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The 2020 Irish general election took place on Saturday 8 February, to elect the 33rd Dáil, the lower house of Ireland's parliament. The election was called following the dissolution of the 32nd Dáil by the president , at the request of the Taoiseach , Leo Varadkar , on 14 January 2020.
The two parties joined in a coalition for the first time after the 2020 election result. Their arrangement meant that the position of Irish prime minister, the taoiseach, was swapped halfway ...
One of the other main stories of the election is the near wipeout of the Green Party, which was the junior partner in the outgoing coalition. The party has lost 11 of the 12 seats it won in 2020 ...
Eoghan Murphy was elected as a TD for Dublin South-East in the 2011 general election, [12] a constituency covering most of what became the Dublin Bay South constituency in 2016. Murphy retained his seat at both the 2016 [13] and 2020 general elections. [14] Murphy served as Minister of State at the Department of Finance from 2016 to 2017. [15]
On 8 February, a general election took place in Ireland, before the outbreak had been declared a pandemic or reached Europe. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael began talks on government formation on 11 March prompted by the public health emergency posed by COVID-19. [1] [2]
The 26th Seanad was in office from 2020 to 2025. The 2020 Seanad election followed the 2020 general election to the 33rd Dáil on 8 February. The Constitution of Ireland required a general election for Seanad Éireann, the senate of the Oireachtas (Irish parliament), to take place no later than ninety days after the dissolution of the 32nd Dáil on 14 January 2020.
8 February – The general election took place with a 62.9% turnout. 9 February – Galway-born Eimear Noone became the first female conductor of an Academy Awards ceremony. [32] 10 February – Fianna Fáil emerged as the biggest party in the 33rd Dáil by just one seat after counting of ballots concluded in the general election. [33]
2020 Irish general election (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "2020 elections in the Republic of Ireland" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.