2020 Irish general election

The **2020 Irish general election** took place on Saturday, 8 February 2020. This was the first election since 1918 to be held on a weekend instead of a weekday.

## Results

The election resulted in a hung parliament, with the three largest parties splitting the vote nearly evenly.

Fianna Fáil secured the most seats, with 38, then returning and unopposed Ceann Comhairle giving them a 1-seat advantage. Sinn Féin finished with the most first-preference votes of any party and 37 seats to obtain the party's best showing since the foundation of the modern Republic of Ireland. Fine Gael, the party of Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, finished third in both number of seats (35) and first-preference votes.

Since a coalition needs the support of 80 or more TDs in the 160-seat Dáil and no two parties have that many seats between them, any coalition would require the support of smaller parties or independent TDs to govern.

## Polling

The chart below shows the results of opinion polls since the previous general election.

## Infobox (election)

- **election name**: 2020 Irish general election
- **country**: Republic of Ireland
- **type**: parliamentary
- **ongoing**: no
- **previous election**: 2016 Irish general election
- **previous year**: 2016
- **outgoing members**: Members of the 32nd Dáil
- **elected members**: Members of the 33rd Dáil, elected members
- **next election**: 2024 Irish general election
- **next year**: 2024
- **seats for election**: 159 of 160 seats in Dáil Éireann
- **majority seats**: 80
- **opinion polls**: Opinion polling for the 2020 Irish general election
- **election date**: 8 February 2020
- **turnout**: 62.9%  2.2percentage point, pp
- **image1**:
- **leader1**: Micheál Martin
- **leader since1**: 2011 Fianna Fáil leadership election, 26 January 2011
- **party1**: Fianna Fáil
- **leaders seat1**: Cork South-Central (Dáil constituency), Cork South-Central
- **last election1**: 44 seats, 24.3%
- **seats before1**: 45
- **seats1**: **38**
- **seat change1**: 7
- **popular vote1**: 484,320
- **percentage1**: 22.2%
- **swing1**: 2.1%
- **image2**:
- **leader2**: Mary Lou McDonald
- **leader since2**: 10 February 2018
- **party2**: Sinn Féin
- **leaders seat2**: Dublin Central (Dáil constituency), Dublin Central
- **last election2**: 23 seats, 13.8%
- **seats before2**: 22
- **seats2**: 37
- **seat change2**: 15
- **popular vote2**: **535,595**
- **percentage2**: **24.5%**
- **swing2**: 10.7%
- **image3**:
- **leader3**: Leo Varadkar
- **leader since3**: 2017 Fine Gael leadership election, 2 June 2017
- **party3**: Fine Gael
- **leaders seat3**: Dublin West (Dáil constituency), Dublin West
- **last election3**: 50 seats, 25.5%
- **seats before3**: 47
- **seats3**: 35
- **seat change3**: 12
- **popular vote3**: 455,584
- **percentage3**: 20.9%
- **swing3**: 4.7%
- **image4**:
- **leader4**: Eamon Ryan
- **leader since4**: 27 May 2010
- **party4**: Green Party (Ireland)
- **leaders seat4**: Dublin Bay South (Dáil constituency), Dublin Bay South
- **last election4**: 2 seats, 2.7%
- **seats before4**: 3
- **seats4**: 12
- **seat change4**: 9
- **popular vote4**: 155,700
- **percentage4**: 7.1%
- **swing4**: 4.4%
- **image5**:
- **leader5**: Brendan Howlin
- **leader since5**: 2016 Labour Party leadership election (Ireland), 20 May 2016
- **party5**: Labour Party (Ireland)
- **leaders seat5**: Wexford (Dáil constituency), Wexford
- **last election5**: 7 seats, 6.6%
- **seats before5**: 7
- **seats5**: 6
- **seat change5**: 1
- **popular vote5**: 95,588
- **percentage5**: 4.4%
- **swing5**: 2.2%
- **image6**:
- **leader6**: Catherine Murphy (politician), Catherine Murphy
Róisín Shortall
- **leader since6**: 15 July 2015
- **party6**: Social Democrats (Ireland)
- **leaders seat6**: Kildare North (Dáil constituency), Kildare North
Dublin North-West (Dáil constituency), Dublin North-West
- **last election6**: 3 seats, 3.0%
- **seats before6**: 2
- **seats6**: 6
- **seat change6**: 4
- **popular vote6**: 63,404
- **percentage6**: 2.9%
- **swing6**: 0.1%
- **image7**: <div style="width:115px;"><span style="line-height:150px; vertical-align:center; text-align:center; color:; font-size:30px;"> **S-PBP**</span></div>
- **leader7**: Collective leadership
- **leader since7**: _n/a_
- **party7**: Solidarity–People Before Profit
- **leaders seat7**: _n/a_
- **last election7**: 6 seats, 3.9%
- **seats before7**: 6
- **seats7**: 5
- **seat change7**: 1
- **popular vote7**: 57,420
- **percentage7**: 2.6%
- **swing7**: 1.3%
- **image8**:
- **color8**: 44532A
- **leader8**: Peadar Tóibín
- **leader since8**: 28 January 2019
- **party8**: Aontú
- **leaders seat8**: Meath West (Dáil constituency), Meath West
- **last election8**: _New party_
- **seats before8**: 1
- **seats8**: Peadar Tóibín, 1
- **seat change8**: 0
- **popular vote8**: 41,614
- **percentage8**: 1.9%
- **swing8**: _New party_
- **image9**: <div style="width:115px;"><span style="line-height:150px; vertical-align:center; text-align:center; color:; font-size:38px;"> **I4C**</span></div>
- **leader9**: _None_
- **leader since9**: _n/a_
- **party9**: Independents 4 Change
- **leaders seat9**: _n/a_
- **last election9**: 4 seats, 1.5%
- **seats before9**: 1
- **seats9**: Joan Collins (politician), 1
- **seat change9**: 0
- **popular vote9**: 8,421
- **percentage9**: 0.4%
- **swing9**: 1.1%
- **map size**: 400px
- **map caption**: Results of the election by constituency.
- **title**: Taoiseach
- **before election**: Leo Varadkar
- **before party**: Fine Gael
- **after election**: Micheál Martin
- **after party**: Fianna Fáil