ELECTION UPDATE: Angie Baily Certain To Take Sixth Seat In Tralee

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Fine Gael’s Angie Baily with her family, son Regan daughter Ríann and husband Lei Zhang at the count centre on Sunday. Photo by Dermot Crean

FINE Gael candidate Angie Baily is certain to be elected to the Tralee Municipal District of Kerry County Council after the results of the 13th count were announced at John Mitchels GAA Complex this morning.

The Ballymac native gained 38 votes from Paul Daly’s surplus to put her on 1,518 votes, 274 ahead of the next nearest candidate, Fianna Fáil’s Anne O’Sullivan who received 24 more votes to reach 1,244.

Meanwhile Independent candidate Thomas McEllistrim got 75 transfers to put him on 1,225, just 19 votes behind O’Sullivan. The final count will see Cllr Sam Locke’s surplus of 37 distributed among the last three candidates to decide the last seat.

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See full results of 13th count below…

Quota: 1,688

• Baily, Angie (Fine Gael) – (+38) 1,518

• Daly, Paul (Sinn Féin) – (+494) 1,935 ELECTED

• Ferris, Deirdre (Sinn Féin) – 1,723 ELECTED

• Locke, Sam (Non-Party) – (+170) 1,725 ELECTED

McEllistrim, Thomas (Non-Party) – (+75) 1,225

• O’Brien, Terry (Labour) – 1,721 ELECTED

O’Sullivan, Anne (Fianna Fáil) – (+24) 1,244

• Sheehy, Mikey (Fianna Fáil) – 2,114 ELECTED.

110 non-transferable votes

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