BREAKING: FIRST COUNT RESULT - Laois local election first count result in Portlaoise #LE19

Laois local election first count result in Portlaoise

Total poll 10,370

Invalid - 151

Valid poll - 10,219

Seats - 7

Quota - 1,278

Count 1:

Timothy Adejumo - Non-party - 363

Willie Aird - Fine Gael - 1,573

Thomasina Connell - Fine Gael - 437

Tom Duffy - Non-party - 154

Dominic Dunne - Renua - 379

Caroline Dwane Stanley - Sinn Féin - 1,210

John Joe Fennelly - Fianna Fáil - 1,456

Catherine Fitzgerald - Fianna Fáil - 1,080

John Gormley - Sinn Féin - 131

Naeem Iqbal - Non-party - 454

Donal Kelly - Fianna Fáil - 331

Pauline Madigan - Fianna Fáil - 326

Noel O’Rourke - Renua - 135

Judith Preston Grace - Non-party - 125

Mary Sweeney - Fine Gael - 1,024

Noel Tuohy - Labour Party - 1,041

JOHN JOE FENNELLY AND WILLIE AIRD ELECTED

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