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Sinn Féin vote share in Irish constituencies in the 1918 general election. Sinn Féin won 73 of Ireland's 105 seats in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom at the December 1918 general election, twenty-five of them uncontested. The IPP, the largest party in Ireland for forty years, had not fought a general election since 1910; in many ...
A Sinn Féin organiser of the time in Belfast described the party's role as "agitation and publicity" [63] New cumainn (branches) were established in Belfast, and a new newspaper, Republican News, was published. [64] Sinn Féin took off as a protest movement after the introduction of internment in August 1971, organising marches and pickets. [65]
^ Four Sinn Féin candidates were elected in two constituencies each, so Sinn Féin actually had 69 out of 101 Irish MPs. In what was to become Northern Ireland, Sinn Féin won 3 seats out of a possible 30.
In 1971, it registered to contest Dáil and local elections in the Republic of Ireland under the name Sinn Féin. [5] From the early to mid-1970s, it was known as Official Sinn Féin or Sinn Féin (Gardiner Place) to distinguish it from the rival offshoot Provisional Sinn Féin, or Sinn Féin (Kevin Street).
Griffith was put forward as a Sinn Féin candidate for the East Cavan by-election on 20 June 1918. [22] Under the slogan "Put him in to get him out," and was elected. and held the seat when Sinn Féin subsequently routed the Irish Parliamentary Party at the 1918 general election with a commitment of abstentionism from the British House of ...
Sinn Féin and Mr Magee were approached for comment. In a previous statement when the police investigation began, Sinn Féin said its nominations for the Ballyclare area "were submitted in full ...
Sinn Féin has three senators in the Seanad Éireann (upper house) (most recent election in 2020). Originally, there were five but Elisha McCallion resigned in October 2020 and Lynn Boylan was elected as an MEP for Dublin in the 2024 European Parliament election.
The Sinn Fein vice-president and the leaders of the DUP and Alliance Party were all elected on the first count in their constituencies.