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Ireland 2011 general election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Fine Gael won 76 of 166 seats with 36.1% of the vote; 69.9% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 2.9 points on 2007.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Fine Gael76+2536.1+8.8801,628
Labour Party37+1719.4+9.3431,796
Fianna Fáil20−5817.4−24.1387,358
Independents14+912.2270,258
Sinn Féin14+109.9+3.0220,661
Green Party0−61.9−2.841,039
Socialist Party2+21.2+0.626,770
People Before Profit21.021,551
Unnamed party with one seat10.511,102

± is the change against the Ireland 2007 general election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Fine Gael 801,628
  • Labour Party 431,796
  • Fianna Fáil 387,358
  • Independents 270,258
  • Sinn Féin 220,661
  • Green Party 41,039
  • Socialist Party 26,770
  • People Before Profit 21,551
  • Unnamed party with one seat 11,102

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

69.9% of the 3,209,244 registered voters cast a ballot (2,243,176 ballots), up 2.9 points on 2007. 2,220,359 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1987 in our data. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Fine Gael36.1% of votes45.8% of seats
  • Labour Party19.4% of votes22.3% of seats
  • Fianna Fáil17.4% of votes12.0% of seats
  • Sinn Féin9.9% of votes8.4% of seats
  • Socialist Party1.2% of votes1.2% of seats
  • People Before Profit1.0% of votes1.2% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 8.7 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.5 by votes and 3.5 by seats; Fine Gael led Labour Party by 16.6 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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