1949 Icelandic parliamentary election

none Iceland 1946 23 and 24 October 1949 1953 All 35 seats in the Lower Houseand 17 seats in the Upper House of Althing 89.03% Upper House Ólafur Thors Independence Party (Iceland) 7 6 39.53 Hermann Jónasson Progressive Party (Iceland) 4 6 24.45 Einar Olgeirsson People's Unity Party – Socialist Party 3 3 19.49 Stefán Stefánsson Social Democratic Party (Iceland) 3 2 16.53 Lower House Ólafur Thors Independence Party (Iceland) 13 13 39.53 Hermann Jónasson Progressive Party (Iceland) 9 11 24.45 Einar Olgeirsson People's Unity Party – Socialist Party 7 6 19.49 Stefán Stefánsson Social Democratic Party (Iceland) 6 5 16.53 Prime Minister Stefán Stefánsson Social Democratic Party (Iceland) Ólafur Thors Independence Party (Iceland) Parliamentary elections were held in Iceland on 23 and 24 October 1949.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p961 978-3-8329-5609-7 The Independence Party remained the largest party in the Lower House of the Althing, winning 13 of the 35 seats.Nohlen & Stöver, p975 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.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 LowerHouse +/– UpperHouse +/– Independence Party 28546 13 0 6 –1 Progressive Party 17659 11 +2 6 +2 People's Unity Party – Socialist Party 14077 6 –1 3 0 Social Democratic Party 11937 5 –1 2 –1 1213 0 0 82481 Nohlen & Stöver References Parliament Category:Parliamentary elections in Iceland Iceland