The total women and men elected TDs elected in each Constituency.
The number of seats per constituency are in brackets.
How many women TDs and men TDs have been elected for each Party?
What % of the TDs elected for each Party are men and women?
The outgoing Dáil had 37 women TDs (23%) and 15 of the 43 constituencies had no women TDs.
What has GE24 delivered?
44 women TDs (25%) and 14 constituencies with no women TDs.
See the number of outgoing women TDs, the number of women candidates constesting seats and the number of women elected in each constituency.
The number of seats per constituency are in brackets.
There are more women than men candidates in five constituencies, equal numbers in two and men outnumber women in 35 constituencies.
But with the number of women candidates ranging from 11 in Meath East to 2 in Dublin North West, all voters have the opportunity to vote for some of the talented, capable women running in the General Election. Politics works best with a balance of men and women involved.
We are asking all voters to research the women running in their constituency and to consider voting for them.
Outoing TDs, current Senators and current City and County Councillors make up 48% of candidates running in the General Election.
We are asking all voters to research the women running in their constituency and to consider voting for them.
Most people elected in GE24 have held elected office before. They were either in the outgoing Dáil, are Senators, are currently City or County Councillors or previously in the Dáil or Seanad.
Only a small number of people get elected to the Dáil as their first elected office.
Numbers of candidates from each category are also shown.
Comparison of the numbers of women running and elected for each Party for both the 2020 General Election and the 2024 General Election.
(Note: showing the women TDs per party as elected in Feb 2020 General Election, plus the 1 elected in a by-election in 2021 for Labour).
See details of all candidates running in the General Election, including totals by Party and Constituency and details of those elected.
36 women TDs were elected in General Election 2020. One additional woman was elected in a by-election in 2021. The total of 37 women in the Dáil – 23% – places Ireland 104th in the world in the number of women in national parliaments.
See our Women TDs page for details of the 37 women in the Dáil currently and see the Women for Election DataHub for numbers, by gender, of those elected in General Elections since 1918.
See the Candidate Tracker for more details on the candidates running in the General Election.
There are currently four women ministers in the 15-member Government – the Cabinet. There have never been more than four women in the Cabinet. The first woman was Constance Markievicz in 1919. It took 60 years to get the second women – Máire Geoghegan Quinn in 1979 as Minister for the Gaeltacht.
Women for Election have called on all parties to commit to a minimum of 40% women and 40% men in Cabinet after the upcoming General Election.
See here for a full list of women ministers in the Irish Government since 1918.
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