Voter turnout in the Premier County is expected to be in the mid to high fifties.
At nine o clock this morning count staff at the sports Complex of the Presentation secondary school began to open the 300 plus sealed black boxes containing the votes of the two constituencies of Premier County.
Tipperary wasn't far off the national average on turnout with indications that over 56 percent of the electorate here cast their ballot – in many places like Bansha, Thurles, Golden, Holycross, Roscrea and Nenagh several individual booths polled in the 60's with one or two in the seventies.
This morning the two ballot papers – white for the Marriage Referendum and Green for the Presidential age will be separated and then counted.
Although Tipperary will be one single constituency for the forthcoming General Election that is not the case for this referendum as deputy returning officer John O’Mahony explains
A result for the marriage referendum is expected by afternoon with the latter about two hours later. The count here is likely to be finished before that but the results have to be sent to Dublin before they can give the all clear for Tipperary North and South to be declared.
