Ireland February 1982 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Fianna Fáil won 81 of 166 seats with 47.3% of the vote; 73.8% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 2.4 points on 1981.
- Ireland
- Held
Result
- Fianna Fáil81
- Fine Gael63
- Labour Party15
- Independents4
- Workers' Party3
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fianna Fáil | 81 | +3 | 47.3 | +2.0 | 786,951 |
| Fine Gael | 63 | −2 | 37.3 | +0.8 | 621,088 |
| Labour Party | 15 | 0 | 9.1 | −0.8 | 151,875 |
| Workers' Party | 3 | +2 | 2.3 | +0.6 | 38,088 |
| Sinn Féin | 0 | 1.0 | 16,894 | ||
| Independents | 4 | 0 |
± is the change against the Ireland 1981 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Fianna Fáil 786,951
- Fine Gael 621,088
- Labour Party 151,875
- Workers' Party 38,088
- Sinn Féin 16,894
- 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
73.8% of the 2,275,450 registered voters cast a ballot (1,679,500 ballots), down 2.4 points on 1981. 1,665,133 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout since 1961 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Fianna Fáil47.3% of votes48.8% of seats
- Fine Gael37.3% of votes38.0% of seats
- Labour Party9.1% of votes9.0% of seats
- Workers' Party2.3% of votes1.8% 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 10.0 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.