Longford Westmeath General Election 2024 update: Flaherty and Troy the biggest beneficiaries from distribution of Cunniffe votes following Count 5
Not surprisingly, Dympna Cunniffe’s Fianna Fáil party colleagues, Joe Flaherty and Robert Troy, were the biggest beneficiaries from the distribution of her 546 votes during Count 5 in the Longford Westmeath General Election 2024.
Flaherty gained 173 votes, with Troy receiving 110 votes and another to benefit substantially was Independent Kevin ‘Boxer’ Moran who received 99 votes from the Cunniffe distribution.
Fine Gael’s Tanya Cannon (658 votes) has now been eliminated and her votes will be distributed during Count 6.
There are now 13 candidates left in the contest to fill four seats and the leading five contenders are;
Robert Troy, Fianna Fáil 8,481
Kevin 'Boxer' Moran, Independent 8,237
Micheál Carrigy, Fine Gael 7,251
Sorca Clarke, Sinn Féin 7,072
Joe Flaherty, Fianna Fáil 5,429
Troy is still 1,834 votes shy of the 10,315 quota so it may be quite some time before a second candidate is declared officially elected.
The story so far…………….
ELECTED (quota 10,315)
Peter Burke (Fine Gael), 1st Count 10,864
Eliminated Candidates
Donal Jackson (Independent) 2nd Count
Charlotte Keenan (Independent) 2nd Count
Paul Bradley (Independent) 2nd Count
Carol Okeke (Green Party) 3rd Count
Dympna Cunniffe (Fianna Fáil) 4th Count
Tanya Cannon (Fine Gael) 5th Count