Ireland 2007 general election

Final results from ParlGov, read 5 October 2026: Fianna Fáil won 78 of 166 seats with 41.6% of the vote; 67.0% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 4.5 points on 2002.

Ireland
Held Thursday 24 May 2007

Result

84 for a majority

Seats and votes by party

Party	Seats	± seats	%	± points	Votes
Fianna Fáil	78	−3	41.6	+0.1	858,565
Fine Gael	51	+20	27.3	+4.8	564,428
Labour Party	20	−1	10.1	−0.6	209,175
Sinn Féin	4	−1	6.9	+0.4	143,410
Green Party	6	0	4.7	+0.8	96,936
Progressive Democrats	2	−6	2.7	−1.2	56,396
Socialist Party	0	−1	0.6	−0.2	13,218
Independents	5	−7

± is the change against the Ireland 2002 general election, party by party.

Votes by party

Fianna Fáil 858,565
Fine Gael 564,428
Labour Party 209,175
Sinn Féin 143,410
Green Party 96,936
Progressive Democrats 56,396
Socialist Party 13,218
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

67.0% of the 3,110,914 registered voters cast a ballot (2,085,245 ballots), up 4.5 points on 2002. 2,065,810 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1992 in our data. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

Fianna Fáil41.6% of votes47.0% of seats
Fine Gael27.3% of votes30.7% of seats
Labour Party10.1% of votes12.0% of seats
Green Party4.7% of votes3.6% of seats
Sinn Féin6.9% of votes2.4% of seats
Progressive Democrats2.7% of votes1.2% of seats

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

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 6.3 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.8 by votes and 3.0 by seats; Fianna Fáil led Fine Gael by 14.2 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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