Ireland 1937 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Fianna Fáil won 69 of 138 seats with 45.2% of the vote; 76.2% of registered voters cast a ballot.
- Ireland
- Held
Result
- Fianna Fáil69
- Fine Gael48
- Labour Party13
- Independents8
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | % | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fine Gael | 48 | 34.8 | 461,171 |
| Labour Party | 13 | 10.3 | 135,758 |
| Fianna Fáil | 69 | 45.2 | 59,904 |
| Independents | 8 | 9.7 | 12,848 |
Votes by party
- Fine Gael 461,171
- Labour Party 135,758
- Fianna Fáil 59,904
- Independents 12,848
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
76.2% of the 1,775,055 registered voters cast a ballot (1,352,273 ballots). 1,324,449 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Fianna Fáil45.2% of votes50.0% of seats
- Fine Gael34.8% of votes34.8% of seats
- Labour Party10.3% of votes9.4% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 4.4 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.9 by votes and 2.6 by seats; Fianna Fáil led Fine Gael by 10.4 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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