By-election update: What do we know?
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Now we're awaiting the count in two. Closely watched by elections this morning in Dublin Central and Galway West. Turnout appears to have fallen short of expectations. Early indications suggest participation hovering around 40% of the capital and maybe just over 44% in Galway. We'll get clarification later. of those numbers very, very shortly. But first we'll go to Dublin Central.
What are the latest updates on the Dublin Central by-election?
Barry White is covering the count there. Barry, good morning. Hi, Pat. Good morning. Now, how many boxes have been opened? How few, I suppose I should ask?
What are the early turnout figures for Dublin Central and Galway West?
And what are the early tallies indicating?
Good morning, Pat. Yeah, look, it's still early here at the Crown Centre in the RDS in Simmons Court, but the tallies are already beginning to give us a clear picture of how this Dublin Central by-election is shaping up. And it's worth saying, Pat, there's a very strong tally operation in place here this morning with party teams working together across the Crown floor. So these figures are expected to be quite accurate. That's normally the case when all the parties work together. So, with almost three quarters of the boxes now opened and tallied, the early tallies show Janice Boylan of Sinn Féin on 19.8%, Daniel Ennis of the Sock Dems on 18.3%, independent candidate Gerry Hutch, 13.5%, Maliki Steenson on 10.8%, Janet Horner of the Green Party on 10.6%, Phineas Ray McAdam on 9.2%, Mona Canavan of People for Profit on 7.1%,
Labour's Ruth O'Dea on 5%, Fianna Fáil's John Stevens on 3.1% and Ian Noel Smith of Aintoo on 1.9%. So Pat, there are a few clear trends here emerging already. Daniel Ennis is performing particularly strongly in the north inner city and at this stage looks to have the momentum behind him. Another notable development is the stronger than expected showing from both the Green Party's Janet Horner. and People Before Profits own a Canavon, their votes would be expected to transfer predominantly to other left-leaning candidates, so particularly Daniel Ennis and Janice Boylan. So while there's still a long way to go in this count, it is increasingly looking like a two-candidate race between the Social Democrats and Sinn Féin, with Daniel Ennis at this point appearing to have the edge, because I think the transfers of the Green Party and People Before Profits will likely favour him more.
And finally, Barry, you're surrounded by wise old heads at the count in Simmons Court in the RDS. When are they predicting we'll have a result? Because is this likely to be late tonight or even tomorrow?
It depends who you speak to, Pat. But I know that the Dublin Bay South by-election a few years ago had a valid poll of around 29,000. And that went on to 9pm at night. The valid poll here is expected to be around 23,000. So I'm hoping that maybe by 7, 8 o'clock this will be done. And I know you mentioned turnout there, Pat, earlier. According to the tally so far, with about three quarters of the boxes tallied, the turnout looks like it's only around 36% so far in Dublin Central. So very, very low.
OK, Barry White, our chief reporter, thank you very much. We'll go to the tennis club at Salt Hill where Emily Keegan is counting the votes for us there. Emily, good morning.
Good morning, Pat.
What's the story? Turnout, first of all, and then tallies.
Yeah, so we've got about 30% of boxes open here now in Salt Hill and turnout so far is coming in at around 41%. We've just in the past 40 minutes or so started to move out of the Galway City boxes and into the Galway County ones. So that's given a boost to the turnout figures. So far, we've got three kind of clear front runners, Fine Gael, Sean Cain, is currently at 19% in the lead, followed by Independent Ireland's Noel Thomas at 17%, and he's then followed by Helen Ogboo of Labour at 14%. Now, those numbers do keep fluctuating. They kind of keep passing each other out because it is still very early stages here in Galway West too, so it's changing all the time by the minute, practically.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–0:31
2
What are the latest updates on the Dublin Central by-election?
0:31–0:40
3
What are the early turnout figures for Dublin Central and Galway West?
0:40–5:28
4
Who are the leading candidates in the Dublin Central by-election?
5:28–8:50
5
What trends are emerging from the Dublin Central vote tallies?
8:50–11:14