{"id":141812,"date":"2025-10-24T02:28:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T02:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/141812\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T02:28:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T02:28:17","slug":"connolly-extends-commanding-lead-over-humphreys-in-final-presidential-election-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/141812\/","title":{"rendered":"Connolly extends commanding lead over Humphreys in final presidential election poll"},"content":{"rendered":"

Catherine Connolly is on course to become the next President of Ireland, as a new poll shows her 15 points ahead of Fine Gael rival Heather Humphreys.<\/p>\n

The latest Irish Independent\/Ireland Thinks poll shows the Independent candidate at 40%, compared to Ms Humphreys on 25%.<\/p>\n

Ms Connolly is up eight points from the previous Ireland Thinks poll, where she was on 32%.<\/p>\n

Ms Humphreys, however, is up only two points, having previously been on 23%.<\/p>\n

The biggest drop is for Fianna F\u00e1il candidate Jim Gavin, who withdrew from the race earlier this month. His support fell eight points, from 15% to 7%.<\/p>\n

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The poll also shows that 28% of respondents either don\u2019t know, won\u2019t vote, or plan to spoil their ballot on Friday.<\/p>\n

When undecided voters are excluded, Ms Connolly\u2019s lead widens further, with 55% saying they will back the Independent candidate, while Ms Humphreys rises to 35%.<\/p>\n

The poll, published on Thursday afternoon, also provides insight into Tuesday\u2019s Prime Time debate. It found that 67% of those who watched the debate believed Ms Connolly won, compared to 18% who thought Ms Humphreys performed better.<\/p>\n

A further 15% of viewers said they did not know who won.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Catherine Connolly is on course to become the next President of Ireland, as a new poll shows her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,59,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-141812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-presidential-election","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115426787958379527","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}