Tag: 2020 General Election

Charlie Flanagan has been elected on the 10th count in the Laois-Offaly constituency having been put over the quota by his running mate Marcella...

There have been many shock results in the 2020 General Election but one of the bigger ones has been the defeat of Fianna Fail's...

Fine Gael's Marcella Corcoran-Kennedy has officially lost her seat following the 9th count in the Laois-Offaly constituency. The distribution of Barry Cowen's surplus of 591...

The town of Portarlington has a TD for the first time in over 90 years following the election of independent candidate Dr Cathal Berry...

Fianna Fail's Barry Cowen has been re-elected to the Dail on the 8th count in the Laois-Offaly constituency following the distribution of the votes...

Kildare South is playing out as a bit of a nightmare for Fianna Fáil. Instead of securing a gain which they had targeted they are...

He was tipped by many to win a seat before the election - but Peter Ormand is out of the race in Laois-Offaly. The Fianna...

Brian Stanley, who topped the poll on the first count, is still the only person in the Laois-Offaly constituency to be elected after six...

Sinn Fein's Patricia Ryan has been elected on the sixth count in the Kildare South constituency. She topped the poll last night but had to...

Portlaoise-based Labour candidate Noel Tuohy has been eliminated after the 5th count in the Laois-Offaly constituency with the elimination of Stephen Tynan's votes. Cllr Tuohy,...

Outgoing Fianna Fail TD is back in third place in Kildare South following the elimination of her running mate Suzanne Doyle in the 5th...

There are certain words that are only used when there's an election on - quotas, tallies, surplus and counts. As Day 2 of 2020 General...

Fianna Fail candidates benefited from over 1,300 of Pauline Flanagan's transfers on the fourth count in the Laois-Offaly constituency. But there still has been nobody...

A Sinn Fein surge, they say. Scratch that. This was a tsunami. A tsunami of support that swept away everything in its political path. Laois,...

Every so often an election throws up a result that history will remember in simple terms. Jack Lynch’s landslide success with Fianna Fáil in 1977;...

Counting has concluded for the night in the Kildare South constituency - with a three-way battle taking place for the last seat. Outgoing Fianna Fail...

Day 1 of General Election 2020 has come to an end - and what a roller-coaster it has been. The story across the country was...

Counting in the Laois-Offaly constituency has been postponed until Monday morning with the elimination of Fianna Fail's Pauline Flanagan and no further elections. The distribution...

Independent Carol Nolan - a former member of the Sinn Fein party - has strengthened her grip on the fifth seat in the Laois-Offaly...

The big day is finally here. After weeks (and years in some cases) of planning, campaigning, canvassing and finally voting - we can now...

Brought to you in association with Midlands Park Hotel There have been big election results before - but this one is like never before. The people...

Laois-Offaly Fianna Fail candidate Barry Cowen has labelled the huge surge in Sinn Fein support as a 'costly punt'. Mr Cowen, who is well placed...

Sinn Fein's Patricia Ryan is on course for election in the Kildare South constituency. Voters from Portarlington, Killenard and Ballybrittas took part in this constituency...

Brian Stanley has become the first person from the Laois-Offaly constituency to be elected to the 33rd Dail. The Sinn Fein candidate has topped the...

Sinn Fein are also on course to top the poll in the Kildare South constituency with the Monasterevin candidate Patricia Ryan set to take...

Pippa Hackett recorded The Green Party's best ever vote in Laois-Offaly as first count results were published this evening - but it will not...

"You could go on holidays and still get elected for Sinn Féin," a shrewd political observer said to me during the week. It turns out...

As in keeping with the huge increase in support for Sinn Féin nationally, Laois’s Brian Stanley is on course to top the poll in...

Sinn Fein's Brian Stanley is set to break 16,000 votes and have almost 5,000 of a surplus, according to the final tallies compiled by...

Brian Stanley to increase vote by almost double  Marcella Corcoran-Kennedy to lose out Carol Nolan leads the way for fifth seat Sean Fleming,...