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I'm Bartłomiej Paruzel, and I built ElectioMap to map national elections around the world. This is the Ireland hub on ElectioMap — it brings together the 3 Ireland elections I cover, each with the official results, vote and turnout shares to two decimal places, and an interactive map you can explore region by region.
Ireland (Éire) is a parliamentary republic in north-western Europe and a member of the European Union since 1973, though — unlike most of the EU — it is not part of NATO, maintaining a long-standing policy of military neutrality. Its written constitution, Bunreacht na hÉireann, dates from 1937. The head of state is a directly elected President (Uachtarán), who serves a seven-year term and holds a largely ceremonial role; Michael D. Higgins held the office from 2011. Real executive power rests with the Taoiseach (prime minister) and the cabinet, who must command the confidence of the lower house of parliament.
The national parliament, the Oireachtas, is bicameral: it comprises the President, the directly elected Dáil Éireann (the lower house and the centre of political power) and the Seanad (Senate), which is partly elected by vocational panels, university graduates and the Taoiseach's nominees and has weaker powers. Dáil Éireann has had between 158 and 174 members (TDs) in the period since 2015, elected for terms of up to five years. General elections use the single transferable vote (PR-STV) in multi-seat constituencies of three, four or five members. Voters rank candidates in order of preference, candidates are elected on reaching a quota, and surplus and eliminated-candidate votes transfer according to lower preferences. The system is strongly proportional and intensely candidate-focused, rewarding local service and the ability to attract transfers across party lines; it also makes first-preference vote share an imperfect guide to the eventual distribution of seats.
For most of the state's history politics was structured not by a left–right divide but by the rivalry of two centre-right parties born of the 1922–23 Civil War — Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael — with the Labour Party as the traditional third force. That duopoly has steadily weakened. Sinn Féin, the left-republican party, surged to win the popular vote in 2020; the Greens, Social Democrats, Labour, Solidarity–People Before Profit, Aontú and a persistently large group of independents complete a fragmented landscape. The 2016 election produced a Fine Gael minority government sustained by a Fianna Fáil "confidence and supply" deal; in 2020 Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Greens formed the first-ever coalition uniting the two civil-war parties, with a rotating Taoiseach; and in 2024 Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael were returned together once more.
Beyond Dáil elections, Irish voters also choose the President every seven years, elect 14 members of the European Parliament, and return the 949 members of the 31 local authorities (city and county councils) every five years, most recently in 2019 and 2024. Ireland is also unusual in the frequency of its constitutional referendums: because the constitution can be amended only by popular vote, referendums on issues such as marriage equality (2015), the repeal of the constitutional ban on abortion (2018) and divorce (2019) have been among the most consequential votes of the era. Elections and referendums are administered by returning officers in each constituency under the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, with results published by the Houses of the Oireachtas; an independent statutory Electoral Commission (An Coimisiún Toghcháin) took over oversight functions from 2023. Ireland consistently ranks among the world's strongest liberal democracies.
Each election listed here has its own page with the full breakdown by party or candidate and an interactive map of the result.
Every figure on ElectioMap is taken from the official electoral authority for Ireland — the national election commission or equivalent body that certifies the count. I enter vote and turnout percentages exactly as published, to two decimal places and without rounding, and show seat totals wherever a chamber is being filled. When ElectioMap covers an election live, the page updates automatically as official figures are released. For the full sourcing and update policy, see Data & Methodology and the Editorial Policy.
The most recent Ireland election covered on ElectioMap is the General Election 2024, held Nov 29, 2024. Its page has the full result with vote shares and a map by region.
All Ireland figures come from the official electoral authority that certifies the count, entered exactly as published to two decimal places. See the Data & Methodology page for the full sourcing and update policy.
Yes. Every Ireland election page on ElectioMap includes an interactive map — click a region to see how each party or candidate performed there.