Its all over. The candidates can lie in this morning as its now the turn of the political hacks who all across the country will be turning up to the count centres across the 43 constituencies to start tallying the Presidential Election. The boxes will be opened at 9am when the votes will be sorted and tallied. Then the Votes for the presidential election will be sorted. Once sorted the votes will be counted and the result sent to Dublin. We wont have...
Image via Wikipedia And the results of the final count after Pringle’s votes are distributed: Doherty, Pearse SF +1709 (16897) O’Neill, Barry FG +869 (8102) Ó Domhnaill, Brian FF +433 (8069) Non-Transferable +805 (2135) As neither O’Neill or Ó Domhnaill can reach quota, Pearse Doherty has been declared elected. He is now a TD. It is interesting also to see that Fine Gael’s Barry O’Neil managed to finish up in 2nd place. Granted only by30 odd votes, but that...
Image via Wikipedia And the results of the third count, distribution of McBreaty’s 3,375 votes, are as follows: Doherty, Pearse SF +1452 (15,188) Ó Domhnail, Brian FF +278 (7,636) O Neill, Barry FG +871 (7,313) Pringle, Thomas Ind +272 (3,763) Non-Transferable +1298(1,330) As no candidate has reached the quota, Thomas Pringle is eliminated. I think Pearse Doherty will be elected on this the fourth count. Related articles Donegal South West: Count 2 (stephenspillane.com) Donegal South West: Count 1 (stephenspillane.com)...
Image by jaqian via Flickr No major changes after the 2nd count, but here are the current standings: Doherty, Pearse, SF +17 (13,736), Ó Domhnaill, Brian FF +4 (7,348), O’Neill, Barry FG +18 (6,442) Pringle, Thomas Ind +9 (3,447), McBrearty, Frank Lab +53 (3,419), Non-Transferrable 32 McBrearty has been eliminated and his vote of 3,3419 is being distributed among the remaining candidates. With Doherty being 3,477 votes behind quota this will probably go to the 4th count. Related articles...
The results from ElectionsIreland.org As expected Doherty as topped the poll. Unexpectedly Labour’s Frank McBreaty has come 4th with the Independent Thomas Pringle beating him by 90 votes on the first count. It will be interesting if he gets eliminated on the 2nd count! For the second count Ann Sweeney (Ind/New Ireland) has been eliminated and her 133 votes are being distributed. Some may see Barry O’Neills result as being a poor one, but the fact that he is...
Image via Wikipedia Some interesting results from sources tonight in Donegal South West on an exit poll conducted there today. While voting during todays by-election was down on the 60% that voted in 2007, turnout today is expected to have been between 30 and 40%. The results of the exit poll circulating among politics heads are as follows: Pearse Doherty (SF) 33% Brian Ó Domhnaill (FF) 21% Frank McBrearty (Lab) 19% Barry O’Neill (FG) 18% Thomas Pringle (Ind) 8%...
Image via Wikipedia So what do three of the above have in common at the moment? To me they represent why Fianna Fail is no longer fit to govern. O’Dea lied under oath, and was forced to resign. Coughlan thinks young people emigrate for fun and theres the whole Hanger 6 debacle Ahern was cheerleader in chief for O’Dea and he is the Justice Minister! This government is beyond itself. It is out of ideas. It has no idea...
Image via Wikipedia So George Lee has resigned from Fine Gael and from the Dáil. This isn’t good news for Fine Gael, George Lee or the people of Dublin South. Its not exactly good news of Fianna Fail either. Labour will probably win the seat in the next by-election. My own feelings on his resignation is fairly well summed up by the cartoon over on Caricatures Ireland. It takes more then nine months to make an impact on party...
Image via Wikipedia Fine Gael is set to hold its Convention for the Donegal South West By-election on February 15th. Joe McHugh TD (Donegal North East) has been appointed Director of Elections for the bye-election for Fine Gael. This will be a very interesting race considering the goings on over the budget at the County Council. Fianna Fail might not be too popular, but with it being a Fianna Fail seat up for grabs who knows what will happen....
So its looking like Pat “The Cope” Gallagher will be elected to the European Parliament at some point tonight or tomorrow morning which means he will not be voting on the motion of no confidence in the Dáil. It also means that there will be another bye-election this year. This time it takes place in Donegal South West. Donegal South West is a 3 seat constituency. In the General Election in 2004 the results were like this (from Electionsireland.org)...
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