Constituency profile - Midlands North-West: Consensus remains that the three big parties and Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan will take four of the five seats
Midlands North West spans 15 counties in three provinces. There are 27 candidates on the slate – 10 more than in 2019. The counting of votes in MWN has been laboriously slow in the past; with so many names on the ballot paper, counting this time around could take a week.
It was the sole constituency where Sinn Féin retained a seat. That was attributable to Matt Carthy’s personal standing. The early consensus among observers, buttressed by The Irish Times opinion poll, was that each of the three bigger parties would return one MEP each, and that Flanagan has a nailed-on seat.Fianna Fáil needs to regain a seat, especially given that there is an extra seat. Has its decision to run three candidates backfired a little? There has been some unsavoury infighting, with Niall Blaney complaining he is not getting a fair crack of the whip.
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