Cork North West: Completed tallies show main government parties ...

1pm:

The tally of the first preferences in Cork North West indicates that Fianna Fáil is retaining a slight edge over Fine Gael in the tussle between the two main Government parties to get the lion’s share of the three seats here.

With 100% of the boxes opened and tallied, Fianna Fáil’s Aindrias Moynihan appears to be heading for a poll-topping performance with 18.85% of the vote. Michael Moynihan’s vote share is being estimated at 17.67%.

Nevertheless the party looks to have the advantage over Fine Gael based on the tally of first preferences which has just been completed moments ago.

Fine Gael’s vote appears to have been well managed with Michael Creed, the cousin of the outgoing TD and bearing the same name, having secured 16.90% and John Paul O’Shea on 17.56%.

Sinn Féin’s first-time candidate in the constituency, Nicole Ryan, has put in a strong performance according to the tallies with 12.79% of the vote tallied so far and Becky Kealy of Aontú a distance behind on 7.9%.

The Green Party's Colette Finn, a former elected member of Cork City Council is on 2.4% while Joe Moore of People Before Profit, standing for the first time, is on 1.9%. Ellen Barry of Independent Ireland is on 2.15% while Walter Ryan Purcell, who had been initially on the party’s ticket, is on 0.97%. At the bottom of the poll in Cork North West is John O’Leary who is on 0.29%.

While it seems clear that the two main Government parties will share the seats, and the indications are that Fianna Fáil have the edge at the moment, the allocation of transfers will have a bearing and the edge may switch several times before the result is finalised later on Saturday night or early on Sunday.

12.15pm

The early indications from the ongoing tally of the Cork North West tally indicates that Fine Gael has a slight edge over Fianna Fáil in the tussle between the two main Government parties to get the lion’s share of the three seats here.

With almost two thirds of the boxes opened and tallied, Fianna Fáil’s Aindrias Moynihan appears to be heading for a poll-topping performance with 21% of the vote so far. 

Counting the Cork North-West votes at the Mallow Count Centre in the GAA Complex, Mallow, Co Cork. Picture Dan Linehan

Michael Moynihan’s vote share is being estimated at 13.9%, while the Fine Gael vote appears to have been well managed with Michael Creed, the cousin of the outgoing TD and bearing the same name, having secured 18.5% and John Paul O’Shea on 17.16%.

Sinn Féin’s first-time candidate in the constituency, Nicole Ryan, has put in a strong performance according to the tallies with 13.06% of the vote tallied so far and Becky Kealy of Aontú a distance behind on 7.61%.

Keeping tallies on the Cork North-West votes at the Mallow Count Centre in the GAA Complex, Mallow, Co Cork. Picture Dan Linehan

The Green Party’s candidate, Colette Finn, a former elected member of Cork City Council is on 2.66% while Joe Moore of People Before Profit, standing for the first time, is on 2%. 

Ellen Barry of Independent Ireland is on 2.18% while Walter Ryan Purcell, who had been initially on the party’s ticket, is on 1.05%. At the bottom of the poll in Cork North West is John O’Leary who is on 0.35%.