1900 Icelandic parliamentary election
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Parliamentary elections were held inIcelandin September 1900.[1]
Electoral system[edit]
The 30 elected members of theAlthingwere elected from single or double member constituencies by a three-round system; in the first two rounds, a candidate receiving a majority of the vote was elected; if seats were still unfilled after the second round, a third round was held usingfirst-past-the-post voting.[2]Voting took place at a single polling place in each constituency and was done publicly.[2]A further six members were appointed to the upper house by theDanish monarch.[3]
Suffrage was limited to men aged 25 or over who were not in receipt of poor relief and who met one of several set requirements including being a civil servant, being a graduate of a university or seminary, or meeting various tax criteria (for farmers, paying more than the minimum tax; for burghers or fishermen, paying eightkrónaof local taxes; for property owners, paying twelvekrónaof local property taxes).[3]This limited the number of voters to 7,329 from a population of 78,203.[4]
Results[edit]
3,573 of the 7,329 registered voters participated in the elections.[4]
References[edit]
- ^"Participation in general elections to the Althingi".Statistics Iceland.
- ^abArend Lijphart & Bernard Grofman (2007).The Evolution of Electoral and Party Systems in the Nordic Countries.Algora Publishing. p. 103.ISBN978-0-87586-168-5.
- ^abDaniele Caramani (2017).Elections in Western Europe 1815–1996.Springer. p. 518.ISBN978-1-349-65508-3.
- ^abDieter Nohlen& Philip Stöver (2010).Elections in Europe: A data handbook.Nomos. p. 963.ISBN978-3-8329-5609-7.