{"id":18281,"date":"2024-12-02T15:28:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T15:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/third-day-of-counting-to-continue-in-irish-general-election\/"},"modified":"2024-12-02T15:28:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T15:28:15","slug":"third-day-of-counting-to-continue-in-irish-general-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/third-day-of-counting-to-continue-in-irish-general-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Third day of counting to continue in Irish general election"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Eighty-eight seats are needed to secure a majority in the Irish general election<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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There are nine seats left to be filled in the Irish general election.<\/p>\n

Only a small number of seats separate the three major parties with Fianna F\u00e1il and Fine Gael best placed to form a coalition government. <\/p>\n

However, Sinn F\u00e9in insists it will still be involved in the coalition talks. <\/p>\n

Candidates fought it out for 174 seats in the D\u00e1il (Irish Parliament), 88 of which are needed to secure a majority.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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First preference percentage share for the largest three parties was: Fianna F\u00e1il 21.9%, Fine Gael 20.8%, Sinn F\u00e9in 19.0%.<\/p>\n

Turnout for the election was 59.7%, the lowest in more than a century.<\/p>\n

Counting began again after 09:00 local time on Monday, but currently Fianna F\u00e1il is in the lead with 44 seats.<\/p>\n

Fine Gael has 37 seats – the same number as the main outgoing opposition party Sinn F\u00e9in. <\/p>\n

Fianna F\u00e1il’s deputy leader Jack Chambers told RTE’s Morning Ireland on Monday that he did not expect a new government to be formed before Christmas.<\/p>\n

However, he said he did not expect talks to take five months like the last time.<\/p>\n

Fianna F\u00e1il and Fine Gael served together in the outgoing government, along with the Green Party.<\/p>\n

However, the Greens have had a disappointing election having secured just one seat so far. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Fianna F\u00e1il leader Miche\u00e1l Martin previously served as taoiseach from 2020 to 2022<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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After a second day of counting votes, Fianna F\u00e1il and Fine Gael are expected to return with a seat total in the mid-80s.<\/p>\n

To return to government, they may need the support of one of the smaller parties or a number of the many independent politicians who are expected to be elected as the counting of votes continues on Monday.<\/p>\n

The frontrunner to be the next taoiseach (Irish prime minister) is Fianna F\u00e1il leader Mich\u00e9al Martin.<\/p>\n

However Sinn F\u00e9in is adamant that it has a role to play in the negotiations and plans to consult with other left-leaning parties. <\/p>\n

But, at best, those parties are likely to finish with a combined total in the 60s and would therefore need the support of independents. <\/p>\n

Based on current predictions, the scale of the challenge facing Sinn F\u00e9in is enormous.<\/p>\n

Nothing at this stage can be ruled out as weeks, if not months, of political talks are now likely.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jack Chambers said his party is “very clear” on its position with Sinn F\u00e9in<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Former Finance Minister, Fianna F\u00e1il\u2019s Jack Chambers, who was re-elected in the Dublin West constituency, said his party was “very clear” on its position with Sinn F\u00e9in.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no common ground when it comes to substance in policy,” he added.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the BBC’s Good Morning Ulster, Chambers said: \u201cWe\u2019re going to significantly increase our representation here in the capital of Dublin and indeed across the country. <\/p>\n

“And we will have a greater level of representation in the next D\u00e1il than we did in the last one, and that\u2019s having served in government when we had serious economic challenges.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Among the new Teachta\u00ed D\u00e1la (TDs), as members of the D\u00e1il are known, is Fine Gael’s Emer Currie.<\/p>\n

The former Irish senator is a daughter of the late Northern Ireland politician Austin Currie, who co-founded the Social Democratic and Labour Party.<\/p>\n

“He would have been absolutely delighted,” Currie told Good Morning Ulster, adding that her election was a “very special” moment for her whole family. <\/p>\n

With her party in line to return to government, Currie said the result of the election seemed to indicate that the public was content with the status quo. <\/p>\n

“It\u2019s a statement that they felt that Fine Gael and Fianna F\u00e1il were working well together,” she said. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sinn F\u00e9in’s Mair\u00e9ad Farrell, who topped the poll in Galway West, said Sinn F\u00e9in were going to speak “to other progressive parties” to consider “how we can move forward”.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019ve always been very clear that we want to be in government, we believe strongly that there needs to be a mandate for change and that all parties should listen to the electorate,” she added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mair\u00e9ad Farrell said she is personally “pleased with the outcome of this election”<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Meanwhile, Cian O’Callaghan, deputy leader of Social Democrats, said there was a “possibility of a coalition with left parties in it” but due to the results so far, a left only government would not be possible.<\/p>\n

Callaghan has been re-elected in Dublin Bay North.<\/p>\n

Responding to claims that the left failed to coalesce their argument before the election, O’Callaghan said: “I think every party needs to stand on their own two feet and make the case to the electorate as to why people should vote for them.<\/p>\n

“The reason we have different parties is because there is differences and it gives people a different choice as well in the election.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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O’Callaghan says there is a “possibility” of a coalition with left parties in it<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

Greens ‘lost all but one’<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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Green leader Roderick O’Gorman is the only member of his party to retain his seat so far<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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The Green Party will be “very disappointed” in their results according to Lisa Keenan, assistant professor of political science at Trinity College, Dublin. <\/p>\n

The Greens were the smallest junior coalition partner in the last government.<\/p>\n

“They were going into in this election with 12 seats, they\u2019ve lost all but one,” she said. <\/p>\n

“They were perceived to be lucky to hold on to that one \u2013 that\u2019s the seat of their leader Roderic O\u2019Gorman.<\/p>\n

“And I think for them it\u2019s a little bit tough to take in a sense that in government they achieved many, many important policy wins.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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