Ireland 1965 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Fianna Fáil won 72 of 144 seats with 47.7% of the vote; 75.1% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 4.5 points on 1961.
- Ireland
- Held
Result
- Fianna Fáil72
- Fine Gael47
- Labour Party22
- Independents2
- Clann na Poblachta1
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fianna Fáil | 72 | +2 | 47.7 | +3.8 | 597,414 |
| Fine Gael | 47 | 0 | 34.1 | +2.1 | 427,081 |
| Labour Party | 22 | +6 | 15.4 | +3.7 | 192,740 |
| Clann na Poblachta | 1 | 0 | 0.8 | −0.4 | 9,427 |
| Largest party without seats | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | −0.1 | 183 |
| Independents | 2 | −4 |
± is the change against the Ireland 1961 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Fianna Fáil 597,414
- Fine Gael 427,081
- Labour Party 192,740
- Clann na Poblachta 9,427
- Largest party without seats 183
- 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
75.1% of the 1,683,019 registered voters cast a ballot (1,264,666 ballots), up 4.5 points on 1961. 1,253,122 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1954 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Fianna Fáil47.7% of votes50.0% of seats
- Fine Gael34.1% of votes32.6% of seats
- Labour Party15.4% of votes15.3% of seats
- Clann na Poblachta0.8% of votes0.7% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 2.2 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.7 by votes and 2.6 by seats; Fianna Fáil led Fine Gael by 13.6 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
Our text and compilation: CC BY 4.0. How to reuse and cite this page.