Green Party leader Roderic O’Gorman has said that his party had “not had a good day” and that some party members will lose their seats.
The party had 12 TDs in the last Dáil, but tallies would suggest that most of those could be lost in this election.
Mr O’Gorman said: “Undoubtedly, it’s a disappointing result for our party today. We got a mandate in 2020 and that was a mandate to go into government, to act on climate, to support families and children all over the country, and we did that.”
The completed tally in the five-seat Dublin West constituency has placed Mr O’Gorman fifth in order of first preference votes.
“We’re in the fight in a couple of places,” Mr O’Gorman said.
Former party leader Eamon Ryan said the results have been “very disappointing” for his party.
The outgoing TD for Dublin Bay South, who is not contesting this election, said that he believes that his party can return people to the Oireachtas, but added that today has been “a hard day”.
“We’re proud of the work we’ve done, the campaign we run, and also, we’ve been in this place before, we’ve seen the electoral fortunes, particularly for smaller parties, the fine margins between winning and losing, and you can be on the wrong side of that,” he said.
“You accept it, you listen, and you learn, and you come back stronger, we’ve done that before, and I’m absolutely convinced we can and will do it again, because I think the best future for this country is to go green.”
Dublin Fingal-West TD Joe O’Brien said it is “pretty clear I’m going to lose my seat”.
He thanked his campaign members for their work over the last few weeks and months.
“Our message remains as relevant as ever; we’re going to have a bad day today electorally, I think that’s pretty clear, but we’re not going anywhere,” he said.
“We’ll still be around, we’ll still believe in what we believe in, and when the tide comes back in for us, we’ll still put ourselves forward.”
In Dublin Rathdown, which is another five-seat constituency, Catherine Martin is sixth after the final tally with 9% of first preference votes. Social Democrats candidate Sinéad Gibney and independent candidate Michael Fleming are showing to be just ahead on 8% each.
In 2020, Ossian Smyth received 14% of first preference votes in the Dún Laoghaire constituency. Tallies indicate that he will receive 7.6% this year. He is ranked fifth in the race for four seats.
Neasa Hourigan is ranked seventh after tallies in Dublin Central. The tally showed her on 6% of first preference votes.
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Hazel Chu replaced Mr Ryan on the ballot sheet in Dublin Bay South. A completed tally has her ranked seventh in the four-seat constituency, with 8%.
Dublin Fingal West is a three-seat constituency. Joe O’Brien is sixth after the final tally, with 6.2% of first preference votes.
Marc Ó Cathasaigh is expected to lose his seat in Waterford. Tallies suggest his first preference share halved since the last election. The tally shows him eighth in the four-seat constituency.
In Offaly, Pippa Hackett is on 2% with all boxes opened.
2020 result ‘never going to be repeated’ – Boyle
In Dublin South-Central, Patrick Costello is in danger of losing his seat, the tally has shown. He is ranked tenth in order of first preference votes.
Francis Noel Duffy received 2.9% of a completed tally of votes in Dublin South-West, with just three candidates tallying lower than him.
In Limerick City, Brian Leddon was tallied on 5%. In that constituency, there are four candidates tallied on 7% in the race for the last seat there.
Steven Matthews was on 4.1% of first preference votes after 81% of boxes tallied in Wicklow.
With 55% of boxes tallied in Carlow-Kilkenny, Malcolm Noonan was on just over 3%.
Mr O’Gorman said he was proud of what his party achieved as a coalition partner.
He said: “We worked hard over four-and-a-half years. We now have our lowest carbon emissions in the last 30 years, we’ve invested in public transport, we’ve halved the cost of childcare, we’ve made very significant legislative reforms as well, but it’s hard for a smaller party in government.”
Lord Mayor of Cork and former Green Party TD Dan Boyle said the party was anticipating losing seats and votes.
“The bounce that we would have had in in 2020 isn’t there now, the Greta Thunberg ‘Fridays for Future’ element of the election then doesn’t exist now,” he said.
Mr Boyle added that the 7% which the Green Party achieved in 2020 was “never going to be repeated.”
