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Åland held legislative elections on 20 October 1991. It elected the diet ( Lagtinget , then called Landstinget), which has 30 members, elected for a four-year term by proportional representation.
In politics, a diet is a formal deliberative assembly. The term is mainly used historically for the Imperial Diet, the general assembly of the Imperial Estates of the Holy Roman Empire, and for the legislative bodies of certain countries. Modern usage mainly relates to the Kokkai of Japan, called "Diet" in English, or the German Bundestag, the Federal Diet.
The Lagting, or Lagtinget, is the parliament of Åland, an autonomous, demilitarised and unilingually Swedish-speaking territory of Finland. The Lagting has 30 seats.
Proportional representation (PR) characterizes electoral systems in which divisions in an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body. If n% of the electorate support a particular political party, then roughly n% of seats will be won by that party. The essence of such systems is that all votes contribute to the result - not just a plurality, or a bare majority. The most prevalent forms of proportional representation all require the use of multiple-member voting districts, as it is not possible to fill a single seat in a proportional manner. In fact, the implementations of PR that achieve the highest levels of proportionality tend to include districts with large numbers of seats.
Following the election the previous government of the Åland Centre, Liberals for Åland and Freeminded Co-operation parties, was replaced by one formed of the Åland Centre, Freeminded Co-operation and Åland Social Democrats. [1]
The Åland Centre is an agrarian-centrist political party in the Åland Islands. At the 2003 election, the party won 24.1% of the popular vote and 7 out of 30 seats and became on a par with the Liberals of Åland. On the October 21st, 2007, parliamentary election, the party won 24.2% of the popular vote and 8 out of 30 seats. At the election in 2011 it became the strongest party with 23.6% and 7 out of 30 seats, but lost this position to the Liberals at the election in 2015 with 21.7% and 7 out of 30 seats.
The Liberals for Åland is a liberal political party of the Åland Islands. The party is an observer at Liberal International. In the 2015 legislative elections, the party received the largest number of votes and won 7 out of 30 seats. The current party leader is Katrin Sjögren.
The Åland Social Democrats is a social-democratic political party in the Åland Islands. In the 18 October 2015 parliamentary elections, the party won 17.4% of the popular vote and 5 out of 30 seats, a loss of one.
Parties | Votes | % | Seats | |||
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1991 | +/- | 1991 | +/- | 1991 | +/- | |
Åland Centre (Ålands Center) | 3,242 | +179 | 30.2 | +1.5 | 10 | +1 |
Liberals for Åland (Liberalerna på Åland) | 2,462 | -68 | 22.9 | -0.8 | 7 | -1 |
Freeminded Co-operation (Frisinnad Samverkan) | 2,130 | +291 | 19.8 | +2.5 | 6 | +1 |
Åland Social Democrats (Ålands Socialdemokrater) | 1,574 | +75 | 14.5 | +0.5 | 4 | 0 |
Non-aligned Coalition (Obunden Samling) | 1,047 | +297 | 9.7 | +2.7 | 3 | +1 |
Greens on Åland (Gröna på Åland) | 306 | -403 | 2.8 | -3.9 | 0 | -2 |
Total | 10,571 | 30 | ||||
Source: Åsub |
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