Donegal the only constituency to vote No

Thirty-nine of the 40 constituencies of Ireland voted to repeal the Eighth Amendment from the Irish Constitution, but Donegal was not one of them.

Donegal the only constituency to vote No

It voted no by a majority of 51.9% to 48.1%.

The constituency has an electorate of 118,901, 67,839 of whom turned out to cast their vote. With a tiny percentage of spoiled votes, just 154, 35,091 people voted against repealing the Eighth Amendment and 32,559 voted in favour of repealing.

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