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Ireland 1957 general election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Fianna Fáil won 78 of 147 seats with 48.3% of the vote; 71.3% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 5.2 points on 1954.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Fianna Fáil78+1348.3+5.0592,994
Fine Gael40−1026.6−5.3326,699
Labour Party12−79.1−3.0111,747
Workers' Party4+45.3+5.265,640
Clann na Talmhan3−22.4−0.728,905
Clann na Poblachta1−21.7−2.120,632
Largest party without seats00.44,797
Independents9+4

± is the change against the Ireland 1954 general election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Fianna Fáil 592,994
  • Fine Gael 326,699
  • Labour Party 111,747
  • Workers' Party 65,640
  • Clann na Talmhan 28,905
  • Clann na Poblachta 20,632
  • Largest party without seats 4,797
  • Independents

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.

Share of the vote

Turnout

71.3% of the 1,738,278 registered voters cast a ballot (1,238,559 ballots), down 5.2 points on 1954. 1,227,019 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout of this kind in our data, which begins in 1948. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Fianna Fáil48.3% of votes53.1% of seats
  • Fine Gael26.6% of votes27.2% of seats
  • Labour Party9.1% of votes8.2% of seats
  • Workers' Party5.3% of votes2.7% of seats
  • Clann na Talmhan2.4% of votes2.0% of seats
  • Clann na Poblachta1.7% of votes0.7% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 5.9 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.2 by votes and 2.7 by seats; Fianna Fáil led Fine Gael by 21.7 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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