THE race to fill those four remaining seats in the Tralee Municipal District of Kerry County Council is really hotting up now after the result of the tenth count was announced.

The count saw the distribution of the Green Party candidate Anluan Dunne’s 899 votes with Fine Gael’s Angie Baily as the main beneficiary with 212 transfers.

Cllr Sam Locke is in the lead on 1,549 votes followed by Sinn Féin’s Paul Daly on 1,436 followed by Angie Baily of Fine Gael on 1,413, Fianna Fáil’s Anne O’Sullivan on 1,162, Thomas McEllistrim (Ind) on 1,083 and Cathal Foley on 1,051.

Continued below…

The eleventh count will consist of the distribution of Cllr Terry O’Brien’s surplus of 33 votes. With 32 votes between Cllr Cathal Foley and Tom McEllistrim, it looks like Cllr Foley will be eliminated after this count and his votes will be distributed for the 12th and final count.

See full results of tenth count below…

Quota: 1,688

Baily, Angie (Fine Gael) – (+212) 1,413

Daly, Paul (Sinn Féin) – (+120) 1,436

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

Foley, Cathal (Sinn Féin) – (+80) 1,051

Locke, Sam (Non-Party) – (+121) 1,549

McEllistrim, Thomas (Non-Party) – (+59) 1,083

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

O’Sullivan, Anne (Fianna Fáil) – (+103) 1,162

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

204 Nontransferable votes

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