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Iceland Alþingi election (june) 1959

Iceland elections · 1959-06-28 · held

52 seats are reported in the cited Alþingi result table.

Results: final · complete coverage · Valid party/list votes

Turnout: 90.6%

Iceland Alþingi election (june) 1959 — recorded results
Party / candidateVotesVote shareSeatsPrevious seatsGain / lossElectoral votes
Independence Party3602942.49%2019+1—
Progressive Party2306127.2%1917+2—
People's Alliance1292915.25%78-1—
Social Democratic Party1063212.54%68-2—
National Preservation Party21372.52%000—

Blank and rejected ballots are excluded from result shares. Colours are a display palette. Unknown figures remain unreported. The published table describes both parliamentary divisions. Party seat totals combine lower and upper houses; the popular vote is counted once. Division allocation: Independence Party: lower 13, upper 7; Progressive Party: lower 13, upper 6; People's Alliance: lower 5, upper 2; Social Democratic Party: lower 4, upper 2; National Preservation Party: lower 0, upper 0.

Sources & further reading

Historical electoral system and result tables

Statistics Iceland: historical national turnout