All of Ireland’s Presidential Election results are now up IrelandElection.com. We have the main result for each election, as well as a breakdown of each count and every constituency in Ireland.

Out of a possible 13 presidential elections, 6 were not contested while 7 were to a public vote. Its only recently that there has been a big increase in the amount of candidates, with the election in 1997 having 5 candidates and 7 candidates in 2011.

With two upcoming referendums, we thought it might be worthwhile looking back at how we voted in previous ones.

We have just finished putting up on our website, the constituency data for all of Ireland’s past referendums.  You can access it from our homepage or by clicking here.

Well, if you were over 18 you might have been out voting. And for the first time you can view all the counts from the November 1982 election right here, on IrelandElection.com.  This is the first time they’ve been fully available online.

This was the last of 3 general elections to be held within a year and a half. And it was a record one for Fine Gael, giving them their best result in a general election (only to be bettered by their 2011 performance). Women TD’s also increased their share from 8 seats to 14.

More general elections to come.

All the counts for the 1987 Irish General Election are now on our site and available online for the first time.

The result saw Charles Haughey lead a minority government and also saw the first appearance of the PDs.

For those interested in such things, there were three constituencies where surpluses were distributed in the order they occurred and not by largest surplus first (which is often the case).

• Dublin South-Central
• Louth
• Wexford

My understanding of how the counts work, is that when there is more than one surplus to be distributed, the larger surplus is distributed first (as it can have the most effect for candidates at the bottom).

We’re currently compiling data for the 1987 General Election counts and we’ve come across two constituencies so far (Louth and Dublin South Central) that didn’t do this. They distributed the surpluses in order of being elected, which in these cases meant the smaller surplus was distributed first.

So my question is, were surplus distribution rules different in 1987?

Hope this makes sense, and any advice on the matter would be appreciated.

We are pleased to announce that we have massively increased our coverage of Irish Local Election data.

We’ve increased our data from 1 local election (2014) to 18 local elections, stretching back to 1920.

The process involved importing 1753 individual LEA elections, along with 98,947 voting totals for each candidate for each count.

We couldn’t have done this without the help of Alan Kinsella who supplied a huge amount of raw data.

Summary

Detail

(All = All Counts for each Local Election Area)
(1st = First Count (or incomplete subsequent counts for each Local Election Area)

We’ve just added a page for each County Council in the country. You can see it by clicking this link, and then click on ‘(Detail)’ beside each County Council.