Ireland, it was still a thumping majority in favour of change.
They will rue the day.
Why trouble yourself with contraception? Just murder them after they’re conceived. That’s the ticket!
What a pity!
Buying the lies and extermination methods of the population controllers.
Once their rulers starved the Irish to death ...now Irish mothers are encouraged to do the same to their children in the womb!
“A nation that kills its own children is a nation without hope.”
St. Pope John Paul II
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