Ireland 2002 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Fianna Fáil won 81 of 166 seats with 41.5% of the vote; 62.6% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 3.3 points on 1997.
- Ireland
- Held
Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fianna Fáil | 81 | +4 | 41.5 | +2.1 | 770,748 |
| Fine Gael | 31 | −23 | 22.5 | −5.5 | 417,619 |
| Labour Party | 21 | +4 | 10.8 | +0.4 | 200,130 |
| Sinn Féin | 5 | +4 | 6.5 | +4.0 | 121,020 |
| Progressive Democrats | 8 | +4 | 4.0 | −0.7 | 73,628 |
| Green Party | 6 | +4 | 3.9 | +1.1 | 71,470 |
| Socialist Party | 1 | 0 | 0.8 | +0.1 | 14,896 |
| Independent -- Marian Harkin | 1 | 0.5 | 8,610 | ||
| Largest party without seats | 0 | 0.3 | 4,741 | ||
| Independents | 12 | +6 |
± is the change against the Ireland 1997 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Fianna Fáil 770,748
- Fine Gael 417,619
- Labour Party 200,130
- Sinn Féin 121,020
- Progressive Democrats 73,628
- Green Party 71,470
- Socialist Party 14,896
- Independent -- Marian Harkin 8,610
- Largest party without seats 4,741
- 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
62.6% of the 3,002,173 registered voters cast a ballot (1,878,609 ballots), down 3.3 points on 1997. 1,857,902 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 Fáil41.5% of votes48.8% of seats
- Fine Gael22.5% of votes18.7% of seats
- Labour Party10.8% of votes12.7% of seats
- Progressive Democrats4.0% of votes4.8% of seats
- Green Party3.9% of votes3.6% of seats
- Sinn Féin6.5% of votes3.0% of seats
- Socialist Party0.8% of votes0.6% of seats
- Independent -- Marian Harkin0.5% of votes0.6% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 8.3 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.1 by votes and 3.3 by seats; Fianna Fáil led Fine Gael by 19.0 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
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