Where are we now on the second day of counting at the General Election 2024 Carlow/Kilkenny
After a long day of counting on the first day let's see where we are at
Following a long first day at the Count Centre here in Kilkenny for the Carlow/Kilkenny Constituency we managed to get one count over the line at around 11 last night and the picture became a bit clearer.
With no candidate being elected and three candidates being eliminated we edge closer to our first elected candidate at this General Election.
The results from the from the first count, with the elected quota standing at 11,627, saw two candidates edge closer to being elected.
Two Fianna Fáil candidates, Kilkenny's John McGuiness, topped the poll with 9,794 votes, and Carlow's Jennifer Murnane O'Connor currently at 8,087 first preference votes.
Fianna Fáil's Peter 'Chap' Cleere then is slightly behind his two running mates at 7,194.
The real battle then comes for then for the next three candidates, with two Carlow candidates who missed out on seats in the Local Elections earlier in the year, Fine Gael's Catherine Callaghan (6,788) and Sinn Féin's Áine Gladney Knox (6,479).
Just behind them then is Sinn Féin's Natasha Newsome Drennan with 5,495 first preference votes.
Three candidates were excluded from the first count they are, John O'Leary, Noel G Walsh, and David Egan.
The full list of votes from the first count are as follows:
Callaghan, Catherine - 6,788
Cleere, Peter 'Chap' - 7,194
Donohoe, Orla - 737
Doyle, Michael - 4,955
Egan, David - 169 Excluded
Fitzgerald, David - 4,743
Gladney Knox, Áine - 6,479
McGuiness Eugene - 1,622
Healy, Tom - 501
McGuiness John -9,794
Murnane O'Connor, Jennifer - 8,087
Newsome Drennan, Natasha - 5,495
Noonan, Malcom - 2,919
Ó hArgáin, Seán - 1,725
O'Connor, Luke - 1,232
O'Leary, John - 26 Excluded
O'Neill, Gary - 2,378
Stephenson, Patricia - 3,387
Wallace, Adrianne - 1,465
Walsh, Noel G - 65 Excluded