TCDSeanadRace

General chat for those following the #TCDSeanad Bye-Election 2022. Feel free to send gossip, tag candidates and the Trinity electorate.
Non-partisan.

[Barry Ward 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @barrymward]

Congratulations to @TomClonan as he takes his seat in #SeanadÉireann for @tcddublin, this afternoon. Always nice to welcome another #Blackrock representative to Leinster House.
Fáilte! 👏👏👏
#Seanad #26úSeanad

[TCDSeanadRace @TCDSeanad]

And that’s that.

Congratulations to @TomClonan, now one of four (4) Senators from Dún Laoghaire, joining his Blackrock brethren, @boyhanvictor, @GCraughwell and @barrymward.

#TCDSeanad

[William Quill @WilliamQuill]

Count 16 of #DUseanad bye-election, distributing transfers from Chu:
5,358 Clonan (+1158)
5,198 Gaffney (+1290)

Tom Clonan elected to the 26th Seanad for Dublin University to fill the vacancy left by the election of Ivana Bacik to the Dáil. #TCDseanad
https://t.co/pZcixAProo

[William Quill @WilliamQuill]

Count 13 of #DUseanad, transfers from McCarthy:
2,973 Clonan (+336)
2,743 Chu (+160)
2,641 Gaffney (+203)
2,624 MacNeill (+233)
1,890 Quill (+117)

Quill has been eliminated and her votes will be transferred in the 14th count. #tcdseanad
https://t.co/pZcixAProo

[William Quill @WilliamQuill]

Count 6 of #DUseanad, transfer of Roseingrave's votes:
2,102 MacNeill (+10)
2,040 Clonan (+26)
1,972 Gaffney (+36)
1,842 Chu (+19)
1,246 Quill (+20)

Ó Giobúin has been eliminated and his votes will be transferred in the seventh count. #tcdseanad
https://t.co/pZcixAProo

[William Quill @WilliamQuill]

The count will resume at 9. The next few counts will have very little effect on the top candidates, but I will keep updates here for those interested in distribution of transfers. #TCDseanad #DUseanad

[Ireland Votes @Ireland_Votes]

Rosingrave (IND): 200
Barry (LP): 189
Ó Giobúin (IND): 182
Scanlon (IND): 170
McDermott (IND): 132
O’Shea (IND): 36

Abbas Ali O'Shea Eliminated

Electorate: ~68,000
Total Poll: 13,418
Turnout: 20.1% (-3.0)
Quota: 6,718

(2/2)

[Ireland Votes @Ireland_Votes]

TCD Seanad By-Election 2022

Count 1:

MacNeill (IND): 2,068
Clonan (IND): 1,947
Gaffney (IND): 1,882
Chu (GP): 1,766
Quill (LP): 1,156
McCarthy (IND): 947
O’Neill (IND): 870
Stocker (SD): 521
Oluborode (IND): 471
Bassett (IND): 458
McKenna (IND): 421

(1/2)

[TCDSeanadRace @TCDSeanad]

Re low voter turnout - it’s easy to say “electorate expansion is needed” or “scrap the franchise entirely” but it’s harder of course, to recognise this by-election:

a) was by no means an exciting race, and/or,
b) had any particular exciting candidate(s)

#TCDSeanad

[William Quill @WilliamQuill]

First Count result in #tcdseanad
2068 MacNeill
1947 Clonan
1766 Chu
1882 Gaffney
1156 Quill

https://t.co/MPRLRHqs4H

[William Quill @WilliamQuill]

Ready with the tally sheets. #tcdseanad

[Alan Kinsella @electionlit]

A Seanad by-election leaflet from Ryan Ó Giobúin

[Alan Kinsella @electionlit]

Seanad By-Election Leaflet from Catherine Stocker

[Alan Kinsella @electionlit]

Seanad By-Election Leaflet from Gisèle Scanlon

[Alan Kinsella @electionlit]

Seanad By-Election Leaflet from Ade Oluborode

[Alan Kinsella @electionlit]

Seanad By-Election Leaflet from Patricia McKenna

[Alan Kinsella @electionlit]

Seanad By-Election Leaflet from Aubrey McCarthy (which features Niall Quinn)

[Alan Kinsella @electionlit]

Seanad By-Election Leaflet from Tom Clonan