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Ireland 2004 European Parliament election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Fine Gael won 5 of 13 seats with 27.8% of the vote; 58.6% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 8.4 points on 1999.

European Parliament result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Fianna Fáil4−229.4−9.2524,504
Fine Gael5+127.8+3.2494,412
Sinn Féin1+111.1+4.8197,715
Labour Party1010.6+1.9188,132
Independents105.0+1.389,127
Green Party0−24.3−2.476,917
Independent -- Marian Harkin13.766,664
Socialist Party01.323,218

± is the change against the Ireland 1999 European Parliament election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Fianna Fáil 524,504
  • Fine Gael 494,412
  • Sinn Féin 197,715
  • Labour Party 188,132
  • Independents 89,127
  • Green Party 76,917
  • Independent -- Marian Harkin 66,664
  • Socialist Party 23,218

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

58.6% of the 3,143,025 registered voters cast a ballot (1,841,335 ballots), up 8.4 points on 1999. 1,780,768 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1989 in our data. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Fine Gael27.8% of votes38.5% of seats
  • Fianna Fáil29.4% of votes30.8% of seats
  • Sinn Féin11.1% of votes7.7% of seats
  • Labour Party10.6% of votes7.7% of seats
  • Independent -- Marian Harkin3.7% of votes7.7% of seats
  • Green Party4.3% of votes0.0% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 9.5 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 5.2 by votes and 3.8 by seats; Fianna Fáil led Fine Gael by 1.7 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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