Dáil election results
This is a summary of the results of all the general elections to Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas, from 1918 to 2007.
General elections
The Ceann Comhairle, officially non-partisan, is listed as a member of his former party according to convention.
1918–1921
| Election | Date | style="background-color: Template:Sinn Féin/meta/color; width: 2px;" | | Sinn Féin | style="background-color: Template:Irish Unionist Alliance/meta/color; width: 2px;" | | Irish Unionist | style="background-color: Template:Irish Parliamentary Party/meta/color; width: 2px;" | | Irish Parliamentary | style="background-color: Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color; width: 2px;" | | Labour Unionist | Ind Unionist | style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | | Others | Government | Days | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1918 | 14 Dec 1918 | 73 (46.9%) | 22 (25.3%) | 6 (21.7%) | 3 (3%) | 1 (0.9%) | 0 (2.1%) | Sinn Féin | – | ||||||
| 1921 | 24 May 1921 | 124 | – | – | – | 4 | – | Sinn Féin | – | ||||||
1922–1937
| Election | Date | style="background-color: Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color; width: 2px;" | | FF | style="background-color: Template:Fine Gael/meta/color; width: 2px;" | | FG | style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color; width: 2px;" | | Lab | style="background-color: Template:Sinn Féin/meta/color; width: 2px;" | | SF (Pro) | style="background-color: Template:Sinn Féin/meta/color; width: 2px;" | | SF (Anti) | style="background-color: Template:Cumann na nGaedheal/meta/color; width: 2px;" | | CnaG | style="background-color: Template:Farmers' Party (Ireland)/meta/color; width: 2px;" | | FP | style="background-color: Template:Sinn Féin/meta/color; width: 2px;" | | SF | style="background-color: Template:Business and Professional Group/meta/color; width: 2px;" | | BPG | style="background-color: Template:National League Party/meta/color; width: 2px;" | | NL | style="background-color: Template:Irish Worker League/meta/color; width: 2px;" | | IWL | style="background-color: Template:National Centre Party (Ireland)/meta/color; width: 2px;" | | NCP | style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | | Others | Government | Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1922 | 16 Jun 1922 | – | – | 17 | 58 | 36 | – | 7 | – | 1 | – | – | – | 9 | SF (Pro-Treaty) | – | |||||||||||||
| 1923 | 27 Aug 1923 | – | – | 14 (10.6%) | – | – | 63 (39%) | 15 (12.1%) | 44[1] (27.4%) | 3 (0.9%) | – | – | – | 14 (10%) | CnaG | 1382 | |||||||||||||
| 1927 (Jun) | 9 Jun 1927 | 44 (26.2%) | – | 22 (12.6%) | – | – | 47 (27.4%) | 11 (8.9%) | 5 (3.6%) | – | 8 (7.3%) | – | – | 16 (14%) | CnaG | 98 | |||||||||||||
| 1927 (Sep) | 15 Sep 1927 | 57 (35.2%) | – | 13 (9.1%) | – | – | 62 (38.7%) | 6 (6.4%) | – | – | 2 (1.6%) | 1 (1.1%) | – | 12 (7.9%) | CnaG | 1615 | |||||||||||||
| 1932 | 16 Feb 1932 | 72 (44.5%) | – | 7 (7.7%) | – | – | 57 (35.2%) | 4 (2%) | – | – | – | – | – | 13 (11%) | Fianna Fáil | 343 | |||||||||||||
| 1933 | 24 Jan 1933 | 77 (49.7%) | – | 8 (5.7%) | – | – | 48 (30.5%) | – | – | – | – | – | 11 (9.2%) | 9 (5.0%) | Fianna Fáil | 1619 | |||||||||||||
| 1937 | 1 Jul 1937 | 69 (45.2%) | 48 (34.8%) | 13 (10.3%) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 8 (9.7%) | Fianna Fáil | 351 | |||||||||||||
1938–1981
| Election | Date | style="background-color: Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color; width: 2px;" | | FF | style="background-color: Template:Fine Gael/meta/color; width: 2px;" | | FG | style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color; width: 2px;" | | Lab | style="background-color: Template:Sinn Féin/meta/color; width: 2px;" | | SF | style="background-color: Template:Clann na Talmhan/meta/color; width: 2px;" | | CnaT | style="background-color: Template:National Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color; width: 2px;" | | NLP | style="background-color: Template:Clann na Poblachta/meta/color; width: 2px;" | | CnaP | style="background-color: Template:National Progressive Democrats/meta/color; width: 2px;" | | NPD | style="background-color: Template:Workers' Party of Ireland/meta/color; width: 2px;" | | WP | style="background-color: Template:Anti H-Block/meta/color; width: 2px;" | | AHB | style="background-color: Template:Socialist Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color; width: 2px;" | | SLP | style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | | Others | Government | Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | 17 Jun 1938 | 77 (51.9%) | 45 (33.3%) | 9 (10%) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 7 (4.7%) | Fianna Fáil | 1832 | ||||||||||||
| 1943 | 23 Jun 1943 | 67 (41.8%) | 32 (23.1%) | 17 (15.7%) | – | 10 (9.8%) | – | – | – | – | – | – | 12 (9.6%) | Fianna Fáil | 342 | ||||||||||||
| 1944 | 30 May 1944 | 76 (48.9%) | 30 (20.5%) | 8 (8.8%) | – | 9 (10.1%) | 4 (2.7%) | – | – | – | – | – | 11 (9.1%) | Fianna Fáil | 1345 | ||||||||||||
| 1948 | 4 Feb 1948 | 68 (41.9%) | 31 (19.8%) | 14 (8.7%) | – | 7 (5.5%) | 5 (2.6%) | 10 (13.3%) | – | – | – | – | 12 (8.3%) | Inter-Party (1st) | 1211 | ||||||||||||
| 1951 | 30 May 1951 | 69 (46.3%) | 40 (25.8%) | 16 (11.4%) | – | 6 (2.9%) | – | 2 (4.1%) | – | – | – | – | 14 (9.5%) | Fianna Fáil | 1084 | ||||||||||||
| 1954 | 18 May 1954 | 65 (43.4%) | 50 (32%) | 19 (12.1%) | 0 (0.1%) | 5 (3.1%) | – | 3 (3.8%) | – | – | – | – | 5 (5.5%) | Inter-Party (2nd) | 1022 | ||||||||||||
| 1957 | 5 Mar 1957 | 78 (48.3%) | 40 (26.6%) | 12 (9.1%) | 4 (5.4%) | 3 (2.4%) | – | 1 (1.7%) | – | – | – | – | 9 (6.6%) | Fianna Fáil | 1674 | ||||||||||||
| 1961 | 4 Oct 1961 | 70 (43.8%) | 47 (32%) | 16 (11.6%) | 0 (3.1%) | 2 (1.5%) | – | 1 (1.1%) | 2 (1%) | – | – | – | 6 (5.7%) | Fianna Fáil | 1281 | ||||||||||||
| 1965 | 7 Apr 1965 | 72 (47.7%) | 47 (34.1%) | 22 (15.4%) | – | – | – | 1 (0.8%) | – | – | – | – | 2 (2.1%) | Fianna Fáil | 1533 | ||||||||||||
| 1969 | 18 Jun 1969 | 75 (45.7%) | 50 (34.1%) | 18 (17%) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 (3.2%) | Fianna Fáil | 1351 | ||||||||||||
| 1973 | 28 Feb 1973 | 69 (46.2%) | 54 (35.1%) | 19 (13.7%) | – | – | – | – | – | 0[2] (1.1%) | – | – | 2 (3.8%) | FG–Lab | 1569 | ||||||||||||
| 1977 | 16 Jun 1977 | 84 (50.6%) | 43 (30.6%) | 17 (11.6%) | – | – | – | – | – | 0[3] (1.7%) | – | – | 4 (5.6%) | Fianna Fáil | 1456 | ||||||||||||
| 1981 | 11 Jun 1981 | 78 (45.3%) | 65 (36.5%) | 15 (9.9%) | – | – | – | – | – | 1[3] (1.7%) | 2 (2.5%) | 1 (0.4%) | 4 (3.7%) | FG–Lab | 252 | ||||||||||||
1982–2011
| Election | Date | style="background-color: Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color; width: 2px;" | | FF | style="background-color: Template:Fine Gael/meta/color; width: 2px;" | | FG | style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color; width: 2px;" | | Lab | style="background-color: Template:Sinn Féin/meta/color; width: 2px;" | | SF | style="background-color: Template:Workers' Party of Ireland/meta/color; width: 2px;" | | WP | style="background-color: Template:Democratic Socialist Party (Ireland)/meta/color; width: 2px;" | | DSP | style="background-color: Template:Green Party (Ireland)/meta/color; width: 2px;" | | GP | style="background-color: Template:Progressive Democrats/meta/color; width: 2px;" | | PD | style="background-color: Template:Democratic Left (Ireland)/meta/color; width: 2px;" | | DL | style="background-color: Template:Socialist Party (Ireland)/meta/color; width: 2px;" | | SP | style="background-color: Template:People Before Profit Alliance/meta/color; width: 2px;" | | PBP | style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | | Others | Government | Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 (Feb) | 18 Feb 1982 | 81 (47.3%) | 63 (37.3%) | 15 (9.1%) | 0 (1%) | 3[3] (2.3%) | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4 (3.0%) | Fianna Fáil | 279 | ||||||||||||
| 1982 (Nov) | 24 Nov 1982 | 75 (45.2%) | 70 (39.2%) | 16 (9.4%) | – | 2[3] (3.3%) | 0 (0.4%) | 0[4] (0.2%) | – | – | – | – | 3 (2.3%) | FG–Lab | 1546 | ||||||||||||
| 1987 | 17 Feb 1987 | 81 (44.1%) | 51 (27.1%) | 12 (6.4%) | 0 (1.9%) | 4 (3.8%) | 1 (0.4%) | 0[5] (0.4%) | 14 (11.8%) | – | – | – | 3 (4%) | Fianna Fáil | 849 | ||||||||||||
| 1989 | 15 Jun 1989 | 77 (44.1%) | 55 (29.3%) | 15 (9.5%) | 0 (1.2%) | 7 (5%) | 1 (0.6%) | 1 (1.5%) | 6 (5.5%) | – | – | – | 4 (3.3%) | FF–PD | 1259 | ||||||||||||
| 1992 | 25 Nov 1992 | 68 (39.1%) | 45 (24.5%) | 33 (19.3%) | 0 (1.6%) | 0 (0.7%) | – | 1 (1.4%) | 10 (4.7%) | 4 (2.8%) | – | – | 5 (5.9%) | FF–Lab | 1654 | ||||||||||||
| 15 Dec 1994 | FG–Lab–DL | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1997 | 6 Jun 1997 | 77 (39.3%) | 54 (27.9%) | 17 (10.4%) | 1 (2.5%) | 0 (0.4%) | – | 2 (2.8%) | 4 (4.7%) | 4 (2.5%) | 1 (0.7%) | 0[6] (0.1%) | 6 (8.6%) | FF–PD | 1806 | ||||||||||||
| 2002 | 17 May 2002 | 81 (41.5%) | 31 (22.5%) | 20 (10.8%) | 5 (6.5%) | 0 (0.2%) | – | 6 (3.8%) | 8 (4.0%) | – | 1 (0.8%) | 0[6] (0.2%) | 14 (9.7%) | FF–PD | 1833 | ||||||||||||
| 2007 | 24 May 2007 | 78 (41.6%) | 51 (27.3%) | 20 (10.1%) | 4 (6.9%) | 0 (0.1%) | – | 6 (4.7%) | 2 (2.7%) | – | 0 (0.6%) | 0 (0.5%) | 5 (5.4%) | FF–GP–PD | 1383 | ||||||||||||
| 2011 | 25 February 2011 | 20 (17.5%) | 76 (36.1%) | 37 (19.5%) | 14 (9.9%) | 0 (0.1%) | – | 0 (1.8%) | – | – | 2 (1.2%) | 2 (1.0%) | 15 (12.9%) | FG–Lab | – | ||||||||||||
See also
- Voting system
- Proportional representation
- List of Irish by-elections
- Irish general election, 1918 – Last All-Ireland general election
- Irish elections, 1921 in Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland
- Irish general election, 1922 – leading to the Irish Free State
- Irish general election timetable
- Elections in the Republic of Ireland
- Elections in Northern Ireland
References
- ^ Described on ballot papers as Republican candidates.
- ^ The anti-abstentionist faction of Sinn Féin, often described as Official Sinn Féin or Sinn Féin (Gardiner Place).
- ^ a b c d As Sinn Féin The Workers Party.
- ^ As the Ecology Party of Ireland.
- ^ As the Green Alliance.
- ^ a b As the Socialist Workers Party, i.e. before its creation of the People Before Profit Alliance.