General Election Thread

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Stephen Donnelly got only 12 votes in one Greystones box.
Philip Dwyer only 1 in a Newtownmountkennedy box that gave 126 to Harris.

I can only express the deepest cringe at folk from round my way voting presumably on basis of "local boy done well" and giving Harris 30% of first preferences.

[astfgyl]

First count done in tipp. Lowry, Kelly, and the FF lad look to have it sorted. No change. Ah well.

Look, if the people decide they want more of the same, that's democracy for ya. Obviously I'm in the minority of voters because the status quo seems to be what is being repeated up and down the country

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Analysis coming in that FF have outperformed the exit polls and look set to take largest first preference share.

[Carnage]

Looking like the Independant Ireland clown is walking it here, SF and FF for the other two seats. FF guy is the only new TD, never heard of him but he's a right weirdo.

[astfgyl]

As much as SF annoy me, so we see any hope of them forming a government with anyone? They look like they'll come out on top in terms of seats but will that just be for another few years as useless opposition?

[Ollkiller]

Hutch comes fourth in the first count. Holy fuck. Could actually get in.

[astfgyl]

Sums up the whole lot of it really, the fact he got anywhere at all. Some country

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

No seat for Hutch in the end. Don't think there'll be any more elements of particular interest this time round. IrelandIsFull crowd absolutely crashed and burned, interesting though that the biggest share (around a fifth) of Gavin Pepper's transfers went to PBP's Conor Reddy (who has also since been eliminated I think).

[Pain Medicine]

As much as SF annoy me, so we see any hope of them forming a government with anyone? They look like they'll come out on top in terms of seats but will that just be for another few years as useless opposition?

Yes. They're down about 5% on 1st preference votes from 2020 so they're probably gonna end up with about the same, or fewer seats than last time.

From the way the predictions were going I thought FF/FG might have to try and form a government with both Labour and the Social Democrats but half the seats are filled now and it's looking like they'll only need one, or even neither.

[astfgyl]

Yeah the early indicators were that SF would increase their seats a bit but that looks to be out of the question.

Well the last 5 years have been just brilliant so it's no surprise people voted to keep it going

[Pain Medicine]

Stephen Donnelly probably gone is a bit of fun and Roderic O'Gorman is gonna be close if he makes it. Catherine Martin too. 3 sittings ministers.

[astfgyl]

Yeah it'd be nice to see oul Rodders getting the boot after the absolute scandals of tusla. And Donnelly as well, he's beyond useless.

Can't believe McEntee sailed back in though, it's like doing a good job or even just treading water isn't a requirement.

I do get that people will vote for government TDs in their own areas though, to have a bit of pull so that's likely a lot of it

[Emphyrio]

Ya, can't understand obvious failures being re-elected.

At least Donnelly is gone. He is in the classic shnakey mé féiner mould.

[John Kimble]

McEntee's success is a testament to short memory and cronyism in Irish politics. She presided over the Dublin riots and the general lawlessness in Dublin City Center (and other large population centers...Cork, Galway etc also gone to the dogs). But sure, she comes from good political stock so that's enough for a lot of people. Same old.

[astfgyl]

Yeah fuck that lad from a great height. One of the better political TV moments over the years was Vincent Browne making shit of Donnelly, and it was well deserved.

I'd have liked to see Nick Delehanty get in having followed him for a while on twitter he's a great lad to expose a bit of corruption but he was in a tough constituency.

Otherwise, I thought Aontù would do a lot better than they did but it wasn't to be. I'm not mad about them but I thought it was preferable to another far left mudguard making us poorer at every turn