Ireland 1944 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Fianna Fáil won 76 of 138 seats with 48.9% of the vote; 67.7% of registered voters cast a ballot.
- Ireland
- Held
Result
- Fianna Fáil76
- Fine Gael30
- Independents11
- Clann na Talmhan9
- Labour Party8
- National Labour Party4
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | % | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fianna Fáil | 76 | 48.9 | 595,259 |
| Fine Gael | 30 | 20.5 | 249,329 |
| Clann na Talmhan | 9 | 10.8 | 122,745 |
| Labour Party | 8 | 8.7 | 106,767 |
| Independents | 11 | 7.8 | 94,852 |
| National Labour Party | 4 | 2.7 | 32,732 |
Votes by party
- Fianna Fáil 595,259
- Fine Gael 249,329
- Clann na Talmhan 122,745
- Labour Party 106,767
- Independents 94,852
- National Labour Party 32,732
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
67.7% of the 1,816,142 registered voters cast a ballot (1,230,139 ballots). 1,217,349 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Fianna Fáil48.9% of votes55.1% of seats
- Fine Gael20.5% of votes21.7% of seats
- Clann na Talmhan10.8% of votes6.5% of seats
- Labour Party8.7% of votes5.8% of seats
- National Labour Party2.7% of votes2.9% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 5.8 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.3 by votes and 2.7 by seats; Fianna Fáil led Fine Gael by 28.4 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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