C&H General Election Thread

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

Its 4 seats in Waterford. There are no 2 seaters, its 3 minimum.

Grindylow

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

Its 4 seats in Waterford. There are no 2 seaters, its 3 minimum.

Ah, well the final count is in now!

Final Waterford tally, frontrunners: Deasy (FG) 20.22%, Coffey (FG) 17.79%, Kenneally (FF) 13.9%, Conway (Lab) 10.3%, Cullinane (SF) 10.1%, Halligan (Ind) 10.06%, Ryan (Lab) 8.58%

So Deasy, Coffey, Kenneally and Conway are Waterford's seats?

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

Noel2k9 wrote: »

Ah, well the final count is in now!

Final Waterford tally, frontrunners: Deasy (FG) 20.22%, Coffey (FG) 17.79%, Kenneally (FF) 13.9%, Conway (Lab) 10.3%, Cullinane (SF) 10.1%, Halligan (Ind) 10.06%, Ryan (Lab) 8.58%

So Deasy, Coffey, Kenneally and Conway are Waterford's seats?

No they haven't done the proper count yet and transfers haven't been taken into account.

Screaminmidget

Looks like healy rae is getting in again :mad:

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

Worse, Healy-Rae's son is gettng in meaning we have decades of parochial nonsense to look forward to. Hopefully the government won't need his support this time though.

KnifeWRENCH

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

Looking like four FG and one FF in Mayo.... I hate this county :mad:

Jaysus! :eek:

4/5 FG....that's shocking. And rather depressing.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

In the 90s Mayo was all Fianna Fail, now we're all Fine Gael. So everything has changed and nothing has changed. I wish I'd moved my vote to Galway West.

suitcasepink

Noel2k9 wrote: »

Ah, well the final count is in now!

Final Waterford tally, frontrunners: Deasy (FG) 20.22%, Coffey (FG) 17.79%, Kenneally (FF) 13.9%, Conway (Lab) 10.3%, Cullinane (SF) 10.1%, Halligan (Ind) 10.06%, Ryan (Lab) 8.58%

So Deasy, Coffey, Kenneally and Conway are Waterford's seats?

Dude I know nothing of elections but youre even worse than me :P

Deasy and Coffey were always gonna get through and Kenneally almost certain but I heard (form my mam) that its gonna be a dog fight between him, Conway and apparently Halligan for the last 2 seats! Oh and Cullinane is there abouts but I a good bit is gonna depend on who his votes transfer to.

But thats only from tallies and shizz first count isnt until half 5!

Screaminmidget

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

Worse, Healy-Rae's son is gettng in meaning we have decades of parochial nonsense to look forward to. Hopefully the government won't need his support this time though.

Scratch that, looks like the transfers wont work in his favour

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

Screaminmidget wrote: »

Scratch that, looks like the transfers wont work in his favour

Delighted. Is there any chance of John O'Donoghue losing out?

Screaminmidget

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

Delighted. Is there any chance of John O'Donoghue losing out?

Slight, he was polling in fourth after the first count.

Brendan Griffin - 8680 (19.9%)
Michael Healy-Rae - 6697 (15.4%)
Tom Fleming - 6370 (13.6%)
John O'Donoghue - 5777 (13.3%)
Tom Sheahan - 5674 (13.0%)
Marie Moloney - 4964 (11.4%)
Michael Gleeson - 4615 (10.6%)
Oonagh Comerford - 331 (0.8%)
Richard Behal - 259 (0.6%)
Dermot Finn - 231 (0.5%)

Quota estimated at around 11,000

unknown13

Shane Ross tops the poll in South Dublin with nearly five thousand over the quota. Where his second preferences go is going to be interesting.

Slow Show

I need a life, apart from a few hours in the afternoon when I was out, I've spent my whole day watching this. No one cares about Galway East. well neither do I tbf, it's a bit of a dud constituency. I'm way more interested in Galway West.

But yeah I actually know nothing about whats going on in Galway at all.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

Even the Galway Advertiser doesn't care about Galway East.

Namlub

Screaminmidget wrote: »

Looks like healy rae is getting in again :mad:

In the election thread in AH some guy got killed for putting him as number one :pac:

Some absolutely useless FF guy whose main policy was to stop pay parking in the town where I live is coming second in my constituency. WHY DOES NO-ONE KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A TD AND A LOCAL COUNCILLOR?! I hate people.

Grindylow

deise_girl wrote: »

Dude I know nothing of elections but youre even worse than me :P

Deasy and Coffey were always gonna get through and Kenneally almost certain but I heard (form my mam) that its gonna be a dog fight between him, Conway and apparently Halligan for the last 2 seats! Oh and Cullinane is there abouts but I a good bit is gonna depend on who his votes transfer to.

But thats only from tallies and shizz first count isnt until half 5!

WLR said Conway's gonna get in anyway so Kenneallys probably outta the running.. Coffey and Deasy are through anyway, their votes just went pppppeeeeewwwww.

suitcasepink

Talleymen in Waterford thought there was only 52 of those places, turns out its 54..
Tallies are off by roughly 2000 votes in Waterford now and the First count is delayed until Half 6


Jesus like theres places in Dublin finished/almost finished :P

Pygmalion

amacachi wrote: »

Genuine question, (I may be misremembering) but if one prefers FG's economic policy what reason is there to vote against them?

Sure it'll be grand.
**** social progress, nothing matters except how much money we take home.

amacachi

Pygmalion wrote: »

Sure it'll be grand.
**** social progress, nothing matters except how much money we take home.

:rolleyes: What would Labour do to promote "social progress" exactly?

Namlub

Two men carrying altered Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael posters have been removed from Cork city Hall by Gardaí.
The men who say they represent a protest group called Tir Na cGasta entered the building carrying a posters depicting Enda Kenny as a woman and Micheál Martin as a priest.
The men entered the count centre for a few minutes before they were removed by gardaí and count officials.

lolwhut

KnifeWRENCH

w00t! Seán Sherlock (Lab) elected on first count in Cork East. \o/

Sandra McLellan (SF) in third, polling much better than I thought she would. Depending on how transfers go, we may have a Sinn Féin TD for the first time down here!

unknown13

Adams gets in in Louth and gets one of the highest first preferences in the country. Over 15,000.

Grindylow

No shock for Gerry Adams anyway..

Does Brian Lenihan still have cancer?

unknown13

Noel2k9 wrote: »

No shock for Gerry Adams anyway..

True. Thought he would get in but not top the poll. Shows what a name gets you these days. Wallace, Ross and Adams all topping the poll the first time they run for the Dail

Noel2k9 wrote: »

Does Brian Lenihan still have cancer?

Don't know but the fact he ran again probably says that it is probably gone or very nearly there.

Grindylow

unknown13 wrote: »

True. Thought he would get in but not top the poll. Shows what a name gets you these days. Wallace, Ross and Adams all topping the poll the first time they run for the Dail



Don't know but the fact he ran again probably says that it is probably gone or very nearly there.

Your man behind Adams seems happier than him about it.. He looks like an awful eejit. I was hoping SF wouldn't get any seats, their campaign messages are just so ridiculous "We'll fight for your country" are on the ones down here, seems awfully stupid like..

Yeah I was thinking. Fair play to him for running when he's fighting it like.

Namlub

I used to be terrified of Gerry Adams when I was small. I kind of still am...

flyswatter

unknown13 wrote: »

True. Thought he would get in but not top the poll.

Always had a feeling he would top the poll. Not surprised at all personally. You could feel his support generating here.

Namlub

Moar Cork constituencies please, bitches need to count faster

Grindylow

Namlub wrote: »

I used to be terrified of Gerry Adams when I was small. I kind of still am...

My mam keeps going "He doesn't deserve a place.. He's the IRA.. he deserves to be shot" I'm just like erra... hi


*She's old...

Namlub

Is he really in the IRA though?