2016 Irish general election
Results
Counting of votes began at 09:00 UTC on Saturday 27 February 2016 and continued over the course of the weekend and into the following week, with the final two seats, in Longford–Westmeath, announced after multiple recounts at 05:30 UTC on Thursday 3 March.

2016 Irish general election

Section Title: Results
Table Section Text: Counting of votes began at 09:00 UTC on Saturday 27 February 2016 and continued over the course of the weekend and into the following week, with the final two seats, in Longford–Westmeath, announced after multiple recounts at 05:30 UTC on Thursday 3 March.

Summary of 26 February 2016 Dáil Éireann election results

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Party	Leader	First Preference Votes	Seats

votes	% FPv	Swing%	Candidates	Elected 2011	Outgoing	Elected 2016	Change	% of seats

Fine Gael	Enda Kenny	544,140	25.5	10.6	88	76	66	49 / 158 (31%)	27	31.6

Fianna Fáil	Micheál Martin	519,356	24.3	6.9	71	19	21	44 / 158 (28%)	25	27.8

Sinn Féin	Gerry Adams	295,319	13.8	3.9	50	14	14	23 / 158 (15%)	9	14.6

Labour Party	Joan Burton	140,898	6.6	12.8	36	37	33	7 / 158 (4%)	30	4.4

AAA–PBP	None	84,168	3.9	1.7	31	4	4	6 / 158 (4%)	2	3.8

Inds. 4 Change	None	31,365	1.5	1.5	5	N/A	4	4 / 158 (3%)	4	2.5

Social Democrats	Catherine Murphy Róisín Shortall Stephen Donnelly	64,094	3.0	3.0	14	N/A	3	3 / 158 (2%)	3	1.9

Green Party	Eamon Ryan	57,999	2.7	0.9	40	0	0	2 / 158 (1%)	2	1.3

Renua	Lucinda Creighton	46,552	2.2	2.2	26	N/A	3	0	0	0

Direct Democracy	Pat Greene	6,481	0.3	0.3	19	N/A	0	0	0	0

Workers' Party	Michael Donnelly	3,242	0.2	<0.05	5	0	0	0	0	0

Catholic Democrats	Nora Bennis	2,013	0.1	0.1	3	0	0	0	0	0

Fís Nua	None	1,224	0.1	<0.05	2	0	0	0	0	0

Irish Democratic Party	Ken Smollen	971	<0.05	<0.05	1	N/A	0	0	0	0

Communist Party	Lynda Walker	185	<0.05	<0.05	1	0	0	0	0	0

Identity Ireland	Peter O'Loughlin	183	<0.05	<0.05	1	N/A	0	0	0	0

Independent Alliance	None	88,930	4.2	4.2	21	N/A	5	6 / 158 (4%)	6	3.8

Independent	—	249,285	11.7	1.3	136	14	10	13 / 158 (8%)	1	8.2

Invalid Paper	—	18,398	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

Ceann Comhairle	Seán Barrett	N/A	N/A	N/A	1	1	1	1 / 158 (0.6%)	0	0.6

Total	2,151,293	100%	—	552	166	165	158	8	100%

Total Electorate/Turnout: 3,305,110 (65.1%)

Sentence(s)

The 2016 Irish general elections were held throughout the state to elect 158 members of Dáil Éireann, a reduction of 8 from the previous 166 members.

final_sentence: The 2016 Irish general elections were held throughout the state to elect 158 members of Dáil Éireann, a reduction of 8 from the previous 166 members.