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Iceland 2003 parliamentary election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Independence Party won 22 of 63 seats with 33.7% of the vote; 87.7% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 3.7 points on 1999.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Independence Party22−433.7−7.061,701
Social Democratic Alliance20+331.0+4.256,700
Progressive Party12017.7−0.732,484
Left-Green Movement5−18.8−0.316,129
Liberal Party4+27.4+3.213,523
Largest party without seats001.0+0.51,791

± is the change against the Iceland 1999 parliamentary election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Independence Party 61,701
  • Social Democratic Alliance 56,700
  • Progressive Party 32,484
  • Left-Green Movement 16,129
  • Liberal Party 13,523
  • Largest party without seats 1,791

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

87.7% of the 211,304 registered voters cast a ballot (185,396 ballots), up 3.7 points on 1999. 183,172 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1987 in our data. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Independence Party33.7% of votes34.9% of seats
  • Social Democratic Alliance31.0% of votes31.7% of seats
  • Progressive Party17.7% of votes19.0% of seats
  • Left-Green Movement8.8% of votes7.9% of seats
  • Liberal Party7.4% of votes6.3% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 1.8 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.9 by votes and 3.7 by seats; Independence Party led Social Democratic Alliance by 2.7 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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