GALWAY EAST – Ballinasloe boxes to be opened first

Date Published: 25-Feb-2011

BY DECLAN TIERNEY

The counting of votes in the Galway East constituency will commence at 9 a.m. on Saturday morning.

The first boxes to be opened will be those from Ballinasloe Electoral Area followed by the boxes from the Loughrea Electoral Area and finally the boxes from the Tuam Electoral Area.

A total of 72 tallymen will be operating at the count centre in New Inn once counting staff commence the opening of the boxes and it is expected that a tally will be completed by around midday or shortly after. This will give an indication of where the four seats will go.

Keep up-to-date with all the tallies, counts, news and drama from the Galway East count here on galwaynews.ie, on Facebook (search for galwaynews.ie) and on Twitter (@galwaynews) with the Connacht Tribune Election 2011 team for Galway East – Declan Tierney and Frank Farragher.

The 13 Galway East candidates are as follows:

Tim Broderick (Ind)

Sean Canney (Ind)

Ciaran Cannon (FG)

Paul Connaughton (FG)

Dermot Connolly (SF)

Michael F. Dolan (FF)

Lorraine Higgins (Lab)

Colm Keaveney (Lab)

Ciaran Kennedy (Green)

Micheal Kitt (FF)

Jimmy McClearn (FG)

Tom McHugh (FG)

Emer O’Donnell (Ind)