Iceland 1931 parliamentary election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Progressive Party won 23 of 42 seats with 35.9% of the vote; 78.3% of registered voters cast a ballot.
- Iceland
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | % | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Independence Party | 15 | 43.8 | 16,891 |
| Progressive Party | 23 | 35.9 | 13,845 |
| Social Democratic Party | 4 | 16.1 | 6,198 |
| Communist Party of Iceland | 0 | 3.0 | 1,165 |
| Independents | 0 | 1.2 | 446 |
Votes by party
- Independence Party 16,891
- Progressive Party 13,845
- Social Democratic Party 6,198
- Communist Party of Iceland 1,165
- Independents 446
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
78.3% of the 50,617 registered voters cast a ballot (39,608 ballots). 38,544 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Progressive Party35.9% of votes54.8% of seats
- Independence Party43.8% of votes35.7% of seats
- Social Democratic Party16.1% of votes9.5% of seats
- Communist Party of Iceland3.0% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 15.4 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.9 by votes and 2.3 by seats; Independence Party led Progressive Party by 7.9 points of the vote. How these are computed.
Sources and licence
Sources and licence
- ParlGov 2024 Release (Döring and Manow), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
- Wikidata, party colours (P465) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
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