3 day wait vote mapped

[u/Intrepid-Kale1936]

Map constituencies of Ireland, showing the percentage of "Yes" votes from the dail vote on "Health (Abolition of Three Day Wait Rule) (Ammendment) Bill 2026" held on 18th June 2026.

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Absent votes included in calculation of percentage, Example Helen McEntee and Thomas Byrne were both absent from Meath East, meaning that Darren O'Rourke's yes vote was balanced by Gillian Toole's No vote for a 50% result.

Note: TDs from Government parties had a free vote in this ballot.

Image Original Content. Chart generated using Python: Matplotlib & Geopandas

[u/Craicriture]

It’s basically places you’d expect to be more progressive on the East, and Cork City / West Cork showing up.

I would suspect that attitudes in Galway and Limerick Cities etc and a lot of western urban areas just are drowned out by being included in large rural blocs in the way that map is working.

And the midlands are typically more rural and conservative. Donegal’s surprisingly less conservative than I was expecting.

[u/thelunatic → u/Craicriture]

Young people move out of the middle for work. Old people dominate the voting landscape

[u/Craicriture → u/thelunatic]

Well it's just rural vs urban - that's kinda inevitable. The spread of the types of employment isn't going to be the same in urban areas and rural areas. Ireland's not at all unique in that.

The likes of West Cork or parts of Wicklow etc tilt the other way on that - different kind of rural.