LAST UPDATE | Apr 3rd 2020, 10:20 PM

Seanad Count E Maxwells Dublin The counting of votes in Dublin Castle. Maxwells Dublin

ALL THE SEATS have now been filled in the 26th Seanad.

Counting concluded at Dublin Castle shortly after 9.30pm with the final two seats on the Administrative Panel decided.

Fianna Fáil Senators Diarmuid Wilson and Mark Daly have both been re-elected today with former Fianna Fáil TD Fiona O’Loughlin also elected.

Earlier, former TD Noel Rock and former Senator Lorraine Clifford-Lee failed to be elected.

The fourteenth count has been completed for the Administrative Panel. No additional candidates have reached the quota. Currie, Emer will now be excluded and her votes transferred to the remaining candidates #seeforyourself #Seanad2020 pic.twitter.com/bKgGNX8EDu
— Houses of the Oireachtas - Tithe an Oireachtais (@OireachtasNews) April 3, 2020

Houses of the Oireachtas / Twitter

In total, the Seanad is made up of 60 seats, the breakdown of which are:

11 -Taoiseach’s nominees
6 – University seats
43 – Vocational interests

The six university seats have now been filled, as have all the seats in four of the five Vocational Panels.

Outgoing Senators, councillors across the country and incoming TDs are eligible to vote for the nominees on the vocational panels.

The identities of who will be among the 11 Taoiseach nominees is as yet unclear with the process of government formation ongoing. Those 11 senators will complete the lineup in the Seanad.

Here’s who has been elected so far:

Cultural and educational panel

Seán Kyne
Malcolm Byrne
Lisa Chambers
John McGahon
Fintan Warfield

Agricultural panel

Victor Boyhan
Denis O’Donovan
Paul Daly
Niall Blaney
Tim Lombard
Paddy Burke
Michael D’Arcy
Eugene Murphy
Pippa Hackett
Annie Hoey
Lynn Boylan

Labour panel

Jerry Buttimer
John Cummins
Robbie Gallagher
Joe O’Reilly
Ned O’Sullivan
Shane Cassells
Pat Casey
Gerard Craughwell
Pauline O’Reilly
Paul Gavan
Marie Sherlock

Industrial and commercial panel

Micheál Carrigy
Barry Ward
Aidan Davitt
Ollie Crowe
Catherine Ardagh
Frances Black
Mark Wall
Sharon Keogan
Elisha McCallion

Administrative panel (incomplete)

Mark Daly
Martin Conway
Diarmuid Wilson
Fiona O’Loughlin
Garrett Ahearn
Rebecca Moynihan
Niall Ó Donnghaile

National University of Ireland (NUI)

Rónán Mullen
Michael McDowell
Alice-Mary Higgins

University of Dublin, Trinity College

David Norris
Ivana Bacik
Lynn Ruane

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