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Iceland 2009 parliamentary election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Social Democratic Alliance won 20 of 63 seats with 29.8% of the vote; 85.1% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 1.5 points on 2007.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Social Democratic Alliance20+229.8+3.055,758
Independence Party16−923.7−12.944,371
Left-Green Movement14+521.7+7.440,581
Progressive Party9+214.8+3.127,699
Citizens' Movement47.213,519
Liberal Party0−42.2−5.14,148

± is the change against the Iceland 2007 parliamentary election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Social Democratic Alliance 55,758
  • Independence Party 44,371
  • Left-Green Movement 40,581
  • Progressive Party 27,699
  • Citizens' Movement 13,519
  • Liberal Party 4,148

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

85.1% of the 227,896 registered voters cast a ballot (193,934 ballots), up 1.5 points on 2007. 187,183 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Social Democratic Alliance29.8% of votes31.7% of seats
  • Independence Party23.7% of votes25.4% of seats
  • Left-Green Movement21.7% of votes22.2% of seats
  • Progressive Party14.8% of votes14.3% of seats
  • Citizens' Movement7.2% of votes6.3% of seats
  • Liberal Party2.2% of votes0.0% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 2.5 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.6 by votes and 4.2 by seats; Social Democratic Alliance led Independence Party by 6.1 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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