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Irish general election, 1923
	;
	; ; ← outgoing members; ; ; TDs elected →; ;
; All 153 seats in Dáil Éireann; 77 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	; 61.3%
	; Percentage of seats gained by each of the three major parties, and number of seats gained by smaller parties and independents.;
; President of the Executive Council before election; W. T. Cosgrave; Cumann na nGaedheal; ;	; Subsequent President of the Executive Council ; W. T. Cosgrave; Cumann na nGaedheal; ;

The Irish general election of 1923 was held on 27 August 1923. The newly elected members of the 4th Dáil assembled at Leinster House on 19 September when the new President of the Executive Council and Executive Council of the Irish Free State were appointed. The election was held just after the end of the Irish Civil War. Many of the Republican TDs, who represented the losing anti-Treaty side, were still imprisoned during and after the election. Cumann na nGaedheal, who represented the winning side in the war, also won the election and formed the government.^[1]

Result

**4th Irish general election – 27 August 1923**^[2]^[3]^[4]
Party		Leader	Seats	±	% of seats	First Pref votes	% FPv	±%
	Cumann na nGaedheal	W. T. Cosgrave	63^[5]	+5	41.2	410,695	39.0	+0.5
	Republican	Éamon de Valera	44^[5]	+8	28.7	288,794	27.4	+5.6
	Farmers' Party	Denis Gorey	15	+8	9.8	127,184	12.1	+4.3
	Labour Party	Thomas Johnson	14	−3	9.2	111,939	10.6	−10.7
	Businessmen's Party	N/A	2	+2	1.3	9,648	0.9	−1.4
	Cork Progressive Association	N/A	2^[6]	New	1.3	6,588	0.6	New
	National Democratic Party	N/A	0	New	0	4,968	0.5	New
	Dublin Trades Council	P. T. Daly	0	New	0	3,847	0.4	New
	Ratepayers' Association	N/A	0	±0	0	2,620	0.2	−0.2
	Town Tenants' Association	N/A	0	New	0	1,803	0.2	New
	Independent	N/A	13	+4	8.5	85,869	8.1	+0.3
Spoilt votes						40,047	—	—
Total			153	+25	100	1,094,002	100	—
Electorate/Turnout						1,786,318	61.3%	—

Cumann na nGaedheal minority government formed.

Most parties made gains, in part because the total number of seats in the Dáil was increased by 25 from 128 to 153. Cumann na nGaedheal were able to form a minority government while Republicans (Anti-Treaty) abstained from taking their seats in the Dáil.

Lax electoral practices were tightened up beforehand by the new The Prevention of Electoral Abuses Act, 1923.^[7]

Voting summary

First preference vote

Cumann na nGaedheal			38.97%
Republican			27.40%
Farmers'			12.07%
Labour			10.62%
Businessman's			0.92%
Cork Progressive Association			0.63%
Others			1.26%
Independent			8.15%

Seats summary

Assembly seats

Cumann na nGaedheal			41.18%
Republican			28.76%
Farmers'			9.80%
Labour			9.15%
Businessman's			1.31%
Cork Progressive Association			1.31%
Independent			8.50%

First time TDs

Frank Aiken

Patrick Baxter

Dan Breen

Frank Cahill

John James Cole

Margaret Collins-O'Driscoll

Cornelius Connolly

Edward Doyle

Peadar Doyle

Seán Gibbons

Patrick McFadden

James Myles

Michael Skelly

Paddy Smith

Outgoing TDs

Joseph Whelehan (Retired)

References

Sources

Department of Local Government and Public Health (July 1924). Memorandum on the conduct of the general election to Dáil Éireann held on the 27th August, 1923 (PDF). Dublin. Retrieved 2 February 2018.

Citations

^ Hopkinson, Michael (1988). Green Against Green: The Irish Civil War. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan. p. 262. ISBN 0-7171-3760-0. Despite the absence of many Sinn Féin candidates and workers in jail, the results were surprising good for the Republicans. Cumann na nGaedheal, the newly formed government party, had 63 candidates elected, compared with 44 Republicans.

^ "4th Dáil 1923 General Election". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 5 April 2009.

^ "Dáil elections since 1918". ARK Northern Ireland. Retrieved 13 April 2009.

^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, pp1009-1017 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7

^ ^a^b Cumann na nGaedheal's results are compared with those of the Pro-Treaty faction of Sinn Féin in the previous general election. Results given for Republicans here are compared to those won by the Anti-Treaty faction of Sinn Féin in the previous election.

^ Andrew O'Shaughnessy and Richard Beamish were elected under the label of Cork Progressive Association, a group associated with the Businessmen's Party.

^ "The Prevention of Electoral Abuses Act, 1923". Office of the Attorney General of Ireland. Retrieved 5 April 2009.

[1] Hopkinson, Michael (1988). Green Against Green: The Irish Civil War. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan. p. 262. ISBN 0-7171-3760-0. Despite the absence of many Sinn Féin candidates and workers in jail, the results were surprising good for the Republicans. Cumann na nGaedheal, the newly formed government party, had 63 candidates elected, compared with 44 Republicans.

[2] "4th Dáil 1923 General Election". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 5 April 2009.

[3] "Dáil elections since 1918". ARK Northern Ireland. Retrieved 13 April 2009.

[NS-4] Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, pp1009-1017 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7

[previous-5] Cumann na nGaedheal's results are compared with those of the Pro-Treaty faction of Sinn Féin in the previous general election. Results given for Republicans here are compared to those won by the Anti-Treaty faction of Sinn Féin in the previous election.

[6] Andrew O'Shaughnessy and Richard Beamish were elected under the label of Cork Progressive Association, a group associated with the Businessmen's Party.

[7] "The Prevention of Electoral Abuses Act, 1923". Office of the Attorney General of Ireland. Retrieved 5 April 2009.

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