Ireland 1992 general election

Final results from ParlGov, read 5 October 2026: Fianna Fáil won 68 of 166 seats with 39.1% of the vote; 68.5% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 0.4 points on 1989.

Ireland
Held Wednesday 25 November 1992

Result

84 for a majority

Seats and votes by party

Party	Seats	± seats	%	± points	Votes
Fianna Fáil	68	−9	39.1	−5.0	674,650
Fine Gael	45	−10	24.5	−4.8	422,106
Labour Party	33	+18	19.3	+9.8	333,013
Progressive Democrats	10	+4	4.7	−0.8	80,787
Democratic Left	4		2.8		47,945
Sinn Féin	0	0	1.6	+0.4	27,809
Green Party	1	0	1.4	−0.1	24,110
Independents	5	+1

± is the change against the Ireland 1989 general election, party by party.

Votes by party

Fianna Fáil 674,650
Fine Gael 422,106
Labour Party 333,013
Progressive Democrats 80,787
Democratic Left 47,945
Sinn Féin 27,809
Green Party 24,110
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

68.5% of the 2,557,036 registered voters cast a ballot (1,751,351 ballots), up 0.4 points on 1989. 1,724,853 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

Fianna Fáil39.1% of votes41.0% of seats
Fine Gael24.5% of votes27.1% of seats
Labour Party19.3% of votes19.9% of seats
Progressive Democrats4.7% of votes6.0% of seats
Democratic Left2.8% of votes2.4% of seats
Green Party1.4% of votes0.6% of seats

Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 3.5 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.9 by votes and 3.5 by seats; Fianna Fáil led Fine Gael by 14.6 points of the vote. How these are computed.

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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