7 more years of Michael D Higgins, and here's how Kildare voted in the 2018 Presidential Election

Michael D. Higgins has been re-elected for another seven-year term as the President of Ireland after winning a landslide election.

The Galway native will serve a second term after comfortably topping the polls with 55.6 pc of the overall vote across Ireland, while Peter Casey finished in second with a final tally of 23.4 pc.

In what was the lowest turnout ever for a presidential election in Irish history, just 43.87 pc of the registered electorate voted.

In Kildare, Higgins performed slightly above his national average, especially in the north of the county. He received 61.3 pc of the votes in Kildare North and 56.9 pc in Kildare South, while Casey received 19.1 pc and 22.4 pc respectively.

Gavin Duffy, who finished with the lowest final tally in Irish election history, received just 2.2 pc of the vote in Kildare North and 2.4 pc in Kildare South.

In the Laois constituency, which pulls in some voters from south Kildare, Casey performed extremely well as he garnered 30.5 pc of the vote and Higgins got 49.7 pc.

Kildare North

Michael D Higgins - 23,103 (61.3%)

Peter Casey - 7,210 (19.1%)

Joan Freeman - 2,751 (7.3%)

Seán Gallagher - 2,258 (6%)

Liadh Ní Riada - 1,523 (4.1%)

Gavin Duffy - 844 (2.2%)

Turnout: 44.18%

Kildare South

Michael D Higgins – 14,766 (56.9%)

Peter Casey - 5,819 (22.4%)

Seán Gallagher - 1,829 (7.1%)