Labour Party Candidates for 1981 general election
| Candidate | Constituency | Elected | |
| Séamus Pattison | Carlow–Kilkenny |  | |
| Jim Townsend | Carlow–Kilkenny | ||
| Agnes McCarthy | Clare | ||
| Edward Allen | Cork East | ||
| Mary Noonan | Cork East | ||
| Toddy O'Sullivan | Cork North–Central | | |
| Michael Smith | Cork North–West | ||
| Eileen Desmond | Cork South–Central | | |
| Philip Murphy | Cork South–West | ||
| Anne Wilkinson | Donegal North–East | ||
| Patrick Carroll | Dublin Central | ||
| Michael O'Leary | Dublin Central | | |
| Jimmy Somers | Dublin Central | ||
| Joseph Holohan | Dublin North | ||
| Hugh Reilly | Dublin North | ||
| Sean Ryan | Dublin North | ||
| Michael Martin | Dublin North–Central | ||
| Michael O'Halloran | Dublin North–Central | ||
| John Brennan | Dublin North–East | ||
| Sean Kenny | Dublin North–East | ||
| Bernard Malone | Dublin North–East | ||
| Paddy Dunne | Dublin North–West | ||
| Brendan Halligan | Dublin North–West | ||
| Frank Buckley | Dublin South | ||
| Eithne Fitzgerald | Dublin South | ||
| John Horgan | Dublin South | ||
| Séamus Ashe | Dublin South–Central | ||
| Frank Cluskey | Dublin South–Central | ||
 | Michael Collins | Dublin South–Central | |
| Mary Frehill | Dublin South–East | ||
| Ruairi Quinn | Dublin South–East | ||
| Brendan Byrne | Dublin South–West | ||
| Mervyn Taylor | Dublin South–West | | |
| Anne McStay | Dublin West | ||
| Mary Robinson | Dublin West | ||
| Eamon Tuffy | Dublin West | ||
| Barry Desmond | Dún Laoghaire | | |
| Jane Dillon Byrne | Dún Laoghaire | ||
| Frank Smyth | Dún Laoghaire | ||
 | Michael D. Higgins | Galway West | |
| Dick Spring | Kerry North | | |
| Michael Moynihan | Kerry South | | |
| Joseph Bermingham | Kildare | | |
 | Emmet Stagg | Kildare | |
| Gerry McGuire | Laois–Offaly | ||
| Michael Lipper | Limerick East | ||
| Frank Prendergast | Limerick East | ||
| James Bennett | Longford–Westmeath | ||
| Neil O'Shea | Longford–Westmeath | ||
| Michael Bell | Louth | ||
| James McArdle | Louth | ||
| Frank McLoughlin | Meath | ||
| James Tully | Meath | | |
| Richard Lacy | Sligo–Leitrim | ||
| John Ryan | Tipperary North | | |
| Seán Treacy | Tipperary South | | |
| William Kyne | Waterford | ||
| Brendan Corish | Wexford | | |
| Denis North | Wexford | ||
| Liam Kavanagh | Wicklow | |