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Ireland · Completed

Ireland — Parliamentary election — 1987-02-17

Feb 17, 1987

Elections

Partial
Jurisdiction
Ireland
Next national election
Feb 17, 1987
Role
Parliamentary election · Legislative
Selection method
Other method
Status
Completed
Round
1
Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Contest rounds

Round 1 · Single round
Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e
Completed
Published contest rules
{
  "early": true,
  "electorate": 2445515,
  "source": "ParlGov",
  "sourceElectionId": 43,
  "sourceElectionType": "parliament",
  "totalSeats": 166,
  "validVotes": 1777165,
  "votesCast": 1793406
}

Candidate–opponent strategy evidence

A directional comparison and factual public-message frame for each sourced pair in the same contest.

Preliminary evidence scenario, not a prediction or guarantee of an electoral result. It uses public sources, makes no causal claim and uses no demographic microtargeting. Methodology

There is not enough compatible, sourced evidence to publish a pairwise analysis for this contest yet.

Election results

Ireland — Parliamentary election — 1987-02-17 · Sinn Féin

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes
32,933
Seats
0
Original value
1.85
Published precision
2
Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e
Published share1.9%

Ireland — Parliamentary election — 1987-02-17 · no party affiliation

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Seats
3
Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e
Published shareNo share is published for this result.

Ireland — Parliamentary election — 1987-02-17 · Fianna Fáil

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes
784,547
Seats
81
Original value
44.15
Published precision
2
Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e
Published share44.2%

Ireland — Parliamentary election — 1987-02-17 · The Workers' Party

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes
67,273
Seats
4
Original value
3.79
Published precision
2
Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e
Published share3.8%

Ireland — Parliamentary election — 1987-02-17 · PDs

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes
210,583
Seats
14
Original value
11.85
Published precision
2
Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e
Published share11.9%

Ireland — Parliamentary election — 1987-02-17 · Páirti Lucht Oibre

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes
114,551
Seats
12
Original value
6.45
Published precision
2
Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e
Published share6.5%

Ireland — Parliamentary election — 1987-02-17 · Fine Gael

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes
481,127
Seats
51
Original value
27.07
Published precision
2
Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e
Published share27.1%

Ireland — Parliamentary election — 1987-02-17 · Democratic Socialist Party

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes
7,424
Seats
1
Original value
0.42
Published precision
2
Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e
Published share0.4%

Signal

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

source_not_registered

Polls

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Forecasts

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Top issues

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Prediction components

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

forecast_not_computed

Media profile

Approval · Favorability · Negativity

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Media profile

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Strengths · Weaknesses · Attacks · Controversies

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

source_not_registered

Campaign signals

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Sources

2

  1. 1WikidataCC0-1.0 · Aug 9, 2026
  2. 2Unicode Common Locale Data RepositoryUnicode-3.0 · Aug 9, 2026