These elections now look like a straight shoot-out between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil to see who emerges as the biggest party when all the votes are counted.
These elections now look like a straight shoot-out between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil to see who emerges as the biggest party when all the votes are counted.Right now Fine Gael looks to have the edge and is best placed to become the biggest party in local government.
With thoughts of the next general election never too far from the surface, there are this afternoon some trends in Dublin of the Government parties transferring to one another.Yes, there will be an increase on its local election vote compared to 2019 but it will be far off those big expectations which appeared valid just a few weeks ago.
This is even the case in party leader Mary Lou McDonald's heartland of Cabra and Glasnevin, where Sinn Féin looks to have been out-polled by Fine Gael. The big question is, did the party make a strategic mistake in running far too many candidates? But the party will point out that this is, in the words of the academics,"a second order election," and their electoral form at this point five years ago proved no measure of their general election performance soon after.
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