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with votes less than two thirds of the current allocation quota.
Article 112 decides the distribution of the remaining seats.
They shall be distributed to national political organizations
which have already had a seat allocated according to Article
111. The procedure is as follows:
1. The total number of votes received by each national
political organization is divided by a number higher by
i, 2, 3, etc. than the number of seats it has received
according to Article 111.
2. The fírst seat then goes to the national political
organization with the highest results, the second to the
one with the highest remaining results. and so on.
Article 113 provides for the allocation of the seats
distributed according to Article 112. Candidate lists qualify
for allocation ifthey have received not less than one third of
the original allocation quota. Seats cannot be allocated to a
list in a constituency which already has its full number of
seats allocated.
The allocation quotas shall be recalculated, comprising
only the votes and seats of lists that have not received their
full number of seats. For further allocation of seats a new
vote index is calculated by subtracting the new allocation
quotas multiplied by the number of seats already received
from the total number of votes received by the list. When a
list receives a seat according to this article the vote index is
recalculated by subtracting the allocation quota from the
previous vote index. Allocation quotas and vote indices shall
be recalculated as soon as a national political organization
has received its full number of seats.
The allocation of seats according to this article takes place
in three stages. A seat is allocated to the list with the highest
allocation ratio, i.e. vote index as percentage of allocation
quota, of the Iists remaining for consideration. Allocation
shall be confined to each stage as long as possible, and if
necessary the allocation quota shall be recalculated before
moving to the next stage.
1 st stage: The first seats are allocated to lists that received at
least four fifths ofthe allocation quota. This stage closes when
no such lists remain, the allocation quota and vote indexes
having been recalculated if necessary as described above.
2nd stage: Now one seat shall be allocated in constituencies
where none was allocated in the lst stage, if possible.
However, a list with less than 7% of the votes cannot be
considered in the 2nd stage.
3rd stage: The remaining seats are now allocated.
Allocation of seats in the Althingi is shown step by step in
Tables 5-9. The Liberal Party had 3,460 votes per seat, The
Alliance 2,610 votes, the Independence Party 2,597 votes,
the Progressive Party 2,53 5 votes, and, finally, the The Left-
Green Movement 2,519 votes per seat.
Full equality between the political organizations was
reached, which was also the case in the 1991 and 1995
general elections.
Summary 17showsthenumberofseatsineachconstituency
allocated to each political organization. based on constituency
and national results.
9. Changes in candidate lists
The voter can change the order of the candidates on the list
he or she votes for by either re-numbering the candidates or
by striking out names. The first seat goes to the candidate
with the highest number of votes for the first seat, the second
seat goes to the candidate with the highest number of votes
for the first and second seats, and so on. Changes in the
candidate lists had no effect on the order of the candidates in
the elections.
10. Elected Members of the Althingi
Members of the Althingi elected in the general elections of
8 May 1999 are listed in Table 10. Alternate members elected
for each political organization are also listed.
Three members of the Althingi elected in 1995, including
President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, who was elected President
of Iceland in 1996, had resigned during the previous term and
were permanently replaced by alternate members.
Five members of the outgoing Althingi did not stand for
election while four other members standing for election were
so low on their candidate lists that they were obviously not
aiming at re-election. Forty-eight former members were re-
elected and six lost their seats.
Fifteen members elected in 1999 had not been elected in
1995. Two of these had been elected earlier as members
while among the remaining 16 new members of the Althingi
seven had taken seats as alternate members before the 1999
elections.
Amongthe re-elected members, one had changed political
organization, besides the members electied now forthe new
parties, The Alliance and The Left-Green Movement. Only
two members were elected in constituencies where they were
not domiciled.
Summary 18 sho ws the number of men and women elected
in general elections 1874-1999. The oldest member elected
in 1999 was 69 years old on election day, while the youngest
one was 33 years old. The mean age of members of the
Althingi was 49.9 years on election day. Among the members
elected one was elected for the fírst time in 1974 and he has
served the longest time, a total of 24.9 years. The 48 members
who had previously been elected to the Althingi had on the
average served 8.9 years.