Labour Party (Ireland)
General election results

Labour Party (Ireland)

Section Title: General election results
Table Section Text: None

Election	Seats won	±	Position	First Pref votes	%	Government	Leader

1922	17 / 128	17	3rd	132,565	21.3%	Opposition (CnaG minority)	Thomas Johnson

1923	14 / 153	3	4th	111,939	10.6%	Opposition (CnaG minority)	Thomas Johnson

1927 (Jun)	22 / 153	8	3rd	143,849	12.6%	Opposition (CnaG minority)	Thomas Johnson

1927 (Sep)	13 / 153	9	3rd	106,184	9.1%	Opposition (CnaG minority)	Thomas Johnson

1932	7 / 153	6	3rd	98,286	7.7%	Confidence and supply (FF minority)	Thomas J. O'Connell

1933	8 / 153	1	4th	79,221	5.7%	Confidence and supply (FF minority)	William Norton

1937	13 / 138	5	3rd	135,758	10.3%	Confidence and supply (FF minority)	William Norton

1938	9 / 138	4	3rd	128,945	10.0%	Opposition (FF)	William Norton

1943	17 / 138	8	3rd	208,812	15.7%	Opposition (FF minority)	William Norton

1944	8 / 138	9	4th	106,767	8.8%	Opposition (FF)	William Norton

1948	14 / 147	6	3rd	115,073	8.7%	Coalition (FG–LP–CnP–CnT–NLP)	William Norton

1951	16 / 147	3	3rd	151,828	11.4%	Opposition (FF minority)	William Norton

1954	19 / 147	3	3rd	161,034	12.1%	Coalition (FG–LP–CnT)	William Norton

1957	12 / 147	7	3rd	111,747	9.1%	Opposition (FF)	William Norton

1961	16 / 144	4	3rd	136,111	11.6%	Opposition (FF minority)	Brendan Corish

1965	22 / 144	6	3rd	192,740	15.4%	Opposition (FF)	Brendan Corish

1969	18 / 144	4	3rd	224,498	17.0%	Opposition (FF)	Brendan Corish

1973	19 / 144	1	3rd	184,656	13.7%	Coalition (FG–LP)	Brendan Corish

1977	17 / 148	2	3rd	186,410	11.6%	Opposition (FF)	Brendan Corish

1981	15 / 166	2	3rd	169,990	9.9%	Coalition (FG–LP minority)	Frank Cluskey

1982 (Feb)	15 / 166	3rd	151,875	9.1%	Opposition (FF minority)	Michael O'Leary

1982 (Nov)	16 / 166	1	3rd	158,115	9.4%	Coalition (FG–LP)	Dick Spring

1987	12 / 166	4	4th	114,551	6.4%	Opposition (FF minority)	Dick Spring

1989	15 / 166	3	3rd	156,989	9.5%	Opposition (FF–PD)	Dick Spring

1992	33 / 166	18	3rd	333,013	19.3%	Coalition (FF–LP) Coalition (FG–LP–DL from 1994)	Dick Spring

1997	17 / 166	16	3rd	186,044	10.4%	Opposition (FF)	Dick Spring

2002	20 / 166	3	3rd	200,130	10.8%	Opposition (FF)	Ruairi Quinn

2007	20 / 166	3rd	209,175	10.1%	Opposition (FF)	Pat Rabbitte

2011	37 / 166	17	2nd	431,796	19.5%	Coalition (FG–LP)	Eamon Gilmore

2016	7 / 158	30	4th	140,898	6.6%	Opposition (FG–Ind minority)	Joan Burton

Sentence(s)

At the 2011 general election, Labour received 19.5% of first preference votes, and 37 seats.

final_sentence: At the 2011 general election, Labour received 19.5% of first preference votes, and 37 seats.