Ireland 1999 European Parliament election

Final results from ParlGov, read 5 October 2026: Fianna Fáil won 6 of 15 seats with 38.6% of the vote; 50.2% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 6.2 points on 1994.

Ireland
Held Sunday 13 June 1999

European Parliament result

Seats and votes by party

Party	Seats	± seats	%	± points	Votes
Fianna Fáil	6	−1	38.6	+3.6	537,757
Fine Gael	4	0	24.6	+0.3	342,171
Labour Party	1	0	8.7	−2.3	121,542
Green Party	2	0	6.7	−1.2	93,100
Sinn Féin	0	0	6.3	+3.3	88,165
Independent -- Pat Cox	1	0	4.6	+2.1	63,954
Independents	1		3.7		51,086

± is the change against the Ireland 1994 European Parliament election, party by party.

Votes by party

Fianna Fáil 537,757
Fine Gael 342,171
Labour Party 121,542
Green Party 93,100
Sinn Féin 88,165
Independent -- Pat Cox 63,954
Independents 51,086

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

50.2% of the 2,864,361 registered voters cast a ballot (1,438,287 ballots), up 6.2 points on 1994. 1,391,740 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

Fianna Fáil38.6% of votes40.0% of seats
Fine Gael24.6% of votes26.7% of seats
Green Party6.7% of votes13.3% of seats
Labour Party8.7% of votes6.7% of seats
Independent -- Pat Cox4.6% of votes6.7% of seats
Sinn Féin6.3% of votes0.0% of seats

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

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 7.3 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.4 by votes and 3.8 by seats; Fianna Fáil led Fine Gael by 14.0 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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