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GE 2020 Cork North Central. See Mod Note in Post 1

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    #92
    Cork Trucker
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    dulpit wrote: »
    Voted around noon. 20% at that stage, they said thats very busy for them.

    Anyone heard the cars driving around for Mick Barry or Thomas Gould with tannoys on roof blasting out election slogans? Very old school...

    Michael Nugent is offering to drive people to voting stations for Thomas Gould.


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    #93
    Cork Trucker
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    leahyl wrote: »
    Just back - really busy at the polling station, busiest I’ve ever seen it for any election, not sure if that’s to do with it being a Saturday or what

    Seems to be reflecting they way city wide


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    #94
    Cork Trucker
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    leahyl wrote: »
    Just back - really busy at the polling station, busiest I’ve ever seen it for any election, not sure if that’s to do with it being a Saturday or what

    Appears that way city wide. Varadkar is going to be punished for the Saturday vote


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    #95
    leahyl
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    dulpit wrote: »
    Voted around noon. 20% at that stage, they said thats very busy for them.

    Anyone heard the cars driving around for Mick Barry or Thomas Gould with tannoys on roof blasting out election slogans? Very old school...

    Heard it was 27% at my polling station, great to see, hope it keeps up


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    #96
    Ludo
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    You would expect a much higher percentage early in the day though being a saturday compared to the normal weekday elections. Also, the bad weather forecast for later would encourage people to get it out of the way early in the day.


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    #97
    what the hell!
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    Just back from Blackpool. Nice little queue and had to wait to mark my paper.


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    #98
    Italix
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    Riverstown was busy earlier and The Glen was the busiest I've ever seen it.


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    #99
    namloc1980
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    I'd say the turnout will be about average.


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    #100
    igCorcaigh
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    Don't know yet where my meaningful vote is going to go.

    WP first, maybe Mick Barry second. Won't be voting SF. Not Green this time. Never FF/FG.

    Hope the turnout is strong.


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    #101
    Cork Trucker
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    I'm going to make 2 predictions here:

    1. If Thomas Gould is elected then Michael Nugent will be co-opted into his place in City Hall.

    2. If Tony Fitzgerald is elected then Sandra Murphy will take his place.


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    #102
    dulpit
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    Mick Barry should be safe and sound based on exit poll, Gould should top the poll with a decent surplus, you'd expect a good chunk of that surplus would go to Barry...


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    #103
    Cork Trucker
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    Based on that exit poll only 1 of the 3 FF candidates is likely to get in, O'Sullivan has to be the favourite of the 3.


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    #104
    robinbird
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    dulpit wrote: »
    Mick Barry should be safe and sound based on exit poll, Gould should top the poll with a decent surplus, you'd expect a good chunk of that surplus would go to Barry...

    Yeah. Sinn Fein would have taken two seats. They fuc.ked up.
    Goulds surplus should save Barry.


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    #105
    robinbird
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    Cork Trucker wrote: »
    Based on that exit poll only 1 of the 3 FF candidates is likely to get in, O'Sullivan has to be the favourite of the 3.

    If FF hadn't added a third to humiliate O'Flynn he may not have run.
    And with two FF candidates they probably would have taken two seats.

    Based on exit poll its looking like

    Gould SF
    O'Sullivan FF
    Barry Sol
    Burke FG

    In that order.


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    #106
    Itssoeasy
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    Seems like Thomas Gould will top the poll in cork north central with a tally only half done. Colm Burke is in second place but a bit behind but looks good to get a seat.

    Edit: also I was said that mick Barry was in trouble but on the radio they were saying that Thomas goulds surplus might help him out.


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    #107
    leahyl
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    Itssoeasy wrote: »
    Seems like Thomas Gould will top the poll in cork north central with a tally only half done. Colm Burke is in second place but a bit behind but looks good to get a seat.

    Edit: also I was said that mick Barry was in trouble but on the radio they were saying that Thomas goulds surplus might help him out.

    Very suprised at Colm Burke being second


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    #108
    Itssoeasy
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    leahyl wrote: »
    Very suprised at Colm Burke being second

    That's just a partial tally but the cork north central twitter account(I'd forgot I followed it years ago) is saying that FG people in the count centre are happy with how it's going.


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    #109
    Cork Trucker
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    leahyl wrote: »
    Very suprised at Colm Burke being second

    Gould’s surplus will send him back down the order


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    #110
    thequarefellow
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    Cork Trucker wrote: »
    Gould’s surplus will send him back down the order

    I'm still amazed at his first pref position. FF messed up big time with 3 and O'Flynn splitting their vote into 4


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    #111
    thequarefellow
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    South Central is looking very interesting too.


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    #112
    leahyl
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    Itssoeasy wrote: »
    That's just a partial tally but the cork north central twitter account(I'd forgot I followed it years ago) is saying that FG people in the count centre are happy with how it's going.

    Yeah, still though, I honestly thought he had no chance lol....sure he still might not get in I suppose.


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    #113
    leahyl
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    thequarefellow wrote: »
    South Central is looking very interesting too.

    Unbelievable Donncha O’ Laoighre topping the poll from the early tallies


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    #114
    thequarefellow
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    leahyl wrote: »
    Unbelievable Donncha O’ Laoighre topping the poll from the early tallies

    I'd love to be a fly on the wall in the Martin household :)


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    #115
    namloc1980
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    thequarefellow wrote: »
    South Central is looking very interesting too.

    All 4 sitting TDs will be returned handily. Not that interesting other than the SF share of the vote.


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    #116
    thequarefellow
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    namloc1980 wrote: »
    All 4 sitting TDs will be returned handily. Not that interesting other than the SF share of the vote.

    For a young fella like O'Laoghaire to be so far ahead of such high profile candidates like Martin, Coveney and McGrath is pretty awesome.


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    #117
    Cork Trucker
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    thequarefellow wrote: »


    I'd love to be a fly on the wall in the Martin household :)

    Many expletives and difficult phone calls I’d imagine


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    #118
    Pen Rua
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    https://twitter.com/RTEcorkNTHCENT/status/1226477582314594304

    Aontu head of Soc Dems on the tallies! Wow.


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    #119
    Gamb!t
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    Taken from RTE's page.

    The final official tally in Cork North Central (a four seater) puts Sinn Féin's Thomas Gould in first place with 26.99% of the first preference vote.

    In second place is Fianna Fáil's Pádraig O'Sullivan on 15.87%, third is Fine Gael's Colm Burke with 12.9%, while Solidarity-People Before Profit's Mick barry is on 7.14%.

    After that there's Independent Kenneth O'Flynn on 6.88%, Fianna Fáil's Tony Fitzgerald on 6.62%, Green Party Oliver Moran on 6.15%, Labour's John Maher on 4.93%, Aontú's Finian Toomey on 2.6%, Fianna Fáil's Sandra Murphy on 2.37% and Social Democrats' Sinead Halpin on 2.19%.


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    #120
    Bannasidhe
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    Pen Rua wrote: »

    Aontu head of Soc Dems on the tallies! Wow.

    Not surprised tbh - although I gave SDs my #2.
    In a 4 seater with 2 'Left seats' SF are taking the bulk of the first pref Left vote, then there's Mick Barry as sitting TD plus the Greens sadly the SDs really don't have much of a chance of making an impact.

    SDs would have gotten my #1 if Mick Barry wasn't contesting the seat.

    Aontu would appeal to the Pro-Life vote.


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    #121
    Pen Rua
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    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    Not surprised tbh - although I gave SDs my #2.
    In a 4 seater with 2 'Left seats' SF are taking the bulk of the first pref Left vote, then there's Mick Barry as sitting TD plus the Greens sadly the SDs really don't have much of a chance of making an impact.

    Aontu would appeal to the Pro-Life vote.

    Aontú got my No 1, so that would give context as to why I'm commenting on SD polling poorer than Aontú. Becky Kealy also appears to be doing well in Cork North West.


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