Electoral History
The ICP has not applied for political party status. The ICP ran three candidates at the 2007 Irish general election; John Donnelly in Dublin North (286 votes, 0.52% of the votes cast), Ted Neville in Cork South Central (804, 1.36%) and Pat Talbot in Dublin Central (239, 0.69%). Nationally, the ICP received 0.064% of the total votes cast, about one vote for every 1,550 votes cast. In the 2009 Dublin Central by-election Patrick Talbot received 2.2 percent of the first preference votes.
The ICP refuses to reveal the sources of its funding or the size of its membership (both required for registration as a legitimate political party). In the past ICP organised picket protests often involving two or three people.
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