By Diarmaid Doherty
Tallies for the Letterkenny boxes have been complete at the Aura Leisure Centre are indicating a strong performance by outgoing TD Pearse Doherty
They show Doherty on 23.4% (2,999) of the vote with his party colleague Padraig MacLochlainn sitting on 13.6% (1,740).
Charlie McConalogue appears to have polled quite well in the Letterkenny area and sits on 13.5% (1,724).
His party colleague Pat ‘the Cope’ Gallagher has picked up 819 votes in Letterkenny and Thomas Pringle 440 votes.
The 100% Redress Party candidate Charles Ward has polled 12.4% of the vote (1,589).
Green Party candidate Nuala Carr who is from Letterkenny, polled 2.6% with 333 votes.
Letterkenny businessman Gerry McKeever, according to the tallies, has taken 247 votes in his home town; Mary T Sweeney 775 and Nikki Bradley 1,022.
Senator Bradley’s party colleague John McNulty has 245 votes.
So with Inishowen and Letterkenny boxes now opened, Sinn Féin look to be polling very strongly with Pearse Doherty on track to top the poll comfortably.
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