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What this pack is

2 contests, 174 people, 50 poll response rows, 687 result rows and 0 money edges, built 2026-09-03.

The cycle phase shown on every contest is computed from the election date and how well that date is known. The corpus carries its own status column; it disagrees with the derived phase on 20 of the 61 contests across all twenty-two countries, so it is carried through but never read.

Money rows and result rows are held off the site at their full grain: the staged corpus is 156 MB. What is published here is the aggregate computed once at build time, and every aggregate states the number of rows it stands for.

Everything known to be wrong or limited

licence · grain · method
  • Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage — 34th Dáil results workbook

The pack's own record

every URL fetched, every inclusion and exclusion
SOURCES.md
# Ireland elections pack — sources

Pack date: 2026-09-03. ISO3=`irl`. No Wikipedia source URL.

## Elections / calendar
- https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/elections/2024/ — official 29 November 2024 election date, 174 TDs, 43 constituencies.
- https://www.electoralcommission.ie/general-elections/ — latest contest and five-year outer-limit rule.
- https://www.electoralcommission.ie/ — electoral body.

## People
- https://api.oireachtas.ie/v1/members?chamber_id=%2Fie%2Foireachtas%2Fhouse%2Fdail%2F34&limit=500 — official memberCode, name, current membership, party, constituency and image availability.
- https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/ — official statement that the 34th Dáil has 174 members.
- https://data.gov.ie/dataset/oireachtas-open-data/resource/89797170-f97a-4bbe-a646-1cbd0e94db23 — API metadata and Oireachtas PSI licence.

## Money
- https://sipo.ie/en/collection/2e0c0-dail-general-election-2024/ — 2024 candidate and national-agent return document collections; no bulk table used.

## Polls
- https://irelandelection.com/opinion_polls.php — published comparison table used to identify and transcribe five latest survey toplines and publication links.
- https://www.thejournal.ie/sinn-fein-and-fine-gael-level-in-latest-poll-as-fianna-fail-fall-to-two-year-low-7119741-Aug2026/ — Ireland Thinks / Sunday Independent, 31 July 2026.
- https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0704/1581804-political-poll-fine-gael/ — Ireland Thinks / Sunday Independent, 3 July 2026.
- https://www.businesspost.ie/politics/red-c-poll-fianna-fail-in-soc-dems-crosshairs-as-partys-relentless-rise-makes-it-kingmaker/ — Red C / Business Post, 24 June 2026.
- https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/sunday-independentireland-thinks-poll-by-election-boost-for-soc-dems-and-fine-gael-as-support-for-mary-lou-mcdonald-drops/a/155660229.html — Ireland Thinks, 5 June 2026.
- https://www.businesspost.ie/politics/red-c-poll-sinn-fein-support-craters-as-voters-in-wake-of-disastrous-by-elections/ — Red C, 27 May 2026.

## Results
- https://opendata.housing.gov.ie/dataset/7ca52e7b-dd4d-4edd-b159-6ae111bbe538/resource/fb8a1f97-2683-4515-bac4-e2617222b20d/download/2024-dail-general-election-results.xlsx — official Department of Housing workbook; candidate first counts and elected/excluded status. CC BY-SA 4.0.
- https://www.electoralcommission.ie/irelands-voting-system/ — PR-STV and first-preference explanation.
HANDOFF.md
# IRL elections pack handoff

Written 2026-09-03 to `/workspace/elections-ingest/irl/`.

## Files / counts

| File | Rows (excl. header) | Path |
|---|---:|---|
| elections.csv | 2 | /workspace/elections-ingest/irl/elections.csv |
| people.csv | 174 | /workspace/elections-ingest/irl/people.csv |
| money-edges.csv | 0 | /workspace/elections-ingest/irl/money-edges.csv |
| polls.csv | 50 | /workspace/elections-ingest/irl/polls.csv |
| results.csv | 687 | /workspace/elections-ingest/irl/results.csv |
| SOURCES.md | — | /workspace/elections-ingest/irl/SOURCES.md |
| STATS.json | — | /workspace/elections-ingest/irl/STATS.json |
| HANDOFF.md | — | /workspace/elections-ingest/irl/HANDOFF.md |

## Cycle status
- `irl-dail-2024` **sitting** — 2024-11-29; `date_confidence=confirmed_official`. 34th Dáil; 174 TDs returned from 43 constituencies.
- `irl-dail-next` **sitting** — 2029-11-29; `date_confidence=constitutional_due`. Not called. Electoral Commission says general elections take place within five years of the last election; date is the outer-limit anniversary, not a polling-day announcement.

## Join keys
- `election_id` joins people/money/results/polls to the relevant contest.
- `person_id` is Oireachtas `memberCode`. No name slugs.
- Results `person_id` is blank: candidate-return identifiers do not directly carry the sitting-member official ID, and no fuzzy name join was attempted.

## People
- Sitting lower-house members only: 174. `bio_text` is empty rather than authored.
- Official API profile/resource URLs and available official photo URLs are included.

## Money
Header-only. SIPO publishes GE2024 returns as individual candidate/national-agent documents rather than a clean bulk machine-readable register. EUR would be retained as filed if later transcribed. No names were matched to memberCode.

## Polls
- 50 option rows from 5 distinct published polls/estimates. Polls attach to the next-contest ID. No Wikipedia URLs.
- Blank fields mean not printed. Ireland's table-only single date is repeated as start/end and explicitly noted; Dutch Peilingwijzer bounds are distinct, explicitly labelled interval endpoint rows, not invented point estimates.

## Last-cycle returns
Official Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage 2024 workbook. Rows are candidate×constituency. For the 686 contested candidates, `votes` is the first-count/first-preference vote and `seats` is 1 for workbook “Elected”, 0 for “Excluded”. A 687th row records outgoing Ceann Comhairle Seán Ó Fearghaíl’s automatic return with blank votes and `seats=1`, sourced to Oireachtas. `vote_share` is blank because no candidate share was synthesized.

## Licences
- See row-level `license` and SOURCES.md. Parliamentary/API and official-results licences are stated there. Publisher polling pages retain their own rights.

## Caveats
- Next date is an outer-limit anniversary, not a called polling day.
- Oireachtas API returned 176 historical/current records for the 34th Dáil query; filtering to memberships with no end date yields exactly 174 current TDs.
- Ireland uses PR-STV; never treat first preferences as final-round totals.
- Results candidate names are workbook display strings and are intentionally not joined to people.

Licences on the rows

  • CC BY-SA 4.0686
  • Oireachtas Public Sector Information Licence175
  • Publisher page; rights retained by publisher50