Sligo North Leitrim - FF 31% FG 39% SF 12%

[Gerrry]

Comiskey (FG) 1679
Devins (FF) 4368
Henry (FG) 1730
Higgins (Ind) 57
MacGarry (Lab) 1089
MacManus (SF) 2736
McSharry (ind) 104?
Perry (FG) 5607
Scanlon B (GP) 741
Scanlon E (FF) 5564

Rough percentages

FF 31%
FG 39%
SF 12%
Lab 5%

25 boxes left to tally in Sligo county and all of N Leitrim (20 boxes I think)

[Gerrry]

Final Tally - total poll 35,891

Eamonn Scanlon FF tops poll

Probably 2 FF 1 FG

Comiskey (FG) 4792
Devins (FF) 6535
Henry (FG) 2590
Higgins (Ind) 82
MacGarry (Lab) 1489
MacManus (SF) 4368
McSharry (ind) 340
Perry (FG) 6943
Scanlon B (GP) 1156
Scanlon E (FF) 8215

[Gary]

Do you have percentages for this Gerry

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Sorry, i see them there

[cullyhanna_man]

% % Quota
Comiskey (FG) 13.1% 52.5%
Devins (FF) 17.9% 71.6%
Henry (FG) 7.1% 28.4%
Higgins (Ind) 0.2% 0.9%
MacGarry (Lab) 4.1% 16.3%
MacManus (SF) 12.0% 47.9%
McSharry (ind) 0.9% 3.7%
Perry (FG) 19.0% 76.1%
Scanlon B (GP) 3.2% 12.7%
Scanlon E (FF) 22.5% 90.0%

[Gerrry]

Those earlier figures were wrong. Heres the correct final figures

Comiskey (FG) 4927
Devins (FF) 7061
Henry (FG) 2790
Higgins (Ind) 87
MacGarry (Lab) 1535
MacManus (SF) 4633
McSharry (ind) 353
Perry (FG) 7832
Scanlon B (GP) 1211
Scanlon E (FF) 9244

Total vote 39,673

Quota to be between 9500 and 10000

[Tubber25]

It seems Sean has held his vote but no real gain in votes for SF, Labour's votes is extremely poor 1,500!, down by over 1,000 1st preference than last time.

The labour party got 3,900 first preference in the local elections in 2004 and over 5,000 in 1997 before Marian Harkin came into politics.

E. Scanlon got some vote in Sligo town.

Brian Scanlon did very well, from as far I know he only did 10 nights canvassing and put up 50 posters, not bad

Looks like a left wing seat in Sligo is a long way off

[RetiredProvo]

Hats off to FF, they managed the vote very well to get Scanlon votes all over the place.
FG's messing between Comiskey and Henry delivering misleading leaflets on voting strategy in Sligo probably helped in their demise.
SF will be very disappointed with this FPV total. New candidate now required to build for next time.
Labour will take a long time to lick their wounds especially as GP' Scanlon nearly outpolled them.
The Bull - Eh, I got that one wrong. No comment

[Gerrry]

[quote="RetiredProvo"]SF will be very disappointed with this FPV total. New candidate now required to build for next time.
[quote]

The problem for them is who do they get to run?

[RetiredProvo]

SF will be very disappointed with this FPV total. New candidate now required to build for next time.

The problem for them is who do they get to run?

I know a tall gentleman with a well groomed mouthstache who may very well be approached in the near future

No seriously, based on Labour's implosion they should be looking at a Sligo town based candidate to capitalise on this.
Arthur G has no interest in going forward and Chris will be chomping at the bit to be allowed to run.
Instead of taking the easy option they need to blood someone else and quick. I don't think they can wait until the next locals to test the water as I don't think the 30th Dail will go full term.

[qtman]

Brian Scanlon did very well, from as far I know he only did 10 nights canvassing and put up 50 posters, not bad

Looks like a left wing seat in Sligo is a long way off

The GP have now overtaken Labour in the traditional Sligo-Leitrim constituency.

McDaid took 3.26% in South Leitrim and Scanlon took 3.2% in Sligo-North Leitrim. Pretty decent result coming off a zero base.