It’s official – 15 candidates will be looking for your vote on Friday February 26th.
Nominations closed at noon today and all of the men and women in Carlow and Kilkenny hoping to win a seat in the 32nd Dail got their papers lodged with the returning officer ahead of the deadline.
It means that on your ballot paper there will be 3 Independent candidates and 3 each from Fianna Fail and Fine Gael. Labour, Sinn Fein, the Greens and Renua each have 1 as do the Anti Austerity Alliance and People Before Profit.
That is unless any of them change their minds before midday tomorrow. They have until then to withdraw from the race.
Some of the candidates took to social media in recent days to mark the moment they had submitted their official papers.
Nomination done & ready to go! #Gillgan4change #GE16 #CwKk16
Let's get change in Carlow-Kilkenny! pic.twitter.com/REweZoyxJD— Keith Gilligan (@CeiteachG) February 10, 2016
It's official now anyway! Appearing on w ballot paper in Carlow/Kilkenny soon! pic.twitter.com/SWHMWjCiFq
— John Paul Phelan (@JPPhelan) February 9, 2016
Its offical! #GE16 Lets be having ya! #InnovationNotEmigration #NewPoliticsNewIreland pic.twitter.com/fY4RsDMCrv
— Cllr Adrienne Wallace PBP (@AdriennePBPA) February 10, 2016
Official nomination for the ballot paper with the parents #betteroffwithsinnfein #funchion4thedail pic.twitter.com/lI7W2VQFSm
— Kathleen Funchion SF (@Kathleensf1) February 9, 2016
And it's official…you'll see me on the ballot paper for #GE16 for Carlow/Kilkenny #VOTE1ANNPHELAN #VoteforWomen pic.twitter.com/9wUMzjHkL2
— Ann Phelan (@AnnPhelan1) February 10, 2016
