Galway East Constituency - General Election 2011

[C. Flower]

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Ciaran Cannon FG
ciaran.cannon@oireachtas.ie
website:
http://www.ciarancannon.finegael.ie

Paul Connaughton Jnr FG
paul.connaughtonjnr@oireachtas.ie
website:
http://www.paulconnaughtonjnr.finegael.ie

Colm Keaveney LAB
colm.keaveney@oireachtas.ie
website:
http://www.labour.ie/colmkeaveney

Michael Kitt FF
Michael.Kitt@Oireachtas.ie
website:
http://www.michaelkitt.com/

[C. Flower]

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[Dr. FIVE]

One of Ireland's finer areas if I do say so.

[TotalMayhem]

http://imgur.com/jGarf.jpg

[Fraxinus]

FG looking like getting 2 seats with P Connaughton and Cannon. Commentators saying FF's M Kitt will get a seat and Sean Canny Ind polling well so far.

[C. Flower]

FG hoping for 3 seats in Galway East.

[Fraxinus]

The tally results are as follows:

Paul Connaughton 7,218

Ciaran Cannon 6,818

Micheal Kitt 6,527

Tom McHugh 5,592

Sean Canney 5,523

Jimmy McClearn 5,124

Timmy Broderick 4,976

Colm Keaveney 4,202

Lorraine Higgins 3,492

http://www.galwaynews.ie/17903-galway-east-final-tally-revealed-fg-shout-three-seats

[Fraxinus]

Fg dreams of a treble here seem to be at an end http://www.galwaynews.ie/17904-galway-east-mcclearn-concedes-defeat

[Kid Ryder]

I think FG have a chance of 3 here. There are 2 strong independents who may not transfer one to another with any certainty. It's a slim chance, given that Lab have 7,000-odd votes between them and FF have almost a quota between theirs too. This could be very unpredictable.

[Dr. FIVE]

My no1 gone in the first count :rolleyes:

[TotalMayhem]

The recount has changed the result: Tom McHugh, FG is stil in the race, Tim Broderick, IND has been eliminated instead, there was two votes bewteen them before the recount.

[TotalMayhem]

http://imgur.com/cNl40.png

What looked like a safe LAB seat isn't anymore. I expect Broderick's transfers to be far more volatile than McHugh's.

[Kid Ryder]

Keavney may have this by a whisker. McHugh has to get north of 1,400 votes more than Keaveney from the surpluses to be distributed. Too tall an order for McHugh IMO, despite the antipathy that exists among farmers for the Labour party.

[TotalMayhem]

Yes, it's done and dusted.

KITT, Michael, FF
CONNAUGHTON, Paul, FG
CANNON, Ciaran, FG
KEAVENEY, Colm, IND