I’d imagine so
FF 48
SF 39
FG 38
Soc Dem 11
Labour 10/11
Independent Ireland 4
PBP 3/4
Aontu 2
Green 1
I think.
But…FF are now sweating on McConalogue in Donegal.
Thomas Pringle has moved 341 ahead of McConalgue after the distribution of Noel Jordan SF’s transfers.
However there is now the 6176 votes of Nikki Bradley FG to distribute. She’s Letterkenny and McConalogue is also Letterkenny.
I think McConalogue still makes it.
Kenny takes the lead over Barry.
84 the margin.
It’s still not over as Ken O’Flynn has a surplus of 185 to distribute.
Even Mick Barry thinks it’s over!
Call it a draw
Old Mr brennanesque?
Gerry speaks with the respectable Dublin tones of somebody who considers himself a legitimate businessman.
McConalogue is from Inishowen. Carndonagh. He’ll still make it though. A FF Minister for Agriculture relying on FG transfers to scrape home. Neil Blaney will be turning in his grave.
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1,800 odd transfers from Bradley FG sufficient to save McConalogue’s arse in Donegal. About 7/800 of Cope’s surplus to be played for.
2 SF, 2FF and Ward Redress party. Nervy evening for the Minister.
Barry goes down; Labour take the seat.
Heneghan has taken that Dublin Bay North seat.
He has requested a recount which will take place in the morning.
At 11.30pm there were 13 constituencies that still hadn’t completed their counts. All of them were in the West or North.
Are people in Munster & Leinster just faster at counting? Is it a resources issue in the Ulster/Connaught constituencies?
I think there’s a couple of things which a lot of people ignore in elections.
FF/FG voters being old doesn’t mean that when those people die they won’t get votes. People get more conservative as they get older.
Smaller parties in government being wiped out is overplayed. Most of them lose their seats because they barely got in the first time and any dip is disastrous
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Also FF and FG aren’t that conservative. They have more or less the same policies as the likes of SD and Labour. They just have more candidates with a huge established organisation behind them to help them get elected. Very few people, and fewer every election are wedded to either FF or FG. They just vote for a well known local face with a big organisation to promote them who are almost certain to be in government.
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Delighted if Mick Barry loses a seat.
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Nothing leafy about Douglas, it s a car park
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That creep Buttimer got in 
With a lofty 7.03% of the vote.