EU Elections 2024 - Results

Nowhere near it. 17 candidates still remaining in Ireland South and 16 in Midlands North West. They're still shuffling through the sub 10000 vote candidates.

We do count the first preference vote. And that's the figure I was talking about.

O Riordain will be just another face in the crowd in the European Parliament.

Of course he has to say he will do this that and the other but its just all hot air.

I wouldn't be shouting from the rooftops about 63k votes, half of them not first preferences, when Dublin has a population of over a million people.

Perfect thanks. Has a breakdown of the rounds as well.

My view in Ireland South once the remaining far right independent go out there’s around four of them left with around 8k votes each and Derek Blighe with 25k, and they are distributed largely to Wallace then he’s in trouble. He still has to withstand a large distribution from Susan Doyle Social Democrats on 20k, Niamh Hourigan Labour on 22k, possibly John Mullins FG with 36k votes to be distributed and if it goes down to the wire there with Funchion pushing him out of fifth Grace OSullivan Green on 46k. He doesn’t stand a chance against all those transfers.

MNW, there’s a lot more far right candidates there to be distributed yet, and it looks like a three horse race between Gildernew, Chambers and Mullooly there with FF having a third candidate Niall Blaney with about 30k to be distributed to give Chambers transfers.

And we've had plenty of politicians elected on loads of counts. In this case we have a high number of European election candidates. So no, it's not particularly horrifying. Anyway who put him as a preference, were happy to have him represent them and that's it.

So, will Niall Boylan be back on Classic Hits 4FM tomorrow? Maybe co-hosting with David Harvey? A blast from the past!

The alternative was nutters who support the burning of buildings rumoured to be used for asylum seekers. Nutters who want to take away the rights of others. Candidate not far removed from the people that started the Dublin Riots. That repulses most people.
SF have provided nothing concrete to solve housing for us so fell flat on their face. Spent most of 2023 braying on about a United Ireland that people neither side of the border want in any great numbers.

Faced with those choices, people went with a safe option, what they know.
Nearly 30% independents elected to councils though, the parties will probably try to hoover up the best of them over the next few years.
There’s a lot to unpack from this election.

surplus of an elected candidate when exceeding the quota on first count is redistributed to whom? …weighted sample…

People on Twitter/Boards/Similar are always bitching and moaning but to the vast majority on the street politics isn't that important and the issues raised not actually that big a deal as vast majority of people have houses, don't need urgent health care and are unaffected by immigration - they are simply the issues of the day where whatever Govt is in power is not doing great. But for the vast majority public services (schools, roads etc) are ok, unemployment is low, wages much higher than most if Europe, Ireland is safe from conflict and the vast majority relatively crime free - that can be seen on any global index.

Are there a few countries that can do things better, probably but nowhere is absolutely perfect. So in Ireland we're happy to have a fairly stable, centrist Govt with only small fluctuations in left right leaning - where if you consider FG right wing while they have endorsed and allowed for Gay Marriage and increased abortion rights, or consider Sinn Fein hard left while they campaign against property tax - then a look at what proper Hard Right like Orban, or Hard Left (actually hard to think of an example in Europe at the moment - maybe Tsipras and Syriza in Greece a decade ago) means.

The realistic Political Parties now that are shouting change, are really only offering a new name on the door and beyond saying we'll do things better have little radical to offer. The Radical offerings from both Left (ie Paul Murphy) and Right (ie Hermann Kelly) can promise revolutionary changes because they know they'll never have to deliver on them because to the vast majority it won't wash, only to their own niche that keeps them just barely in.

Ireland is not in a **** place, and so the majority remain happy with the status quo. Do we want better healthcare and housing - absolutely! But is there a bigger worry that an unknown radical change would lead to wage reductions, job losses, degradation of services - imo yeah, probably.

And for our big shiny example of what can go wrong, we only have to look at Britain. They let populists like Johnson and Farage set an agenda for the last 10 years, and now their country really does look a divided basket case.

Did Barry Andrews not resign as CEO of GOAL a few years back after there was fraudulent activity going on behind the scene under his tenure? The Irish electorate have very short memories.

Or they do and are just unhappy about the result.