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Iceland 1995 parliamentary election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Independence Party won 25 of 63 seats with 37.1% of the vote; 87.4% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 0.2 points on 1991.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Independence Party25−137.1−1.561,183
Progressive Party15+223.3+4.438,485
People's Alliance9014.3−0.123,597
Social Democratic Party7−311.4−4.118,846
People's Movement47.211,806
Women's List3−24.9−3.48,031
Largest party without seats00.71,105

± is the change against the Iceland 1991 parliamentary election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Independence Party 61,183
  • Progressive Party 38,485
  • People's Alliance 23,597
  • Social Democratic Party 18,846
  • People's Movement 11,806
  • Women's List 8,031
  • Largest party without seats 1,105

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

87.4% of the 191,973 registered voters cast a ballot (167,751 ballots), down 0.2 points on 1991. 165,043 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout of this kind in our data, which begins in 1946. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Independence Party37.1% of votes39.7% of seats
  • Progressive Party23.3% of votes23.8% of seats
  • People's Alliance14.3% of votes14.3% of seats
  • Social Democratic Party11.4% of votes11.1% of seats
  • People's Movement7.2% of votes6.3% of seats
  • Women's List4.9% of votes4.8% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 2.0 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.3 by votes and 3.9 by seats; Independence Party led Progressive Party by 13.8 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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