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Iceland 1991 parliamentary election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Independence Party won 26 of 63 seats with 38.6% of the vote; 87.6% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 2.5 points on 1987.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Independence Party26+838.6+11.460,836
Progressive Party13018.90.029,866
Social Democratic Party10015.5+0.324,459
People's Alliance9+114.4+1.122,706
Women's List5−18.3−1.813,069
National Partywith Humanist Party001.8+0.52,871
Liberals01.21,927

± is the change against the Iceland 1987 parliamentary election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Independence Party 60,836
  • Progressive Party 29,866
  • Social Democratic Party 24,459
  • People's Alliance 22,706
  • Women's List 13,069
  • National Party 2,871
  • Liberals 1,927

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

87.6% of the 182,768 registered voters cast a ballot (160,142 ballots), down 2.5 points on 1987. 157,769 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout since 1946 in our data. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Independence Party38.6% of votes41.3% of seats
  • Progressive Party18.9% of votes20.6% of seats
  • Social Democratic Party15.5% of votes15.9% of seats
  • People's Alliance14.4% of votes14.3% of seats
  • Women's List8.3% of votes7.9% 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 4.2 by votes and 3.8 by seats; Independence Party led Progressive Party by 19.7 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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