Ireland November 1982 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Fianna Fáil won 75 of 166 seats with 45.2% of the vote; 72.9% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 0.9 points on 1982.
- Ireland
- Held
Result
- Fianna Fáil75
- Fine Gael70
- Labour Party16
- Independents3
- Workers' Party2
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fianna Fáil | 75 | −6 | 45.2 | −2.1 | 763,313 |
| Fine Gael | 70 | +7 | 39.2 | +1.9 | 662,284 |
| Labour Party | 16 | +1 | 9.4 | +0.2 | 158,115 |
| Workers' Party | 2 | −1 | 3.3 | +1.0 | 54,888 |
| Largest party without seats | 0 | 0.4 | 7,012 | ||
| Independents | 3 | −1 |
± is the change against the Ireland February 1982 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Fianna Fáil 763,313
- Fine Gael 662,284
- Labour Party 158,115
- Workers' Party 54,888
- Largest party without seats 7,012
- 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
72.9% of the 2,335,153 registered voters cast a ballot (1,701,385 ballots), down 0.9 points on 1982. 1,688,720 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout since 1961 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Fianna Fáil45.2% of votes45.2% of seats
- Fine Gael39.2% of votes42.2% of seats
- Labour Party9.4% of votes9.6% of seats
- Workers' Party3.3% of votes1.2% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 2.9 (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 6.0 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.