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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.
Voters across Ireland cast their ballots in the country’s general election on 29 ... for the first time after the 2020 election result. ... the party instead choosing to support the government.
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 ...
The 32nd government of Ireland (27 June 2020 to 17 December 2022) was led by Micheál Martin, leader of Fianna Fáil, as Taoiseach, and Leo Varadkar, leader of Fine Gael, as Tánaiste. It lasted 2 years, 175 days. The 33rd government of Ireland (17 December 2022 to 9 April 2024) was led by Varadkar as Taoiseach and Martin as Tánaiste. It ...
The 33rd Dáil was elected at the 2020 general election on 8 February 2020 and first met on 20 February 2020. [1] [2] The members of Dáil Éireann, the house of representatives of the Oireachtas (legislature) of Ireland, are known as TDs. It sat with the 26th Seanad as the Houses of the Oireachtas. There were 160 TDs in the 33rd Dáil, an ...
The leaders of Sinn Fein, Fine Gael and Fianna Fail debated on RTE television.
This changed after the 2011 general election, following the large drop in support for Fianna Fáil and the rise in support for other parties. Ireland's political landscape changed dramatically after the 2020 general election, when Sinn Féin made gains to become the joint-largest party in the Dáil, making Ireland a three party system.
Dublin Bay South is a parliamentary constituency that has been represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas, since the 2016 general election. The constituency elects four deputies ( Teachtaí Dála , commonly known as TDs) on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable ...