Ireland’s election: 2024

By Dr Ashraf Chohan

Fine Gael is seeking an unprecedented fourth successive term in office and could well achieve it on 29 November

Ireland’s voters go to the polls on Friday 29 November, three weeks after the prime minister, Simon Harris, ended months of speculation by dissolving the coalition government before the end of its five-year term in March next year.

Harris’s centre-right Fine Gael is seeking an unprecedented fourth successive term in office, a prospect that looks far from impossible given its recent dramatic recovery in the polls – and the equally dramatic collapse in support for its rival, Sinn Féin.

Who are the main players and how are they polling?
One of Ireland’s two historic centre-right parties, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, has led every Irish government for the past century. At the last election, in 2020, the two longstanding rivals went into coalition together for the first time, joined by the smaller Green party.