{"id":1848,"date":"2011-11-03T19:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T09:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1848"},"modified":"2023-08-30T19:34:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T09:34:24","slug":"eires-thirteenth-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1848","title":{"rendered":"Eire&#8217;s Thirteenth Presidential Election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former British Dominion, the Republic of Ireland completes another peaceful presidential election.\u00a0\u00a0Democracy is working in\u00a0Eire in the absence of a hereditary monarch.\u00a0There were seven candidates with Michael Higgins (Labour Party nominee), a poet and former Minister, topping the vote with 56.8 percent of final\u00a0preferences.\u00a0 Two women candidates stood\u00a0(following\u00a0female heads of state\u00a0for the last\u00a021 years) both nominated by local councils, Dana Rosemary Scallon, a former Member of the European\u00a0Parliament,\u00a0who polled 2.9 percent\u00a0on first preferences and Mary Norris, a disability rights campaigner, with 2.7 percent.\u00a0 Both were excluded from the second run-off\u00a0after polling the lowest number of first preference\u00a0votes.\u00a0 This election had the largest number of candidates\u00a0to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former British Dominion, the Republic of Ireland completes another peaceful presidential election.\u00a0\u00a0Democracy is working in\u00a0Eire in the absence of a hereditary monarch.\u00a0There were seven candidates with Michael Higgins (Labour Party nominee), a poet and former Minister, topping the vote with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21","wpcat-21-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1849,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions\/1849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}