Brendan Howlin elected on the 9th Count. Pic: Jim Campbell
Michael D’Arcy will take the fourth seat in Wexford and Paul Kehoe will take the fifth!
However, there was a dramatic call for a recount after Paul Kehoe finished up 57 votes ahead of Johnny Mythen.
The recount will commence at 10 am on Monday morning.
Labour’s Brendan Howlin has been elected to the 32nd Dail on the ninth count. He received 302 votes from Aoife Byrne to arrive at 12,071 and exceed the quota of 11,944.
James Browne has also been elected on the tenth count with 12,434 and his surplus of 735 has been distributed.
David Lloyd, Emmet Moloney, Caroline Foxe, Ann Walsh (Green Party, Julie Hogan (Fine Gael), John Dwyer, Deirdre Wadding, Leonard Kelly, Aoife Byrne, Ger Carthy and Malcolm Byrne have been eliminated.
Turnout 72,352
Valid Turnout 71,661
Spoiled Votes 691
Five Seats
QUOTA 11,944
14th and FINAL COUNT (Distribution of Wallace’s surplus)
Browne, James (Fianna Fáil) +735, 12,434 ELECTED
Byrne, Aoife (Fianna Fáil) +72, 3,585 – ELIMINATED ON EIGHTH COUNT
Byrne, Malcolm (Fianna Fáil) +16, 7,409 ELIMINATED IN TWELFTH COUNT
Carthy, Ger (Indept) +186, 4,041 – ELIMINATED ON THE NINTH COUNT
D’Arcy, Michael (Fine Gael) +274, 11,645
Dwyer, John (Indept) +7,1,362 – ELIMINATED FIFTH COUNT
Foxe, Caroline (Indept) +26, 956 – ELIMINATED SECOND COUNT.
Hogan, Julie (Fine Gael) +39, 1,305 – ELIMINATED FOURTH COUNT
Howlin, Brendan (Lab) +302, 12,071 ELECTED
Kehoe, Paul (Fine Gael) +111, 9,704
Kelly, Leonard, (Social Democrats) +32, 2,179 -ELIMINATED SEVENTH COUNT
Lloyd, David (Direct Democracy Ireland) 128 – ELIMINATED COUNT ONE
Moloney, Emmet (Indept.) 476 – ELIMINATED COUNT ONE
Mythen, Johnny (Sinn Féin) +247, 9,652
Wadding, Deirdre (People Before Profit/AAA) +94, 1,843 – ELIMINATED COUNT SIX
Wallace, Mick (Indpts 4 Change) +41,490, 13,420 ELECTED
Walsh, Ann (Green Party) +29, 1,093 – ELIMINATED COUNT THREE
