Election 2024: Day two of counting because it occurred
Saturday noticed the make-up of the thirty fourth Dáil turn out to be just a little bit clearer.
The day started with a big portion of the 174 seats nonetheless to be crammed however by it is conclusion, we have been left with simply 40 or so candidates to be elected.
The Irish Examiner have been overlaying all 43 constituencies to keep watch over the twists and turns
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Right here is how day two broke down
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Trying to catch up? Listed below are just a few items to deliver you on top of things.
Elaine Loughlin on giving chase to Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch after he missed out on a seat in Dublin Central;
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Social Democrats chief Holly Cairns toasts her social gathering’s election success and changing into a brand new mom.
The Mick Clifford Podcast: Who’re the winners and losers from Election 2024?
The most effective buachaill? A Cork depend centre staffer has turn out to be, for a lot of, the face of the election due to his quirky selection of novelty t-shirts;
And naturally, you possibly can observe all the outcomes as they land on the Irish Examiner’s Election Outcomes Hub.
Carried out and dusted in .
Individuals Earlier than Revenue’s Paul Murphy has taken the ultimate seat there, becoming a member of Labour’s Ciarán Ahern, Fianna Fáil’s John Lahart, Tremendous Gael’s Colm Brophy and Sinn Féin’s Seán Crowe.
There may be additionally an enormous upset in .
Aontú’s Paul Lawless has taken the fifth and ultimate seat there – giving the social gathering their second TD to go alongside Peadar Tóibín.
On the eleventh depend, he and Tremendous Gael’s Keira Keogh have been elected with out reaching the quota.
Fianna Fáil’s James Lawless is the primary candidate to be elected in . He exceeded the quota of 9,505 on the eighth depend.
In the meantime, the Social Democrats’ Elisa O’Donovan has conceded defeat to Conor Sheehan of Labour within the combat for the ultimate 4th seat in Limerick Metropolis.
Donna McGettigan of Sinn Féin and and Joe Cooney of Tremendous Gael have each been elected within the 4 seat constituency with out reaching the quota.
In the meantime, Social Democrats candidate Sinéad Gibney has completed on high in with 10,612 votes, with Tremendous Gael’s Maeve O’Connell and Shay Brennan of Fianna Fáíl additionally being elected following the ultimate depend.
The Inexperienced Celebration have prevented a whole wipeout.
Celebration chief Roderic O’Gorman has managed to hold on in with out reaching the quota.
He and Solidarity/Individuals Earlier than Revenue’s Ruth Coppinger have taken the ultimate two seats.
Ms Coppinger secured 7,165 votes and Mr O’Gorman 6,080 votes following the switch of Labour’s John Walsh’s votes. Aontú’s Ellen Troy was eradicated within the thirteenth depend.
In , Danny Healy-Rae has adopted within the footsteps of his brother Michael by getting re-elected to the Dáíl.
He has received the third seat within the constituency after exceeding the quota.
He and his supporters serenade the Kerry depend centre with a rendition of ‘crimson is the rose’.
We’re all completed in .
The person greatest recognized for ‘unparliamentary language’ Paul Gogarty has returned to the Dáíl as an Unbiased. He had misplaced his seat in 2011.
He has been joined by Shane Moynihan of Fianna Fáíl on the ultimate depend.
Neither man reached the quota.
A significant shock within the capital and it is extra excellent news for the Social Democrats.
Their candidate Eoin Hayes has managed to take the final seat in – forward of incumbent TD Chris Andrews of Sinn Féin.
Social Democrats chief Holly Cairns has thanked the employees of Cork College Maternity Hospital for her care over the weekend after she gave delivery to a child woman on election day.
In a press release, Ms Cairns mentioned that she and her household have been handled with “unimaginable care and kindness all through my being pregnant and this weekend”.
Maurice Quinlivan of Sinn Féin, has been elected after Depend 13 in.
Earlier, Kieran O’Donnell of Tremendous Gael took the 2nd seat.
Yesterday Willie O’Dea of Fianna Fáíl topped the ballot taking the primary seat.
Inexperienced Celebration minister Catherine Martin has misplaced her seat in after being eradicated following the ninth depend.
Ms Martin turned the most recent Inexperienced Celebration member to lose their seat on Sunday night when she completed with 5,881 votes in opposition to a quota of 9,752.
On the fifteenth depend in , Fianna Fáíl’s Cathal Crowe has been elected.
One other one over the road in .
It is extra excellent news for Tremendous Gael as Emer Higgins holds on to her seat.
Two extra declarations have landed and two extra constituencies have completed up.
Conor D McGuinnness has taken the ultimate seat in for Sinn Féin. He has outlasted Unbiased candidate Matt Shanahan.
Whereas in , Michael Murphy has turn out to be the primary Tremendous Gael TD to be elected within the county in almost 14 years.
He has been joined by impartial Seamus Healy who failed to succeed in the quota.
The 74-year-old impartial former TD, regains the Dail seat he misplaced in 2020.
Again to and to the race for the final of 4 seats – and Well being Minister Stephen Donnelly has mentioned his possibilities of holding onto the ultimate seat are “tight”.
Mr Donnelly is locked in a two-way race for the final seat within the four-seat constituency with Taoiseach Simon Harri’s Tremendous Gael working mate Edward Timmins.
“It’s going to be tight, clearly,” he mentioned. “It was all the time going to come back right down to the final seat in Wicklow. We’ll see how issues go.”
Each James Browne of Fianna Fáíl and Johnny Mythen of Sinn Féín have been elected in after exceeding the quota.
Labour’s George Lawlor has taken the ultimate seat within the constituency however failed to succeed in the quota.
The constituency is now full.
The newest elections in imply that we now have half of the 174 seats crammed for the thirty fourth Dáil.
The decimation of the Inexperienced Celebration is continuous.
Malcolm Noonan, a junior minister for the social gathering, has misplaced his seat in .
In , Shonagh Ní Raghallaigh of Sinn Féín and Mark Wall of Labour have taken the ultimate two seats within the four-seater constituency.
No additional elected officers simply but however there may be extra hassle for the Inexperienced Celebration.
Aontú’s Ellen Troy has jumped forward of the social gathering chief Roderic O’Gorman within the newest depend, pushing him into sixth place and away from the much-coveted fifth seat within the constituency.
Ms Troy sits on 3,657.
Individuals Earlier than Revenue’s Ruth Coppinger is on 4,142, nonetheless a approach off the quota of seven,373.
Mr O’Gorman, now in sixth place, has 3,491 votes.
Dramatic scenes within the RDS as Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch left the constructing after he didn’t get elected in Dublin Central.
In , Sinn Féin’s Pa Daly has taken the second of 5 seats to be elected.
Whereas in , Timmy Dooley has returned to Dáil Eireann, with the thirteenth depend taking him over the quota.
There’s additionally a large lead to .
Rory Hearne of the Social Democrats has taken high billing, successful a seat within the constituency.
He is joined by sitting TDs Fianna Fáíl’s Paul McAuliffe and Sinn Féin’s Dessie Ellis.
In the meantime, in , Sinn Féin’s Darren O’Rourke has retained his seat.
He joins Justice Minister Helen McEntee within the constituency.
Gerry Hutch has been eradicated within the constituency as Labour’s Marie Sherlock has claimed the ultimate Dublin Central seat.
Mr Hutch ran out of the depend centre shortly earlier than it was confirmed that he had missed out on a seat. He ran by way of the automobile park of the RDS depend centre being pursued by members of the media earlier than turning onto the principle highway and persevering with to run away.
Kieran O’Donnell has been elected in filling the second seat within the four-seater constituency. The Tremendous Gael TD received re-election with 8,755 votes.
Maurice Quinlivan of Sinn Féin, who topped the ballot within the constituency final 12 months, should wait just a little longer to cross the road; he’s 88 votes shy of being re-elected.
The vote in Limerick County has been accomplished, with the complete particulars obtainable on the Irish Examiner’s Election Outcomes Hub.
has chosen its three TDs for the thirty fourth Dáíl, re-electing Michael Fitzmaurice yesterday, after topping the ballot. He was joined this afternoon by Claire Kerrane and Dr Martin Daly to the second and third seats respectively. Dr Daly was elected with out reaching the quota.
The ultimate two seats have been crammed shortly after 3pm.
In the meantime, within the capital, Fianna Fáil’s Jim O’Callaghan has been elected in
within the tenth depend with important transfers of two,370 votes from Tremendous Gael’s James Geoghegan’s surplus.
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Sinn Féin has requested a partial recheck of votes for outgoing TD Martin Browne.
The social gathering desire a verify finished on his votes within the constituency they usually additionally desire a verify finished on votes for his nearest rival, impartial Seamus Healy.
The decision was made after the redistribution of votes for depend 4, which left Mr Browne with the bottom variety of votes out of the 4 remaining candidates.
He has 6,237, and Mr Healy has 79 extra, with 6,316.
A celebration official mentioned Sinn Féin had requested the partial recheck of votes between the 2 males and that “we’ve reserved our place when it comes to every other requests”.
This might imply they may go for a full recount of votes, nevertheless, there isn’t a assure they’ll get it.
Michael Murphy, who is predicted to be the second TD elected for the constituency, has 10,056 votes whereas Fianna Fail’s Imelda Goldsboro, the opposite contender for the third seat, has 7,271.
On account of the fourth depend, Mr Brown has been eradicated, pending the end result of the partial recheck.
Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch has arrived on the RDS the place he appears to be like unlikely to take the ultimate seat in .
Talking briefly to reporters, Mr Hutch mentioned he believed he had achieved the big vote as a result of folks wish to change.
When requested by RTÉ crime correspondent Paul Reynolds to touch upon a Particular Prison Courtroom case, he mentioned the reporter was “like a dying wasp”.
Sinn Féin’s Seán Crowe has turn out to be the primary TD to be elected within the constituency.
Mr Crowe, who has been a TD for the realm since 2002, apart from the interval between 2007 and 2011, was elected on the sixth depend following the elimination of the Social Democrats candidate Ross O’Mullane.
In 2020 Mr Crowe was elected on the primary depend with nearly 30 per cent of the primary choice vote.
Tremendous Gael’s Paschal Donohoe, who received the third of 4 seats in , mentioned that the election outcomes present that the “centre has held up in Irish politics”.
Nevertheless, on authorities formation, Mr Donohoe wouldn’t be drawn on a rotating taoiseach association, saying that this may be labored out within the means of coalition negotiations.
“We’ve to see who else can be elected. Let’s see who the larger social gathering is when all of the seats are crammed,” Mr Donohoe mentioned.
Whereas Mr Donohoe mentioned there’s a “probability” a authorities could possibly be fashioned earlier than Christmas, he believes the extra necessary goal is guaranteeing {that a} lasting coalition is fashioned.
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Sinn Féin’s Mark Ward has been elected in on the ninth depend. He’s the second TD residence after his social gathering colleague Eoin Ó Broin who was elected on the primary depend on Saturday within the five-seat constituency.
Tremendous Gael minister Paschal Donohoe has been elected in , filling the third of 4 seats within the constituency.
The remaining seat is a battle between Gerry Hutch and Labour’s Marie Sherlock. Mr Hutch is on 5,194 votes — simply 124 votes forward of Ms Sherlock.
With Mr Donohoe having a surplus of 1,518 votes, this could put Ms Sherlock nicely forward of Mr Hutch to provide her the ultimate seat.
Throughout the nation, in Sinn Féin’s Louis O’Hara and Tremendous Gael’s Pete Roche have taken the ultimate two of the 4 seats within the constituency.
Outcomes are persevering with to roll in, this time from the place two folks have been elected. Tremendous Gael’s Alan Dillion and Fianna Fáil’s Dara Calleary have each received seats within the five-seater after the eighth depend.
Elsewhere, Cathal Berry has misplaced his seat in Kildare North. The Unbiased TD was eradicated on the tenth depend.
Again to , and Labour’s Marie Sherlock has gained important floor and is closing in on Gerard ‘The Monk’ Hutch.
It’s now predicted that there stands out as the slimmest of margins between the 2 candidates who can be battling it out for the ultimate seat within the four-seat constituency.
Mr Hutch had gained a 2,000 vote lead on Ms Sherlock, nevertheless, there at the moment are simply 482 votes between them after the excess of newly elected Social Democrats TD Gary Gannon was distributed.
It’s anticipated that Fianna Fáil’s Mary Fitzpatrick can be eradicated subsequent, together with her transfers pushing Tremendous Gaels’ Paschal Donohoe over the road to take the third seat.
Labour supporters within the depend centre on the RDS at the moment are feeling more and more assured that Mr Donohoe’s surplus may then elect Ms Sherlock.
Nevertheless, it could possibly be the slimmest of margins. After being elected in Dublin Bay South, Labour chief Ivana Bacik mentioned Ms Sherlock is “preventing valiantly”.
Sinn Féin chief Mary Lou McDonald topped the ballot and was elected final evening.
Political editor Elaine Loughlin provides an replace from the RDS in Dublin.
One other huge identify is gone, this time in . Unbiased 4 Change candidate Mick Wallace has been eradicated on the eighth depend within the four-seat constituency.
The previous TD and former MEP had mentioned he wouldn’t be on the depend at the moment in Loreto Secondary College. He’s in Italy for a fundraiser in reminiscence of his son who handed away in June.
His bid to return to the Dail failed when he obtained a complete of two,420 votes which is able to now be distributed among the many remaining candidates.
His return to Irish politics backfired after his outdated vote in Wexford collapsed compared to when he final stood within the county in 2016.
On the time he acquired 7,917 votes with an 11% share of the vote, he left his seat to be elected to the European Parliament in 2019. He misplaced his seat in June
Elsewhere, in , Tremendous Gael’s James Geoghegan and Labour chief Ivana Bacik have been each elected on the ninth depend.
Talking after her election, Ms Bacik reiterated that she would first converse to each the Greens and Social Democrats to aim to ascertain a central-left bloc to enter wider authorities negotiations.
“I’ve mentioned persistently that we’re critical about delivering change, that we wish to provide folks and communities the change that’s so badly wanted,” Ms Bacik mentioned.
“We’re critical about doing that and that’s why I’ve mentioned persistently that after the election, after we all know the form of the following Dáil, the primary folks we’ll converse to can be these different events and groupings who share our imaginative and prescient, our centre-left imaginative and prescient and our values.”
The Labour chief mentioned that her social gathering had seen “important features” and that they might be re-entering the Dáil with an even bigger parliamentary social gathering. Requested straight if Labour would go in with Tremendous Gael and Fianna Fáil alone, Ms Bacik declined to say and reiterated her plans for a centre-left bloc.
Within the intently watched constituency, Gary Gannon has gotten over the road for the Social Democrats having exceeded the quota.
Mr Gannon handed out Tremendous Gael’s Paschal Donohoe to take the second seat within the four-seater, after Sinn Féin chief Mary Lou McDonald was elected on Saturday evening.
Talking after his election, Mr Gannon mentioned his social gathering needs to enter authorities, however the Social Democrats had key crimson strains that wanted to be adhered to.
“We have made our crimson strains actually clear proper from the beginning, if the opposite social gathering leaders wish to speak about dwelling as much as them – after all we’ll speak,” Mr Gannon mentioned.
“For the second, we’re simply actually pleased with what we have finished with the Social Democrats.”
Requested, given the Inexperienced wipeout, if he was apprehensive in regards to the impression of the Social Democrats going into authorities, Mr Gannon mentioned it’s the least of his issues.
Mr Gannon mentioned that change can be carried out by way of implementing coverage and passing budgets.
“The housing disaster isn’t inevitable. It could possibly’t be seen as that so we want folks of conviction, politicians who’ve lived skilled, who have been politicised by poverty, will really get up and truly say that that is the distinction that we will make,” he added.
In the meantime, Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch remains to be in competition for the ultimate seat within the constituency. He has 5,021 votes after eight counts — simply over 1,100 votes forward of Labour’s Marie Sherlock who’s at present in fifth.
Brian Stanley, the previous Sinn Féin TD, has been elected in Laois. The now Unbiased was elected on depend 8. He took the final of three seats in Laois with the depend now full.
A full breakdown or leads to the constituency will be discovered right here.
A second depend has been accomplished in , and Michael Healy Rae remains to be the one TD to have gotten over the road.
His huge surplus of 5,513 has simply taken place with brother Danny Healy Rae receiving slightly below half his quantity twos, bringing Danny to 11,236, nonetheless off the quota of 13,083.
Sinn Féin’s Pa Daly is now at 12,272 and is main the pack. The hole between Fianna Fail’s Michael Cahill and Tremendous Gael’s Billy O’Shea has stretched with Mr O’Shea now 486 votes behind.
Two candidates have been eradicated in depend two — independents Mary Fitzgibbon and John O’Leary and their mixed vote of 543 is now being distributed in Killarney.
Fianna Fáil’s Lisa Chambers has been eradicated on the seventh depend in Mayo. The Senator misplaced her Dáil seat in 2020 and didn’t regain it this time round.
She was eradicated with 6,706 votes, with the excess being 11,812.
One other huge identify eradicated, this time in . Unbiased candidate and former Tremendous Gael minister Alan Shatter has misplaced his seat on the fifth depend.
First elected in 1981, the 73-year-old was a Tremendous Gael TD for 30 years, throughout which he served as minister for justice and minister for defence.
Working as an impartial this time round, Mr Shatter’s marketing campaign largely targeted on the abolition of inheritance tax.
He completed with 1,925 votes.
Junior minister Anne Rabbitte has been eradicated on the ninth depend in , in what’s going to come as a blow to Fianna Fáíl.
The outgoing Minister of State for Disabilities was extensively anticipated to retain her seat and has held a excessive profile since her election to the Dáil in 2016.
The end result confirms that three of the 4 seats in Galway East can be occupied by new faces. Ms Rabbitte’s social gathering colleague, Albert Dolan, was elected this morning after longstanding impartial TD Seán Canney turned the primary candidate to meet the quota.
Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien has been elected for Fianna Fáil in Fingal East.
Mattie McGrath has been elected in on the second depend.
He mentioned he hopes the Rural Independents Group of TDs who get elected will “speak to anyone who needs to speak to us” in regards to the subsequent Programme for Authorities.
“I’m delighted that every one that tough work by my crew, my workplace and myself has paid off,” he mentioned.
“There is no such thing as a alternative for arduous work. Hopefully all of my colleagues within the Rural Independents group will get again in and we sit up for talks for the Programme for Authorities.”
Counting has additionally resumed in Tipperary. The excess from Michael Lowry — who was elected to final evening — has but to be distributed. Labour’s Alan Kelly is predicted to get the second of the constituency’s three seats.
The combat for the third seat is between Fianna Fail candidates Ryan O’Meara and Michael Smith.
Unbiased Gavin Pepper has been eradicated on the sixth depend in
Mr Pepper had been lamenting earlier this week that he nonetheless hadn’t put up his Christmas decorations and selected to go and purchase his Christmas tree on Saturday as an alternative of going to the depend centre.
And we’re off once more in Fingal.
After the sixth depend in , which noticed the elimination of his working mate, Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien of Fianna Fáil is about 60 votes shy of the quota.
In neighbouring a recount is probably going following the elimination late final evening of Lorraine Clifford Lee of Fianna Fáil. She was fewer than 40 votes behind impartial Tony Murphy.
Counting has resumed in the place Fianna Fáil TD and Minister for Well being Stephen Donnelly is battling to carry onto his seat.
A good race is unfolding for the ultimate spot within the four-seat constituency between Donnelly (3,553 votes), Unbiased candidate and former Tremendous Gael Cllr Shay Cullen (3,232) and Tremendous Gael’s Cllr Edward Timmins (3,050).
Bray-based Sinn Féin TD John Brady and Delgany-based Social Democrats TD Jennifer Whitmore each look set to retain their seats.
A 5,000-plus surplus for Taoiseach Simon Harris – who was elected on the primary depend at 9.30pm on Saturday – is being counted this morning.
These transfers will play a key position in deciding the place the ultimate seat goes.
If social gathering loyalty holds agency, Harris’s working mate Edward Timmins appears to be like set to profit most. Pattern tallies point out that as many as 40 per cent of his transfers will go to the west Wicklow based mostly councillor.
Harris mentioned on Saturday evening he was “cautiously optimistic” that Timmins will recover from the road.
Nevertheless, tallies point out {that a} smaller however important proportion of Harris’s transfers – about 10 per cent – will go to Donnelly, who can also be based mostly within the Taoiseach’s hometown of Greystones.
Newtownmountkennedy-based Cllr Shay Cullen, in the meantime – previously of Tremendous Gael – is predicted to draw transfers from a variety of candidates.
Celebration and regional loyalties will all have a task to play in figuring out the place the ultimate seat goes.
Most seasoned election observers, nevertheless, see Timmins as favorite to take a second seat for Tremendous Gael on the expense of Stephen Donnelly.
Counting has resumed for day 2 in quite a few centres throughout the nation this morning.
In , counting started after a lecture was delivered to depend employees, instructing them to not have interaction in social media whereas they’re concerned within the counting course of.
There was loads of motion throughout the nation all through Saturday, with many depend centres working late into the evening earlier than TDs reached their respective quotas.
See the complete listing of TDs who’ve been elected to this point on the Irish Examiner Outcomes Hub.
Mattie McGrath is predicted to be the following TD to be elected in
He topped the ballot in Tipperary South however was simply shy of the votes he wanted to succeed in the quota.
On the Thurles depend centre, he, together with the remainder of the Rural Independents Group of TDs, mentioned they’ll “speak to anyone who needs to speak to us” in regards to the subsequent Programme for Authorities.
“I’m delighted that every one that tough work by my crew, my workplace and myself has paid off,” he mentioned.
“There is no such thing as a alternative for arduous work.
“Hopefully all of my colleagues within the Rural Independents group will get again in and we sit up for talks for the Programme for Authorities.” Michael Lowry was the primary TD to be elected, topping the ballot final evening in Tipperary North.
Counting is because of resume at 9.30am.
