August 1916 Icelandic parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections were held in Iceland on 5 August 1916,[1] the first elections held after women's suffrage was introduced.[2] Following reforms to the Althing the previous year, the six seats in the Upper House appointed by the monarch were abolished, and replaced with six elected seats.[2] The seats were elected by proportional representation at the national level, using the D'Hondt method.[2] The remaining eight seats were elected along with the Lower House in October.

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Results
Party Votes % Seats
Home Rule Party1,95033.53
Independence Party - Þversum1,33722.92
Independent Farmers1,29022.11
Farmers' Party4357.50
Independence Party - Langsum4197.20
Social Democratic Party3986.80
Invalid/blank votes44––
Total5,8731006
Registered voters/turnout24,18924.3–
Source: Mackie & Rose,[3] Nohlen & Stöver
gollark: You just get politicians focusing on a small subset of states which have lots of EC votes and are not always going to be a majority for one party.
gollark: So it does not, in fact, provide equally powerful voices per state.
gollark: > Why should states remain in the nation if they aren't having an equally powerful voice? For example, why should Iowa stick around if they're just subservient to California's whims?Don't different states have different amounts of electors?
gollark: The electoral college appears to do something you could approximately describe as that but which is weirdly skewed in some ways.
gollark: If you want representation to be based on rural-ness or not and not, well, actual vote count, it should be structured more sensibly.

References
  1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p961 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. Nohlen & Stöver, p954
  3. Thomas T Mackie & Richard Rose (1991) The International Almanac of Electoral History, Macmillan, p214
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