# Canonical recap data for Irish General Election (1918)
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slug: 1918-irish-general-election
canonicalUrl: "https://recap.at/1918/1918-irish-general-election"
title: Irish General Election
subtitle: Sinn Féin's landslide victory in the 1918 general election decisively ended Home Rule compromise and catalyzed the path to Irish independence.
recapType: global_event
eventStatus: concluded
startDate: 1918-12-14
datePrecision: day
year: 1918
decade: 1910
country:
name: Ireland
slug: ireland
summaryShort: The Irish component of the 1918 United Kingdom general election took place on 14 December 1918. It was the final United Kingdom general election to be held throughout Ireland, as the next election would happen following Irish independence. It is a key moment in modern Irish history, seeing the overwhelming defeat of th
summaryLong: The Irish component of the 1918 United Kingdom general election took place on 14 December 1918. It was the final United Kingdom general election to be held throughout Ireland, as the next election would happen following Irish independence. It is a key moment in modern Irish history, seeing the overwhelming defeat of the moderate nationalist Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP), which had dominated the Irish political landscape since the 1880s, and a landslide victory for the radical Sinn Féin party. Sinn Féin had never previously stood in a general election, but had won six seats in by-elections in 1917–1918. The party had vowed in its manifesto to establish an independent Irish Republic. In Ulster, however, the Unionist Party was the most successful party.
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heroImageCredit: Wikipedia · "1918 United Kingdom general election in Ireland"
importance: 75
sourceConfidence: 75
keyFacts: []
timeline: []
sources:
- url: "https://web.archive.org/web/20260702160717/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_United_Kingdom_general_election_in_Ireland"
  title: Irish general election, 1918
  provider: Wikipedia
related: []
categories:
- election
metaDescription: The Irish component of the 1918 United Kingdom general election took place on 14 December 1918. It was the final United Kingdom general election to be held thro
wikidataQid: Q905063
archiveSnapshots:
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  capturedAt: 2026-07-02
  label: Irish general election, 1918
  originalUrl: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_United_Kingdom_general_election_in_Ireland"
