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I am told they call themselves either the YES team/coalition or the NO team/coalition.
This is the exact wording of the Constitutional Amendment:
"Marriage may be contracted in accordance with law by two persons without distinction as to their sex".
Agree (yes) / disagree (no)
Here is the link for the actual statistics:
Same-Sex Marriage Referendum - RT News
Currently, as of 16:25, GMT +1:
That's only 5 of 43 "districts", if you will, but the results are looking to be pretty consistent.
Here a normal land-map of Ireland:
And a population density map of Ireland:
So, Sligo, Cork (2nd largest city), Navan and Waterford are in. Dublin (largest city in Ireland) is not in yet and is expected to go roughly 70/30 for SSM. Castle Durrow, Limerick (third largest city), Dundalk, Galway (4th largest city), Drogheda, Clonmel and Tralee have yet to report in.
It is reported that 3.2 million votes were cast in the referendum. Update: a German radio station just reported 2.3 million ballots cast. One of those two sources has it backwards.
More details as the day progresses. Since the referendum is obviously winning in more rural areas, there is no doubt it is going to pass today.
What may be surprising is the very, very large blowout margin that is developing.
Ireland has an interesting system of elections, especially, the vote counting part. They do it the next day.
Oh, and there are a couple of other referendums also on the ballot:
Irish constitutional referendums 2015 - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
One is to reduce the voting age from 18 to 16.
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