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Iceland 1919 parliamentary election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Home Rule Party won 16 of 40 seats with 45.8% of the vote; 45.4% of registered voters cast a ballot.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats%Votes
Home Rule Party1645.86,423
Independence Party1325.33,548
Progressive Party1122.23,115
Social Democratic Party06.8949
Votes by party
  • Home Rule Party 6,423
  • Independence Party 3,548
  • Progressive Party 3,115
  • Social Democratic Party 949

ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.

ParlGov marks results before 1945 as experimental: they may need revision, so we compare them with no other election.

Share of the vote

Turnout

45.4% of the 31,870 registered voters cast a ballot (14,463 ballots). 14,035 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Home Rule Party45.8% of votes40.0% of seats
  • Independence Party25.3% of votes32.5% of seats
  • Progressive Party22.2% of votes27.5% of seats
  • Social Democratic Party6.8% of votes0.0% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 8.9 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); Home Rule Party led Independence Party by 20.5 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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