Two senators have now been elected to the Industrial and Commercial panel of the second House of the Oireachtas.
Labour party councillor for Co Meath, Dominic Hannigan, came top of the poll when elected on the first count and Fianna Fáil's Marc MacSharry was elected on the eighth count.
Reaching the required quota of 106,701 votes at the count in Leinster House today, Mr Hannigan is the first of 37 candidates to secure election.
Mr MacSharry was re-elected to the Seanad having served on the Commercial & Industrial Panel since July 2002.
Counting of votes resumed this morning to elect the final twenty senators to the Seanad following a late night count of Labour panel votes that continued until 2.30am.
Following the election of all senators from Culture and Education, Agriculture and Labour panels, attention at the count centre at Leinster House turned to candidates for election to the Industrial and Commercial panel.
Nine senators are to be elected from a field of 37 candidates. The election of eleven senators to the Administrative panel will follow, bringing the Seanad election to a close.
Primary results of voting for the National University of Ireland panel are also expected today.
Conservative and newspaper columnist Rónán Mullen has produced a strong performance which may well see him elected to the three-seat panel. First count results are expected late this afternoon.
Mr Mullen, from Ahascragh in Co Galway, is a law and communications lecturer at the Institute of Technology in Blanchardstown and former press officer at the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin.
He was endorsed by Irish rugby coach Eddie O'Sullivan and Irish Timescolumnist and teacher, Breda O'Brien.
Trinity's Reid professor of law, Ivana Bacik, is also predicted to join senators Shane Ross and David Norris for election to the three-seat Trinity College constituency.
Professor Bacik has secured 2,794 of the required 4,230 quota votes, which places her more than 1,500 votes ahead of the next candidate, Dr Maurice Gueret.
A Labour Party member, Ms Bacik ran for the party in the last European elections and was endorsed for the Seanad by outgoing senator Mary Henry who did not contest this election.
The five Culture and Education panel senators elected are:
Alex White -Lab
Liam Twomey - FG
Ann Ormond - FF
Cecelia Keaveney - FF
Labhras O'Murchu - FF
The eleven Agriculture panel Senators elected are:
Pearse Doherty - SF
Alan Kelly - Lab
Pat Moylan - FF
Jim Walsh - FF
Francis O'Brien - FF
Paddy Burke - FG
Peter Callanan - FF
Paul Bradford - FG
John Paul Phelan - FG
Eugene Regan - FG
John Carty - FF
The eleven Labour panel Senators elected are:
Geraldine Feeney - FF
John Hanafin - FF
Donie Cassidy - FF
Phil Prendergast - Lab
Maurice Cummins - FG
Jerry Buttimer - FG
Michael McCarthy - Lab
Terry Leyden - FF
Frances Fitzgerald - FG
Ned O'Sullivan - FF
Fidelma Healy-Eames