Only six of the country's forty constituencies have yet to return final counts for the general election.

The Dáil's 158 seats are filling up, with counting continuing in Sligo Leitrim and Dublin Bay North. A recount is taking place in Dublin South West, while counting has been discontinued in Longford Westmeath and Dublin South Central.

In Wexford a full recount will take place tomorrow morning, after counting was suspended at 5:30 this morning, when the Sinn Féin candidate Johnny Mythen was just 52 votes behind Government Chief Whip Paul Kehoe.

The distribution of the 146 seats won so far is as follows:

Fine Gael 46

Fianna Fáil 42

Labour 6

Sinn Féin 22

Independent Alliance 4

Other Independents 16

AAA/PBP 5

Social Democrats 3

Greens 2

Despite a bad day for Fine Gael, Enda Kenny says he has a duty to remain on as Taoiseach, having regard to the will off the voters.

Speaking at the Castlebar count centre on Saturday night he was refusing to be drawn on what shape the Government might take: