Ireland 1973 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Fianna Fáil won 69 of 144 seats with 46.2% of the vote; 76.6% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 0.3 points on 1969.
- Ireland
- Held
Result
- Fianna Fáil69
- Fine Gael54
- Labour Party19
- Independents2
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fianna Fáil | 69 | −6 | 46.2 | +0.6 | 624,528 |
| Fine Gael | 54 | +4 | 35.1 | +1.0 | 473,781 |
| Labour Party | 19 | +1 | 13.7 | −3.3 | 185,117 |
| Workers' Party | 0 | 1.1 | 15,366 | ||
| Independents | 2 | +1 |
± is the change against the Ireland 1969 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Fianna Fáil 624,528
- Fine Gael 473,781
- Labour Party 185,117
- Workers' Party 15,366
- 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
76.6% of the 1,783,604 registered voters cast a ballot (1,366,474 ballots), down 0.3 points on 1969. 1,350,537 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Fianna Fáil46.2% of votes47.9% of seats
- Fine Gael35.1% of votes37.5% of seats
- Labour Party13.7% of votes13.2% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 2.5 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.8 by votes and 2.6 by seats; Fianna Fáil led Fine Gael by 11.2 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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