Independent Ger Carthy is anticipated to top the poll with tallies suggesting that he received in excess of 1,900 first preference votes.
Sinn Fein’s Anthony Kelly is in a close second place with 1,800 plus votes.
Current mayor George Lawlor (Labour) is believed to have drawn almost 1,600 first preferences.
Fianna Fail’s Tony Dempsey is expected to have received upwards of 1,400 votes. Meanwhile, his party colleague Fergie Kehoe is next with almost 1,000 first preferences.
Fine Gael’s Jim Moore is next with in excess of 900 votes.
His party colleague Frank Staples is believed to be just three votes short of Cllr’s Moore’s tally of votes.
Sinn Fein’s Mick Roche is expected to have allotted in excess of 800 first preferences.
The remainder of the tally reads as follows:
Jim Allen (Fine Gael) – 782
Davy Hynes (Independent) – 631
Deirdre Wadding (People before Profit) – 607
Joe Ryan (Labour) – 481
Jane Johnstone (Independent’s Movement for Equality) – 479
Leonard Kelly (Independent) – 474
Bernie Mullen (Labour) – 468
Mark Fenlon (Fine Gael) – 380
Danny Forde (Green Party) – 380
Sandra Lacey (Fine Gael) – 355
Richard (Do Do) Lawlor (Independent) – 332
Donal Fallon (Independent) – 321
David Lloyd (Direct Democracy) – 111
Paul O’Hanlon (Independent) – 103