70 statements on the issues defining Ireland right now: housing, immigration, a united Ireland, neutrality, and health. Every position is asked twice with opposite framing, revealing both your party alignment and your framing bias.
Fine Gael
Your answers most closely align with Fine Gael. You favour a pro-business environment, low corporate taxes, fiscal restraint, and socially progressive values.
Fianna Fáil
Your answers most closely align with Fianna Fáil. You represent a centrist republican position that balances support for business with state-backed housing initiatives.
Sinn Féin
Your answers most closely align with Sinn Féin. You strongly advocate for Irish reunification, massive state builds in housing, wealth taxes, and protecting Irish neutrality.
Green Party
Your answers most closely align with the Green Party. You prioritise aggressive carbon reduction, cycling infrastructure, and sustainable economic reform.
Labour Party
Your answers most closely align with the Labour Party. You support workers' rights, enhanced public services, and progressive social taxation.
Social Democrats
Your answers most closely align with the Social Democrats. You want universal healthcare (Sláintecare), strict political accountability, and massive public housing investment.
Statements, asked twice
You take a position on sharp political and ideological statements using a six-point agreement scale. Key positions appear twice with opposite framing, once sympathetic and once critical. How much your answer shifts between the two framings becomes your framing bias score.
Alignment, not loyalty
The result shows how closely your answers match each position across all issues, not just the ones you feel strongly about. You might find you align with a party or ideology you didn't expect, or that you're genuinely split between two.
Politics in Ireland: the landscape behind this test
Ireland uses the single transferable vote in multi-member constituencies, a proportional system in which voters rank candidates. It produces close correspondence between votes and seats, rewards candidates with broad second-preference appeal, and creates competition between candidates of the same party.
A party system defined by history, then by housing
Fianna Fail and Fine Gael both trace their origins to opposing sides of the 1922 civil war rather than to a left-right economic split, which is why Irish politics long lacked the class-based alignment common elsewhere in Europe. Both occupy broadly centrist ground, and in 2020 they entered government together for the first time.
Sinn Fein has grown into a major force, campaigning on housing, health, and Irish unification, and its rise is the clearest sign that the civil war cleavage has finally given way to something closer to a conventional left-right contest. Labour, the Social Democrats, the Greens, and a large group of independents complete the field, with independents winning more seats than in almost any comparable democracy.
The cleavages that actually divide voters
Housing dominates. Sustained shortages and among the highest rents and prices in Europe have made it the defining domestic issue and the principal driver of electoral change. Health service capacity and waiting lists follow closely.
Ireland transformed socially within a generation, legalising same-sex marriage by popular vote in 2015 and liberalising abortion by referendum in 2018, both by decisive margins in a country where the Catholic Church once held enormous authority. Northern Ireland, the border, and the prospect of unification remain live constitutional questions. Corporate tax policy is unusually consequential given the role of multinationals in the economy.
How this maps onto the compass
Ireland combines a low corporate tax rate and a very open economy with public healthcare that is less comprehensive than most of Western Europe, leaving significant private provision. It sits closer to the economic centre than most EU members. Socially it has moved rapidly toward permissiveness.
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Democrat
Your answers most closely align with the Democratic Party platform.
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