1987 Icelandic parliamentary election

none Iceland 1983 25 April 1987 1991 All 42 seats in the Lower Houseand 21 seats in the Upper House of Althing 90.10% Upper House Lower House Þorsteinn Pálsson Þorsteinn Pálsson Independence Party (Iceland) Independence Party (Iceland) 8 15 6 12 27.17 27.17 Steingrímur Hermannsson Steingrímur Hermannsson Progressive Party (Iceland) Progressive Party (Iceland) 4 10 5 8 18.92 18.92 Jón Baldvin Hannibalsson Jón Baldvin Hannibalsson Social Democratic Party (Iceland) Social Democratic Party (Iceland) 2 4 3 7 15.23 15.23 Svavar Gestsson Svavar Gestsson People's Alliance (Iceland) People's Alliance (Iceland) 3 7 3 5 13.35 13.35 Albert Guðmundsson Albert Guðmundsson Citizens' Party (Iceland, 1987) Citizens' Party (Iceland, 1987) new new 2 5 10.86 10.86 Women's List Women's List 1 2 2 4 10.13 10.13 Stefán Valgeirsson Association for Justice and Equality new 1 1.24 Prime Minister Steingrímur Hermannsson Progressive Party (Iceland) x70px|Steingrímur Hermannsson Þorsteinn Pálsson Independence Party (Iceland) x70px|Þorsteinn Pálsson Parliamentary elections were held in Iceland on 25 April 1987.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p962 978-3-8329-5609-7 The Independence Party remained the largest party in the Lower House of the Althing, winning 12 of the 42 seats.Nohlen & Stöver, p976 The Independence Party and the People's Alliance experienced their worst election results to date.Hardarson Ólafur Th. Kristinsson Gunnar H. 1987 The Icelandic parliamentary election of 1987 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0261379487900333 Electoral Studies 6 3 219–234 10.1016/0261-3794(87)90033-3 0261-3794 subscription Two new parties, the Citizens' Party (which had split from the Independence Party) and the Women's Alliance, received more than 10 percent of the vote each. Commentators remarked that the election results suggested a further fracturing of the traditional four-party system in Iceland. Electoral reform Prior to the election three extra seats were added to the Althing for Reykjavík (increasing representation from 11 to 14),Nohlen & Stöver, p955 one in the Upper House and two in the Lower House.Nohlen & Stöver, pp977-979 The Hare quota replaced the D'Hondt method in the multi-member constituencies, although D'Hondt was still used for the compensatory seats. Four constituencies elected five members each, two elected six members each, and one elected eight members, while Reykjavík elected 14. At least eight of the remaining nine seats were to be allocated to the constituencies before the election in order to reflect population. One seat could be allocated after the election, in order to help ensure proportionality across parties. A party threshold was introduced at the constituency level at two-thirds of a Hare quota; seats were eliminated one at a time and the threshold was then recalculated.Renwick Alan 2010 Helgason Þorkell Hermundardóttir Friðný Ósk Simonarson Baldur Electoral System Change in Europe since 1945: Iceland http://www.electoralsystemchanges.eu/Files/media/MEDIA_215/FILE/Iceland_summary.pdf live https://archive.today/20211004181241/http://www.electoralsystemchanges.eu/Files/media/MEDIA_215/FILE/Iceland_summary.pdf 4 October 2021 4 October 2021 Electoral system change since 1945 Results 450px LowerHouse +/– UpperHouse +/– Independence Party 41490 –11.50 12 –3 6 –2 Progressive Party 28902 –0.13 8 –2 5 1 Social Democratic Party 23265 +3.52 7 +3 3 1 People's Alliance 20387 –3.96 5 –2 3 0 Citizens' Party 16588 New 5 New 2 New Women's List 15470 +4.65 4 +2 2 1 Humanist Party 2434 New 0 New 0 New National Party 2047 New 0 New 0 New Association for Justice and Equality 1893 New 1 New 0 New Alliance of Social Democrats 246 –7.14 0 –2 0 –2 1716 +2 +1 171402 Nohlen & Stöver References Parliament Category:Parliamentary elections in Iceland Iceland