Galway West Election results

skelliser

May as well start a thread to follow the count from leisureland.

Latest Tallies

Latest tally 44 % of boxes open: Nolan (LAB) 16%; Walsh (FG)12.2%; Connolly (IND) 10.6%; Naughton (FG) 8.7%; O’Cuiv (FF) 7.1%;

tally based on 64% of boxes: FG 31%; FF 18.5%; LAB 13.5% SF 5.8; GREEN 2.1% OTHERS 28.2%

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snubbleste

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Is our darling Fidelma going to be screaming in the Dáil?

The Galway Advertiser is doing sporadic updates on their Facebook page here.

So far updates from there have been (for both Galway West and East) - for those not on Facebook.

It looks like the Advertiser opinion poll was spot on - Walsh, Cuiv, Nolan and Grealish are sure seats and Fidelma and Catherine will battle for last seat

And just there -

Ming the Merciless odds on to get into the next Dail

Cannon is doing well in the 90 boxes opened so far. Broderick is doing well but he may fall away the nearer they get to Tuam. Canney will pick up there as well

Healy Eames seat not assured. Will need to do well in Oranmore boxes but they'll be divvied up between Grealish and Healy Eames but that will be an interesting aside. Fahey and Crowe look out of it

Connaughton seat looks very safe here in Galway East

In Galway East, the Ballinasloe boxes are opened with Tim Broderick, Dermot Connolly, Paul Connaughton doing well.

skelliser

Lab's Derek Nolan currently topping poll in Galway West with almost 65% of votes tallied, Fine Gael's Brian Walsh is second

03046290

Is it true Frank Fahey might take the last seat?

snubbleste

03046290 wrote: »

Is it true Frank Fahey might take the last seat?

NO! Let us join in prayer.

skelliser

03046290 wrote: »

Is it true Frank Fahey might take the last seat?

i think we can safely say that Fahey is finished.

I cant see were he is going to get any transfers.

03046290

Thank god. RTE reported it about half an hour ago.

skelliser

FF's Michael Crowe has conceded defeat in Leisureland and says that the party are in major peril nationally

snubbleste

skelliser wrote: »

FF's Michael Crowe has conceded defeat in Leisureland and says that the party are in major peril nationally

Does this mean Galway will get no more jobs?

skelliser

Crowe got less than 4%. He was aiming for the same pool of urban votes as Frank Fahey who has also polled badly, with just 6%

barryd09

no word on the greens (o'brollochain) yet??

hes another i want to see destroyed.

snubbleste

barryd09 wrote: »

no word on the greens (o'brollochain) yet??
hes another i want to see destroyed.

He's not going to get elected, he's on less than 3% of the vote

skelliser

O'Cuiv, Nolan, Grealish, B Walsh & Healy Eames look likely

barryd09

snubbleste wrote: »

He's not going to get elected, he's on less than 3% of the vote

perfect,thats all i wanted to hear :D:D

and with FG's plans to abolish the Seannad,aul Niallers will be out on his ear.
Excellent.

skelliser

It is thought Frank Fahy, elected in 2007, will not show up in Leisureland, after an abismal performance today

ZorbaTehZ

Imo Connolly is still in with a chance.
Any ideas on who'll be eliminated first?

eagle10

Bye bye Crowe, hopefully Fahey follows soon:D.

My gutters need cleaning I wonder if Fahey is busy next week after he gets his ugly mug down from all the lamp poles in town?

Michael D is gone. No more rockin' in the Dáil for us.

eagle10

ZorbaTehZ wrote: »

Imo Connolly is still in with a chance.
Any ideas on who'll be eliminated first?

king, welby, holmes, cubbard

ilovesleep

How is eamon walsh doing

03046290

eamonn walsh not doing great ...

He will probably be out in the second round

snubbleste

skelliser wrote: »

O'Cuiv, Nolan, Grealish, B Walsh & Healy Eames look likely

Tally with 99% of boxes counted:
ÓCuív 12.4%
Nolan 12.0%
Grealish 10.2%
Walsh, Brian 8.8%
Healy Eames 8.3%
Connolly 7.7%
Kyne 7.5%
ÓClochartaigh 6.4%
Naughton 5.9%
Fahey 5.7%
Welby 5.6%
Crowe 2.9%
Walsh, Eamon 2.6%
ÓBrolcháin 1.7%
Cubbard 1.4%
Holmes 0.3%
King 0.1%

beagle001

How many seats and who is confirmed

snubbleste

There are 5 seats. No counts finalised yet. Tallies are not official counts, just an indication.

Sponge Bob

Just back in from the count. Based on tallies made of the #2 vote distribution during the main 1st count it appears that Kyne will pip Healy Eames at a key stage of the count thereby leaving himself as #2 FG candidate . However FG will likely not get themselves a second seat and the sequence of the elected looks like.

1. O Cuiv ( elected after Fahey is eliminated)
2. Walsh ( elected after HE is eliminated)
3. Nolan ( picking up dribs and drabs)

Finally on the last count.

4. Grealish
5. Connolly or Kyne but more likely Connolly I think.

Both without reaching the quota with c 8000 votes, Kyne on 7200 odd and not elected.

That is my final prediction

ZorbaTehZ

According to Irish Times:

O Brolcháin 1083
Connolly 4572
Crowe 1699
Cubbard 868
O'Cuiv 7316
Fahy 3390
Grealish 5985
Healy-Eames 4926
Holmes 182
King 169
Kyne 4441
Naughton 3483
Nolan 7047
O'Clochartaigh 3804
B Walsh 5216
E Walsh 1504
Welby 3289

celty

barryd09 wrote: »

perfect,thats all i wanted to hear :D:D

and with FG's plans to abolish the Seannad,aul Niallers will be out on his ear.
Excellent.

The irony of it .. O Brolchain was the man who gave out about 'jobs for the boys' while helping himself to a nice seat in the Seanad himself.

I will be really delghted if both Fahey and Healy Screams don't make it, the only thing I can't understand is how Grealish gets over 10% of the vote. This ex-PD propped up an awful, corrupt Government for so long. Still, it was a good day for Galway politics.

beagle001

I have heard the Seanad won't be abolished for 4yrs if at all and Frank Fahy is to get a seat in the Seanad.

ArtSmart

bit of a tit bit.

Ming the Merciless was a tenant of Frank Fahy when he lived in Galway and he grassed (no pun intended) Fahy up to the corpo for sub standard housing.

ha ha ha.

oh the fcking irony of it all!!!!

celty

Sad day for the Profit Before People alliance ... known back in the 1920s as Fianna Fail!

My heart bleeds for Fahey and Crowe, how are they going to fund their 40 properties now?

Raging_Ninja

Is 'Ming the Merciless' Flanagan over in Roscommon?

snubbleste

Full re-count happening now in Leisureland...so some time to go before we get the first count.

celty

No way ... how come Galway West is always one of the slowest in the country?

WesternNight

snubbleste wrote: »

Full re-count happening now in Leisureland...so some time to go before we get the first count.

According to twitter it's a recheck, not a recount...not sure what the difference is though.

Raging_Ninja

celty wrote: »

No way ... how come Galway West is always one of the slowest in the country?

It's only been a few hours. There's always counting going on around the country for days after elections. Considering the fact that there was a higher turnout than last time nationally as well as a great number of candidates, then it is reasonable to assume that things will take some time.

ilovesleep

celty wrote: »

Sad day for the Profit Before People alliance ... known back in the 1920s as Fianna Fail!

My heart bleeds for Fahey and Crowe, how are they going to fund their 40 properties now?

Send them off to NAMA maybe, as punishment for voting them out.

johngalway

snubbleste wrote: »

Full re-count happening now in Leisureland...so some time to go before we get the first count.

Fun & games already, someone is worried, question is, who?

Sponge Bob

It is a recheck, counting bundles of 50 including spoiled votes. If it does not add up there may be a full recount tonight, a first count result and everybody off home thereafter.

If it adds up they will do a few more counts tonight, perhaps four.

johngalway

On the counting, I know there are teachers there, I'm just hoping there are maths teachers there!

Should have gone out and done a bit otherwise!

dloob

Galway West always seem to be one of the slowest counts for some reason.

Iwannahurl

dloob wrote: »

Galway West always seem to be one of the slowest counts for some reason.

True that. Traditionally one of the last to complete.

nifheorais

Iwannahurl wrote: »

True that. Traditionally one of the last to complete.

2nd recheck/recount! A :eek: late nite!

snubbleste

nifheorais wrote: »

2nd recheck/recount! A :eek: late nite!

Meh, I'm going out to celebrate the disappearance of Frank with some alcohol-tinged liquid.

Sponge Bob

Recheck did not add up so a full recount is underway. If we are lucky we will get the first count result tonight.

galwayrush

Sponge Bob wrote: »

Recheck did not add up so a full recount is underway. If we are lucky we will get the first count result tonight.

Sounds about normal for Galway West.:(

Robbo

From the Twitter:

1.Nolan 7,502
2. O Cuiv 7,477
3. Grealish 6,231
4. Walsh,B 5,430
5. Healy Eames 5,053
6. Connolly 4,787
7. Kyne 4,578
8. O Clochartaigh 3,807
9. Naughton 3,607
10. Fahey 3,449

O'Cuiv not topping the poll is quite a surprise. Cubbard, King and E. Walsh out of it.

nifheorais

Robbo wrote: »

From the Twitter:
O'Cuiv not topping the poll is quite a surprise. Cubbard, King and E. Walsh out of it.

Well Done Derek.Yahoo!:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

Unrealistic

Raging_Ninja wrote: »

Is 'Ming the Merciless' Flanagan over in Roscommon?

He looks a dead cert for a seat there. He is one of three candidates who are neck and neck but streets ahead of all other runners.

Robbo wrote: »

From the Twitter:
O'Cuiv not topping the poll is quite a surprise. Cubbard, King and E. Walsh out of it.

It's Holmes rather than E. Walsh who has been eliminated after the first count. But E. Walsh will be out after the second or third count unfortunately. At least he can be proud of being the best preforming true independent (i.e. never ran as a member of one of the major parties).

WesternNight

Ó Brolcháin eliminated now, thankfully

WesternNight

2nd count result:

Second Count:
Distribution of King, Holmes and Cubbard transfers
Nolan (Lab) (+183) 7,685
Cuív (FF) (+45) 7,512
Grealish (Ind) (+117) 6,348
Walsh B (FG) (+48) 5,478
Healy Eames (FG) +35 5,088
Connolly (Ind) (+208) 4,995
Kyne (FG) (+31) 4,610
O Clochartaigh (SF) +119 3,926
Naughton (FG) (+49) 3,656
Fahey (FF) (+26) 3,475
Welby (Ind) (+27) 3,326
Crowe (FF) (+41) 1,851
Walsh E (Ind) (+100) 1,582
Brolchain (GP) (+33) 1,154
Non-transferable: 42
Ó Brolcháin eliminated. Distributing his 1,154 votes.

Connolly caught up to Healy Eames a bit there.