Election 2011 - Donegal news & views

Vinegar Hill

I think the quota is about 9200 if I remember right. Doherty's surplus will probably go to Pringle. We will see.

retalivity

wrote:

Final tally estimates - Doherty 13929, McGinley 8380, Pringle 5795, Coughlan 4918, O Domhnaill 4715, McBrearty 2175, McCahill 1863, Duffy 525, Sweeney 240

If we assume they're all valid, quota is 8540.
doherty would then have 5000+ surplus to transfer!

Noreen1

Smartly Dressed wrote: »

Final tally estimates - Doherty 13929, McGinley 8380, Pringle 5795, Coughlan 4918, O Domhnaill 4715, McBrearty 2175, McCahill 1863, Duffy 525, Sweeney 240

If these are right, we might end up stuck with Mary Coughlan again.:mad::mad:
God, I hope Pringle transfers well..........

retalivity

Noreen1 wrote: »

Does anyone know what the quota is?

Noreen1 wrote: »

If these are right, we might end up stuck with Mary Coughlan again.:mad::mad:
God, I hope Pringle transfers well..........

He will if Doherty has 5000 surplus

K-9

The Floating Voter: Final Tally Donegal North East

Final Tally Donegal North East


Blaney (IND) - 1,225

Harte (LAB) - 4,092

Holmes (IND) - 1,157

MacLochlainn (SF) - 9,339

McConalogue (FF) - 6,554

McGarvey (IND) - 1,383

McHugh (FG) - 7,286

Murphy (GP) - 198

Ryan (FG) - 4,598

Shiels (IND) - 1,857

Stewart (IND) - 207

K-9

Surprised Ryan out polled Harte.

Hopefully Harte will transfer better than him and NcConnalogue.

Smartly Dressed

Highland radio delivers an estimation which conflicts with my earlier post (which was via OceanFM)

Final Tally
Pearse Doherty SF 14,249 33%
Dinny Mc Ginley FG 8484 19.69%
Thomas Pringle Ind 5804 13.47%
Mary Coughlan FF 5009 11.63%
Brian O’Domhnaill FF 4755 11.83%
Frank Mc Brearty Lab 2176 2.05%
Stephen Mc Cahill Ind 1812 4.21%
John Duffy Green 535 1.24%
Ann Sweeney Ind 253 0.6%

muffler

It looks likely that Mary C will loose her seat which from watching the RTE coverage would appear to be a shock. May be a shock to the rest of the country but not to anyone in her constituency.

K-9

RTE reporting third seat in DNE impossible to call, even by the tallymen, between Harte, Ryan and McConnalogue.

You've about 6,000 Independent votes to transfer.

K-9

muffler wrote: »

It looks likely that Mary C will loose her seat which from watching the RTE coverage would appear to be a shock. May be a shock to the rest of the country but not to anyone in her constituency.

From RTE, FG are saying to watch for McCahill's transfers. Could be the clincher.

cosanostra

K-9 wrote: »

From RTE, FG are saying to watch for McCahill's transfers. Could be the clincher.

Even if all mccahills votes went to caughlan it wouldnt make a difference Fmbs transfers will follow and they wont be goin FFs way

retalivity

Wow..got my maths all wrong, ignore, quota is around 10630

K-9

I'm calling Coughlan to be eliminated before O'Domhnaill!

Looks like Ireland broke Twitter!

cosanostra

retalivity wrote: »

I can see pringle reaching the quota before the counts reach the FFer's

he needs to pick about 3000 transfers from doherty, mcb, duffy, sweeney. i'd bet he'll get pretty close to it

EDIT........Wow..got my maths all wrong, ignore, quota is around 10630

I wonder how the south donegal fine gael voters would vote could we see pringle picking up transfers here too id actually be worried about mcginleys transfers i think theyl go all over the shop!

Where is caughlan going to get 5000 votes from??

Noreen1

K-9 wrote: »

I'm calling Coughlan to be eliminated before O'Domhnaill!

Looks like Ireland broke Twitter!

I hope so! If we do end up with another FF TD, I'd prefer O'Domhnaill any day.

retalivity

My prediction based on tallies

first prefs
Pringle 5800
Coughlan 4900
BOD 4700

After surpluses and lower transfers
Pringle 8100
BOD 6500
Coughlan 6200

Coughlan to distrubute hers....all hell to break loose

cosanostra

retalivity wrote: »

My prediction based on tallies

first prefs
Pringle 5800
Coughlan 4900
BOD 4700

After surpluses and lower transfers
Pringle 8100
BOD 6500
Coughlan 6200

Coughlan to distrubute hers....all hell to break loose

I wonder will coughlan ask for a recount to get BOD eliminated

retalivity

most definitely

K-9

cosanostra wrote: »

I wonder will coughlan ask for a recount to get BOD eliminated

Very little news on Donegal NE.

That's even harder to call.

Not much between Harte and Ryan and 6,000 Independent votes to transfer.

Ryan has to make up 2,000 votes on McConnalogue, Harte 2,500 odd.

Whoever of Harte or Ryan who gets eliminated first will decide it.

We could well have no FF TD's in Donegal come Monday!

K-9

Big Frank conceding defeat and blaming the meeja.

unknownlegend

K-9 wrote: »

Big Frank conceding defeat and blaming the meeja.

He bombed this time alright... any news on Pringle?

cosanostra

Vicent Browne predicting no FF TDS in CoDonegal!! we can only hope but i think they might just scrape in mary or brian not sure about NE too tight to call there!

K-9

unknownlegend wrote: »

He bombed this time alright... any news on Pringle?

Twitter is back but nothing new.

I think the tallymen can't call the third seat in both constituencies. It's going to be a long night.

retalivity

anyone know when we can expect a count?

Smartly Dressed

Brian Ó Domhnaill and Jimmy Harte to win SW + NE 3rd seats.

cosanostra

Smartly Dressed wrote: »

Brian Ó Domhnaill and Jimmy Harte to win SW + NE 3rd seats.

Ah well at least Mary will be kept busy digging that asbestos out!!

K-9

Just seen a tweet saying it's between BOD and Pringle for the last seat, not sure how reliable that is.

RTE saying count from NE about 5 with indications after.

K-9

Highland Radio » Tense battles for the last seat in both Donegal constituencies

In Donegal South West, Independent Cllr Thomas Pringle’s Director of Elections is predicting that Tanaiste Mary Coughlan’s seat is gone, and the last seat is a battle between FF Senator Brian O’Domhnaill and Cllr Pringle for the last seat. It’s widely though in the count centre in Donegal Town that Pringle is in the driver’s seat to take it.


FF’s Director of Elections in the constituency Cllr Brendan Byrne says the party made a mistake runing with a two candidate strategy. He believes a single candidate would have guaranteed a seat, but he’s by no means conceding defeat……



Meanwhile, in Donegal North East, Labour Cllr Jimmy Harte is battling Fianna Fail Cllr Charlie Mc Conalogue for the final seat, with Mc Conalogue said to be favourite to take it. However, Fine Gael say their second candidate Cllr John Ryan is not out of the running yet.


Labour’s Director of Elections Brian Gribben says the party ran a good campaign, a nd he’s not conceding defeat……….

homer simpson

1st count for SW

Quote 10816

Pearse Doherty 14262
Dinny McGinley 8589
T. Pringle 5845
Many coughlan 4956
BOD 4789
McBrearty 2209
McCahill 1831
Duffy 527
Sweeney 255

Mint Sauce

1st count in for Donegal SW. Quota 10,816

DOHERTY, Pearse (01) SF 14262
McGINLEY, Dinny FG 8589
PRINGLE, Thomas IND 5845
COUGHLAN, Mary FF 4956
Ó DOMHNAILL, Brian FF 4789
McBREARTY, Frank LAB 2209
McCAHILL, Stephen IND 1831
DUFFY, John GP 527
SWEENEY, Ann IND 255

*edit. Dang you Homer, beat me to it