Parliamentary elections were held in Iceland on 12 June 1931. Voters elected all 28 seats in the Lower House of the Althing and eight of the fourteen seats...
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Parliamentary elections were held in Iceland on 16 July 1933. Voters elected all 28 seats in the Lower House of the Althing and eight of the fourteen seats...
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The Independence Party (Icelandic: Sjálfstæðisflokkurinn) is a conservative political party in Iceland. It is currently the largest party in the Alþingi...
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The Progressive Party (Icelandic: Framsóknarflokkurinn, FSF) is an agrarian political party in Iceland. For most of its history, the Progressive Party...
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Elections to the Upper House of the Althing were held in Iceland on 15 June 1930. Following reforms in 1915, the six seats in the Upper House appointed...
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The prime minister of Iceland (Icelandic: Forsætisráðherra Íslands) is head of government of the Republic of Iceland. The prime minister is appointed formally...
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legislative election (followed by 2006 Thai coup d'état) 2010 Icelandic Constitutional Assembly election 2011 Kosovan presidential election (parliamentary vote...
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The Communist Party of Iceland (Icelandic: Kommúnistaflokkur Íslands) was a Marxist –Leninist communist party in Iceland from 1930 to 1938. In the early...
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A parliamentary republic is a republic that operates under a parliamentary system of government where the executive branch (the government) derives its...
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extra-assemblies (Icelandic: aukaþing), beginning after elections in spring and adjourning before the start of a regular assembly. Although parliamentary assemblies...
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Reykjavík (Althing constituency) (category CS1 Icelandic-language sources (is))
across Iceland. Reykjavík was conterminous with the municipality of Reykjavík. (Excludes compensatory seats.) Results of the 1999 parliamentary election held...
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Constitutional monarchy (redirect from Parliamentary monarchy)
Constitutional monarchy, also known as limited monarchy, parliamentary monarchy or democratic monarchy, is a form of monarchy in which the monarch exercises...
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unions of Iceland. In 1920 its first member of the Althing, the Icelandic parliament, Jón Baldvinsson was elected. The party would contest elections to the...
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This is a list of speakers of the Althing, the Icelandic parliament. The Speaker of the Althing (Icelandic: Forseti Alþingis, literally the President of...
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in one of the three elections of the current members of the National Diet, i.e. the last House of Representatives general election and the last two House...
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Universal suffrage (category CS1 Icelandic-language sources (is))
British-controlled colony in which women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections. This was followed shortly after by the colony of South Australia...
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Michael Brotherton (category 1931 births)
(born 26 May 1931) is a British journalist and politician. A Conservative, he had a promising Parliamentary career and worked as a Parliamentary consultant...
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Johannes Rau (category 1931 births)
parliamentary question about the Decoration of Honour" (PDF) (in German). p. 1654. Retrieved 1 November 2012. Icelandic Presidency Website (Icelandic)...
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House of Representatives (Japan) (redirect from Japanese general election)
bodies such as the German Bundestag or the New Zealand Parliament the election of single-seat members and party list members is linked, so that the overall...
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(1974). British Parliamentary Election Results: 1885-1918. London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 9781349022984. British Parliamentary Election Results 1885–1918...
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1933 in Iceland. Monarch – Kristján X Prime Minister – Ásgeir Ásgeirsson 16 July – Icelandic parliamentary election, 1933 21 October – Icelandic prohibition...
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Perennial candidate (redirect from Perennial election candidate)
Ástþór Magnússon is an Icelandic businessman and politician who unsuccessfully campaigned for the post of President of Iceland six times; in 1996, 2000...
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Sanomat (in Finnish). 16 March 1951. p. 5. ISSN 0355-2047. Icelandic Presidency Website (Icelandic), Order of the Falcon, Juho Kusti Paasikivi Archived 2014-01-14...
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First-past-the-post voting (redirect from First-past-the-post election system)
Kingdom, 19 of the 24 general elections since 1922 have produced a single-party majority government. In all but two of them (1931 and 1935), the leading party...
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Women's suffrage (section Iceland)
occasion when women could vote was the elections held in January 1920. Iceland was under Danish rule until 1944. Icelandic women acquired full voting rights...
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President of Finland (redirect from Finnish Presidential Election)
parties which have received at least one seat in the previous parliamentary elections. A candidate may also be nominated by 20,000 enfranchised citizens...
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Stjórnarráð Íslands" [Bill regarding the Cabinet of Iceland.] (PDF). Legal Code (in Icelandic). Parliament of Iceland. Retrieved 13 November 2012. Official website...
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Minister of Justice (Icelandic: Dómsmálaráðherra) in Iceland is the head of the Ministry of Justice and is a member of the Cabinet of Iceland. The Ministry was...
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all women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections; from 1893. However women could not stand for election to parliament until 1919, when three...
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Republic (section Icelandic Commonwealth)
California. In states with a parliamentary system, the president is usually elected by the parliament. This indirect election subordinates the president...
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