Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The results pf the election were as follows: Party Leader Seats Loss/Gain Dáil Seats (%) Fianna Fáil Charles Haughey 81 + 6 48.8 Fine Gael Garret FitzGerald 51 - 19 30.7 Labour Dick Spring 12 - 4 7.2 Progressive Democrats Des O'Malley 14 + 0 8.4 Others - 8 + 3 4.8 Charles Haughey leads Fianna Fáil into a minority government after five years in opposition. Garret FitzGerald of Fine Gael resigns following the election result. He is replaced by Alan Dukes. The Progressive Democrats, lead by Desmond O'Malley, contest there first general election. Since then they have never recorded such an electoral result. See also: Government of the 25th Dáil Irish General Election, 1982 (November) Irish General Election, 1989 List of Irish general elections This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.