2025 Irish presidential election

The **2025 Irish presidential election** took place on 24 October 2025. The election elected Catherine Connolly as the tenth president of the Republic of Ireland. The current president, Michael D. Higgins, was term-limited since he has already served two full terms.

Voting took place from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. on 24 October. Following the release of preliminary tallies on 25 October showing a landslide victory for Connolly, Heather Humphreys conceded the election. The final turnout was 45.8%. Of the valid votes cast, Connolly received 63.4%, the highest percentage received by any president since the creation of the role in 1938. With 914,143 votes, she also recorded the highest number of first-preference votes ever received by an electoral candidate in Ireland. Humphreys received 29.5% of the valid votes and Gavin 7.2%. There were 213,738 spoiled votes, or 12.9% of the total votes cast, record numbers in Irish electoral history.

Connolly will be inaugurated as Ireland's president on 11 November 2025. She will become the country's tenth president and the third woman to hold the position, after Mary Robinson and Mary McAleese.

## Candidates

A number of individuals have declared their intention to seek the necessary nominations to run in the election, and a number of political parties have declared their intention to nominate a candidate. The period for nomination of candidates has not yet opened.

### Confirmed candidates

The following candidates have enough pledged nominations from Oireachtas members to stand for election.
|scope=colgroup colspan=2|Party|scope=colgroup colspan=2|Presidential candidate|scope=col|Entry Date|scope=col|Campaign|scope=col|Supported by|scope=col|Sources|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|||**Catherine Connolly**|11 July 2025|style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|(campaign)|style="vertical-align:top;"|32 Oireachtas members: {| style="width:100%; border:0; margin:0; padding:0;"|style="vertical-align:top; width:50%; padding:0;"||style="vertical-align:top; width:50%; padding:0;"||}||
||data-sort-value="Gavin, Jim"||**Jim Gavin**|9 September 2025|style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|(campaign)|Fianna Fáil (67 Oireachtas members)|||||||
||data-sort-value="Humphreys, Heather"||**Heather Humphreys**|19 August 2025|style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|(campaign)|Fine Gael (55 Oireachtas Members)|||||||

### Individuals seeking nomination

The following individuals have not yet acquired enough declared support for a nomination.
|scope=colgroup colspan=2|Party|scope=colgroup colspan=2|Individual seeking nomination|scope=col|Entry Date|scope=col|Campaign|scope=col|Supported by|scope=col|Sources|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||data-sort-value="Casey, Peter"||**Peter Casey**|2 March 2025||||||||
||data-sort-value="Delehanty, Nick"||**Nick Delehanty**|26 August 2025||||||||
||data-sort-value="McCarthy, Kieran"||**Kieran McCarthy**|6 September 2025||||||||
||data-sort-value="Sheridan, Gareth"||**Gareth Sheridan**|10 August 2025|style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|||||||
||data-sort-value="Steen, Maria"||**Maria Steen** Conservative activist|29 August 2025|style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"|||||||

### Withdrawn candidates

|scope=colgroup colspan=2|Party|scope=colgroup colspan=2|Presidential candidate|scope=col|Entry Date|scope=col|Exit Date|scope=col|Notes|scope=col|Sources|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|||**Joanna Donnelly**|2 September 2025|5 September 2025|Withdrew due to lack of preparation for campaign|||||||
||data-sort-value="Flatley, Michael"||**Michael Flatley**|25 July 2025|5 September 2025|Withdrew due to health and family reasons||||||
||data-sort-value="Kelleher, Billy"||**Billy Kelleher**|28 August 2025|9 September 2025|Failed to secure party nomination||||||
|style=background:||style="text-align:center; line-height:1.3"|Fine Gael|data-sort-value="Kelly, Seán"||**Seán Kelly**|19 August 2025|1 September 2025|Withdrew after failing to secure enough party nominations.|||
||data-sort-value="McGregor, Conor"||**Conor McGregor**|21 March 2025|15 September 2025|Withdrew without stating reason.||||||
|style=background:||style="text-align:center; line-height:1.3"|Fine Gael||**Mairead McGuinness**|15 July 2025|14 August 2025|Withdrew following medical advice.||||

## Opinion polling

|rowspan="2"|Last date of polling|rowspan="2"|Polling firm|Casey|Connolly|Delehanty|Gavin|Humphreys|McDonald|Sheridan|Steen|rowspan="2"|Other|rowspan="2"||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|9 September 2025|RedC/Business Post|6%|17%|4%|18%|style="background:#D9E9F4;"|**22%**|21%|2%|5%||36%||||
|colspan="2"||colspan="10"|Mary Lou McDonald rules herself out|||||||||||||

## Infobox (election)

- **election name**: 2025 Irish presidential election
- **country**: Ireland
- **type**: presidential
- **ongoing**: no
- **previous election**: 2018 Irish presidential election
- **previous year**: 2018
- **nominee1**: **Catherine Connolly**
- **party1**: Independent politician
- **1data1**: **914,143 (63.36%)**
- **nominee2**: Heather Humphreys
- **party2**: Fine Gael
- **1data2**: 424,987 (29.46%)
- **nominee3**: Jim Gavin
- **party3**: Fianna Fáil
- **1data3**: 103,568 (7.18%)
- **election date**: 24 October 2025
- **turnout**: 45.8% ( 1.9 percentage points, pp)
- **next election**: 2032 Irish presidential election
- **next year**: 2032
- **map image**:
- **map caption**: Result by Dáil constituencies, Dáil constituency
- **title**: President
- **before election**: Michael D. Higgins
- **before party**: Independent politician (Ireland)
- **after election**: Catherine Connolly
- **after party**: Independent politician (Ireland)