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Iceland 1963 parliamentary election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Independence Party won 24 of 60 seats with 41.4% of the vote; 91.1% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 0.8 points on 1959.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Independence Party24041.4+1.737,021
Progressive Party19+228.2+2.525,217
People's Alliancewith National Preservation Party, People's Unity Party – Socialist Party and Debating Society of Social Democrats9−116.00.014,274
Social Democratic Party8−114.2−1.012,697

± is the change against the Iceland October 1959 parliamentary election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Independence Party 37,021
  • Progressive Party 25,217
  • People's Alliance 14,274
  • Social Democratic Party 12,697

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

91.1% of the 99,798 registered voters cast a ballot (90,958 ballots), up 0.8 points on 1959. 89,352 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1956 in our data. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Independence Party41.4% of votes40.0% of seats
  • Progressive Party28.2% of votes31.7% of seats
  • People's Alliance16.0% of votes15.0% of seats
  • Social Democratic Party14.2% of votes13.3% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 2.8 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.4 by votes and 3.3 by seats; Independence Party led Progressive Party by 13.2 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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