Brendan Burgess
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The rule is
"the greatest number of votes credited to him/her at any stage of the counting of votes at the election must exceed one quarter of the quota."
The quota is 50%, so they need 12.5% of the votes cast.
Sean Gallagher is on 12%
Ni Riada is on 9%
If Higgins gets elected on the first count and has a surplus of say 20%, will they do a second count and distribute his surplus to see if it brings the others over 12.5%?
If the opinion polls are correct, that would bring Seán Gallagher comfortably over the 12.5% and Ni Riada close to it.
Brendan
"the greatest number of votes credited to him/her at any stage of the counting of votes at the election must exceed one quarter of the quota."
The quota is 50%, so they need 12.5% of the votes cast.
Sean Gallagher is on 12%
Ni Riada is on 9%
If Higgins gets elected on the first count and has a surplus of say 20%, will they do a second count and distribute his surplus to see if it brings the others over 12.5%?
If the opinion polls are correct, that would bring Seán Gallagher comfortably over the 12.5% and Ni Riada close to it.
Brendan