Wexford General Election count centre.

Photographs of the 2016 General Election count centre in Wexford. The count took place on Saturday, the 27th of February, 2016 in the St. Joseph's Club Community Centre. Labour candidate Brendan Howlin retained his seat by topping the poll. Fianna Fail's James Browne retained his father John Brown's seat by coming in second. Independent candidate Mick Wallace took the third seat after the 11th count. The last two seats were taken by Fine Gael candidates Michael D'Arcy and Paul Kehoe, who managed to edge out Sinn Fein's John Mythen by 31 votes.

The tallies being counted:



Organising the votes for each candidate. This was taken during the first count:



People eagerly awaiting the first count:

Discussing spoilt votes.

Candidates and candidate representatives in Wexford gather around the table to review spoilt votes. This was taken at the count centre in the St. Joseph's Club Community Centre in Wexford on Saturday, the 28th of February, 2016. Visible are Sinn Fein candidate Johnny Mythen, Fine Gael candidate Michael D'Arcy, Social Democrats candidate Leonard Kelly and Labour Cllr George Lawlor, who was representing Brendan Howlin. Funnily enough, one particular vote was spoiled because the voter decided to use fractions instead of numbers!

Leonard Kelly

Wexford Social Democrats candidate Leonard Kelly at the 2016 General Election count centre in the St. Joseph's Club Community Centre. Mr Kelly was eliminated on the 7th count with 2,179 votes - a great improvement for a candidate that received 499 votes in the local elections in 2014. Photo date: 27th February 2016.