FF didn’t win 38 seats… they won 37 @ #GE2020 The 38th seat is a constitutional gift to the previous FF ‘Ceann Comhairle’… Shinners outpolled FF by over 50 thousand plus votes to boot! https://t.co/ZCYJ7ydBh4
I spoke to an 83yr old lady this morning in Dublin Mid-West who wanted to congratulate @EOBroin & @Wardy1916. She voted for them, 1 & 2 because she wanted to see change. She is delighted with the election results.
Prominent TDs, cabinet ministers and colourful hopefuls who lost in Generel Election 2020
From top: Joan Burton (Labour), Shane Ross (Independent Alliance), Mary Mitchell O’Connor (Fine Gael), Lisa Chambers (Fianna Fail), Catherine Noone (Fine Gael, Regina Doherty (Fine Gael),, Noel Rock (Fine Gael), Kate O’Connell (Fine Gael), Ruth Coppinger (Solidarity People Before Profit) and Katherine Zappone (Independent Alliance).
Thank you. All of you who voted for Sinn Féin. Your vote counted. We are your party. We will now do everything we can to secure a government for the people. We will never leave you behind. We will never let you down. pic.twitter.com/6uCmETLTo3
With her party heading for 30-36 seats, Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald celebrates at the General Election count centre.
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RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.
Scenes from Generel Election count centre with Fine Gael Minister Richard Bruton (pic 5), Green Party Leader Eamon Ryan (pic 7), Sinn Féin’s Aengus O’Snodaigh (pic 9) and Sinn Féin’s Dessie Ellis (in pink above) celebrating his expected victory in Dublin South Central with a rendition of ‘Come Out Ye Black and Tans’.
For the first time ever, three parties are all fighting it out to be Ireland’s most popular party according to the official Exit Poll for General Election 2020.
The Ipsos MRBI Exit Poll for TG4, RTÉ, The Irish Times and UCD shows Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Sinn Féin all on 22% of first preference votes.
Scenes from General Election 2020 pollib stations at St. Joseph’s School for Deaf Boys, Navan Road, Cabra, Dublin 7 and at the Muslim National School, Roebuck Road, Clonskeagh, Dublin 14.