5TH CLASS GENERAL ELECTION 2020
This year in 5th class we were learning about the general election 2020. First we learned about democracy. Democracy is where people vote for who and what they want, this is the opposite of dictatorship. In the General Election people vote for the TD’s they want to have seats in the Dáil. Candidates put up posters of themselves to inform people that they are running in the upcoming election. They also go to people’s doors in their local area to try and persuade them to vote for them - this is also known as canvasing.
The rules of the General Election
The rules of the General Election are that when you are voting you can rank the candidates from 1 to 5. If you write outside the box it is called a spoilt vote. The rules of posters are that you have to take them down a week after the General Election. The candidates can only put the posters up 30 days before the election.
Louth General Election
In Louth there were 15 candidates and 5 seats to be filled. The quota was 11,778 and anybody who got over that was elected. Imelda Munster was the first to be elected in Louth with 17,203 votes which is 5,425 more over quota. Shortly after she was elected Ruairí Ó Murchú joined her along with Ged Nash, Fergus O’ Dowd and Peter Fitzpatrick.
At the start Sinn Féin were in the lead with a lot of candidates being elected but near the end Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael got back into it. In the end it was a very exciting election.
By B.C T.M And B.O.B
This year in 5th class we were learning about the general election 2020. First we learned about democracy. Democracy is where people vote for who and what they want, this is the opposite of dictatorship. In the General Election people vote for the TD’s they want to have seats in the Dáil. Candidates put up posters of themselves to inform people that they are running in the upcoming election. They also go to people’s doors in their local area to try and persuade them to vote for them - this is also known as canvasing.
The rules of the General Election
The rules of the General Election are that when you are voting you can rank the candidates from 1 to 5. If you write outside the box it is called a spoilt vote. The rules of posters are that you have to take them down a week after the General Election. The candidates can only put the posters up 30 days before the election.
Louth General Election
In Louth there were 15 candidates and 5 seats to be filled. The quota was 11,778 and anybody who got over that was elected. Imelda Munster was the first to be elected in Louth with 17,203 votes which is 5,425 more over quota. Shortly after she was elected Ruairí Ó Murchú joined her along with Ged Nash, Fergus O’ Dowd and Peter Fitzpatrick.
At the start Sinn Féin were in the lead with a lot of candidates being elected but near the end Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael got back into it. In the end it was a very exciting election.
By B.C T.M And B.O.B