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Iceland 1974 parliamentary election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Independence Party won 25 of 60 seats with 42.7% of the vote; 91.4% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 1.0 points on 1971.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Independence Party25+342.7+6.548,764
Progressive Party17024.9−0.428,381
People's Alliance11+118.3+1.220,924
Social Democratic Party5−19.1−1.410,345
Union of Liberals and Leftists2−34.6−4.35,245
Largest party without seats00.2200

± is the change against the Iceland 1971 parliamentary election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Independence Party 48,764
  • Progressive Party 28,381
  • People's Alliance 20,924
  • Social Democratic Party 10,345
  • Union of Liberals and Leftists 5,245
  • Largest party without seats 200

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.

Share of the vote

Turnout

91.4% of the 126,388 registered voters cast a ballot (115,575 ballots), up 1.0 points on 1971. 114,108 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1956 in our data. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Independence Party42.7% of votes41.7% of seats
  • Progressive Party24.9% of votes28.3% of seats
  • People's Alliance18.3% of votes18.3% of seats
  • Social Democratic Party9.1% of votes8.3% of seats
  • Union of Liberals and Leftists4.6% of votes3.3% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 2.7 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.5 by votes and 3.4 by seats; Independence Party led Progressive Party by 17.8 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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