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Left wing election races - One's to watch

category national | politics / elections | opinion/analysis author Saturday June 12, 2004 02:15author by Local Tallyman Report this post to the editors

Below are a few races involving those on the left that are well worth looking out for as results come in on Sat morning and lunchtime.

WATERFORD MELTDOWN POSSIBLE FOR WP
Workers Party in Waterford, currently have 3, will be doing well to retain 2. And there is an outside chance of all WP councillors to lose their seats.

WILL SWP CANDIDATES BREAK TRADITION?
Richard Boyd Barrett (SWP), will he buck the trend of previous SWP election results and win a seat in Dun Laoghaire or at least come close?

Similar story for the SWP's Brid Smith in Ballyfermot. She is not widely tipped to win a seat but could get a good vote.

SP TO MAKE GAINS?
The Socialist Party are expected to do very well in these elections. The SP should be confident of winning seats for Mick Murphy (Tallaght Central), Ruth coppinger (Mulhuddart) and Clare Daly (Swords). Daly is expected to easily top the poll and Murphy has an outside chance of doing so also.

Elsewhere the SP have good chances in Drogheda, Cork North Central, Dundrum and Howth. If the SP vote managment strategy goes well in Swords it could see Dal'y surplus going to elect O'Brien.

INDEPENDENT'S DAY
Joan Collins in Crumlin could do very well and is probably the best chance of a left wing independent being elected onto the City Council.


WEBSITES
In case indymedia doesn't keep bang up to date with the election results below are a couple of decent sites

http://www.rte.ie/news/elections2004/local_cons.html
http://www.ireland.com/focus/localelection2004/

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Pro bin tax parties hammered     Resister    Sat Jun 12, 2004 17:34 
   Results?     Andy Social    Sat Jun 12, 2004 20:05 
   good news for the left.     chris bond    Sat Jun 12, 2004 20:12 
   andy     ham radio    Sat Jun 12, 2004 21:11 
   Referendum     John    Sat Jun 12, 2004 21:14 
   Results...     Andy Social    Sat Jun 12, 2004 21:50 
   teaching maths in old blackrock college.     emotional sincerity and small budget    Sat Jun 12, 2004 22:53 
   Left Wing Top Cork City Polls     pollster    Sat Jun 12, 2004 23:47 
   So far...     jeff    Sun Jun 13, 2004 14:58 
 10   WP weren't wiped out as you wished     Jim    Wed Jun 16, 2004 14:15 
 11   Ted's a good man     Corky    Wed Jun 16, 2004 14:32 
 12   Finglas     gino    Tue Jun 22, 2004 16:16 
 13   WP have withered     gman    Tue Jun 22, 2004 18:28 
 14   "the Homan factor"     curious    Tue Jun 22, 2004 18:36 
 15   What happened to Eoin Dubsky?     Aspall    Tue Jun 22, 2004 18:50 
 16   Dubsky got 0.4%     Vote Counter    Tue Jun 22, 2004 18:59 
 17   Homan & Garland     watcher    Tue Jun 22, 2004 19:02 
 18   Jesus!     curious    Tue Jun 22, 2004 19:26 
 19   homan     homan supporter    Thu Feb 15, 2007 20:04 


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