Irish local elections, 2014

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Longford tallies

Ballymahon (6 seats, quota 927)

*Colm Murray FG 924
Gerald Farrell FG 832
*Mark Casey Ind 815
*Mick Cahill FF 744
*Thomas Victory FF 672
Pat O'Toole FF 650
Paul Ross FG 648
*Seán Farrell FG 469
Edel Kelly SF 433
Niamh Moran Ind 304

Granard (6 seats, quota 1,025)

*Mícheál Carrigy FG 1,103
*P.J. Reilly FF 752
*John Duffy FG 748
Paraic Brady FG 734
*Luie McEntire FF 626
*Michael Mulleady FF 618
John Reilly SF 570
James Keogh Ind 505
*Frank Kilbride FG 485
John Coyle FF 382
Maura Kilbride-Harkin FG 342
Mary Lillis Ind 308

Longford (6 seats, quota 788)

*John Browne FG 709
Séamus Butler FF 675
*Peggy Nolan FG 623
Gerry Warnock Ind 604
Pádraig Connellan FF 503
Pádraig Loughrey FF 503
*Mae Sexton Ind 500
Yvonne Ní Mhurchú FG 481
*Paul Connell Ind 332
Barbara Smyth SF 246
Tony Flaherty Ind 235
Martin Clyne Ind 107

I'll post box tallies later if anyone is interested.

Of the indepedents, Lillis (Granard) and Flaherty (Longford) are FFers who lost out in nomination contests, Keogh (Granard) was FG until earlier this year.

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In case anyone was remarking on the slow pace of counting in the English local elections the other day, after fifteen hours of verification, tallying, sorting, counting and painfully meticulous rechecking of "doubtful" votes (including any votes which have a preference missing in the sequence or the same preference repeated twice), Longford County Council has managed two full counts in one electoral area with no elections and two eliminations and the count adjourned just after midnight.

We return at 11am tomorrow.

Pray for us. Or shoot us. Either will do the trick.

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You're doing even worse than Tower Hamlets

We may yet face recounts in two out of the three electoral areas. The count will almost certainly continue until Monday.

In other news, the Labour councillor tally currently stands at 9. The question is whether they will end up with more or fewer councillors than they have TDs.

Elsewhere, the Mandela of Kilgarvan expresses a nation's hopes:

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What's Tallaght like?

Because, you know, Tallaght Central and Tallaght South, combined council representation

SF 4, AAA 3, Labour 2, FF 1, PBP 1, i 1, FG 0. Yowza.

Lewis!!!! Welcome back (even if it is only for the World Cup)!!!

Updates from the Land That Time, God and Anyone With a Bit of Sense Forgot (Longford)

Longford: FF 2 (Butler and Loughrey), FG 2 (Browne and Nolan), Ind 2 (Warnock and Sexton)
Ballymahon: FG 3 (Murray  Gerald Farrell and Ross), FF 2 (Cahill and O'Toole), Ind 1 (Casey)
Granard: FG 1 (Carrigy).

The entire rest of the count has been deferred for a total recount until 11am tomorrow because veteran councillor Frank Kilbride is losing by three votes to Reilly (SF). The thing is, the three vote margin won't affect the final result: whoever gets through will not overhaul the lowest remaining FF candidate (McEntire) who is 70 votes ahead. Instead, the counting staff, the other candidates and their tallyers, and the local media have to spend another 10 or so hours in a local sports hall for a foregone conclusion. More astute Irish viewers may be reminded of Dick "Cock" Roche's virutoso performance in the last general election count.

The remaining seats will go to Reilly (FF), Mulleady (FF), Brady (FG) and Duffy (FG).

FG 8 (-2) FF 7 (-1) Ind 3 (-)