411 REFERENCE · Wikipedia
1914 Icelandic parliamentary election
Reference material by Wikipedia contributors. This retains its source identity and is not 411 news reporting.
none
Parliamentary elections were held in Iceland on 10 September 1914.https://www.statice.is/statistics/population/elections/overview/ Participation in general elections to the Althingi Statistics Iceland They were the last parliamentary elections in which only men could vote.
Electoral system
The 30 elected members of the Althing were elected from single or double member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting, with six members appointed to the upper house by the Danish monarch.The Evolution of Electoral and Party Systems in the Nordic Countries Arend Lijphart & Bernard Grofman 2007 Algora Publishing 103 978-0-87586-168-5 https://books.google.com/books?id=oigZTGYdQb4C&pg=PA103Elections in Western Europe 1815–1996 Daniele Caramani 2017 Springer https://books.google.com/books?id=6UUfDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA518 518 978-1-349-65508-3 Suffrage was limited to men aged 25 or over and who met one of several set requirements including being a civil servant, holding a medical (or similar) degree, being a graduate of a university or seminary, or paying tax of at least four króna (or for farmers, any level of tax), and who were not in receipt of poor relief.
Results
7,475 of the 13,400 registered voters participated in the elections.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p963 978-3-8329-5609-7
References
Category:Parliamentary elections in Iceland
Parliamentary
Iceland
Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results
Category:September 1914 in Europe