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Iceland 1956 parliamentary election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Independence Party won 19 of 52 seats with 42.4% of the vote; 92.1% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 2.2 points on 1953.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Independence Party19−242.4+5.335,027
People's Alliancewith Debating Society of Social Democrats and People's Unity Party – Socialist Party819.215,859
Social Democratic Party8+218.3+2.715,153
Progressive Party17+115.6−6.312,925
National Preservation Party0−24.5−1.53,706

± is the change against the Iceland 1953 parliamentary election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Independence Party 35,027
  • People's Alliance 15,859
  • Social Democratic Party 15,153
  • Progressive Party 12,925
  • National Preservation Party 3,706

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 counts an alliance's votes and seats under its first party: such a row names the allies it counts.

Share of the vote

Turnout

92.1% of the 91,618 registered voters cast a ballot (84,355 ballots), up 2.2 points on 1953. 82,678 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout of this kind in our data, which begins in 1946. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Independence Party42.4% of votes36.5% of seats
  • Progressive Party15.6% of votes32.7% of seats
  • People's Alliance19.2% of votes15.4% of seats
  • Social Democratic Party18.3% of votes15.4% of seats
  • National Preservation Party4.5% of votes0.0% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 13.6 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.6 by votes and 3.5 by seats; Independence Party led People's Alliance by 23.2 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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