The story of Election 2011 count
SATURDAY
9amCounting starts in 43 constituencies to fill 165 seats in the 31st Dáil. A Millward Brown Lansdowne exit poll for RTÉ predicts Fine Gael will get a 36.1 per cent share of the vote. It puts Labour on 20.5 per cent, Fianna Fáil on just 15.1 per cent, Sinn Féin on 10.1 per cent, the Greens on 2.7 per cent and independents and others on 15.5 per cent.
10amPaul Gogarty of the Green Party concedes – via Twitter. Political scientist Dr Michael Marsh from TCD predicts FG will win 72 seats, Labour 38, Independents 20, FF 20, Sinn Féin 15, Greens 1.
11.42amThe first completed tally puts Labours Joanna Tuffy in front in Dublin Mid-West.
2.20pmPaddy Power starts paying out on bets for a Fine Gael-Labour coalition
2.47pmFirst count in Dublin West: Labours Joan Burton becomes first candidate elected to 31st Dáil.
3.58pmFianna Fáils Seán Haughey concedes defeat, so the Dáil will have no Haughey for the first time in 54 years.
4.19pmLabour leader Eamon Gilmore is elected in Dún Laoghaire on the first count
4.35pmIndependent Shane Ross is elected on first count in Dublin South.
5.11pmIndependent Mick Wallace is elected in Wexford on the first count.
6.11pmIndependent Michael Lowry elected on the first count in Tipperary North with more than 14,000 votes.
6.15pmFianna Fáil junior minister Conor Lenihan is eliminated in Dublin South-West after the fourth count.
6.48pmMinister for Finance Brian Lenihan is the first Fianna Fáil candidate elected, though he fails to reach the required quota in Dublin West.
6.55pmSinn Féins Gerry Adams elected on the first count in Louth.
7.27pmCiarán Cuffe of the Green Party eliminated after the sixth count in Dún Laoghaire.
7.42pmFianna Fáil leader Michael Martin tops the poll in Cork South-Central - a rare Fianna Fáil success as party colleague Michael McGrath goes on to take the final seat.
7.55pmIn Mayo, Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny is elected on the first count with 17,472 votes.
8.26pmFormer Green Party leader Trevor Sargent is eliminated after the fifth count in Dublin North.
9.37pmTánaiste Mary Coughlan eliminated in Donegal South-West.
9.39pmCounting suspended in Dún Laoghaire after Labours Ivana Bacik calls for a recount. She trails United Left Alliance candidate Richard Boyd Barrett by fewer than 200 votes.
9.58pmGreen Party leader John Gormley eliminated in Dublin South-East.
10.26pmWicklow becomes the last constituency to declare a first count
SUNDAY
9amCounts resume in nine constituencies for the remaining 35 seats.
12.44pmFianna Fáils Eamon Ó Cuív elected in Galway West, topping the poll in the large 5-seat constituency.
12.50pmLabours Ivana Bacik eliminated in Dún Laoghaire after ninth count.
2.58pmUnited Left Alliance c andidate Richard Boyd Barrett takes the fourth and final seat in Dún Laoghaire on the 11th count. Fianna Fáils deputy leader Mary Hanafin is eliminated.
4.30pmFull recount is ordered in Galway West.
6.33pmFull recount ordered in Wicklow, to begin this morning with Fine Gael set to win the first three seats in the 5-seater.
6.41pmFull recount ordered i n Laois-Offaly where Taoiseach Brian Cowen's brother Barry is set to win a seat.
