Irish Election Results Thread

[minionofmidas]

Thank God. There is still some insanity left in this world.

[minionofmidas]

The cap survives:
http://www.rte.ie/news/election2011/results/kerry-south.html

"Kapp" in my dialect is a mild insult also used as a term of an endearment, and implying stupidity or sillyness.
Very fitting, somehow.

[minionofmidas]

Boyd also elected - gap grew on surplus redistribution.

[minionofmidas]

Funny how the five outstanding constituencies split the country down the middle.

[minionofmidas]

Carlow-Kilkenny didn't manage to elect five candidates in one count. It actually looked possible (though never likely.) Now the SF redistribution elected Labour and one FF guy, and they're redistributing Labour's surplus to show nothing in the world can save the other FF guy and there are indeed three FG seats here.

[minionofmidas]

And technically, the last Green is only just being redistributed now by the slowcounting folks of Wicklow.

[minionofmidas]

Derek Nolan elected in Galway, with a mini surplus still large enough to determine which FG candidate gets the shaft. (The other two and Noel Grealish would then presumably be elected, shutting Catherine Connolly out.)

[minionofmidas]

Are those the Healy-Raes?

Aye.

Pretty much everywhere now being on hold as lesser FG candidates seek recounts. [/slight exaggeration. Alas, slight]

[minionofmidas]

The quota is not amended.

Griffin's surplus was 1540. Healy-Rae's lead on Sheehan (a third defeated FG incumbent, btw) was only 1461. You're right that Fleming was actually safe by then, but declaring someone elected without a quota when there are still things to count is apparently not done.

[minionofmidas]

Why does Dick Roche want a recount? He's not going to win.

Nor is Liam Quinn.

[minionofmidas]

Have any recounts changed results so far?  Even the order of eliminations, declared elections and surpluss transfers?

There's a rumour that the all day Galway East recount will result in McHugh pipping Broderick after all.

[minionofmidas]

And Wicklow has apparently adjourned. They seem to think they have many months to count.

[minionofmidas]

Which type of politicAL distirbution the new independents are.

Tom Fleming, Michael Healy-Rae, Mattie McGrath - iFF
Michael Lowry - iFG, not that it makes a difference in practice
Shane Ross, Mick Wallace - sorta like the PDs
John Halligan, Seamus Healy - Trots
Finian McGrath, Maureen O'Sullivan - also left field, but not far out or anything
Catherine Murphy - ?
Thomas Pringle - ?
Ming Flanagan - free weed & free peat

[minionofmidas]

So I misremembered on Wallace.

The Workers Party is... to SF as Trots are to Labour? Is that an apt analogy?

[minionofmidas]

The Workers' Party are Tankies.

Meh, same thing. To other Trots as other Trots are to Labour. Except that Halligan has left because he wasn't tankie enough for the party anymore, so...

[minionofmidas]

Broderick's vote went mostly to Kitt, Connaughton and Cannon, all of which are now elected. Keaveney is ahead of McHugh by about 1200 votes, and there's about 1000 votes of FF surplus and 800 votes of FG surplus. I suppose they'll try to wrap that up tonight while the other counts all continue tomorrow.

I suppose counts today - and especially from tomorrow on - function on less personnel than yesterday night? Which would also explain the tales of legendary counts going on for up to ten days?

[minionofmidas]

Yes, that is the way it's done.

[minionofmidas]

Since Irish is treated as a majority language in theory, and English in practice, what language would that policy apply to? The Cap Mor's lingo?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PYbIGmQFLY (from 1:08)

[minionofmidas]

Apparently Ireland also elected its first ever openly gay TD in Dominic Hannigan (Labour - Meath E)

[minionofmidas]

"RTÉ's Valerie Cox says the Wicklow ballot was double-sided and the size of a tabloid newspaper page, so has been very hard to count."

Who's dumb enough to make an STV ballot double-sided? I demand that heads roll. (No objection to the size - you should see our local election ballot. Heck, I got a sample here. I'll measure it. Coming up in a minute.)

[minionofmidas]

Approximately 65 by 120 centimeters. There are  889 candidates...

[minionofmidas]

Approximately 65 by 120 centimeters. There are  889 candidates...

     Never occurred to them to render the ballot on multiple sheets, eh?

They probably noticed that that would be even less userfriendly. This is a single election. There are 93 seats to fill and everybody has 93 votes. (Open-list PR.)

[minionofmidas]

And that in Wicklow has apparently arrived. Dick Roche is still eliminated.

[minionofmidas]

OMG! Roving hordes of homosexuals in Leinster House!

[minionofmidas]

Wonder what the point of withdrawing the recount request within a minute was? If he'd just reconsidered he could have done that before the formal announcement - maybe it was intended as some silly kind of message?

Mind you. With hindsight it's good that Dick Roche got the major recount (it did shuffle quite a few figures, though he didn't benefit) out of the way as it would have to have happened anyways. And the same is true in Galway West (quite apart from the fact that Healy Eames might have gone on to win if not eliminated at that stage)... leaving Liam Quinn as the only pointlessly obnoxious recount hound.