Justice Minister Helen McEntee has topped the poll in Meath East, securing 19% of first preference votes.
All 126 boxes have now been tallied in Meath East, with the final tally showing the government Minister got 7,706 votes.
Other seats in the four seater constituency look likely to go to Darren O’Rourke of Sinn Fein, who is on 16.4%, Thomas Byrne of Fianna Fáil who is on 14.0% and Independent Gillian Toole (affiliated to the local organisation of Independent Senator Sharon Keogan) who appears to be roughly 700 votes clear in fourth place.
Meanwhile, Fianna Fáil will become the most popular party by first preference votes. It is the first time the party has been in that position nationwide since 2007, with Micheál Martin’s party significantly outperforming the exit poll.
The TDs so far elected on their first counts are Micheál Martin (Cork South Central), Pearse Doherty (Donegal), Jack Chambers and Paul Donnelly (Dublin West), Eoin O’Broin (Dublin Mid West), Michael Healy Rae in Kerry, Patrick O’Donovan (Limerick), Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway), Verona Murphy in Wexford, David Cullinane (Waterford), Jennifer Caroll MacNeill (Dun Laoighaire), Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath) and Taoiseach Simon Harris in Wicklow.
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