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Ireland 1961 general election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Fianna Fáil won 70 of 144 seats with 43.8% of the vote; 70.6% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 0.6 points on 1957.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Fianna Fáil70−843.8−4.5512,073
Fine Gael47+732.0+5.4374,099
Labour Party16+411.7+2.5136,111
Clann na Talmhan2−11.5−0.817,693
Clann na Poblachta101.1−0.613,170
National Progressive Democrats21.011,490
Largest party without seats000.1−0.31,132
Independents6−3

± is the change against the Ireland 1957 general election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Fianna Fáil 512,073
  • Fine Gael 374,099
  • Labour Party 136,111
  • Clann na Talmhan 17,693
  • Clann na Poblachta 13,170
  • National Progressive Democrats 11,490
  • Largest party without seats 1,132
  • 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

70.6% of the 1,670,860 registered voters cast a ballot (1,179,738 ballots), down 0.6 points on 1957. 1,168,404 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 Fáil43.8% of votes48.6% of seats
  • Fine Gael32.0% of votes32.6% of seats
  • Labour Party11.7% of votes11.1% of seats
  • Clann na Talmhan1.5% of votes1.4% of seats
  • National Progressive Democrats1.0% of votes1.4% of seats
  • Clann na Poblachta1.1% of votes0.7% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 4.5 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.2 by votes and 2.8 by seats; Fianna Fáil led Fine Gael by 11.8 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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