{"id":74538,"date":"2025-10-11T20:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T20:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/74538\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T20:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T20:43:10","slug":"substantial-lead-for-connolly-in-aras-race-poll-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/74538\/","title":{"rendered":"Substantial lead for Connolly in \u00c1ras race, poll suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Independent candidate Catherine Connolly has a substantial lead in the Presidential Election, a new Business Post\/Red C poll suggests.<\/p>\n<p>The survey puts Ms Connolly&#8217;s support at 36%.<\/p>\n<p>Fine Gael candidate Heather Humphreys is at 25% support.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Gavin, who pulled out of the election last Sunday, but whose name remains on the ballot paper, is at 12% and a substantial 27% remain undecided.<\/p>\n<p>The margin of error in the poll is +\/-3%.<\/p>\n<p>The online survey of 1,001 people was conducted on the dates between 2 to 7 October.<\/p>\n<p>This is significant as Jim Gavin withdrew from the contest on the late evening of Sunday, 5 October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Independent candidate Catherine Connolly has a substantial lead in the Presidential Election, a new Business Post\/Red C poll&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-74538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}