Iceland 1999 parliamentary election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Independence Party won 26 of 63 seats with 40.7% of the vote; 84.1% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 3.3 points on 1995.
- Iceland
- Held
Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independence Party | 26 | +1 | 40.7 | +3.6 | 67,513 |
| Social Democratic Alliancewith People's Alliance, Social Democratic Party and Women's List | 17 | 26.8 | 44,378 | ||
| Progressive Party | 12 | −3 | 18.4 | −4.9 | 30,415 |
| Left-Green Movement | 6 | 9.1 | 15,115 | ||
| Liberal Party | 2 | 4.2 | 6,919 | ||
| Largest party without seats | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | −0.3 | 742 |
± is the change against the Iceland 1995 parliamentary election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Independence Party 67,513
- Social Democratic Alliance 44,378
- Progressive Party 30,415
- Left-Green Movement 15,115
- Liberal Party 6,919
- Largest party without seats 742
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
84.1% of the 201,525 registered voters cast a ballot (169,431 ballots), down 3.3 points on 1995. 165,727 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 Party40.7% of votes41.3% of seats
- Social Democratic Alliance26.8% of votes27.0% of seats
- Progressive Party18.4% of votes19.0% of seats
- Left-Green Movement9.1% of votes9.5% of seats
- Liberal Party4.2% of votes3.2% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 1.1 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.6 by votes and 3.5 by seats; Independence Party led Social Democratic Alliance by 13.9 points of the vote. How these are computed.
Sources and licence
Sources and licence
- ParlGov 2024 Release (Döring and Manow), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
- Wikidata, party colours (P465) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
Our text and compilation: CC BY 4.0. How to reuse and cite this page.