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1949 Icelandic parliamentary election
	All 35 seats in the Lower House; and 17 seats in the Upper House of Althing
Turnout	89.03%
Upper House
Lower House
Stefán Stefánsson; Social Democratic	Ólafur Thors; Independence

Parliamentary elections were held in Iceland on 23 and 24 October 1949.^[1] The Independence Party remained the largest party in the Lower House of the Althing, winning 13 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
Party		Votes	%	Lower House	+/–	Upper House	+/–
	Independence Party	28,546	39.53	13	0	6	–1
	Progressive Party	17,659	24.45	11	+2	6	+2
	People's Unity Party – Socialist Party	14,077	19.49	6	–1	3	0
	Social Democratic Party	11,937	16.53	5	–1	2	–1
Total		72,219	100.00	35	0	17	0

Valid votes		72,219	98.35
Invalid/blank votes		1,213	1.65
Total votes		73,432	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		82,481	89.03
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

References

^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p961 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
^ Nohlen & Stöver, p975
^ 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.