Second PBP candidate eliminated in City East


Conor Burke has become the second Solidarity People Before Profit candidate to be eliminated in Galway City East.
Burke was knocked-out on the sixth count, and his 186 votes will now be redistributed as count seven gets underway.
The biggest beneficiary in the sixth count, which was the redistribution of 169 votes of Aontú’s Cormaic Ó Corcoráin was Jacinta Gibbons.
Gibbons, The Irish People Party, took 42 transfers off Ó Corcoráin, helping her to leapfrog Burke to stay in the race for another count.
The seventh count is underway.
A first count in City Central is due soon.
Galway City East 6 seats
Electorate: 18,110
Total poll: 8,102
Spoiled votes: 101
Total valid poll: 8,001
Quota: 1,144
Sixth count
Distribution of Corcoráin’s votes
*Cheevers, Alan (FF) (+6) 1,049
*McDonnell, Declan (Ind) (+13) 1,037
*O’Flaherty, Terry (Ind) (+15) 945
*Crowe, Michael (FF) (+8) 751
Forde , Shane (FG) (+5) 672
Burke, Aisling (SF) (+6) 656
Ogbu, Helen (Lab) (+3) 611
*Larkin, Noel (Ind Irl) (+28) 464
Tully, Michael (Ind) (+9) 379
Keogh, Aisling (FG) (+2) 344
Delaney Heaslip, J (SD) (+2) 326
Mathias, Joyce (GP) (+3) 301
Gibbons, Jacinta (TIPP) (+42) 225
Burke, Conor (Sol/PBP) (+1) 186 ELIMINATED
Non transferable: 26

