With 40 Councillor Seats Up For Grabs Across Kildare Tomorrow, Here's What You Need To Know

Thursday, 6 June 2024 12:40

By Martin Osborne

Don’t write anything else on your paper but the numbers, and you’re not allowed to take a selfie of you voting.

There are less than 24 hours to go before polling opens in the European and local elections.

There are 14 MEP seats and 949 councillor seats, including 40 in Kildare, up for grabs - while people in Limerick will also be voting for a directly elected mayor for the first time.

Here's what you need to know:

Polling stations open at 7am tomorrow and will remain open until 10pm.

You need to bring some sort of ID to the polling station and your polling card if you have it – but it’s not essential.

You will be handed two papers – one for the local elections and one for the European.

These need to be treated completely separately and you rank your candidates from one onwards.

You can rank as many or as few as you wish.

Don’t write anything else on your paper but the numbers, and you’re not allowed to take a selfie of you voting.

50 per cent of eligible voters turned out for the last European and local elections.

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