Wicklow

LordSutch · 25-02-2011 02:43PM

My vote 'might' go something like this

Andrew Doyle FG
Billy Timmons FG
Simon Harris FG
Anne Ferris LBR
Conal Kavanagh LBR
Anthony Fitzgerald INDE
Niall Byrne GRN

Mushy · 25-02-2011 02:54PM

Knew my 3 most wanted, then others who would be better down to 7/8, then filled it in leaving Fianna Fail and Joe Behan blank.

lucy2010 · 26-02-2011 02:05AM

Locally if you needed something done you contacted Liz Mc manus or Joe Behan. Going to be very hard to call I think. I dont see Dick getting back in though. Even my own parents avid FF have said enough is enough now. I can see Brady getting a seat given SF only have one candidate the SF vote for the entire constituancy will go to him.
Will see what tomorrow brings .

skearon · 26-02-2011 02:57AM

I'll be posting live updates to twitter and Google Docs

See my blog, www.kearon.ie for updates during day

Now off to bed for a few hours sleep ...

yogidc26 · 26-02-2011 12:29PM

Just wondering were the votes are been counted in wicklow and can you go down and have a look at it

edanto · 26-02-2011 01:06PM

Donnelly in 6th place so far, he's certainly in the running. My gut feeling is that he'll pick up transfers from everywhere though and will finish strong, ahead of SF.

pieface_ie · 26-02-2011 01:28PM

I hope John Brady does well!

SB-08 · 26-02-2011 01:53PM

3 FG and 1 Lab a certainty

The final seat is now neck and neck between Brady and Donnelly - I am hoping Donnelly manages to get the 5th seat due to transfers.

spank_inferno · 26-02-2011 01:59PM

skearon wrote: »

I'll be posting live updates to twitter and Google Docs

See my blog, www.kearon.ie for updates during day

Now off to bed for a few hours sleep ...

This is superb!!

I watched 2hrs of RTE this morning for a wicklow tally and got nowhere.

Good job sir.

Also, bad news for labour so far!

pieface_ie · 26-02-2011 02:07PM

Thank you for the updates skearon, excellent source

ebbsy · 26-02-2011 02:40PM

Yeah well done.

Bullseye1 · 26-02-2011 02:46PM

Excellent information. Looks like 3 FG and 1 SF. Will be interesting to see the final results.

iPlop · 26-02-2011 03:49PM

Bullseye1 wrote: »

Excellent information. Looks like 3 FG and 1 SF. Will be interesting to see the final results.

Looking good so far For Brady and Donnelly

Doyle 14.4,
Timmins 13.2,
Harris 12.3,
Brady 10.2,
Donnelly 8.9,
ferris 7.8,
Behan 6,
roche 5.5

Mushy · 26-02-2011 04:31PM

Maybe no Labour:eek:

johnny_ultimate · 26-02-2011 05:00PM

Would be nice to see Donelly get a seat, he really kicked up his campaign game in the last week or so. Looks like he has a good chance.

pljudge321 · 26-02-2011 05:06PM

Mushy wrote: »

Maybe no Labour:eek:

It all depends on how the transfers go. Ferris has two running partners to rely on for transfers, Donnelly can probably rely on a good few transfer from across the political spectrum, Behan and Roche have 7000 votes between them, hard to say where the majority of transfer from those will go. Brady being Sinn Fein isn't has transfer friendly as either of the other two so its as of yet not inconceivable that he will get overtaken by the other two and not get a seat.

Mushy · 26-02-2011 05:10PM

pljudge321 wrote: »

It all depends on how the transfers go. Ferris has two running partners to rely on for transfers, Donnelly can probably rely on a good few transfer from across the political spectrum, Behan and Roche have 7000 votes between them, hard to say where the majority of transfer from those will go. Brady being Sinn Fein isn't has transfer friendly as either of the other two so its as of yet not inconceivable that he will get overtaken by the other two and not get a seat.

Exactly. Will be a good battle for last 2 seats.

hdowney · 26-02-2011 05:44PM

yes. the last two seats do look to be where all the fun is going to happen. i think at this point that it is highly unlikely that there will be anyone else in the running for them so it looks to be a 3 horse race between Ferris, Donnelly and Brady.

as was said above Brady, being a Sinn Féin candidate is not the most transfer friendly of options, where Donnelly can probably expect decent transfers from other indi sources, and perhaps even some of the party transfers. again ferris has her two running mates for transfers, and she may get some of the ff transfers - from people who voted ff and didn't want to transfer to fg.

it will be interesting to see where those ff transfers do go however, and to see does Brady pick up transfer votes.

it is however by no means a certainty and may come down to the wire. we are in for a LONG wait methinks

edanto · 26-02-2011 11:08PM

I came down to the count centre a few hours ago to watch, and I can report that the poster above is completely right! A rather slow event, long count underway.

At the moment the two lowest candidates have been eliminated and their votes are being distributed, no-one really expects anything to start vhanging significantly until another 5 or 10 have been eliminated. That'll probably mean tomorrow before any news.

gcgirl · 27-02-2011 12:25AM

I'm right as always Wicklow is such a hole

hdowney · 27-02-2011 10:37AM

well it is going to be a LONG SLOW count if the returning officer is insisting on only eliminating the candidate with the lowest votes each round. whilst there are so many candidates still in - and obv a fair few without a hope in hells chance of succeeding now - she should be eliminating more than one to speed up the process. when we get closer to the top, with the main players THEN she should start eliminating one by one. if she keeps going the way she is however we MAY have the final results by the middle of the week!

Mushy · 27-02-2011 10:39AM

There be a specific method for eliminating people and the way its gone it can only be one by one:-(

gcgirl · 27-02-2011 10:41AM

Boring boring wonders if it will go in to tomorrow

ergo · 27-02-2011 10:52AM

gcgirl wrote: »

I'm right as always Wicklow is such a hole

very helpful

iPlop · 27-02-2011 11:20AM

It's looking like Ferris will take the 4th seat from transfers and Brady and Donnelly will be battling for the 5th ,there's 500 votes between them.

Alun · 27-02-2011 12:45PM

Why is this taking so long? I mean, how much time do they need to resistribute a few hundred votes from each of the no-hoper independent candidates and get into the real meat of the count? Can they not establish some kind of cutoff, and eliminate a whole bunch of them in one go or something?

gcgirl · 27-02-2011 12:48PM

ergo wrote: »

very helpful

As always

but seriously the situation on not knowing what bundles of 50/100 were was rather laughable

RayM · 27-02-2011 12:53PM

Alun wrote: »

Why is this taking so long? I mean, how much time do they need to resistribute a few hundred votes from each of the no-hoper independent candidates and get into the real meat of the count? Can they not establish some kind of cutoff, and eliminate a whole bunch of them in one go or something?

Because, in line with a long-standing tradition in Wicklow, the ballot papers are... counted... very... very... very... very... slowly...

The result of the 6th count is now in, and apparently Charlie Keddy has been eliminated. It's just one shock after another with this election.

Savage Tyrant · 27-02-2011 12:55PM

RayM wrote: »

Because, in line with a long-standing tradition in Wicklow, the ballot papers are... counted... very... very... very... very... slowly...

The result of the 6th count is now in, and apparently Charlie Keddy has been eliminated. It's just one shock after another with this election.

Charlie Keddy is gone? :eek: dear god!! Who next? :eek:

mikemac · 27-02-2011 12:56PM

Are the Wicklow staff holding out for overtime?

Agree to their demands and pay them what they want, hurry up!

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