Carol Nolan was first elected to the Birr Electoral Area of Offaly County Council in 2014, taking just over 10% of the vote and being elected on the 5th count (with Fine Gael transfers). She also took a quarter of John Leahy’s first count surplus – Leahy outpolled her by more than 2 to 1 in this contest, but she was to best him in both the 2016 and 2020 General Elections.
The 2016 General Election
The 2020 General Election
Changes between 2016 and 2020
Conclusion
Working on Cavan Maps for the 2016 General Election at the moment.
Here’s a sneak preview of the Poll-toppers.
The fact that Heather Humphreys was the highest poller in Cootehill and surrounds goes a long way towards highlighting Fine Gael’s failure to manage their vote and keep their two seats.
Niamh Smyth polled strongly in Bailieborough and surrounding areas (most notably in Shercock), and this combined with a good showing in South Monaghan just about managed to get her over the line ahead of Joe O’Reilly of Fine Gael.
Kathryn Reilly topped the poll in Ballyjamesduff and in Cavan town – but failed to make the anticipated breakthrough.
The Dun Laoghaire poll-toppers in 2016.
Sitting TD Mary Mitchell-O’Connor of Fine Gael mainly to the east, Maria Bailey mainly to the west and Richard Boyd-Barrett in the working-class areas running down the middle of the constituency.
Tally Maps for the Donegal Constituency are now for sale on www.tallyrifficmaps.com
Each package contains a map – an example of which is shown below (Tim Jackson’s share of the Vote)
Here at Tallyriffic Towers, we are lucky enough to have access to tallies going back as far as the 1980s in some cases. This allows to do some interesting comparisons – such as the swing between Pat The Cope Gallagher’s vote in 1992 in the old Donegal South-West and the Venerable Gentleman’s vote in Donegal this year.
Drop us a line if you have any old tallies you can send us…. Continue reading WHAT A DIFFERENCE A QUARTER OF A CENTURY MAKES…
Overall the two Dohertys took around 4100 of the 9600 Sinn Fein votes in the old Donegal North-East (the Google Earth screenshot below shows Padraig Maclochlainn’s share of the Sinn Fein vote in the old Donegal North East) – by contrast MacLochlainn only took 200 of the 10200 party votes in the old Donegal South-West. A case could be made that Pearse Doherty’s significant national media presence might explain his getting votes in t…he old Donegal North-East, but surely – given his similarly prominent media presence – you would then expect MacLochlainn to be picking up a noticeable tally of votes across the old Donegal South-West. Continue reading MACLOCHLAINN OUT OF LUCK – OR VOTES? (pt 2)
Dublin South-West is a constituency of contrasts – nearly one-half of voters live in predominantly working-class areas, while one-third of voters live in predominantly middle-class areas. And there are sharp contrasts in how the votes fell in the different areas. Continue reading SCENES FROM THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN DUBLIN STH-WEST
After the 2011 Election, Sinn Fein seemed set to dominate the Tallaght vote and quite possibly take 2 out of the 5 seats in the new Dublin Sth-West.
However their failure to win the by-election in 2014 telegraphed that their dominance was far from assured – although even that result failed to presage that their vote in 2016 would in fact slip back from their 2011 vote (they took 17% in the old South-West constituency area in February versus 20% in 2011). Continue reading RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE AAA-PBPS
Tally Maps for the Cork North-West Constituency are now for sale on www.tallyrifficmaps.com
Each package contains a map – an example of which is shown below (Diarmuid O’Flynn’s share of the vote)
Each package also contain several Google Earth screenshots which focus on particular areas of the map and show the geographical areas underneath – the example is one of the Screenshots of the swing in Aine Collins’ vote since 2011.
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Finally each package contains a spreadsheet showing how the vote was cast in each polling station.
There are also “Mega” packages of multiple maps with per unit discounts….
