 This pact agreed that new elections to the Dáil would be held with each candidate running as explicitly pro- or anti-Treaty and that, regardless of which side obtained a majority, the two factions would then join to form a coalition government of national unity.A referendum on the Treaty was also planned but it never took place.The Pact elections on 16 June 1922 therefore comprise the best quantitative record of the Irish public's direct response to the Treaty.