Two candidates elected on first count in Birr Electoral Area

Two candidates have been elected on the first count in the Birr Local Electoral Area with the quota at 1,712 votes.

Fianna Fail's Peter Ormond topped the poll with 1,943 votes with John Leahy also elected with 1,815 votes. 

Fine Gael's John Clendennen is just 150 short of the quota on 1,562 votes. Hi party colleague also passed 1,000 votes garnering 1,171 first preference ballots...

The full result of the first count in Birr is as follows.

Mike Boylan – Ind - 483

Martin Buckley – Ind - 429

Aubrey Claffey – Aontu - 191

Claire Claffey – SD - 603

John Clendennen – FG – 1,562

Barbara Daly – FF - 879

Michael Deegan – Ind - 380

Hugh Egan – FG – 1,171

Audrey Hennessy Kennedy– FF - 829

Garret Kelly – Ind - 71

Ekaterina Koneva – GP - 143

John Leahy – Ind - 1,815

Sean Maher – SF - 927

Jonathan O'Meara - 554

Peter Ormond – FF – 1,943