Labour faces perfect storm

A series of opinion polls published in the weeks leading up to yesterday’s elections were a source of further bad news for the government parties, whose support levels had already slumped significantly in the years after the 2011 General Elections.

This week’s RTÉ Poll of Polls produced an average of party support levels across the most recent opinion polls, leaving Fine Gael at 24%; Fianna Fáil at 22%; Sinn Féin at 22%; the Labour Party at 7%; and the Independents and Others (including parties/groupings such as the Green Party, People Before Profit Alliance, Workers and Unemployed Action Group) at 26%.

What might these support figures mean in terms of potential Dáil seats?