Election 2024: Full list of TDs who lost their seats

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly and Minister for Culture Catherine Martin were among the 26 politicians who failed to get re-elected
Election 2024: Full list of TDs who lost their seats

Tomas Doherty

A number of high-profile TDs and Cabinet ministers have lost their seats in the general election.

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly and Minister for Culture Catherine Martin were among the 26 politicians who failed to get re-elected to the Dáil.

The Green Party fared worst in the election, with all but one of the party's 12 TDs losing their seats. Party leader Roderic O'Gorman survived due to transfers in the Dublin West constituency.

Below you can see all the TDs who will not be returning to the Dáíl, along with the change in their first-preference vote share compared to the 2020 election.

Patricia Ryan and Violet Anne Wynne saw the biggest drop in vote share – both women were elected as Sinn Féin TDs in 2020 but stood as Independent candidates this time round.

Ms Ryan's vote share dropped by almost 20 percentage points and Ms Wynne's by 14.6 points compared to the last election.

Boundary changes and a difference in transfers may be behind the losses for some other candidates.

Fine Gael's Alan Farrell saw his vote share increase compared to the 2020 election, but the splitting of Dublin Fingal into two constituencies may have affected his re-election chances.

Independent Donegal TD Thomas Pringle saw little change in his vote share but missed out due to a difference in transfer patterns this year.

Fianna Fáil's Stephen Donnelly is undoubtedly the most high-profile loss this year. He faced a tough fight to retain his seat in Wicklow after boundary changes saw it reduced from five to four seats.

Mr Donnelly was first elected as an Independent candidate in 2011. He topped the poll in the 2016 election as a member of the Social Democrats, with 14,348 first preference votes, representing a share of 20.9 per cent of the vote.

After leaving the Social Democrats and sitting as an Independent for a while, he then ed Fianna Fáil in early 2017.

This ultimately led to a dent in his votes in the 2020 general election when his share dropped to 7.7 per cent. He was eventually elected on the 15th count after three days of counting.

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