Galway West 3rd Count: Farrell pulls ahead of Ó Cuív
Mairéad Farrell has pulled ahead of Éamon Ó Cuív to lead the polls in Galway West, with a strong transfer from two Solidarity/PBP candidates boosting the Sinn Féin candidate's total. Fianna Fáil’s Ó Cuív now sits 188 votes behind Farrell as the fourth count gets underway at the Lawn Tennis Club in Salthill. Independent TD Catherine Connolly also benefited from Joe Loughnane and Conor Burke’s eliminations - adding 215 votes to her total and putting her into fourth place ahead of Fine Gael’s Hildegarde Naughton. Aontú candidate Cormac Ó Corcoráin has now been eliminated and the redistribution of his 1,118 votes is underway.
Seats: 5 Electorate: 104,825 Total Poll: 60,764 Spoiled: 423 Total valid poll: 60,341 Quota: 10,057
THIRD COUNT: Transfer of Loughnane and Burke’s 957 votes: Farrell, Maireád (SF): +258 (8,744) Cuív, Éamon Ó (FF): + 22 (8,556) Grealish, Noel (Ind): +37 (8,196) Connolly, Catherine (Ind): +215 (5,693) Naughton, Hildegarde (FG): +28 (5,645) Kyne, Seán (FG): +22 (5,314) Crowe, Ollie (FF): +27 (5,207) O’Reilly, Pauline (Green): +111 (3,766) Ó Tuathail, Niall (Soc Dem): +131 (3,761) Cubbard, Mike (Ind): +43 (2740) McNelis, Níall (Lab): +23 (1,577 Cormac Ó Corcaráin (Aontu) +21 (1,118) ELIMINATED Non-Transferable: 19 Ó Corcoráin 1,118 now to be distributed
SECOND COUNT: Transfer of Darragh O’Flaherty’s 318 votes: Cuív, Éamon Ó (FF): + 12 (8,534) Farrell, Maireád (SF): +22 (8,486) Grealish, Noel (Ind): +116 (8,159) Naughton, Hildegarde (FG): +8 (5,617) Connolly, Catherine (Ind): +39 5,478 Kyne, Seán (FG): +8 5,292 Crowe, Ollie (FF): +5 5,180 O’Reilly, Pauline (Green): +5 3,655 Ó Tuathail, Niall (Soc Dem): +7 3,630 Cubbard, Mike (Ind): +21 2,697 McNelis, Níall (Lab): +6, 1,554 Corcoráin, Cormac Ó (Aontu): +39 1,097 Burke, Conor (Sol): +17 512 ELIMINATED Loughnane, Joe (PBP): +8 445 ELIMINATED Non-transferable: 5 Loughnane and Burke 957 votes to be distributed
FIRST COUNT Cuív, Éamon Ó (FF): 8,522 Farrell, Maireád (SF): 8,464 Grealish, Noel (Ind): 8,043 Naughton, Hildegarde (FG): 5,609 Connolly, Catherine (Ind): 5,439 Kyne, Seán (FG): 5,284 Crowe, Ollie (FF): 5,175 O’Reilly, Pauline (Green): 3,650 Ó Tuathail, Niall (Soc Dem): 3,623 Cubbard, Mike (Ind): 2,676 McNelis, Níall (Lab): 1,548 Corcoráin, Cormac Ó (Aontu): 1,058 Burke, Conor (Sol): 495 Loughnane, Joe (PBP): 437 Flaherty, Darragh (Ind): 318 ELIM