<Tr> <Td> Incumbent Taoiseach <P> Leo Varadkar Fine Gael </P> </Td> <Td> <P> </P> </Td> </Tr> <P> Leo Varadkar Fine Gael </P> <P> The next Irish general election will be held on or before Monday, 12 April 2021 . The election will be called following the dissolution of the 32nd Dáil by the President, at the request of the Taoiseach . There will 159 of 160 seats contested in Dáil Éireann, with the outgoing Ceann Comhairle being re-elected automatically unless he opts to retire from the Dáil . </P> <P> The 160 members of the Dáil will be elected in 39 multi-member constituencies, each with between three and five seats, using the single transferable vote system in which voters rank candidates on their ballot papers . When the ballot papers are counted, an electoral quota is created by dividing the number of valid votes by the number of seats, plus one . </P>

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