– 82 out of 174 Dáil seats have been filled so far on the second day of counting in General Election 2024.
– Counting is now complete in 15 out of 43 constituencies.
– Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are tied with 22 TDs elected each. Sinn Féin have 17.
– Sinn Féin’s Rose Conway-Walsh was the first TD to be elected today after the sixth count in Mayo. The party also took a seat in Wicklow-Wexford, where Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin was elected. Louis O’Hara was elected in Galway East, Seán Crowe took a seat in Dublin South-West and Mark Ward was elected in Dublin Mid-West.
– Outgoing Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien kept his seat in Dublin Fingal East, while Fianna Fáil also saw Mary Butler retain her seat in Waterford. New candidate Albert Dolan was elected in Galway East, Seán Fleming was elected in Laois, Malcom Byrne in Wicklow-Wexford, James O’Connor in Cork East, Séamus McGrath in Cork South-Central and Dara Calleary in Mayo. In a blow for the party, junior minister Anne Rabbitte lost her seat in Galway East.
– The outgoing Minister for Public Expenditure, Paschal Donohoe, has retained his seat in Dublin Central, while James Geogheghan also took a seat for Fine Gael in Dublin Bay South. The party’s Brian Brennan and Grace Boland were elected in Wicklow-Wexford and Dublin Fingal West respectively. Alan Dillon has taken a seat in Mayo, John Cummins has been elected in Waterford and Peter Roche was elected in Galway East.
– Independent Mattie McGrath kept his seat in Tipperary South, while Independent Brian Stanley took the third and final seat in Laois.
– Gary Gannon of the Social Democrats was re-elected in Dublin Central, where all eyes are now on the race for the fourth and final seat, with Gerard Hutch in contention.
– Labour Party leader Ivana Bacik was the first Labour TD to be elected when she retained her seat in Dublin Bay South. The party’s Robert O’Donoghue has also been elected in Dublin Fingal West, while Marie Sherlock held off a challenge by Gerard Hutch for the final seat in Dublin Central.
– It looks likely at this stage that Fianna Fáil will come back as the biggest party, with strategists hoping for up to 48 seats.
– The Green Party has taken heavy losses and still hasn’t seen any TDs elected so far. Patrick Costello lost his seat in Dublin South-Central this afternoon. Neasa Hourigan was excluded in her Dublin Central constituency this morning.
– With all 43 first counts in, first preference vote for main parties is Fianna Fáil 21.9%, Fine Gael 20.8% and Sinn Féin 19.0%.
– A recount of count 13 in Louth is under way following a request by Aontú’s Michael O’Dowd. A recount of count 5 is progress in Tipperary South at the request of Sinn Féin’s Martin Browne.
