Limerick City Elected TD's

Denners

The vote count won't be official until later but his is the final tally for Limerick City:

Cahill, Sheila 1.1%
Kiely, Kevin 2.5%
Larkin, Matt 0.17%
Leddin, Joe 5.65%
Noonan, Michael 30.72%
O'Donoghue, Conor 0.44%
O'Dea, Willie 16.04%
O'Donnell, Kieran 12.57%
O'Sullivan, Jan 16.67%
Power, Peter 5.38%
Prendiville, Cian 1.61%
Quinlivan, Maurice 8.75%
Riordan, Denis 0.4%

I hope the mods won't move this to politics because it is relevant to this forum.

Glad to see Peter Power got shown up for the liability he is.

Insect Overlord

Where did you come up with those figures, Denners?

I've re-arranged your percentages from highest to lowest anyway.

Noonan, Michael 30.72%
O'Sullivan, Jan 16.67%
O'Dea, Willie 16.04%
O'Donnell, Kieran 12.57%
Quinlivan, Maurice 8.75%
Leddin, Joe 5.65%
Kiely, Kevin 2.5%
Power, Peter 5.38%
Prendiville, Cian 1.61%
Cahill, Sheila 1.1%
O'Donoghue, Conor 0.44%
Riordan, Denis 0.4%
Larkin, Matt 0.17%

Denners

Sorry here is the link.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/election/news/limerick-city-tally-494957.html

Insect Overlord

Denners wrote: »

Sorry here is the link.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/election/news/limerick-city-tally-494957.html

Ah, nice one. I was wondering where everyone was getting the numbers from!

What time should we expect to hear the results with transfers taken into account, does anybody know?

Kess73

First round results for Limerick. Only Michael Noonan is through on the first round as he is the only one who got the required number of number ones.


Quota 8638


Sheila Cahill, Green - 490
Kevin Kiely, FG - 1.129
Matt Larkin, Ind - 59
Joe Leddin Lab - 2411
Michael Noonan FG - 13291
Willie O'Dea FF - 6956
Kieran O'Donnell FG - 5405
Conor O'Donoghue CS - 186
Jan O'Sullivan Lab - 6353
Peter Power FF - 2303
Cian Prendiville Socialist - 721
Maurice Quinlivan SF - 3711
Denis Riordan Ind - 173


Second round results are due in 20 - 30 mins.

liammur

Good to see change, now let's just hope the new crowd will do more for Limerick, because FF let us down very very badly.

Berty

Ah wouldn't you feel sorry for Matt Larkin.

It's like only his and his wifes family voted for him.

Amazotheamazing

You'd have to think Power, Prendiville and Cahill have great chances in the next local elections, will hopefully really shake up the status quo in Limerick (particularly Cahill and Prendiville)

zig

O'dea may only scrape 4th as far as I know, live updates here..
http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/general-election-2011/general-election-live

liammur

zig wrote: »

O'dea may only scrape 4th as far as I know, live updates here..
http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/general-election-2011/general-election-live

Excellent, the man is dead wood.

zig

looks like im wrong , second count

LIMERICK CITY - SECOND COUNT (distribution of Noonan's surplus)
ELECTORATE 64909
TOTAL VOTES CAST 43617
SPOILED VOTES 429
TOTAL VALID POLL 43188
QUOTA 8638

Cahill, Sheila 30 (520)
Kiely, Kevin 71 (1200)
Larkin, Matt 3 (62)
Leddin, Joe 217 (2628)
O'Dea Willie 413 (7369)
O'Donnell, Kieran 2901 (8306)
O'Donoghue, Conor 11 (197)
O'Sullivan, Jan 769 (7122)
Power, Peter 96 (2399)
Prendiville, Cian 19 (740)
Quinlivan, Maurice 118 (3829)
Riordan, Denis 5 (178)

Amazotheamazing

zig wrote: »

O'dea may only scrape 4th as far as I know, live updates here..
http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/general-election-2011/general-election-live

Possibly but he'll still be well clear of fifth place. Quinlivan won't be happy, still 5,000 off the quota, that's massive ground to make up in future general elections when presumably FF will be bouncing back.

liammur

I thought Leddin would have done far better

enfant terrible

Why are people voting for O' Dea, has he that many favors done for people?

Amazotheamazing

liammur wrote: »

I thought Leddin would have done far better

First time general election, it's not a great result but it's not awful either. He has to ask where he goes from here though.

L.T.P.

enfant terrible wrote: »

Why are people voting for O' Dea, has he that many favors done for people?

7369 traitors in Limerick City

guns4fun

L.T.P. wrote: »

7369 traitors in Limerick City

its a pit so many people look at willie for the speed ramps he got or the crossing he got etc etc,,,,should look at the broader picture,,,he is part of the government who screwed us up big time.. how many of his votes came from dell workers??????

RonMexico

His votes come from people based on local issues, because as we all know that is more important than any national issue like say...a default:rolleyes:

Well he will be even more ineffective now that he will be rotting his winter years away in opposition.

zuroph

O Donnell home in second

Berty

Ah Dell mentioned again. A tiny minority of workers in an electorate where 43,188 votes were valid. :rolleyes:

molard

congats to micheal and kieran.

Liam Byrne

The embarrassing thing is that that's both Limerick constituencies that have returned FF gob****es.

Limerick's reputation has been tarnished.

RonMexico

Well Liam, sometimes people are that stupid.

iguana

:mad::mad::mad:

Denners

To be perfectly honest there are too many ignorant people (for lack of a better word) within the Irish electorate. In any other democratic country there would have been nearly a clean wipe-out of FF, I think it happened in Canada a few years ago where the outgoing government only received 2 seats, and there place wasn't even as bad as here.

The laid back approach/sentimental value needs to leave our culture when it comes to political issues. I would have preferred if Labour don't go into a coalition as they would be the main opposition in 5 years, coupled with the fact we have a few tough years ahead it and baring a miraculous ignition in our economy than we may have the FF brigade back in in 5 years. A distressing thought to say the least.

yankinlk

Jesus are you never happy? FF obliterated and the poll topper in limerick reduced to the last seat. He had to phone people up on the day of the election begging for votes on voicemail.
Just cause people picked a party member you don't like don't call them ignorant. The people have spoken, all the people.

Denners

yankinlk wrote: »

Jesus are you never happy? FF obliterated and the poll topper in limerick reduced to the last seat. He had to phone people up on the day of the election begging for votes on voicemail.
Just cause people picked a party member you don't like don't call them ignorant. The people have spoken, all the people.

Well imo if someone votes for Fianna Fail they must be steeped in the wool FF followers, if they voted for any other reasons they are certainly ignorant of the misgivings which have been bestowed on us over recent years. Also there is people ignorant of all the party policies before voting, myself included as I didn't look into the SWP for example.

And not all the people have spoken, those who chose to spoke have. I wasn't denying that, I was suggesting that there is a fundamental problem in Irish culture when voting in relation to voting for members because they helped with roadworks in your estate etc, if you cannot acknowledge that his occurs than this debate has no further relevance to me.

EDIT: I actually have no dislike for Willie tbh and didn't state I had, it is his actions and party which I do not approve of and hence why he didn't garner my support. Those are the reasons which one should vote on imo and something which is evidently lacking in the Irish electorate.

zulutango

liammur wrote: »

I thought Leddin would have done far better

Noonan got a huge first preference, probably due to his recent popularity. If he wasn't there, or if he wasn't so visible and prominent in the media, a lot of people would have voted for a new fresh face. Leddin did well enough in the circumstances.

Kess73

RonMexico wrote: »

His votes come from people based on local issues, because as we all know that is more important than any national issue like say...a default:rolleyes:

Well he will be even more ineffective now that he will be rotting his winter years away in opposition.

What annoyed me was his speech/interview last night. He went about how 5,000 of "his" votes were taken from him by the change in the voting areas, and that he was a "victim" of the feeling against Finnia Fail.


He also went on about how FF needed a leadership change earlier and seemed to be painting himself as being one that brought that up publically long before it happened.

He then went on to lavish praise on Micheal Martin.


I seem to remember him coming out with similar guff when Cowen took over from Ahern, but I can clearly remember O'Dea as being one of the most vocal defenders of Cowen so where he is getting his revisionist tale of him being the one who was speaking out for leadership change is beyond me.


Just a shame he got in and is now able to continue the tradition of Limerick city having at least one totally ineffective FF Dail seat.

iguana

Kess73 wrote: »

Just a shame he got in and is now able to continue the tradition of Limerick city having at least one totally ineffective FF Dail seat.

Well at least you can now still be assured of him turning up at the funeral of your loved one and letting your shock at his bare-faced cheek momentarily distract you from your grief.:mad:

kilburn

For accuracy on his remarks playing Devils advocate here !

Here is a story of him calling for an election last October
http://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CB8QFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newstalk.ie%2F2010%2Fnews%2F512odeaelectionclipjol36%2F&ei=s0tqTYvKFcuXhQfEp_zsDg&usg=AFQjCNFeIRbAh6iNQ-_4l2kq9LQezZORnQ

Here is one of him hinting Cowen shoul go.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1122/politics1.html

And on the funny side here is one from a granny saying he told her to feck off.
http://www.politics.ie/current-affairs/141538-granny-claims-willie-odea-told-her-feck-off-9.html