Irish - Last year 2024
Over 100 far-right candidates stood in this year's elections: Could they become a political force?
- Around 100 candidates with far-right views ran in this year's elections - most of them outperforming the movement's previous best in 2020.
- Social media has proved a successful platform for a number of those who were elected or who threatened to win seats.
- Valerie Flynn and Alessia Micalizzi crunch the numbers to discover who exactly we voted into local councils.
- Our data shows over a third of elected Independents romped home on the first count.
- Not that much has changed: 3/4 of Independents returned in this election were sitting councillors.