From the 1959 Referendum on the voting system a Fine Gael flyer urging a No vote in the Referendum and to retain PR.
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“Don’t Be a Yes Man…” From Fine Gael in the 1959 Referendum to change the Voting System. April 2, 2021
From Fianna Fail 1959 Referendum on Change in Voting System – “The Straight Vote Some Questions and Answers” August 7, 2014
From the 1959 Referendum on changing the voting system an eight page document from Fianna Fail outlining the reasons whu they wanted the electoral system changed and answering various questions on the issue. Its a very interesting read as it fails to really address the reason why the proposal was defeated, ie we would have had majority Fianna Fail Governments for an awful long time.
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ITGWU ad looking for a No vote in the 1959 Referendum on change to the voting system. August 26, 2013
ITGWU ad looking for a no vote in the 1959 Referendum on change to the voting system.
From Fianna Fail 1959 ‘Dev For President’ and ‘Abolish PR’ March 12, 2013
From the 1959 Presidential Election and Referendum on the Change of voting system ,From Fianna Fail ‘Dev For President’ and ‘Abolish PR’.
“You must prevent future bad Governments by Abolishing P.R.”
Interesting to see too that PR is blamed for all sorts including having failed in Germany and Yugoslavia.
“Fine Gael Says Hold Fast To P.R.” Vote No – 1959 Referendum on the Voting System. January 7, 2013
From the 1959 Referendum on the Voting System, where Fianna Fail proposed first past the post , one seat constituencies, “Fine Gael Says Hold Fast To P.R.”. Fine Gael outlines why we should hold on to our system of P.R.
The Referendum was defeated with 51.79% voting No and 48.21% voting Yes.
From 1959 a flyer to Vote De Valera for President and Yes to the Change in Voting System May 24, 2012
From the 1959 Presidential Election and the Referendum on the Change in Voting system a flyer urging a vote for Eamon De Valera for president and a Yes vote in the Referendum.
De Valera was elected defeating Sean MacEoin. The Referendum proposal was defeated 486,989 votes against to 453,322 votes in favour.
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Fianna Fail 1959 Referendum on change in voting system”Give Yourself a Really Effective Vote” -Vote Yes August 17, 2011
From the 1959 Referendum on the voting system Fianna Fail material looking for a yes vote. They wanted to implement a first past the post system like the one that exists in the UK. The real point of the exercise was to enable Fianna Fail to get an overall majority, yet this wasn’t used in their official arguements listed here.
The Referendum was defeated by a narrow enough margin of 51.79% of voters voting No and 48.21% voting Yes.
In 1968 a similar Referendum was held on changing the voting system which was again rejected by voters.
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