Irish local elections, 2014

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Labour held up fairly well in my county of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown and even one of their candidates topped the poll in my ward (Lettie McCarthy) - one of two LEAs in Dublin that did so... which probably sums up Labour's problems right now.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Oh, before I forget, RTEs coverage was truly awful. Made me grateful for having the Internet again (but even then again, getting good info has been far harder than it should be).

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Here's a very nerdy site that re-creates the live counts

I'll have more to say about it later but it makes really clear that a substantial proportion of voters were just preferencing independents regardless of who they were ahead of any 'party' candidate (real pity therefore it doesn't separate the Far left candidates from the other Indos)

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Here's a very nerdy site that re-creates the live counts

that is terrific! how come tey are so bad at keeping transfers within the same party?

Usually it is because of personal voting (both for the number one preference and for the later candidates) and, especially in the non-urban wards, geographical preference (i.e. voting for people from 'your' area ahead of those who aren't regardless of party, although there are limits to this)