Exit polls indicate a tight race between the three main parties in the Irish General Election. Key figures like Roderic O’Gorman and Stephen Donnelly face challenges to retain their seats, while Gerry Hutch appears set for a Dáil seat. Counting is underway in Cork and across the country, with 174 TD positions at stake in 43 constituencies.
Election 2024 live updates: Some Ministers could be in trouble, while tallies show Gerry Hutch in contention for Dáil seat
As it stands, Ms McEntee has 21 per cent of votes, followed by Byrne at 13 per cent, and O’Rourke close by at 12 per cent. The Sinn Féin candidate was the first elected in the area in the 2020 election. It looks like a battle royal for the fifth seat, between Francis Timmons on 5.2 per cent; Eoin O Broin 6.1 per cent; Gino Kenny on 5.6 per cent and Paul Gogarty 6.9 per cent.
With a population of 138,547, Dublin West is one of the fastest growing constituencies in the country and has five seats up for grabs in this general election.
Elaine Mullally , Maria McCormack and former FG councillor Aisling Moran are also pulling in votes from across the three-seat constituency.Minister of State Ossian Smyth facing a battle to retain his seat in Dun Laoghaire with the Green Party candidate on just over 7.5 per cent, reportsFine Gael on about 34 per cent combined with party sources saying Blackrock and Wyvern boxes currently being opened having the potential to boost that slightly.
The outgoing Dublin Bay North TD said what he saw was “the blowing up of very small errors to dominate the campaign.Mr Bruton said “I think traditional media sort of followed the social media line of the sensational over the substance. He is in a battle with Independent Barry Heneghan for the last seat while Labour faces a difficulty in holding on to the seat formerly held by MEP Aodhán Ó Riordáin with Independent John Lyons “not doing as well as people might have hoped for him”.
Podcasts were also on 2 per cent while 18 per cent of respondents said “something else” helped them to form their opinion before voting. The highest level of trust in politicians was to be found among Green Party supporters with 78 per cent of these saying most politicians are trustworthy. The same answer was given by 73 per cent of Fine Gael voters and 66 per cent of Fianna Fáil supporters.
It’s a fair question for sure give the exit poll and the likely outcome of the election but there won’t be many people under the age of 50 who have any idea what he is talking about.All heads down at the RDS Simmonscourt. The tallies are flying in from all over the country but it will be hours yet before we have any results. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA WireWith 12 per cent of the boxes open FF’s Jack Chambers and SF’s Paul Donnelly are steaming ahead.
Former Social Democrats leader Róisín Shortall said the party is “certainly very encouraged by the 5.8 per cent” in Friday’s exit poll, writes“It’s really good and it’s almost double what we had in the last election,” she said. Not the easiest thing in the world however as “everyone has different views on how to do it” says one tally man. The efforts follow hit and miss tallies in the local elections.Conor Pope - 2 hours ago
Speaking on RTE’s Morning Ireland he denied that there was no difference between his party and Fine Gael and as a result little alternative for votersHe said the “real story” was the Sinn Féin vote. ' A year or two they were in the mid 30s they’re now back around 20 per cent.”The Green Party’s director of elections Pauline O’Reilly has said that while she doesn’t want to “count chickens before they’ve hatched” she believes the party will be returning to the Dáil with some seats.
Nearly a third of voters said they would prefer a coalition of just Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil; a further 9 per cent preferred a government of those two parties plus independents; while a further 9 per cent said they would like to see a government of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and one or more smaller parties.
By 11am some decent tallies will start coming in that should give us an even better sense of where things are going than the exit polls did.
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