Tight race in Irish general election as poll shows unprecedented tie among three main parties
A man walks past a Polling Station in Dublin, Ireland on February 8, 2020, as voting gets underway in the Irish General election.
However, Ireland uses a single transferable vote system to elect multiple deputies from each of the 39 constituencies, making it hard to extrapolate a likely seat forecast from the exit poll figures for first preference votes. He told RTE television that forming a government could prove "a very difficult exercise" unless parties compromised on their pre-election stances ruling out particular coalition arrangements.
However, the campaign was dominated by domestic issues – notably healthcare and housing – and opinion polls showed Fine Gael losing ground. Varadkar, whose party has been in power since 2011, cast his vote on the outskirts of Dublin, seeming in a relaxed mood as he chatted with officials and posed for selfies with voters.Polls opened at 0700 GMT, although a small number of islands off the west coast voted on Friday to allow for rough seas potentially disrupting the transport of ballots by boat.Liam Allen, 27, said housing was a "big concern" for him.
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