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...Queen Victoria, Longford...
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...know quite what to make of it as they trudged to the polls on election day. After casting their ballots, everyone sat back and waited while election officials struggled with the complex Irish proportional representation system. In two constituencies, recounts were called for by narrowly beaten candidates. In Longford, West Meath, the loser claimed that mental patients in Mullingar hospital, allowed to vote for the first time, had been subject to undue influence by their doctors. With three seats subject to recount, at week's end Lemass' Fianna Fail held 71 seats, a rise of one; Fine Gael...