So far, 36 of the 174 seats in the 34th Dáil have been filled in the 2024 General Election.
As Ceann Comhairle, Seán Ó Fearghaíl of Fianna Fáil was automatically re-elected in Kildare South, leaving 173 seats open for the taking.
Here is every candidate who has won a seat after the first day of counting in order of when they were elected.
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill
Shortly after 5pm, Fine Gael’s Jennifer Carroll MacNeill became the first candidate to be elected in the country.
She topped the poll in Dún Laoghaire on the first count.
Castleknock-raised but Killiney-based, Ms Carroll MacNeill served on Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council before winning a Dáil seat on contesting her first general election in 2020.
She was appointed Minister of State with responsibility for EU Affairs and Defence by Simon Harris in April 2024.
Patrick O’Donovan
Patrick O’Donovan was returned for Fine Gael in Limerick County.
He was elected to the Dáil on his first attempt in 2011 and also retained his seat in 2016 and 2020.
He held a number of junior ministerial portfolios before being appointed Minister for Further and Higher
Education, Research, Innovation and Science in April 2024, where he succeeded Simon Harris.
David Cullinane
Sinn Féin’s David Cullinane has retained his seat for a second consecutive election.
He ran unsuccessfully in 2002, 2007 and 2011, but has kept his seat since first being elected in 2016.
Verona Murphy
Elected as an Independent TD in 2020, Ms Murphy contested the November 2019 by-election as a candidate for Fine Gael.
She was the driving force behind the establishment of a Wexford Independent Alliance which returned five councillors in the June 2024 local elections.
Jack Chambers
Jack Chambers was first elected to the Dáil in 2016 when he became the youngest member of the 32nd Dáil.
Following his re-election in 2020, he served as Chief Whip and Junior Minister for Sport and the Gaeltacht until December 2022, when he was appointed a ‘Super Junior’ Minister at the Department of Transport.
In June 2024, 33-year-old Chambers was announced as Fianna Fáil deputy leader and subsequently as Minister for Finance, replacing Michael McGrath.
He topped the poll in Dublin West with 9,446 first preference votes.
Paul Donnelly
A veteran of three by-elections and two general elections before securing a Dáil seat for Sinn Féin in his third general election in 2020.
He was the poll topper in 2020, but will have to settle for the second seat this time around.
Eoin Ó Broin
Sinn Féin’s Spokesperson for Housing has topped the poll in Dublin Mid-West, sailing past the 7,913 quota with 9,892 first preferences.
It is the third consecutive election that he has won the first seat in this constituency, also topping the poll in 2016 and 2020.
He is the author of several books, including ‘Home’ which was published in 2019 and examined Ireland’s housing crisis.
Micheál Martin
Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has been a fixture in the Dáil since 1989, and will return to the chamber once again after topping Cork South-Central.
He became the eighth leader of Fianna Fáil in January 2011 and the 15th Taoiseach in June 2020, under the terms of an historic coalition agreement with Fine Gael.
Under the rotating Taoiseach arrangement, he became Tánaiste and Minister for Defence and Minister for Foreign Affairs in December 2022.
Johnny Guirke
Based in Moylagh, Guirke was a member of Meath County Council for the Kells LEA from 2014 until his election to the Dáil in 2020.
He has successfully defended his seat, topping the poll ahead of Aontú leader and former Sinn Féin TD Peadar Tóibín.
Louise O’Reilly
Elected to the Dáil on her first attempt in 2016, Louise O’Reilly topped the poll for the old constituency of Dublin Fingal in 2020.
Now, she has topped the new constituency of Dublin Fingal West.
A former trade union organiser with SIPTU, she has served as Sinn Féin’s Spokesperson on Workers’ Rights, Enterprise, Trade and Employment.
Neale Richmond
Neale Richmond was elected to the Dáil on his first attempt in 2020.
He was appointed Minister of State for Enterprise in January 2023, a replacement for party colleague Damien English who resigned from the role.
More recently, in April 2024, Simon Harris appointed Mr Richmond as Minister of State at the Department of Finance.
Mary Lou McDonald
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald topped the poll for a third consecutive time in the highly competitive Dublin Central constituency.
A former MEP for Dublin, Ms McDonald was first elected to the Dáil in 2011.
In February 2018, she was elected president of Sinn Féin, succeeding Gerry Adams, who had held the
position since 1983.
Michael Fitzmaurice
Elected to the Dáil in a 2014 by-election, he held his seat in 2016 in the new Roscommon-Galway constituency as part of the Independent Alliance but left the group later that year.
He topped the poll when re-elected in 2020 and joined Independent Ireland in February 2024.
Emer Currie
Emer Currie has been elected to the Dáil for the first time, taking the third seat in Dublin West.
A daughter of the former civil rights campaigner, SDLP founder and Fine Gael TD, Austin Currie, she was appointed as a Taoiseach’s nominee to the Seanad in June 2020.
Earlier that year, Ms Currie had contested her first general election as a running mate to party leader, Leo Varadkar, when she polled 1,870 first preferences – the combined vote share of the two FG candidates in the constituency was 23.7%, enough to deliver a single seat to Mr Varadkar.
William Aird
William Aird had big shoes to fill, taking up the Fine Gael gauntlet in Laois from long-time representative Charlie Flanagan.
He was first elected to Portlaoise Town Commission in 1979 and has served on Laois County Council, without interruption, since 1985.
He has topped the poll in Portlaoise LEA in every local election since 2004.
Simon Harris
The outgoing Taoiseach, Simon Harris, topped the poll in Wicklow, cruising past the 11,415 quota with 16,869 first preference votes.
First elected as TD for Wicklow in 2011, Harris became Ireland’s youngest taoiseach in April after he succeeded Leo Varadkar as Fine Gael leader.
Greystones-based, he previously served as both Minister for Health and Minister for Further Education, Research, Innovation and Science.
Peadar Tóibín
Peadar Tóibín was first elected to the Dáil in 2011 for Sinn Féin and re-elected in 2016.
He resigned from the party in November 2018 and became the leader of his new party – Aontú – in January 2019.
He was re-elected to the Dáil in 2020 and now again in 2024.
Aisling Dempsey
The daughter of former Fianna Fáil Fianna Fáil TD Noel Dempsey, Aisling Dempsey has become a TD on her first General Election attempt.
She was first elected to Meath County Council for the Trim LEA in 2019 and held her seat in 2024.
Michael Lowry
Michael Lowry was first elected to the Dáil in Tipperary North in 1987 as a Fine Gael candidate.
He has run as an independent since 1997, topping the poll on that occasion and impressively, in every subsequent general election, including 2024.
Peter Burke
Mullingar-based Peter Burke contested unsuccessfully for a Dáil seat in 2007 and 2011, before making his breakthrough in 2016.
He retained his seat in 2020 and was a junior minister before being appointed Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment in the April 2024 Cabinet reshuffle.
He has retained his seat once again, topping the poll in Longford-Westmeath on the first count.
Richard Boyd Barrett
Richard Boyd Barrett, contesting his seventh general election, has served as a TD for Dún Laoghaire since 2011.
He was recently appointed as People Before Profit’s first ever leader ahead of the 2024 Election.
He retained his seat once again in Dún Laoghaire, taking the second seat in the four-seater.
Cormac Devlin
A former member of Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, Cormac Devlin was elected to the Dáil at the second attempt in 2020.
He was subsequently appointed Deputy Chief Whip and party Spokesperson on Dublin.
After an unsuccessful campaign in 2016, Mr Devlin was elected to the fourth and final seat in Dún Laoghaire in 2020.
Now he has retained that seat, taking the third of four on offer here.
Barry Ward
Taking the final seat in Dún Laoghaire was Fine Gael’s Barry Ward – his first time being elected to the Dáil.
He contested the 2020 election but failed to take a seat, with his Fine Gael running mate Jennifer Carroll MacNeill landing the party’s only seat that time around.
However, now he joins his party colleague in representing Dún Laoghaire in Dáil Eireann.
Helen McEntee
Fine Gael’s new deputy leader Helen McEntee has successfully defended her seat in Meath East.
First elected to the Dáil in a March 2013 by-election, she also held onto her seat in 2016 and 2020.
She was appointed Minister for Justice in June 2020, having previously served as a junior minister.
Carol Nolan
A first-time Dáil candidate in 2016, Nolan took the third seat in the old Offaly constituency for Sinn Féin.
Describing herself as a pro-life TD, she resigned in opposition to the party’s stance on abortion in 2018
and was re-elected as an Independent in 2020 and now also in 2024.
Pearse Doherty
First elected to the Dáil at a November 2010 by-election, Pearse Doherty topped the poll in the old Donegal South West constituency in 2011 and again in 2020 for the new Donegal constituency.
He has again topped the poll in Donegal this time around, flying past the 12,771 quota with 18,898 first-preference votes.
The high-profile Doherty, who has served as Sinn Féin’s finance spokesperson since 2010, was considered a contender to succeed Gerry Adams as the party leader but ruled himself out of the race in November 2017, shortly after Mr Adams had announced his retirement.
Richard O’Donoghue
Elected to Limerick City and County Council for Fianna Fáil in 2014, Richard O’Donoghue resigned from the party in 2015 and was unsuccessful in contesting the 2016 Dáil election as an independent candidate.
He served as a councillor until 2020, when he was elected to the Dáil.
In 2023, he co-founded the Independent Ireland party, and has successfully defended his seat under the new party’s banner.
Willie O’Dea
Willie O’Dea was first elected as a TD in Limerick way back in 1982 – and he has held a seat ever since.
The 72-year-old has been a a Minister of State across a number of departments, and served as Minister for Defence from 2004 until his resignation in February 2010.
Michael Healy-Rae
Michael Healy-Rae, son of former TD Jackie Healy-Rae, was elected to the Dáil on his first attempt in 2011.
He topped the poll in Kerry in 2016, 2020 and now 2024.
Seán Canney
Elected to the Dáil on his second attempt in 2016, under the banner of the Independent Alliance, a group he left in May 2018.
Mr Canney served as a junior minister in two government departments during the lifetime of the 32nd Dáil.
He was re-elected in 2020 and has topped the Galway East poll in 2024.
Pádraig MacLochlainn
After unsuccessful campaigns in 2002 and 2007, Pádraig Mac Lochlainn was first elected to the Dáil in 2011, when he topped the poll in the old Donegal North East constituency.
Mr Mac Lochlainn lost his seat in 2016 when Sinn Féin adopted a three-candidate strategy in the new Donegal constituency but regained it in 2020 and has now defended it in 2024.
John Clendennen
First elected to Offaly County Council in 2014, John Clendennen held his seat in the 2019 and 2024 local elections.
His father, Percy, was a long-serving member of the local authority.
Mr Clendennen has represented the Birr LEA since 2014, most recently retaining his seat in 2024.
He is the only Fine Gael candidate on the party’s Offaly ticket and has won a seat here for the first time.
Tony McCormack
A Tullamore-based businessman, Tony McCormack has served on Offaly County Council since 2019 and is currently Cathaoirleach of the local authority.
This is his first time contesting a General Election, and his first time winning a seat in the Dáil chamber.
Michael Collins
Michael Collins was elected to the Dáil as a first-time candidate in 2016, becoming the first Independent TD for Cork South-West since Florence Wycherley in 1957.
Re-elected as a poll-topper in 2020, he co-founded Independent Ireland in 2023, becoming its first party
leader, and once again topped the poll this time around.
Niall Collins
First elected to the Dáil in 2007, Niall Collins was re-elected for Limerick County in 2011, 2016, 2020 and now 2024.
He has served as Minister of State for Skills and Further Education since July 2020.
Two of his uncles and his grandfather were Limerick-based TDs before him.
Aindrias Moynihan
First elected to the Dáil in 2016, Aindrias Moynihan was also re-elected in 2020.
The Macroom-based TD is Fianna Fáil’s spokesperson on Well Being, Public Health and National Drugs Strategy.
His father, the late Donal Moynihan, also served as a TD for Fianna Fáil.
Michael Moynihan
Michael Moynihan, who is not related to his party and constituency colleague Aindrias Moynihan, was first elected to the Dáil in 1997.
Moynihan has been re-elected at every subsequent election since he first entered the Dáil 27 years ago.
He as served as chairman of the Oireachtas Disability Matters Committee.
John Paul O’Shea
A first time TD, this is John Paul O’Shea’s third time contesting in a general election and second time as a Fine Gael candidate.
He first contested in the 2016 election as an independent candidate, and was a Fine Gael candidate in 2020.
The former mayor of the County of Cork was first a member of Cork County Council in 2009.
Holly Cairns
Holly Cairns has been leader of the Social Democrats since March 2023 when she replaced party founders Catherine Murphy and Róisín Shortall.
When elected to the Dáil as a first-time candidate in 2020, Cairns was the only female candidate to be returned for any of the Cork City and County constituencies.
Christopher O’Sullivan
A former councillor and Mayor of Cork County, Christopher O’Sullivan is the son of former TD, Christy O’Sullivan.
From Clonakilty, he secured a Dáil seat on his first attempt in 2020, serving as Fianna Fáil’s Spokesperson on Environment, Climate Action and Biodiversity in the 33rd Dáil.
