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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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Early parliamentary elections were held in Iceland on 25 and 26 October 1959. [1] Following the electoral reforms made after the June elections, the Independence Party won 16 of the 40 seats in the Lower House of the Althing. [2]
The June 1959 elections had ended with both the Independence Party and the Progressive Party winning 13 seats, despite the IP receiving 42% of the vote to the PP's 27%. [3] The electoral system at the time was rural–urban proportional representation: a lower tier comprised single member constituencies elected using first-past-the-post voting, two-member constituencies elected using party-list proportional representation (party-list PR) and one large multi-member constituency for Reykjavík that also used party-list PR, topped up by an upper tier of eleven seats chosen from a single national compensatory list. [4] [5]
The reforms saw the replacement of this rural-urban proportional system with a two-tier party-list PR system; the lower tier now comprised eight multi-member constituencies, all elected using party-list PR. [5] [4] Five constituencies elected five members each, two elected six members each and Reykjavík elected 12. The number of seats for Reykjavík was also increased from the prior elections, [5] increasing the overall total in the Lower House from 35 to 40 and in the Upper House from 17 to 20. [6]
The voters’ capacity to change the order of names on the PR lists was greatly reduced compared to prior elections as well; the existing Borda count-based system was now only being used to calculate one-third of the final number of votes deemed to have been received by each candidate, while the party’s unaltered ordering determined the remaining two-thirds. [4]
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | |||||
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| Lower House | +/– | Upper House | +/– | |||||
| Independence Party | 33,800 | 39.72 | 16 | +3 | 8 | +1 | ||
| Progressive Party | 21,882 | 25.71 | 11 | –2 | 6 | 0 | ||
| People's Alliance | 13,621 | 16.01 | 7 | +2 | 3 | +1 | ||
| Social Democratic Party | 12,909 | 15.17 | 6 | +2 | 3 | +1 | ||
| National Preservation Party | 2,883 | 3.39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Total | 85,095 | 100.00 | 40 | +5 | 20 | +3 | ||
| Valid votes | 85,095 | 98.46 | ||||||
| Invalid/blank votes | 1,331 | 1.54 | ||||||
| Total votes | 86,426 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 95,637 | 90.37 | ||||||
| Source: Nohlen & Stöver | ||||||||
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