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Mark Duffy (Ind) celebrates with family and supporters after being elected on the first count to the Ballina Electoral Area of Mayo County Council last Monday
Ballina-based Mayo County Councillor Mark Duffy has been elected to Seanad Éireann in the Labour vocational panel.
The Fine Gael councillor was elected on the 13th count after transfers from party colleague Leonora Carey helped him exceed the quota of 95,751.
Cllr Duffy who is the only Mayo-based candidate running for a seat in the Seanad was set to win a seat after securing 76,000 votes after the first count. He was was one of 19 candidates standing in the Labour panel where eleven seats are up for grabs.
There are five vocational panels where 43 of the 60 Seanad seats are elected with members of the incoming Dáil, members of the outgoing Seanad and members of county councils and city councils all eligible to vote in them. There are eleven seats each to be filled on the Agricultural and Labour Panels, nine on the Industrial and Commercial Panel, seven on the Administrative Panel and five on the Cultural and Education Panel.
The total electorate is made up of Dáil deputies, outgoing senators and city and county councillors and for counting purposes each vote is multiplied by 1,000.
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