105 of the 707 seats to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom
1918 Irish general election
14 December 1918
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All 105 seats in Dáil Éireann 53 seats were needed for a majority
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Éamon de Valera
Sir Edward Carson
John Dillon
Party
Sinn Féin
Irish Unionist
Irish Parliamentary
Leader since
25 October 1917
1910
March 1918
Leader's seat
East Clare and East Mayo
Belfast Duncairn
East Mayo (defeated)
Last election
n/a
17 seats, 28.6%
74 seats, 43.6%
Seats before
6
17
67
Seats won
73
22
6
Seat change
73
5
68
Popular vote
497,107
257,314
220,837
Percentage
46.9%
25.3%
21.7%
Swing
New party
3.3%
21.9%
Results of the 1918 election in Ireland by MPs elected. Sinn Féin MPs refused to sit in the House of Commons and instead formed Dáil Éireann. The Irish Parliamentary Party, Irish Unionist Alliance, Labour Unionist Party and an Independent Unionist MP remained in Westminster.
President of Dáil Éireann before election
Office Established
President of Dáil Éireann after election
Cathal Brugha
Sinn Féin
The 1918 Irish general election was the part of the 1918 United Kingdom general election which took place in Ireland. It is a key moment in modern Irish history because it saw the overwhelming defeat of the moderate nationalist Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP), which had dominated the Irish political landscape since the 1880s, and a landslide victory for the radical Sinn Féin party. Sinn Féin had never previously stood in a general election, but had won six seats in by-elections in 1917–18. The party had vowed in its manifesto to establish an independent Irish Republic. In Ulster, however, the Unionist Party was the most successful party.
In 1918 a system called Plural voting was in place in both Britain and Ireland. Plural voting was a practice whereby one person might be able to vote multiple times in an election. Property and business owners could vote both in the constituency where their property lay and that in which they lived, if the two were different. This system often resulted in one person being able to cast multiple votes. In the newly formed Irish Free State this system was ended by the Electoral Act 1923 and was abolished in the UK by the Representation of the People Act 1948. Plural voting remained in effect in Northern Ireland until 1969.[1]
The 1918 election was held in the aftermath of the First World War, the Easter Rising and the Conscription Crisis. It was the first general election to be held after the Representation of the People Act 1918. It was thus the first election in which women over the age of 30, and all men over the age of 21, could vote. Previously, all women and most working-class men had been excluded from voting.
In the aftermath of the elections, Sinn Féin's elected members refused to attend the British Parliament in Westminster (London), and instead formed a parliament in Dublin, Dáil Éireann ("Assembly of Ireland"), which declared Irish independence as a republic. The Irish War of Independence was conducted under this revolutionary government which sought international recognition, and set about the process of state-building.[2][3] The next election was part of 1921 Irish elections.
^"Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1968" (PDF). legislation.gov.uk. The National Archives. 28 November 1968. Retrieved 20 July 2023.
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