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First preference percentage share for the largest three parties was: Fianna Fáil 21.9%, Fine Gael 20.8%, Sinn Féin 19.0%. Turnout for the election was 59.7%, the lowest in more than a century.
The exit poll placed Sinn Féin at 21.1% of the vote, narrowly leading the Irish Taoiseach Simon Harris's party Fine Gael who had 21% of the vote, and their governing partners Fianna Fáil at 19.5%.
Sinn Fein (21.1%), Fine Gael (21%) and Fianna Fail (19.5%) are virtually neck-and-neck in terms of first preference votes in the Irish General Election, according to an exit poll.
With all 43 constituencies' initial counts in, first preference percentage share for the largest three parties is: Fianna Fáil 21.9%, Fine Gael 20.8%, Sinn Féin 19.0%.
Fine Gael: Paraic Brady Fine Gael: Maria Byrne Fianna Fáil: Gillian Coughlan Fianna Fáil: Paul Daly Independent: Matt Dempsey Fine Gael: Aisling Dolan Fine Gael: Tim Durkan Labour: Angela Feeney Fianna Fáil: Breandán Fitzgerald Fianna Fáil: Pat Fitzpatrick Aontú: Becky Kealy Fianna Fáil: Cillian Keane Fianna Fáil: Niall Kelleher Fine ...
The return of a Fianna Fail/Fine Gael-led coalition is now highly likely. However, their combined seat total of 86 leaves them just short of the 88 needed for a majority in the Dail.
Fianna Fáil supported the unsuccessful 2024 Irish constitutional referendums, which would have deleted a reference to women's domestic duties and broadened the definition of the family. [72] Evidence from expert surveys, opinion polls and candidate surveys have failed to identify strong distinctions between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael.
Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael each lost votes, yet gained seats. Labour gained votes, yet lost seats. It was the last election for thirty-three years at which a government was returned to office—until the Fianna Fáil–Progressive Democrats government was returned with an increased majority in the 2002 general election.