By Diarmaid Doherty
With the sorting of votes well underway at the Aura Leisure Centre this morning, early indications are that Sinn Féin are polling strongly.
The first boxes being opened this morning are from Inishowen and by 10.20am, tallies were available from around 30 boxes from the peninsula.
Tally figures suggest that 100% Redress Party candidate Charles Ward hasn’t done as well as he would have anticipated in Inishowen. Significantly, the tally figures indicated that in the boxes opened, Pearse Doherty (SF) has taken almost 300 more first preference votes than Ward.
Padraig MacLochlainn, according to the tallies of the first boxes opened, has taken 37.1% of the vote, picking up 2,653 votes. That compares to Charlie McConalogue (1,326), Pearse Doherty (1,100), and Charles Ward (834).
Early figures for the two Fine Gael candidates show Nikki Bradley picking up 277 votes in the first boxes opened; and John McNulty receiving 62 votes.
Outgoing TD Thomas Pringle has 2.0% of the vote in the first boxes opened with 140 votes. Pat ‘the Cope’ Gallagher has 59 votes.
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