Waterford election hub

I see Jim Darcy FG has Cllr ón his posters above his name.. Surely this is fraudulent and should be forced to take these down?

Below is the official candidate list with existing councillors having C'llr next to their name

Should have been forced to hide/remove the C'llr above his name as could be bring the result into disrepute if he gets elected

I'd say having Cllr before your name would more likely be a negative 😂

It won't be on the ballot paper anyway.

Ryan in Cork yesterday announcing funding left right and centre for their rail network. No planning even secured yet, while Waterford airport has full planning permission for the runway extension and private funding ready to go yet Ryan couldn’t give a toss. Please remember this on the 7th of June with the Greens running. Our Green TD just ignores my comments now on social media. Election Day will open his eyes his arrogance is shocking. Waterford definitely not in his heart!

The Greens are a major reason South Dublin wont get a metro for many many years. Im a former Green myself but couldn't touch them now.

Just looking at the list of candidates and cant see really much change happening

Tramore and Waterford; can see the Greens losing a seat here and a gain by SF.
Waterford City East; another Greens loss and anything could happen with transfers.
Waterford City South; think there is a SF loss on the cards here with Bailey, think Reinhardt or a Soc Dem will take a seat.

Will be great to see no green Cllr’s or MEP locally after this week. General Election will happen between Sept and November as there is potential for 4 by-elections to be held (November by law) if the European elections play out and generally government parties loose these so they wont risk it.
Greens will lose their seat to SF (McGuinness) with Shanahan’s seat a dog fight.

… indeed but Cullinane and Sinn Fein in general must be given huge credit for realising that appealing to hearts and minds, well the "minds" part anyway was a permanently losing strategy… and switching tactics to capitalise on the fact that the votes of the disaffected, the uneducated and also the terminally dumb count equally, so expect Cullinane's "lá" to "tiocfaidh" again. Quite comfortably too.

Shanahan the only Waterford TD that actually questions the shite we are being constantly subjected to by the current unholy trinity.

SF only interested in the "party"

Unfortunately nothing will change in Waterford at least shanahan annoys them.

sadly that's the best we can ask for with the level of representation we have, all more interested in the party than the actual electorate they are supposed to represent.

Hopefully a few surprises to the current status quo.

Cheers Dave 👍️

Only guarantee for the GE is Cullinane and Shanahan. Butler is 50/50 . I cannot see the Green TD retaining his seat especially now with the airport fiasco ongoing. He would be no loss anyway.

100%

Says the SF voter! Failed to decalre one property AFAIK. A mortal sin! I bet he paid water charges too and probably goes to mass on Sundays.

sickening to see all the people sucking up to the local candidates from government parties on Facebook . Have these people no memory or what !! They should all be wiped away in locals and general election with their fake and unfurfilled promises .

…maybe we should go with the fringe(extreme) newcomers, some seem to be well informed!

true enough, the ge is probably far more important, but that reality is, is looking very likely to be another ffg government, sf are screwed, many potential sf voters are running to the fringes, sf need every vote they can get, and thats currently looking very unlikely, so we better prepare ourselves…..

a lot can certainly change over the coming months, but i just dont see sf making a way back, i could be wrong of course, but….

independents certainly do look strong, but disturbingly, some of them are of the extreme variety, and thats not gonna be pleasant, some will pull voters away from sf, causing a default towards ffg

jesus butler is awful, god love the poor woman, but she aint the sharpest….

plenty of people from the county will vote for both ffg

any idea how counts are going?

Really good info thanks for sharing

The council also have a live tracker of the counts

https://waterford-ie.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/f437fe95fe2547eca3fa233c576d74f0 city East

https://waterford-ie.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/176a83ba78bd46b8b97ae54cef0b1cc5 dungarvan

https://waterford-ie.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/a83f1fcc23664731b187cf2173001359 Portlaw/kilmac

https://waterford-ie.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/f97130f43539426083d1569eaa61de1c Tramore/city west

https://waterford-ie.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/cabb4550991f4ad2b71001471423884f Lismore

https://waterford-ie.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/0f81f00e94e046e5ba023707e5436cf9 city south

The local elections I feel are different. Voters know the representative on a personal level from their area and the actual political party I feel doesn’t really come into it. Maybe I’m wrong but the GE could tell another story!

this is gonna be one hell of a messy ge, and i think it ll default towards ffg, and in a way im kinna happy about that, im really glad we have the pr-stv sysytem, it makes it difficult for extreme minorities to steam roll all over the process, some scary stuff ahead though….

In local elections voters tend to vote for people rather than the political party.

…oh watch this space, plenty are gonna come out and vote for ffg nationally, and some here in waterford to, theres really only 2 ge outcomes now, either sff or ffg, and at the moment its looking very much like ffg, id say sf are screwed, cant see them coming back from this now…

Greens messed up big time here in Waterford! Marc will gone come GE also.

I agree, I voted for people , not parties at the local elections. People I know personally and or have had dealings with in either a social/ professional capacity. Councilors with proven track records and those who I spoke with that impressed me with what they had to say. I want my local councilors to fix pot holes, repair paths, improve local amenities etc ( not literally obviously). I have said to many that they will get my vote but come general election their respective parties candidates most certainly wont.