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Ireland 2009 European Parliament election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Fine Gael won 4 of 12 seats with 29.1% of the vote; 58.6% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 0.1 points on 2004.

European Parliament result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Fine Gael4−129.1+1.4532,889
Fianna Fáil3−124.1−5.4440,562
Labour Party3+213.9+3.4254,669
Sinn Féin0−111.2+0.1205,613
Libertas Ireland05.599,709
Independent -- Marian Harkin104.6+0.984,813
Socialist Party1+12.8+1.550,510
Green Party001.9−2.434,585

± is the change against the Ireland 2004 European Parliament election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Fine Gael 532,889
  • Fianna Fáil 440,562
  • Labour Party 254,669
  • Sinn Féin 205,613
  • Libertas Ireland 99,709
  • Independent -- Marian Harkin 84,813
  • Socialist Party 50,510
  • Green Party 34,585

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 3,199,289 registered voters cast a ballot (1,875,920 ballots), up 0.1 points on 2004. 1,829,313 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1989 in our data. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Fine Gael29.1% of votes33.3% of seats
  • Fianna Fáil24.1% of votes25.0% of seats
  • Labour Party13.9% of votes25.0% of seats
  • Independent -- Marian Harkin4.6% of votes8.3% of seats
  • Socialist Party2.8% of votes8.3% of seats
  • Sinn Féin11.2% of votes0.0% of seats
  • Libertas Ireland5.5% of votes0.0% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 13.1 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 5.5 by votes and 4.0 by seats; Fine Gael led Fianna Fáil by 5.0 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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