Ireland 1938 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Fianna Fáil won 77 of 138 seats with 51.9% of the vote; 73.5% of registered voters cast a ballot.
- Ireland
- Held
Result
- Fianna Fáil77
- Fine Gael45
- Labour Party9
- Independents7
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | % | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fianna Fáil | 77 | 51.9 | 667,996 |
| Fine Gael | 45 | 33.3 | 428,633 |
| Labour Party | 9 | 10.0 | 128,945 |
| Independents | 7 | 4.7 | 60,685 |
Votes by party
- Fianna Fáil 667,996
- Fine Gael 428,633
- Labour Party 128,945
- Independents 60,685
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
73.5% of the 1,770,422 registered voters cast a ballot (1,302,070 ballots). 1,286,259 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Fianna Fáil51.9% of votes55.8% of seats
- Fine Gael33.3% of votes32.6% of seats
- Labour Party10.0% of votes6.5% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 3.7 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.5 by votes and 2.4 by seats; Fianna Fáil led Fine Gael by 18.6 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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