Live updates: All the latest from the Donegal constituency election count

3:50pm - With areas like Ballintra, Ballyshannon and Bundoran seeing their votes in  Sligo's Clayton Hotel, you can also keep an eye on how things are going from Sligo-Leitrim / South Donegal count centre

3:45pm - First round tally shows Sinn Féin picked up 42 percent in Donegal

3pm - General Election: Pringle joins the mix with almost a quarter of Donegal tally

1:40pm

1:10pm -  With tallying of the votes in the Milford electoral area completed, Sinn Fein continues to poll very strongly in Donegal. Between them, Pearse Doherty - poised to be the Donegal constituency’s poll topper - Padraig Mac Lochlainn and Noel Jordan took almost 41 per cent of the vote in the Milford area.

Click here for a round-up of the Milford figures. 

12:55pm - Here's the state of play following the tallies in Inishowen and in Letterkenny

12:10pm - In Letterkenny, Nikki Bradley of Fine Gael has thus far picked up 1,022 first preferences (8 percent), with other notable showings from Pearse Doherty, Sinn Féin, with 2,999 (23.4 percent), 819 for Pat the Cope Gallagher (6.4 percent); 1,740 for Sinn Féin's MacLochlainn (13.6 percent), 1,724 for Charlie McConalogue of Fianna Fáil (13.5 percent), Mary T Sweeney from Aontu on 775 (6.1 percent) and Charlie Ward from the 100% Redress Party has 1,589, which is 12.4 percent.

12 noon - All the Inishowen boxes are now open and the Letterkenny boxes are well underway

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11am - Inishowen's 64 boxes, from which there's now 41 opened. This is the state of play.

Bradley - Nikki, Fine Gael - 486 votes (3.9 percent)

Bradley - Vincent J, Independent - 17 (0.1 percent)

Carr - Nuala, Green Party - 96 (0.8 percent)

Doherty - Pearse, Sinn Féin - 1,972 (15.6 percent)

Gallagher - Carol, People Before Profit - 106 (0.8 percent)

Gallagher - Pat the Cope, Fianna Fáil - 115 (0.9 percent)

Jordan - Noel, Sinn Féin - 102 (0.8 percent)

Kennedy - Claudia, Fianna Fáil - 30 (0.2 percent)

MacLochlainn - Padraig, Sinn Féin - 4,470 (25.4 percent)

McConalogue - Charlie, Fianna Fáil - 2,458 (19.5 percent)

McConnell - Niall, Independent - 172 (1.4 percent)

McGee - Eamon, Irish Freedom Party - 54 (0.4 percent)

McGuinness - Arthur, Independent - 7 (0.1 percent)

McKeever - Gerry, Independent - 9 (0.1 percent)

McMenamin - Kim, the Irish People - 304 (2.4 percent)

McNulty - John, Fine Gael - 126 (1 percent)

O'Donnell - Frank, Independent - 18 (0.1 percent)

Pringle - Thomas, Independent - 268 (2.1 percent)

Sweeney - Mary T - Aontú - 325 (1.6 percent)

Ward - Charlie - 100 Percent Redress Party 1,487 (1,487)

Total poll so far - 12,622

10:40am - There are now 33 boxes opened, from Inishowen. Kim McMenamin of the Irish People, a native of Buncrana, has 2.4 percent of the first preferences thus far, with 238. That's just behind Nikki Bradley, Fine Gael, on 394 (3.9 percent). 

10:20am - Charles Ward, of the 100 Percent Redress Party, currently has 11.7 percent of the 24 boxes opened in Inishowen thus far, which equates to 920 votes.

10:10am - The first boxers are from Inishowen MD, Ballymacarry, Buncrana Rural, Tievebane and Carndonagh, showing Pádraig Mac Lochlainn of inn Féin with 38 percent of the first preference votes so far in his heartland on 2,057 at this early stage.  Charlie McConalogue, Fianna Fáil, has 17.8 percent (963), with Pearse Doherty, Sinn Féin on 15.7 percent (846). 

10am - The ballot boxes are open at the Aura Centre in Letterkenny and things are underway in the general election count for the five-seater Donegal constituency