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    The 1957 Irish general election to the 16th Dáil was held on Tuesday, 5 March, following a dissolution of the 15th Dáil on 12 February by President Seán...
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    The 1997 Irish general election to the 28th Dáil was held on Friday, 6 June, following the dissolution of the 27th Dáil on 15 May by President Mary Robinson...
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    to be held throughout Ireland, as the next election would happen following Irish independence. It is a key moment in modern Irish history, seeing the overwhelming...
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    The 1973 Irish general election to the 20th Dáil was held on Wednesday, 28 February 1973, following the dissolution of the 19th Dáil on 5 February by President...
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    The 1961 Irish general election to the 17th Dáil was held on Wednesday, 4 October, following the dissolution of the 16th Dáil on 15 September by President...
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    The 1969 Irish general election to the 19th Dáil was held on Wednesday, 18 June, following the dissolution of the 18th Dáil on 22 May by President Éamon...
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    The 1954 Irish general election to elect the 15th Dáil was held on Tuesday, 18 May, following the dissolution of the 14th Dáil on 24 April by President...
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  • The 1921 Irish elections took place in Ireland on 24 May 1921 to elect members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland and the House of Commons of...
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  • in Cork that a United Ireland could be achieved with time and the support of the people. 5 March – 1957 Irish general election: The Fianna Fáil party...
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    United Ireland (Irish: Éire Aontaithe), also referred to as Irish reunification or a New Ireland, is the proposition that all of the island of Ireland should...
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  • FAYN, Irish: [ˌʃɪn̠ʲ ˈfʲeːnʲ] ; lit. '[We] Ourselves') is an Irish republican and democratic socialist political party in both the Republic of Ireland and...
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    1921 Northern Ireland general election was held on Tuesday, 24 May 1921. It was the first election to the Parliament of Northern Ireland. Ulster Unionist...
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  • election 1957 West Bengal state assembly election 1957 Danish parliamentary election 1957 Irish general election 1957 Portuguese legislative election...
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    The 1906 United Kingdom general election was held from 12 January to 8 February 1906. The Liberals, led by Prime Minister Henry Campbell-Bannerman, won...
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  • 1830: first general election in which Roman Catholics could stand as MPs (significant in Ireland) 1801: first general election in which Irish voters elected...
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  • association with Seán Donnelly, author of various books on Irish elections Ireland Election - Irish Election Results - General, Local, Presidential, Referendum...
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    The 1945 United Kingdom general election was a national election held on Thursday 5 July 1945, but polling in some constituencies was delayed by some days...
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    The 1959 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 8 October 1959. It marked a third consecutive victory for the ruling Conservative Party...
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    The 2018 Irish presidential election took place on Friday, 26 October, between 7.00 a.m. and 10.00 p.m. President Michael D. Higgins, who was elected...
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    the self-declared 32-county Irish Republic. On 6 December 1922 (a year after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty), Ireland was partitioned. At that time...
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    Dublin South-East (Dáil constituency) (category 1948 establishments in Ireland)
    Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas, from 1948 to 2016. The method of election was proportional representation by means...
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    9 February 2020. "2020 General Election". Irish Elections. Retrieved 10 February 2020. "Electoral Act 1997". electronic Irish Statute Book (eISB). Part...
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  • of separatism before Irish independence, and broke through in the Westminster election of 1918, where it won 73 of the 105 Irish seats. The modern-day...
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  • The January 1908 Irish representative peer election was held to fill a vacancy among the 28 Irish representative peers at that time elected to the British...
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    The 1964 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 15 October 1964. It resulted in the Conservatives, led by incumbent Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home...
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    Ruairí Ó Brádaigh (category Pages with Irish IPA)
    Teachta Dála (TD) for the Longford–Westmeath constituency at the 1957 Irish general election, winning 5,506 votes (14.1%). Running on an abstentionist ticket...
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    December 1971) was an Irish Fine Gael politician and army general who served as Minister for Education from 1948 to 1951 and 1954 to 1957, Minister for the...
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    Lindsay Hoyle (category 1957 births)
    unanimously re-elected as Speaker after both the 2019 general election and the 2024 general election. Lindsay was born and raised in Adlington, Lancashire...
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    The 2011 Irish presidential election was the thirteenth presidential election to be held in Ireland, and was contested by a record seven candidates. It...
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    Wicklow (Dáil constituency) (category 1923 establishments in Ireland)
    from Irish Statute Book on 24 December 2021. Walker, Brian M, ed. (1992). Parliamentary election results in Ireland, 1918–92. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy...
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