KILDARE: All You Need To Know as counting of votes in the Local and European Elections begins today

Counting in the Local Elections in Kildare gets underway today. 

All ballot boxes will be brought to the Champions Hall of the Curragh Racecourse where the Local Election votes will be separated from the European Election votes. 

Tally staff from political parties will watch the sorting of votes and will get an early indication of where votes are going. 

The Local Election ballot papers will then be brought to Punchestown where counting will get underway from 1pm. 

The European Election ballot papers from Kildare will be brought to the central count centre for the Midlands North West constituency in Castlebar, Co Mayo. 

COUNT TIMES:

Below are the estimated times when the counting starts in Punchestown Count Centre for each electoral area, according to the Council:

Saturday 1pm:

Maynooth and Clane

Saturday 2.30pm:

Celbridge and Naas

Sunday 9am:

Athy, Kildare, Newbridge & Leixlip

Kildare County Council is divided into eight areas - Athy (5 seats), Celbridge (4 seats), Clane (5 seats), Kildare (5 seats), Leixlip (3 seats), Maynooth (5 seats), Naas (7 seats) and Newbridge (6 seats)

Full list of candidates standing in Kildare

Athy (5 seats)

• Behan, Veralouise (Fianna Fail)
• Breslin, Aoife (Labour)
• Campbell, Geraldine (Sinn Fein)
• Carton, William (Independent Ireland)
• Casey, Anthony (Irish Freedom Party)
• Dooley, Brian (Fianna Fail)
• Keatley, Ivan (Fine Gael)
• Kenny, Brian (Fine Gael)
• Leigh, Mark (Labour)
• Maughan, Nichola (Non-Party)
• Owens, David (Fianna Fail)
• Redmond, Thomas (Sinn Fein)
• Wall, Rachael (Social Democrats)

Celbridge (4 seats)

• Heather, Rupert (Labour)
• Hughes, Peter Paul (Green Party)
• Monaghan, David (Sinn Fein)
• O'Rourke, Claire (Social Democrats)
• Panaite Fahey, Lumi (Fine Gael)
• Phelan, Zhyan (Non-Party)
• Toner, Daragh (Irish People)
• Trost, David (Fianna Fail)

  Clane (5 seats)

• Brennan, Killan (Sinn Fein)
• Coates, Eoin (Labour)
• Durkan, William (Fine Gael)
• Farrelly, Aidan (Social Democrats)
• Fitzpatrick, Daragh (Fianna Fail)
• Foley, Patricia (Green Party)
• McEvoy, Padraig (Non-Party)
• McKeown, Ryan (Independent Ireland)
• McLoughlin, Jessica (Non-Party)
• O'Connor, Una (Aontu)
• Roker, Sophie (Non-Party)
• Tuohy, Mick (Sinn Fein)
• Wyse, Brendan (Fine Gael)

  Kildare (5 seats)

• Balfe, Pat (Social Democrats)
• Benson, Lorraine (Green Party)
• Connolly, Noel (Sinn Fein)
• Crowe, Declan (Non-Party)
• Curran, Paddy (Fine Gael)
• Delaney, Denis (Non-Party)
• Doyle, Suzanne (Fianna Fail)
• Duffy, Kevin (Fine Gael)
• Goodwin, Aisling (Non-Party)
• Harrison, Chris (Labour)
• Ní Raghallaigh, Shonagh (Sinn Fein)
• O'Loughlin, Brian (Fianna Fail)
• Raymond O'Malley, Paul (Independent Ireland)

Leixlip (3 seats)

• Ali, Imran (Green Party)
• Caldwell, Bernard (Fianna Fail)
• Killeen, Nuala (Social Democrats)
• Neville, Joe (Fine Gael)
• O'Boyle, Joan (Sinn Fein)

Maynooth (5 seats)

• Durkan, Tim (Fine Gael)
• Feeney, Angela (Labour)
• Gaynor, Evelyn (Sinn Fein)
• Hamilton, Peter (Green Party)
• Lane, Tara (Fine Gael)
• Meade, Liam (Independent Ireland)
• Melrose, Peter (Social Democrats)
• Ó Cearúil, Naoise (Fianna Fail)
• Ward, Paul (Fianna Fail)

  Naas (7 seats)

• Breen, Anne (Labour)
• Brett, Fintan (Fine Gael)
• Clear, Bill (Social Democrats)
• Corcoran, Avril (Irish People)
• Dunne, Ciara (Fine Gael)
• Dunne, Ger (Independent Ireland)
• Hogan, Caroline (Sinn Fein)
• Kelly, Carmel (Fianna Fail)
• Larkin, Brian (Fianna Fail)
• Magee, Hugo (Non-Party)
• Moore, Seamie (Non-Party)
• Omini, Evangeline (Sinn Fein)
• O'Neill, Pauline (Sinn Fein)
• Quinn, Bob (Green Party)
• Sammon, Evie (Fine Gael)

  Newbridge (6 seats)

• Byrne, Melissa (Aontu)
• Conway, Aina (Labour)
• Garvin, James (Non-Party)
• Heavey, Noel (Fianna Fail)
• Maher, Ronan (Green Party)
• McCormack, Chris (Non-Party)
• McDonnell, Tom (Non-Party)
• O'Dwyer, Peggy (Fine Gael)
• O'Dwyer, Tracey (Fine Gael)
• O'Neill, Leanne (Non-Party)
• Pender, Chris (Social Democrats)
• Power, Rob (Fianna Fail)
• Stokes, James (Sinn Fein)
• Thorpe, Terri (Sinn Fein)