Donegal goes to the polls as we speak in each the native and European elections.
A complete of 91 candidates can be hoping that voters throughout the seven electoral areas will put a tick of their choice field and push them nearer to a seat on Donegal County Council.
A complete of 37 of these candidates can be profitable and can take their place throughout the electoral areas of Carndonagh, Buncrana, Letterkenny, Glenties, Donegal City, Stranorlar, Lifford, Letterkenny and Milford.
Polling stations open at 7am and won’t shut till 10pm.
Voters will obtain two poll papers once they flip up at polling centres in Donegal, one for the native elections and one for the European elections.
Don’t panic in the event you nonetheless haven’t obtained a polling card as you possibly can nonetheless vote.
Do test the that you’re registered on www.checktheregister.ie after which convey some legitimate ID akin to a passport, a driving licence, a pupil ID card or a public companies card.
In addition to the native election poll paper to your space inside Donegal, you’ll obtain one other very massive poll paper with at least 27 candidate names on it (and 28 inches lengthy!) for the Midlands North-West as a part of the European Elections.
Each needs to be stuffed in and positioned within the poll field.
All bins can be taken to the Aura Leisure Centre in a single day tonight and securely saved.
The European and native election voting papers will then be separated on Saturday permitting the tally individuals from the varied events to get a fast take a look at how their candidates are doing.
Nonetheless, as soon as separated, the votes can be put again within the bins and brought to their respective native rely centres the place the true counting begins in earnest on Sunday morning.
The European election poll papers can be taken to Castlebar in Co Mayo additionally on Saturday for ballots to be counted commencing on Sunday however a ultimate end result is just not anticipated there for quite a lot of days.
So all it’s important to do now could be to train your proper to vote.
All of us have the democratic proper to elect who we need to see on our native county council or to be our voice within the European Parliament however we should make sure that we get out and vote within the first place to make that occur.
Folks of Donegal vote as we speak to select their new county council was final modified: June seventh, 2024 by
