Kildare South count complete

Jack Wall has been elected to the 30th Dail on the third count, with a total of 9,145 votes.

The three seats in the constituency have now been filled, with the return of the same three TDs from the last Dail.

Fianna Fail gained a 2.2 percent swing over the 2002 election; the swing was against Fine Gael by -0.6 percent, against the PDs by -7.5 percent, and the Green Party had a positive swing of 2.5 percent.

The turnout in the constituency was 61.7 percent of an electorate of 56,670.

Brian Byrne.