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Parliamentary elections were held in Iceland on 28 June 1953.[1] The Independence Party remained the largest party in the Lower House of the Althing, winning 14 of the 35 seats.[2]
Electoral system
The elections were conducted under rural–urban proportional representation. Twenty-one members were elected in single-member constituencies via first-past-the-post voting, while the remainder were elected using D'Hondt method proportional representation: twelve members in two-member constituencies, eight members in Reykjavík, and eleven from a single national compensatory list. To earn national list seats, a party had to win at least one constituency seat. In constituencies electing two or more members, within the party list, voters had the option to re-rank the candidates and could also strike a candidate out. Allocation of seats to candidates was done using a system based on the Borda count.[3]
Results
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower House | +/– | Upper House | +/– | |||||
| Independence Party | 28,738 | 37.12 | 14 | +1 | 7 | +1 | ||
| Progressive Party | 16,959 | 21.91 | 10 | –1 | 6 | 0 | ||
| People's Unity Party – Socialist Party | 12,422 | 16.05 | 5 | –1 | 2 | –1 | ||
| Social Democratic Party | 12,093 | 15.62 | 4 | –1 | 2 | 0 | ||
| National Preservation Party | 4,667 | 6.03 | 2 | New | 0 | New | ||
| Republican Party | 2,531 | 3.27 | 0 | New | 0 | New | ||
| Total | 77,410 | 100.00 | 35 | 0 | 17 | 0 | ||
| Valid votes | 77,410 | 98.29 | ||||||
| Invalid/blank votes | 1,344 | 1.71 | ||||||
| Total votes | 78,754 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 87,601 | 89.90 | ||||||
| Source: Nohlen & Stöver | ||||||||
References
- ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p961 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
- ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p976
- ^ Renwick, Alan (2010). Helgason, Þorkell; Hermundardóttir, Friðný Ósk; Simonarson, Baldur (eds.). "Electoral System Change in Europe since 1945: Iceland" (PDF). Electoral system change since 1945. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 October 2021. Retrieved 4 October 2021.
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