138 seats in Dáil Éireann[a] 70 seats needed for a majority
Turnout
76.7% 0.5pp
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Éamon de Valera
W. T. Cosgrave
William Norton
Party
Fianna Fáil
Fine Gael
Labour
Leader since
26 March 1926
September 1934
19 July 1932
Leader's seat
Clare
Cork Borough
Carlow–Kildare
Last election
69 seats, 45.2%
48 seats, 34.8%
13 seats, 10.3%
Seats won
77[a]
45
9
Seat change
8
3
4
Popular vote
667,996
428,633
128,945
Percentage
51.9%
33.3%
10.0%
Swing
6.7%
1.5%
0.3%
Percentage of seats gained by each of the three major parties, and number of seats gained by smaller parties and independents.
Taoiseach before election
Éamon de Valera
Fianna Fáil
Taoiseach after election
Éamon de Valera
Fianna Fáil
The 1938 Irish general election to the 10th Dáil was held on Friday, 17 June following the dissolution of the 9th Dáil on 27 May 1938 by the Presidential Commission on the request of Taoiseach Éamon de Valera. It was a snap election, less than a year after the previous election, the proximate cause being the government's loss of an opposition motion recommending use of arbitration to resolve Civil Service labour disputes.[3] The general election took place in 34 parliamentary constituencies throughout Ireland for 138 seats in Dáil Éireann. It was the first election held after the coming into force of the Constitution of Ireland on 29 December 1937. Fianna Fáil won the first overall majority in the history of the State.
The 10th Dáil met at Leinster House on 30 June to nominate the Taoiseach for appointment by President Douglas Hyde and to approve the appointment of a new government of Ireland on the nomination of the Taoiseach. Outgoing Taoiseach Éamon de Valera was re-appointed leading a single-party Fianna Fáil government.
^Electoral (Chairman of Dail Eireann) Act 1937, s. 3: Re-election of outgoing Ceann Comhairle (No. 25 of 1937, s. 3). Enacted on 1 November 1937. Act of the Oireachtas. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book.
^"10th Dáil 1937: Galway East". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
^"To Caesar". The Irish Times. 28 May 1938. p. 8. Retrieved 30 March 2020.; "Private Deputies' Business — Civil Service and Arbitration". Dáil Éireann (9th Dáil) debates. Houses of the Oireachtas. 25 May 1938. Archived from the original on 21 October 2019. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
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