Ireland 1997 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Fianna Fáil won 77 of 166 seats with 39.3% of the vote; 65.9% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 2.6 points on 1992.
- Ireland
- Held
Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fianna Fáil | 77 | +9 | 39.3 | +0.2 | 703,682 |
| Fine Gael | 54 | +9 | 27.9 | +3.5 | 499,936 |
| Labour Party | 17 | −16 | 10.4 | −8.9 | 186,044 |
| Progressive Democrats | 4 | −6 | 4.7 | 0.0 | 83,765 |
| Green Party | 2 | +1 | 2.8 | +1.4 | 49,323 |
| Sinn Féin | 1 | +1 | 2.5 | +0.9 | 45,614 |
| Democratic Left | 4 | 0 | 2.5 | −0.3 | 44,901 |
| National Party | 0 | 1.1 | 19,077 | ||
| Socialist Party | 1 | 0.7 | 12,445 | ||
| Independents | 6 | +1 |
± is the change against the Ireland 1992 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Fianna Fáil 703,682
- Fine Gael 499,936
- Labour Party 186,044
- Progressive Democrats 83,765
- Green Party 49,323
- Sinn Féin 45,614
- Democratic Left 44,901
- National Party 19,077
- Socialist Party 12,445
- 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
65.9% of the 2,741,262 registered voters cast a ballot (1,806,932 ballots), down 2.6 points on 1992. 1,788,985 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout of this kind in our data, which begins in 1948. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Fianna Fáil39.3% of votes46.4% of seats
- Fine Gael27.9% of votes32.5% of seats
- Labour Party10.4% of votes10.2% of seats
- Progressive Democrats4.7% of votes2.4% of seats
- Democratic Left2.5% of votes2.4% of seats
- Green Party2.8% of votes1.2% of seats
- Sinn Féin2.5% of votes0.6% of seats
- Socialist Party0.7% of votes0.6% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 6.9 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.0 by votes and 3.0 by seats; Fianna Fáil led Fine Gael by 11.4 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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