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ELECTION 2024: Tallies For Tralee Suggest Ferris, O’Brien And Sheehy Should Retain Seats

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SITTING councillors Deirdre Ferris of Sinn Féin and Mikey Sheehy of Fianna Fáil look like retaining their seats on the Tralee Municipal District of Kerry County Council, going by th tallies this afternoon.

All 52 of the Tralee Local Electoral Area boxes have been opened and the tallies show Sheehy with 15.6% followed by Ferris and O’Brien, each with 11.5% of first preference votes.

Sinn Fein’s Paul Daly, a first time candidate, received 7.9% followed closely by sitting Cllr Sam Locke on 7.8%. Another first time candidate Anne O’Sullivan received 6.1% followed by Angie Baily of Fine Gael on 5.9%.

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Thomas McEllistrim received 5.7% of the vote with sitting Cllr Cathal Foley of Sinn Féin on 5.3%.  Fine Gael’s Sinead Donnelly received 5.1% of the vote with Anluan Dunne of the Green Party receiving 4.7%.

Next is Mistura Oyebanji of the Social Democrats on 3.2%, Jacob Sweeney of the National Party on 2.9%, Paddy Kevane of Sinn Féin 2.7%, Eddie O’Grady 2.3%, Ben Slimm 1.5% and Ame Abdurahman 0.2%.

Of course, these are only tallies and the official counting of votes has yet to take place and transfers will decide the final outcome of who will fill the seven seats.

The boxes will now be transported to the John Mitchels GAA Complex in Tralee for the counting of votes to take place.

See full results of tallies below…

Abdurahman, Ame (Non-Party) – 0.2%

Baily, Angie (Fine Gael) – 5.9%

Daly, Paul (Sinn Féin) – 7.9%

Donnelly, Sinéad (Fine Gael) – 5.1%

Dunne, Anluan (Green Party) – 4.7%

Ferris, Deirdre (Sinn Féin) – 11.5%

Foley, Cathal (Sinn Féin) – 5.3%

Kevane, Paddy (Sinn Féin) – 2.7%

Locke, Sam (Non-Party) – 7.8%

McEllistrim, Thomas (Non-Party) – 5.7%

O’Brien, Terry (Labour) – 11.5%

O’Grady, Eddie (The Irish People) – 2.3%

O’Sullivan, Anne (Fianna Fáil) – 6.1%

Oyebanji, Mistura (Social Democrats) – 3.2%

Sheehy, Mikey (Fianna Fáil) – 15.6%

Slimm, Ben (Labour) – 1.5%

Sweeney, Jacob (The National Party) –  2.9%

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