Election update

In Mullingar East, tallies are showing that Mick Dollard has - as was expected - topped the poll, coming in with a first preference vote of 2014, 31.3 per cent of the vote.Next best on first preferences is his running mate, Denis Leonard, with 872 first preferences, 13.5 per cent, closely followed by FG"s Peter Bourke, with 13.2n per cent of the vote - a tally of853.Fianna Fail"s Aidan Davitt has 797 first preferences, and is tipped as being in with a chance, probably at the expense of sitting councillor and party running mate, Jim Bourke, who garnered a first preference vote of 615, 9.5 per cent of the first preferences.Sitting councillor Pat McLoughlin could be in a spot of bother: his first preferences come in at 479, placing him 11th on the list, followed by Fianna Fáil"s Georgina Bagnall on 310, Independent Brian Fagan on 243, Green Sean Corrigan on 198, and Independents Frank Harkin on 47 and Erroll Lee Farrell, who got just 16 votes.In Mullingar West, the shock result has been Fianna Fáil"s Robert Troy"s immense first preference vote (based on tallies). The Ballynacargy based councillor got 1,467 first preferences, 21.6 per cent of the vote, and just 17 votes fewer than the hugely popular Labour man Johnny Penrose, who got 21.per cent of the vote.Sitting FG councillor Fintan Cooney has come in in third spot, with a vote of 818, ahead of sitting FF Councillor, Ken Glynn, who got 778 first preferences.It"s questionable what the final line-up in this constitiuency will be. Sitting Labour councillor Detty Cornally has polled well, with 695 first preferences, and should benefit from Johnny Penrose"s transfers.Troy"s transfers will probably have gone as much to Penrose as to his Fianna Fáil candidates, and the question is what votes will take Fintan Cooney across the final line. He will be looking more to the eliminated candidates, as will Detty Cornally and Ken Glynn.Chris Murtagh got 444 first preferences, sitting Independent Betty Doran has 296 first preferences, Fine Gael first-time runner John Casey has 232, Sinn Féin"s Sorca Clarke has 222, and independent Frank McIntyre has 194, while Rashid Butt, independent, has 177.Mullingar Town CouncilThe incredibly 22-name list provided to voters casting their votes in the Mullingar Town Council, elections, means a lot of work for count and tally staff.In what was not a surprise, Labour"s Mick Dollard has again topped the poll, with a first preference of 1,341, while in second place is Fine Gael"s Peter Burke, and the surprise third placed candidate is Bill Collentine on 311.Sitting councillors Ken Glynn (FF) and Detty Cornally (Lab), are tied on 285 votes, while the Pole, Kasia Gaborec of FF, has polled remarkably well, with 245 first preferences, ahead of running mate Aidan Davitt, who got 228.Sitting Councillor Pat Collins with a first preference of 198, and first-time Labour runner Gerry Sheridan with 212 votes, will be hoping to get transfers from Mick Dollard, while another councillor in danger of losing his seat is Fine Gael"s Pat Whelan, who has a first preference of just 178.Also looking like he"s definitely out is Fianna Fáil"s Jim Bourke, who has just 169 first preferences, and Cllr. Ruth Illingworth, with 140 first preferences, is also in trouble.KilbegganCllr. Joe Flanagan has again topped the poll in Kilbeggan, followed by Paul Daly of Fianna Fáil, who has a first preference of 1124, going on the tallies. The quota is looking set to be 1,430, so both of them should be home and dry.In third place is Colm Arthur of Fine Gael, with 861, and in fourth, Labour"s Ger Corcoran, with 837. Sitting councillor Mick Newman is in danger unless he picks up a lot of transfers from Joe Flanagan.VInny McCormack has a first preference of 537 - although it may come in higher than that when the actual votes are counted, and PJ Coghill has 511. Between them, they don"t have a seat, but McCormack as a neighbour of Flanagan"s will pick up some transfers.Vinny Bagnall has 480 first preferences and Labour"s Pat Boyce 337.CooleSitting FG Councillor Frank McDermott has topped the poll in Coole, with 1,260 first preferences (Tallies only). In second place is sitting FF man Paddy Hill, with 1,148, and Labour councillor Dan McCarthy, with 1,093.Success story of the campaign is newcomer John Shaw with 1066 first preferences.McDermott is just over what is likely to be the eventual quota, so there won"t be transfers to speak of there, meaning that Bernie Comaskey, with 857 votes for Fine Gael, is unlikely to be able to provide a real challenge to John Shaw, even if he got all the eliminated votes from Dermot Mullen, currently on 407, or Sinn Féin"s Kenny, on 380.