153 seats in Dáil Éireann[a] 77 seats needed for a majority
Turnout
68.1% 6.8pp
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
W. T. Cosgrave
Éamon de Valera
Thomas Johnson
Party
Cumann na nGaedheal
Fianna Fáil
Labour
Leader since
April 1923
26 March 1926
1922
Leader's seat
Carlow–Kilkenny
Clare
Dublin County
Last election
63 seats, 39.0%
N/A
14 seats, 10.6%
Seats before
60
N/A
15
Seats won
47[a]
44
22
Seat change
16
44
8
Popular vote
314,703
299,486
143,849
Percentage
27.4%
26.2%
12.6%
Swing
11.6%
New party
2.0%
Fourth party
Fifth party
Sixth party
Leader
Michael Heffernan
William Redmond
John J. O'Kelly
Party
Farmers' Party
National League
Sinn Féin
Leader since
1927
1926
1926
Leader's seat
Tipperary
Waterford
N/A
Last election
15 seats, 12.1%
N/A
44 seats, 27.4%
Seats before
15
2
47
Seats won
11
8
5
Seat change
4
8
39
Popular vote
101,955
83,598
41,401
Percentage
8.9%
7.3%
3.6%
Swing
3.2%
New party
23.8%
Election results and first-preference votes in each constituency
Number of seats gained by each party in each constituency
President of the Executive Council before election
W. T. Cosgrave
Cumann na nGaedheal
President of the Executive Council after election
W. T. Cosgrave
Cumann na nGaedheal
The June 1927 Irish general election was to elect the 5th Dáil held on Thursday, 9 June following the dissolution of the 4th Dáil on 23 May 1927. It was the first election contested by Fianna Fáil, which had been formed a year earlier when Éamon de Valera, leader of the abstentionist Anti-Treaty Sinn Féin, failed to convince the party to take their seats if and when the Oath of Allegiance were abolished. Most of Sinn Féin's TDs, as well as the bulk of its support, shifted to Fianna Fáil. The impact of this shift saw Sinn Féin all but decimated; it was reduced to five seats. This was for many years the end of the party as a major force in the southern part of the island; it would not win more than 10 seats at an election until 2011, by which time it had undergone fundamental transformation. This election cemented Fianna Fáil as a major party; it and Cumann na nGaedheal/Fine Gael remained the two largest parties in Ireland until 2011.
The 5th Dáil assembled at Leinster House on 23 June to nominate the President of the Executive Council and Executive Council of the Irish Free State for appointment by the Governor-General. W. T. Cosgrave was re-appointed leading a government of Cumann na nGaedheal.
Fianna Fáil took the oath of allegiance and its seats in the Dáil on 12 August 1927.[3] Fianna Fáil's decision to take up its seats ended Cumann na nGaedheal's working majority, forcing Cosgrave into a minority government which proved unstable. After government victories in two by-election, Cosgrave sought a dissolution on 25 August and a second election of that year was held in September 1927.
^Constitution (Amendment No. 2) Act 1927, s. 1: Re-election at general election of outgoing Chairman of Dáil Eireann (No. 6 of 1927, s. 1). Enacted on 19 March 1927. Act of the Oireachtas. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 8 April 2021.
^Electoral (Amendment) Act 1927, s. 2: Re-election of outgoing Ceann Comhairle (No. 21 of 1927, s. 2). Enacted on 22 May 1927. Act of the Oireachtas. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book.
^"New Deputies take their seats – Dáil Éireann (5th Dáil) – Vol. 20 No. 20". 12 August 1927. Archived from the original on 26 December 2017. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
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