Compromise is difficult for the supporters of both Labour and Fianna Fáil as the parties look to form a coalition government.

• Production Year
  1992
• Contributor
  Brendan O'Brien (Reporter)
  Olivia O'Leary (Presenter)

Candidates give their reaction to the electronic counts on 'Morning Ireland'.

• Production Year
  2002
• Contributor
  Martina Fitzgerald (Reporter)

Anne Butler tells Marian Finucane and 'Liveline' listeners how she lost her job as a presiding officer in Bruff after being photographed shaking hands with Bertie Ahern.

• Production Year
  1997
• Contributor
  Marian Finucane (Presenter)

Early morning commuters give their reaction to the previous night's televised debate between John Bruton and Bertie Ahern.

• Production Year
  1997
• Contributor
  Niall Martin (Reporter)
  Aine Lawlor (Presenter)
  David Hanly (Presenter)

Dr Mossajee Bhamjee became the first Muslim elected to the Dáil when he was elected as a Labour deputy for Clare. Cliona O'Flynn's radio documentary the 'Indian from Clare' looks back on the election of the popular psychiatrist.

• Production Year
  1993
• Contributor
  Cliodna Ó Flynn (Presenter & Producer)

With difficulties again arising in the formation of a government Liam Cahill reports on the Dáil debate on the election of a Taoiseach.

• Production Year
  1989
• Contributor
  Vere Wynne Jones (Presenter)
  Liam Cahill (Reporter)

The Sunday Independent newspaper runs a competition offering £250,000 to anyone who can predict the election results.

• Production Year
  1987
• Contributor
  Gay Byrne (Presenter)
  Philip Kampff (Producer)

On the "News at Six-Thirty", political correspondents Sean Duignan and Michael Mills discuss the choices for the Labour Party after the election and the position of Haughey as leader of Fianna Fáil following Des O'Malley's call to "let the hare sit".

• Production Year
  1982
• Contributor
  Charlie Bird (Presenter)
  Sean Duignan (Political Correspondent, RTÉ)
  Michael Mills (Political Correspondent, The Irish Press)

Albert Reynolds of Fianna Fáil and Ted Nealon of Fine Gael give their opinions on who will lead the country on the morning of the election of the Taoiseach.

• Production Year
  1982
• Contributor
  Rodney Rice (Reporter)

On 'Election '77 Special', Eoin Ryan, director of elections for Fianna Fáil, explains his hopes that the song would get young people interested in the election. Richie Ryan and Seamus Scally, the directors of elections for Fine Gael and Labour, are not impressed with Fianna Fáil's attempts to get into the charts.

• Production Year
  1977
• Contributor
  John Bowman (Presenter)

On the morning of the election of a new Taoiseach, several deputies attended a special mass at the Pro-Cathedral in Dublin. With the issue of who would form the next government still in doubt, a number of deputies offered their opinions.

• Production Year
  1981
• Contributor
  Liam Ó Muirthile (Reporter)

Des O'Malley leader of the Progressive Democrats a party fighting its first general election is about to be elected and his party will go on to win 14 seats.

• Production Year
  1987
• Contributor
  Brian Farrell (Presenter)
  Una Claffey (Reporter)
  Gary Agnew (Reporter)

Rodney Rice joins candidates campaigning in County Louth and finds that the voters are somewhat sceptical about the promises being made by the politicians.

• Production Year
  1973
• Contributor
  Rodney Rice (Reporter)

Radio also recorded politicians as they campaigned at public meetings around the country.

• Production Year
  1969

Radio panel discussion on the Leaders Debate between Michael Noonan and Bernie Ahern

• Production Year
  2002
• Contributor
  Vincent Browne (Presenter)

With television reporting on an election for the first time, radio took a new approach to its coverage. From 3.00pm on the first day of the count, scheduled programmes were suspended.

The RTV Guide announced that "This re-scheduling of broadcasting is intended to provide listeners with a running story of the election count, with intervals for music when the flow slackens."

• Production Year
  1965
• Contributor
  Kevin O'Kelly (Presenter)
  John Ross (Reporter)

Paddy Lenihan of Fianna Fáil canvassing in Kilbeggan for the 1969 general election.

• Production Year
  1969
• Contributor
  Bill O'Herlihy (Reporter)

Canvassing the traditional way by addressing mass-goers at the church gates for the general election of 1969.

• Production Year
  1969
• Contributor
  Bill O'Herlihy (Reporter)

The general election of 1965 was the first to be covered by television.

• Production Year
  1965
• Contributor
  Kevin O'Kelly (Reporter)

The leaders of the two main political parties face each other for the first time in a televised debate prior to a general election.

• Production Year
  1982
• Contributor
  Barry Cowan (Presenter)

Kieran Doherty is elected for Cavan-Monaghan while on hunger strike in the Maze Prison while serving sentences for possession of firearms and explosives, and for hijacking.

• Production Year
  1981
• Contributor
  Vincent Browne (Reporter)
  Brian Farrell (Presenter)

Pat Kenny describes the growing importance of computers in the television presentation and analysis of election results.

• Production Year
  1982
• Contributor
  Pat Kenny (Reporter)

A look at the first election campaign for the Progressive Democrats a new politcal party.

• Production Year
  1987
• Contributor
  Liam O'Flanagan (Reporter)
  Brian Farrell (Presenter)

When Garret Fitzgerald used the train as his mode of transport at the start of his campaign, it reflected the poor state of the Irish economy and the party coffers.

• Production Year
  1982
• Contributor
  Tom McSweeney (Reporter)

Chaotic scenes among jubilant Fianna Fáil supporters at an election count centre in Galway.

• Production Year
  1977
• Contributor
  Brian Farrell (Presenter)
  Breandan O'hEithir (Reporter)

Taoiseach Charles Haughey speaks out strongly against the H Block activists who attempt to disrupt his election campaign.

• Production Year
  1981
• Contributor
  Tom McSweeney (Reporter)

Newly elected TD Tony Gregory outlines the problems in his constituency.

• Production Year
  1982
• Contributor
  Eamonn O Muiri (Presenter)
  Mairead Ni Eithir (Reporter)

Although Northern Ireland and the Anglo Irish Agreement figured in the election debates, the main issues for the large population of youth were unemployment and emigration.

• Production Year
  1987
• Contributor
  Shay Healy (Reporter)

Jim Tunney is elected in Dublin North West and promises the nation and his mother that he and the Fianna Fáil party will do something about rates.

• Production Year
  1969
• Contributor
  John O'Donoghue (Presenter)
  Rodney Rice (Reporter)

Candidate Sean D. Loftus changes his name by deed poll to ensure Christian Democrat appears on the ballot paper.

• Production Year
  1973
• Contributor
  John O'Donoghue (Reporter)

Television cameras follow Fine Gael leader Liam Cosgrave on the campaign trail. Cosgrave talks about the growing influence of television on politics and the electorate.

• Production Year
  1973

Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave admits defeat in the 1977 general election and that there will be a new government.

• Production Year
  1977
• Contributor
  Brian Farrell (Presenter)

A behind-the-scenes look at what goes into covering a general election. This includes what can go wrong, including when a power cut takes coverage of the elections off the air.

• Production Year
  1982
• Contributor
  Barry Cowan (Reporter)

RTÉ announces  plans for broadcasting coverage of the 2007 general election using radio, television, teletext and the internet.

• Production Year
  2007
• Contributor
  Gareth O'Connor (Reporter)

Such is the scale of the collapse of the Fianna Fail vote in the 2011 general election that when the count is complete it's conceivable that the party will only have one TD in the Dublin area.

• Production Year
  2011
• Contributor
  Eileen Whelan (Newsreader)
  Michael Lehane (Reporter)

With counting almost complete Fine Gael has a record number of seats while the Fianna Fáil vote has collapsed following the 2011 general election.

• Production Year
  2011
• Contributor
  Michael Lehane (Reporter)

After the 1997 general election there are only twenty women who have seats in parliament.

• Production Year
  1997
• Contributor
  Margaret Ward (Reporter)

Michael O'Riordan is the first person to stand for the Communist Party in a general election since the 1930s.

• Production Year
  1973
• Contributor
  John O'Donoghue (Reporter)

A look at how people were voting in rural Ireland including a woman who shouts her vote for the general and European elections of 1989.

• Production Year
  1989
• Contributor
  Jim Fahy (Reporter)

After the 2011 general election the Green Party had no seats in the Dáil. RTÉ News looks back at the rise and fall of the Greens.

• Production Year
  2011
• Contributor
  Sandra Hurley (Reporter)

Pupils from St. Mary's National School in Offaly help explain the proportional representation system of voting prior to the 2011 general election.

• Production Year
  2011
• Contributor
  Yvonne Redmond (Reporter)

All political parties had green issues in their manifestos for the 2007 general election. This report looks at the impact of the party campaigns on the environment.

• Production Year
  2007
• Contributor
  Martina Fitzgerald (Reporter)

Labour leader Dick Spring held his seat by just four votes after a total recount.

• Production Year
  1987
• Contributor
  Brian Farrell (Presenter)

Nearly 40 years after television first covered a general election, the sheer scale on which Irish politics was now being reported is obvious from this report for 'The Week in Politics'.

• Production Year
  2002
• Contributor
  Sinead Crowley (Reporter)

Unlikely partners the Progressive Democrats and Fianna Fáil from a coalition government.

• Production Year
  1989
• Contributor
  Jerry O'Callaghan (Reporter)
  Brian Farrell (Presenter)

How important are election posters? Are they worth the cost? What impact do they have on the electorate?

• Production Year
  2007
• Contributor
  Anne Marie Smyth (Reporter)

Michael McDowell of the Progressive Democrats and John Gormley of the Green Party clash on the streets of the Dublin suburb Ranelagh.

• Production Year
  2007
• Contributor
  David McCullagh (Reporter)

With Fine Gael winning only 31 seats Michael Noonan is left with little choice but to resign as leader of the party.

• Production Year
  2002
• Contributor
  Charlie Bird (Reporter)

Brian Lenihan of Fianna Fáil tops the poll in Dublin West, and becomes the first candidate elected by electronic voting in Ireland.

• Production Year
  2002
• Contributor
  John Bowman (Presenter)
  Bryan Dobson (Presenter)

As the count in the Dublin South East constituency drags on John Gormley of the Green Party says it is time for computerised voting.

• Production Year
  1997
• Contributor
  Paul Cunningham (Reporter)

With over a third of the electorate in Dublin, 'Marketplace' follows five candidates in five city constituencies.

• Production Year
  1992
• Contributor
  Paul White (Reporter)

With electronic voting to be used for the first time in three constituencies, 'The Late Late Show' audience members debate the pros and cons of electronic voting as they see them.

• Production Year
  2002
• Contributor
  Pat Kenny (Presenter)

Results take longer to emerge from the new electronic counting system than has been originally anticipated. This adds to the tension in the constituencies of Meath and Dublin North.

• Production Year
  2002
• Contributor
  John Bowman (Presenter)
  Bryan Dobson (Presenter)

When the Labour and the Progressive Democrats parties both suffered heavy seat losses in the 1997 general election, the independent candidates and small parties benefited.

• Production Year
  1997
• Contributor
  Mike Milotte (Reporter)
  Miriam O'Callaghan (Presenter)

A look at two TDs in Waterford who lost their seats in the general election of 1989.

• Production Year
  1989
• Contributor
  Michael Ryan (Reporter)

After ten days of counting in Dublin South Central, Ben Briscoe of Fianna Fáil beat Eric Byrne of Democratic Left to the last seat.

• Production Year
  1992
• Contributor
  Fionnuala Sweeney (Reporter)

Eoghan Harris questions the validity of canvassing for votes door to door during elections in Ireland.

• Production Year
  1997
• Contributor
  Mairéad de Buitléir (Reporter)

A look at the tallymen, a traditional form of political calculation unique to the Irish election system.

• Production Year
  1992
• Contributor
  Paul Reynolds (Reporter)

Mary Harney of the Progressive Democrats and Dick Spring of the Labour Party debate live on television.

• Production Year
  1997
• Contributor
  Carole Coleman (Reporter)