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1st LD Writethru: Iceland's ruling coalition fails to win majority in parliamentary election

Xinhua, October 30, 2016 Adjust font size:

Iceland's current centre-right ruling coalition failed to win a majority in the parliamentary election even though one of its two partners took a strong lead, final results showed Sunday.

The Independence Party won 21 out of the 63 seats in the parliament with winning 29.0 percent of the ballots cast, according to the results of Saturday's election published by Icelandic public broadcaster RUV.

The centrist Progressive Party, the other ruling party, finished fourth with only eight seats, 11 fewer than what it had gained in the last parliamentary election in 2013.

The opposition Left-Green Movement gained 10 seats with 15.9 percent of votes, while the Pirate Party, which had taken the lead in many pre-election polls over the months, also won 10 seats with 14.5 percent.

The newly-formed Vidreisn (Revival) party, the Bright Future and the Social Democratic Alliance also crossed the 5-percent electoral threshold with seven, four and three seats respectively.

About 246,500 voters were eligible to vote in the election, in which a total of 12 parties were vying for the 63 seats in the Icelandic parliament. Endit