November 1982 Irish General Election
24 November 1982 · Three elections in eighteen months · 166 seats, 84 for a majority
Fianna Fáil finished first with 75 of 166 seats on 45.2% of the vote. Turnout 72.9%.
Taoiseach before
Charles Haughey
Fianna Fáil
Taoiseach (continued)
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Largest force
Fianna Fáil
75 of 166 seats
Turnout
72.9%
The result
Fianna Fáil
Charles Haughey · 45.2% of votes · -6 seats
75
seats
Fine Gael
Garret FitzGerald · 39.2% of votes · +7 seats
70
seats
Labour
Dick Spring · 9.4% of votes · +1 seats
16
seats
Workers' Party
Tomás Mac Giolla · 3.3% of votes · -1 seats
2
seats
Democratic Socialist
Jim Kemmy · 0.4% of votes
0
seats
Green
0.2% of votes
0
seats
Irish Republican Socialist
Jim Lane · 0.0% of votes · 0 seats
0
seats
Communist
Eugene McCartan · 0.0% of votes · 0 seats
0
seats
Independent
2.3% of votes · -1 seats
3
seats