Icelandic parliamentary election, 2003

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10 May 2003 (2003-05-10)

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All 63 seats in the Althing

Turnout

87.84%

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Davíð Oddsson	Össur Skarphéðinsson	Halldór Ásgrímsson
Party	Independence	Social Democratic	Progressive
Last election	26 seats	17 seats	12 seats
Seats won	22 / 63	20 / 63	12 / 63
Seat change	4	3	0
Popular vote	61,701	56,700	32,484
Percentage	33.68%	30.95%	17.73%
Swing	7.00	4.20%	0.70%

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Leader	Steingrímur J. Sigfússon	Guðjón Arnar Kristjánsson
Party	Left-Green	Liberal
Seats before	6 seats	2
Seats won	5 / 63	4 / 63
Seat change	1	2
Popular vote	16,129	13,523
Percentage	8.81%	7.38%
Swing	0.3%	3.20%

Prime Minister before election

Davíð Oddsson
Independence

Elected Prime Minister

Davíð Oddsson
Independence

Parliamentary elections were held in Iceland on 10 May 2003. The Independence Party remained the largest party in the Althing, winning 22 of the 63 seats.

For the previous twelve years Davíð Oddsson of the Independence Party had been Prime Minister of Iceland and since the 1995 election had been ruling in coalition with the Progressive Party. At the last election in 1999 the two ruling parties together won 38 of the 63 seats, to maintain a majority in the Icelandic parliament.

There are six constituencies in Iceland. According to the Law on Parliamentary Elections (nr.24/2000), each constituency is allocated nine seats decided by proportional voting in the constituency. In addition there are nine Leveling seats (either 1 or 2 per constituency, depending on their population size) which are allocated with the aim of achieving proportionality based on the overall number of party votes at the national level. The number of constituency seats shall however be adjusted ahead of the next election, if the ratio of residents with suffrage per available seat in the constituency becomes more than twice as big in the latest election, comparing the constituency with the highest ratio against that with the lowest ratio. In that case a constituency seat is reallocated from the constituency with the lowest ratio to that with the highest, until the various ratios comply with the rule. However, the total number of seats (including leveling seats) must never become less than six in any constituency. The box below displays the number of available seats in each constituency at the 2003 parliamentary election.

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