Tallying the numbers of First Preference Votes...

Clare_Culchie · 2011-02-07 22:49:54

07/02/2011 Based on first-preference votes on Boards.ie/Vote, counting the leading x number of candidates where x is the number of seats in that constituency, here is what I counted. I am missing five seats somewhere, I can't spot where, but it counts up to 161 instead of 166 seats. FG: 60 LAB: 48 SF: 24 IND: 19 PBP: 4 GP:…

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07/02/2011
Based on first-preference votes on Boards.ie/Vote, counting the leading x number of candidates where x is the number of seats in that constituency, here is what I counted. I am missing five seats somewhere, I can't spot where, but it counts up to 161 instead of 166 seats.
FG: 60
LAB: 48
SF: 24
IND: 19
PBP: 4
GP: 3
SWP: 2
FF: 1
It's quite different to the bar-graph on the results page. Of course it'll all change greatly once we get the STV results.
All the same, as it stands, Labour are a lot closer to Fine Gael than I had hoped, and FF are lucky to get a seat at all (Micheal Martin will be having his parliamentary party meetings in a phone-box).
Feel free to update the tally daily.

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