166 seats in Dáil Éireann[a] 84 seats needed for a majority
Turnout
68.5% 4.8pp
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Charles Haughey
Alan Dukes
Dick Spring
Party
Fianna Fáil
Fine Gael
Labour
Leader since
7 December 1979
21 March 1987
November 1982
Leader's seat
Dublin North-Central
Kildare
Kerry North
Last election
81 seats, 44.1%
51 seats, 27.1%
12 seats, 6.5%
Seats won
77
55
15
Seat change
4
4
3
Popular vote
731,472
485,307
156,989
Percentage
44.1%
29.3%
9.5%
Swing
0.1%
2.2%
3.1%
Fourth party
Fifth party
Sixth party
PD
Green
Leader
Proinsias De Rossa
Desmond O'Malley
—
Party
Workers' Party
Progressive Democrats
Green
Leader since
1988
21 December 1985
—
Leader's seat
Dublin North-West
Limerick East
—
Last election
4 seats, 3.8%
14 seats, 11.9%
0 seats, 0.4%
Seats won
7
6
1
Seat change
3
8
1
Popular vote
82,263
91,013
24,827
Percentage
5.0%
5.5%
1.5%
Swing
1.2%
6.3%
1.1%
Election results and first-preference votes in each constituency.
Number of seats gained by each party in each constituency.
Taoiseach before election
Charles Haughey
Fianna Fáil
Taoiseach after election
Charles Haughey
Fianna Fáil
The 1989 Irish general election to the 26th Dáil was held on Thursday, 15 June, three weeks after the dissolution of the 25th Dáil on 25 May by President Patrick Hillery, on the request of Taoiseach Charles Haughey. The general election took place in 41 Dáil constituencies throughout Ireland for 166 seats in Dáil Éireann, the house of representatives of the Oireachtas, on the same day as the European Parliament election.
The 26th Dáil met at Leinster House on 29 June to nominate the Taoiseach for appointment by the president and to approve the appointment of a new government of Ireland. No government was formed on that date, but on 12 July, Haughey was re-appointed Taoiseach, forming the 21st Government of Ireland, a coalition government of Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats.
^Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1980, s. 1: Amendment of section 14 of Electoral Act 1963 (No. 40 of 1980, s. 1). Enacted on 23 December 1980. Act of the Oireachtas. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book.
^"26th Dáil 1987: Tipperary South". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
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