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Voting?

  • 22-08-2010 11:20am
    #1
    owenc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭


    Where can you get access to voting election results for family members? I.e would i be able to find out what my ancestors voted for in the 1800s and 1900 general elections would really love to find that out!:)


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  • #2
    Ponster
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    Interesting question !

    I guess though that this type of information is either not kept and anyhow, isn't voting anonymous ?


  • #3
    owenc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭owenc


    Ponster wrote: »
    Interesting question !

    I guess though that this type of information is either not kept and anyhow, isn't voting anonymous ?

    Aw thats a pity it would've been really interesting!


  • #4
    Denerick
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,488 ✭✭✭Denerick


    The 'secret' ballot is relatively recent (I think late 19th century)

    In the unlikely case that you have descendants who were 40 shilling freeholders prior to 1829 you should be able to find out who they voted for. Most of the time this will be irrelevant as they basically had to vote for whomever their landlord asked them to vote for. It might be interesting to see if the said descendant voted for the O'Connellite candidates in the late 1820s in support for emancipation though...


  • #5
    owenc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭owenc


    Denerick wrote: »
    The 'secret' ballot is relatively recent (I think late 19th century)

    In the unlikely case that you have descendants who were 40 shilling freeholders prior to 1829 you should be able to find out who they voted for. Most of the time this will be irrelevant as they basically had to vote for whomever their landlord asked them to vote for. It might be interesting to see if the said descendant voted for the O'Connellite candidates in the late 1820s in support for emancipation though...

    Aye I was looking at that i think my great great great great grandfather was in that though it just gave name etc do you know were too get voting results? Why would they vote for that they were Presbyterians or where they affected too


  • #6
    Denerick
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,488 ✭✭✭Denerick


    owenc wrote: »
    Aye I was looking at that i think my great great great great grandfather was in that though it just gave name etc do you know were too get voting results? Why would they vote for that they were Presbyterians or where they affected too

    Presbyterians wouldn't have voted for O'Connell candidates (Unless they were one of the last remnant of the 'New Light' movement)

    I think it was in 1825/26 when O'Connell and the Catholic committee starting backing pro catholic candidates in races across the country. The effect was devastating, unseating such ascendancy lumenaries such as the Beresfords in Waterford. All across the country the 40 shilling freeholders voted against their landlords in favour of liberal, pro catholic Protestants. It paved the way for O'Connells victory in Clare (Catholics were not allowed to run for parliament, so when he won in 1828 it made emancipation a key issue as parliament was forced whether to grant it or just ignore O'Connell - impossible in the political context)

    So it would be interesting to see if your (Catholic) descendants voted for O'Connelite candidates in the 1820s. It would be EVEN more interesting to see if your presbyterian descendants voted for O'Connelite candidates ;)


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  • #7
    owenc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭owenc


    They probably did as they were more bitter then but how do you access the actual results on proni


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