Ireland 1969 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Fianna Fáil won 75 of 144 seats with 45.7% of the vote; 76.9% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 1.8 points on 1965.
- Ireland
- Held
Result
- Fianna Fáil75
- Fine Gael50
- Labour Party18
- Independents1
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fianna Fáil | 75 | +3 | 45.7 | −2.0 | 602,234 |
| Fine Gael | 50 | +3 | 34.1 | 0.0 | 449,749 |
| Labour Party | 18 | −4 | 17.0 | +1.6 | 224,498 |
| Largest party without seats | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 242 |
| Independents | 1 | −1 |
± is the change against the Ireland 1965 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Fianna Fáil 602,234
- Fine Gael 449,749
- Labour Party 224,498
- Largest party without seats 242
- 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
76.9% of the 1,735,388 registered voters cast a ballot (1,334,963 ballots), up 1.8 points on 1965. 1,318,953 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout of this kind in our data, which begins in 1948. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Fianna Fáil45.7% of votes52.1% of seats
- Fine Gael34.1% of votes34.7% of seats
- Labour Party17.0% of votes12.5% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 5.6 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.8 by votes and 2.5 by seats; Fianna Fáil led Fine Gael by 11.6 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.