Landslide: Sinn Féin’s Kathleen Funchion storms first past the post for Carlow-Kilkenny

Kathleen Funchion of Sinn Féin has been elected on the first count for the Carlow-Kilkenny constituency.

With the results announced just after 5.30pm, Funchion was deemed elected with 17,493 first preference votes.

The quota for Carlow-Kilkenny is 12,274 and at time of writing her distribution of over 5,000 surplus votes is underway in Lyrath.

John McGuinness, a previous poll-topper, was almost 7,000 votes behind on the first count with a total of 10,558, closely followed by party colleague Jennifer Murnane-O’Connor on 9,351.

GE2020: First count results

• Bobby Aylward – 7550
• Helena Byrne – 992
• Pat Deering – 5929
• Kathleen Funchion – 17493
• Alan Hayes – 2347
• Denis Hynes – 2208
• John McGuinness – 10558
• Jennifer Murnane O’Connor – 9351
• Malcolm Noonan – 4942
• Melissa O’Neill – 431
• Patrick O’Neill – 3674
• John Paul Phelan – 6396
• Angela Ray – 214
• Adrienne Wallace – 1558