No one was elected in the first count for Kilkenny City West electoral area Fianna Fail’s Matt Doran headed the poll on 1,319.
Fellow FF candidate, Joe Malone was the only other candidate to break 1,000 on 1,146 and is also assured of a seat. Fianna Fail should take three seats with Malcolm Noonan of the Greens likely to get a seat. However, the last two seats are too close to call and Fine Gael have an outside chance of two seats with four candidates. Sinn Fein’s Kathleen Funchion has 952 and that is still over 400 votes short of a quota and might just make it.
Kilkenny City West (6 seats) 14 candidates
Electorate - 17,274
Total poll - 9808
Invalid votes - 98
Valid poll - 9,710
Number of seats - 6
Quota - 1,388
Brett Martin FG 698
Coonan John FF 736
Croke Paul FG 252
Doran Matt FF 1,319
Fitzgerald David FG 886
Foley Conor Non-P 177
Funchion Kathleen SF 952
Hanczar Wladek Non P 139
Ireland Billy FG 633
Mac Liam Conor (AAA) 408
Malone Joe FF 1,146
Mc Kee Patrick FF 984
Noonan Malcolm Green 987
Ó hArgáin Seán Labour 393
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