Counting for the third and final electoral area of Sligo County Council is underway at the Sligo Park Hotel.
The five-seater Sligo-Drumcliffe is set to be hotly contested as ten candidates battle it out for a spot on the local authority.
According to yesterday’s tally figures, Fianna Fáil’s Edel McSharry and Dónal Gilroy and Tom Fox of Fine Gael look set to battle it out for the fourth and fifth seats
The tally figures show McSharry on 1,314 first preference votes and Gilroy on 1,159 first preference votes.
Fox recorded 1,004 first preference votes in the tally.
His Fine Gael colleague Thomas Walsh looks set to top the poll on 1,881 first preference votes.
That’s followed by Sinn Féin’s Thomas Healy on 1,438 and Independent Marie Casserly on 1,386.
Note: The figures above are tally figures – the official count for Sligo-Drumcliffe can be viewed live here.
