Ireland 1932 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Fianna Fáil won 72 of 153 seats with 44.5% of the vote; 76.4% of registered voters cast a ballot.
- Ireland
- Held
Result
- Fianna Fáil72
- Cumann na nGaedheal57
- Independents14
- Labour Party7
- Farmers' Party3
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | % | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fianna Fáil | 72 | 44.5 | 566,498 |
| Cumann na nGaedheal | 57 | 35.3 | 449,506 |
| Labour Party | 7 | 7.7 | 98,286 |
| Farmers' Party | 3 | 1.8 | 22,899 |
| Independents | 14 | 10.4 | 13,189 |
| Irish Worker League | 0 | 0.3 | 3,860 |
Votes by party
- Fianna Fáil 566,498
- Cumann na nGaedheal 449,506
- Labour Party 98,286
- Farmers' Party 22,899
- Independents 13,189
- Irish Worker League 3,860
ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.
ParlGov marks results before 1945 as experimental: they may need revision, so we compare them with no other election.
Share of the vote
Turnout
76.4% of the 1,695,175 registered voters cast a ballot (1,294,830 ballots). 1,274,026 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Fianna Fáil44.5% of votes47.1% of seats
- Cumann na nGaedheal35.3% of votes37.3% of seats
- Labour Party7.7% of votes4.6% of seats
- Farmers' Party1.8% of votes2.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 3.3 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.9 by votes and 2.7 by seats; Fianna Fáil led Cumann na nGaedheal by 9.2 points of the vote. How these are computed.
Sources and licence
Sources and licence
- ParlGov 2024 Release (Döring and Manow), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
- Wikidata, party colours (P465) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
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