Ireland 1994 European Parliament election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Fianna Fáil won 7 of 15 seats with 35.0% of the vote; 44.0% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 24.3 points on 1989.
- Ireland
- Held
European Parliament result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fianna Fáil | 7 | +1 | 35.0 | +3.5 | 398,066 |
| Fine Gael | 4 | 0 | 24.3 | +2.7 | 276,095 |
| Labour Party | 1 | 0 | 11.0 | +1.5 | 124,972 |
| Green Party | 2 | +2 | 7.9 | +4.1 | 90,046 |
| Progressive Democrats | 0 | −1 | 6.5 | −5.4 | 73,696 |
| Democratic Left | 0 | 3.5 | 39,706 | ||
| Sinn Féin | 0 | 0 | 3.0 | +0.7 | 33,823 |
| Independent -- Pat Cox | 1 | 2.5 | 27,920 | ||
| Workers' Party | 0 | −1 | 1.9 | −5.6 | 22,100 |
± is the change against the Ireland 1989 European Parliament election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Fianna Fáil 398,066
- Fine Gael 276,095
- Labour Party 124,972
- Green Party 90,046
- Progressive Democrats 73,696
- Democratic Left 39,706
- Sinn Féin 33,823
- Independent -- Pat Cox 27,920
- Workers' Party 22,100
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
44.0% of the 2,631,575 registered voters cast a ballot (1,157,296 ballots), down 24.3 points on 1989. 1,137,490 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout of this kind in our data, which begins in 1979. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Fianna Fáil35.0% of votes46.7% of seats
- Fine Gael24.3% of votes26.7% of seats
- Green Party7.9% of votes13.3% of seats
- Labour Party11.0% of votes6.7% of seats
- Independent -- Pat Cox2.5% of votes6.7% of seats
- Progressive Democrats6.5% of votes0.0% of seats
- Democratic Left3.5% of votes0.0% of seats
- Sinn Féin3.0% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 11.7 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.8 by votes and 3.2 by seats; Fianna Fáil led Fine Gael by 10.7 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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