Ireland General election 2016 — Results
Election day: February 26, 2016
- Fine Gael: 25.52%, 50 seats
- Fianna Fáil: 24.35%, 44 seats
- Sinn Féin: 13.85%, 23 seats
- Independents & others: 17.82%, 23 seats
- Labour Party: 6.61%, 7 seats
- AAA–People Before Profit: 3.94%, 6 seats
- Social Democrats: 3.01%, 3 seats
- Green Party: 2.71%, 2 seats
Turnout: 65.10%
About this election
The voting system
Members of Dáil Éireann (TDs) are elected by the single transferable vote (PR-STV) in multi-seat constituencies returning three, four or five members — 40 constituencies in 2016. Voters rank candidates in order of preference (1, 2, 3…); a candidate is elected on reaching a quota, and surpluses and the votes of eliminated candidates are transferred according to later preferences. The system is highly proportional and candidate-centred, rewards local profile and transfer-friendliness, and means that the share of first-preference votes does not translate directly into seats. Because each constituency elects several members of different parties, this page presents the national first-preference shares and the resulting composition of the Dáil rather than a single winner-by-region map.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 1.17 points separated Fine Gael from Fianna Fáil.
- Fine Gael converted 25.52% of the vote into 50 of 158 seats (31.65%), 6.13 points more than its vote share.
- The top two shared 49.87% of the vote between them, and 5 lists cleared 5%.
- Turnout of 65.10% is the highest of the 3 general elections covered here since 2016.
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- How a Constituency Map Gets Built — what happens when no boundary file matches the districts
- How We Check an Election Figure — the checks every number passes before publication
- How Live Election Data Is Collected and Verified — from ballot box to published figure