Ireland 1977 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Fianna Fáil won 84 of 148 seats with 50.6% of the vote; 76.3% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 0.3 points on 1973.
- Ireland
- Held
Result
- Fianna Fáil84
- Fine Gael43
- Labour Party17
- Independents4
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fianna Fáil | 84 | +15 | 50.6 | +4.4 | 811,615 |
| Fine Gael | 43 | −11 | 30.5 | −4.6 | 488,767 |
| Labour Party | 17 | −2 | 11.6 | −2.1 | 186,410 |
| Workers' Party | 0 | 0 | 1.7 | +0.6 | 27,209 |
| Independents | 4 | +2 |
± is the change against the Ireland 1973 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Fianna Fáil 811,615
- Fine Gael 488,767
- Labour Party 186,410
- Workers' Party 27,209
- 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
76.3% of the 2,118,606 registered voters cast a ballot (1,616,770 ballots), down 0.3 points on 1973. 1,603,027 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout since 1965 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Fianna Fáil50.6% of votes56.8% of seats
- Fine Gael30.5% of votes29.1% of seats
- Labour Party11.6% of votes11.5% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 5.0 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.8 by votes and 2.4 by seats; Fianna Fáil led Fine Gael by 20.1 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.