Joe O'Brien from the Green Party has been elected as the new TD for Dublin Fingal following Friday's by-election.
The Fingal County councillor is the second candidate to have been elected in Dublin's two by-elections.
Fianna Fail's Lorraine Clifford-Lee came second following eight rounds of counting today.
O'Brien, who is a Fingal councillor and now TD topped the polls in the vote, receiving 22.9% of first preference votes in the constituency. After all counts, he had picked up 12,315 votes to Clifford-Lee's 7,754.
He had a first preference advantage of 3.4% advantage over Clifford-Lee, who nabbed 18.5% of the vote.
No candidate managed to reach the quota of 12,564 votes required to be elected. As a result of that, the candidate with the highest amount of votes after all counts was deemed elected.
O'Brien comfortably took the lead following the re-distribution of votes from Independent4Change's Dean Mulligan in the fifth count. By the final count, he managed to jump ahead significantly.
There were 25,344 votes cast in the Dublin Fingal by-election - a record low turnout of 25.59% in the area which includes north Dublin's coastal towns.
