How it started ...
All five TDs have now been elected from the Dublin West constituency after Count 13 saw Ruth Coppinger of People Before Profit-Solidarity and Green Party leader Roderic O'Gorman take the final two seats after a dramatic day of counting at Phibblestown Community Centre.
The final count also involved Aontú candidate Ellen Troy who was ahead of Mr O'Gorman going into the final count, which involved the distribution of 4,039 votes from Labour Party candidate John Walsh.
However, the Green Party leader took a substantial chunk of that surplus, gaining 1,730 votes to finish on 6,080, comfortably ahead of Ms Troy’s 5,003 to become the fifth elected TD in this count.
Ms Coppinger reached 7,165 votes and was the fourth TD elected.
Yesterday, the first three seats were filled when Fianna Fáil’s Jack Chambers and Sinn Féin’s Paul Donnelly were elected on the first count.
Mr Chambers had 9,446 first preferences and Mr Donnelly had 7,731 first preferences.
With an electorate of 78,034 and a total poll of 44,593, spoiled votes of 357, and total valid poll of 44,236, the quota in this five seater constituency was 7,373.
The third seat filled yesterday was Fine Gael’s Emer Currie reaching the quota on the second count - her first preference vote of 6,791 was added to by 788 on the second count of Mr Chambers surplus to reach 7,579.
Around 8pm tonight returning officer Ciaran Manning formally announced the result of Dublin West - the elected TDs being Jack Chambers; Paul Donnelly; Emer Currie; Ruth Coppinger and Roderic O’Gorman.
How it ended ...
