147 seats in Dáil Éireann[a] 74 seats needed for a majority
Turnout
74.2% 5.0pp
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Éamon de Valera
Richard Mulcahy
William Norton
Party
Fianna Fáil
Fine Gael
Labour
Leader since
26 March 1926
1944
1932
Leader's seat
Clare
Tipperary South
Kildare
Last election
76 seats, 48.9%
30 seats, 20.5%
8 seats, 8.8%
Seats before
77
28
8
Seats won
68[a]
31
14
Seat change
9
3
6
Percentage
41.9%
19.8%
8.7%
Swing
7.0%
0.7%
0.1%
Fourth party
Fifth party
Sixth party
CnaT
Leader
Seán MacBride
Joseph Blowick
James Everett
Party
Clann na Poblachta
Clann na Talmhan
National Labour Party
Leader since
1946
1944
1944
Leader's seat
Dublin South-West
Mayo South
Wicklow
Last election
N/A
9 seats, 10.1%
4 seats, 2.7%
Seats before
2
9
4
Seats won
10
7
5
Seat change
8
2
1
Percentage
13.2%
5.6%
2.6%
Swing
13.2%
4.5%
0.1%
Percentage of seats gained by each of the five biggest parties, and number of seats gained by smaller parties and independents.
Taoiseach before election
Éamon de Valera
Fianna Fáil
Taoiseach after election
John A. Costello
Fine Gael
The 1948 Irish general election to the 13th Dáil was held on Wednesday, 4 February following the dissolution of the 12th Dáil on 12 January 1948 by the President Seán T. O'Kelly on the request of Taoiseach Éamon de Valera. The general election took place in 40 constituencies throughout Ireland for 147 seats in Dáil Éireann, the house of representatives of the Oireachtas, with a revision of Dáil constituencies under the Electoral (Amendment) Act 1947, which had increased the number of seats by 9 since the previous election. The election resulted in Fianna Fáil leaving government for the first time in 16 years and the formation of the first coalition government in Ireland.
The constituency of Carlow–Kilkenny voted on 8 February after the death during the campaign of Fine Gael candidate Eamonn Coogan TD. Another Fine Gael deputy in the same constituency, James Hughes, had died shortly before the dissolution.
The 13th Dáil met at Leinster House on 18 February to nominate the Taoiseach for appointment by the president and to approve the appointment of a new government of Ireland on the nomination of the Taoiseach. John A. Costello was appointed leading the First Inter-Party Government, a five-party minority coalition.
This election was the last one before Ireland's withdrawal from the British Commonwealth and the declaration of the Republic of Ireland, which came into effect on 18 April 1949 under The Republic of Ireland Act 1948.
^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.
^Electoral (Amendment) Act 1947, s. 5: Re-election of outgoing Ceann Comhairle (No. 31 of 1947, s. 5). Enacted on 27 November 1947. Act of the Oireachtas. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book.
^"13th Dáil 1948: Galway South". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 9 July 2022.
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