Adrian Kavanagh, 29th May 2014
As an electoral geographer, I am very interested in which local newspapers are publishing local election tallies in this week’s editions, or possibly in the following few weeks’ editions. Tallies/tally sheets are course are not election results or count details, but documents that show the number of votes each candidate won in each polling box in a constituency. These can give a very accurate sense then as to the geography of a party/candidates’s votes within a particular constituency. These are the very lifeblood of Irish electoral geography.
Here are the newspapers that I have come across so far – not I am only including those newspapers that I have personally seen here…seeing is believing and all that…)
Week after the local and European elections:
* Clare People (single issues can be bought online)
* Kerry’s Eye (single issues can be bought online)
* Roscommon Herald
* Western People
* Westmeath Examiner
* The Connaught Telegraph
* Longford Leader
* Leitrim Observer (also has European election tallies for Leitrim county)
* Western People
* The Mayo News
Papers do not have tallies published in them (this week) include: Nenagh Guardian, Leinster Leader, Laois Nationalist, Carlow Nationalist, Kildare Nationalist, Wexford People, Tipperary Star, Leinster Express, Meath Chronicle, Kilkenny People, The Corkman, Munster Express, The Argus, The Drogheda Independent.
The word on the street is that The Roscommon People is also all tallied up this week, but I haven’t come across that newspaper yet…
Most of the usual suspects are here in terms of local tally publishing. As you might appreciate, there is a geography here with papers based in the West, North West and North Midlands usually being the best in this regard.
As noted by Colm Gannon on the Twitter, Mayo Fine Gael did an excellent job in providing regular online updates of tally information for the four electoral areas in that county and that information is still available in Google Docs format here.
I am a bit disappointed with the Sligo papers not coming up trumps (so far) however, although the Western People did publish the Ballymote-Tubbercurry tallies and (as noted by Jonathan Davey) the Ocean FM has done an excellent job in collating tallies for the two Sligo electoral areas – here are the links for the Ballymote-Tubbercurry and Sligo electoral areas.
I still have hopes that the Limerick Leader and Donegal News will be coming up with the goods this week and that some other papers that did not have tally figures in them this week (maybe the Wexford People or Kilkenny People or Munster Express) will come good next week…
The tally hunt continues! Tally Ho!
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