Ireland General election 2020 — Results
Election day: February 8, 2020
- Fianna Fáil: 22.18%, 38 seats
- Sinn Féin: 24.53%, 37 seats
- Fine Gael: 20.86%, 35 seats
- Independents & others: 13.49%, 20 seats
- Green Party: 7.13%, 12 seats
- Labour Party: 4.38%, 6 seats
- Social Democrats: 2.90%, 6 seats
- Solidarity–People Before Profit: 2.63%, 5 seats
Turnout: 62.90%
About this election
The voting system
TDs are elected by the single transferable vote (PR-STV) in multi-seat constituencies of three to five members — 39 constituencies in 2020. Voters rank candidates across parties and independents, and votes transfer between candidates as the count proceeds, so first-preference shares and seat totals diverge: Sinn Féin won the popular vote but, having nominated only 42 candidates, could not convert it into the largest bloc of seats. Because each constituency returns several members of different parties, this page shows the national first-preference result and the composition of the Dáil rather than a regional winner map.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- -2.35 points separated Fianna Fáil from Sinn Féin.
- Fianna Fáil converted 22.18% of the vote into 38 of 160 seats (23.75%), 1.57 points more than its vote share.
- The top two shared 46.71% of the vote between them, and 5 lists cleared 5%.
- Fianna Fáil moved −2.17 points against the 2016 general election (24.35% → 22.18%).
- Turnout was 62.90%, down 2.20 points on 2016.
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- Why Turnout Figures Disagree — why two sources publish different turnout for one election
- D’Hondt vs Sainte-Laguë — how a divisor formula turns vote shares into seats
- How Electoral Systems Work Around the World — first-past-the-post, proportional and mixed systems, with real numbers