Ireland 1943 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Fianna Fáil won 67 of 138 seats with 41.9% of the vote; 74.2% of registered voters cast a ballot.
- Ireland
- Held
Result
- Fianna Fáil67
- Fine Gael32
- Labour Party17
- Independents11
- Clann na Talmhan10
- Unnamed party with one seat1
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | % | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fianna Fáil | 67 | 41.9 | 557,525 |
| Labour Party | 17 | 15.7 | 208,812 |
| Clann na Talmhan | 10 | 9.8 | 130,452 |
| Independents | 11 | 8.7 | 116,024 |
| Fine Gael | 32 | 23.1 | 30,749 |
| Unnamed party with one seat | 1 | 0.3 | 4,377 |
| Largest party without seats | 0 | 0.3 | 3,892 |
Votes by party
- Fianna Fáil 557,525
- Labour Party 208,812
- Clann na Talmhan 130,452
- Independents 116,024
- Fine Gael 30,749
- Unnamed party with one seat 4,377
- Largest party without seats 3,892
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
74.2% of the 1,816,142 registered voters cast a ballot (1,347,907 ballots). 1,331,709 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Fianna Fáil41.9% of votes48.6% of seats
- Fine Gael23.1% of votes23.2% of seats
- Labour Party15.7% of votes12.3% of seats
- Clann na Talmhan9.8% of votes7.2% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 5.6 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.7 by votes and 3.2 by seats; Fianna Fáil led Fine Gael by 18.8 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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