Faroese general election, 2008

19 January 2008

All 33 seats in the Løgting 17 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Høgni Hoydal	Kaj Leo Johannesen	Jørgen Niclasen
Party	Republic	Union	People's
Last election	8 seats, 21.7%	7 seats, 23.7%	7 seats, 20.6%
Seats won	8	7	7
Seat change	0	0	0
Popular vote	7,250	6,529	6,240
Percentage	23.3%	21.0%	20.1%

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Jóannes Eidesgaard	Jenis av Rana	Kári P. Højgaard
Party	Social Democratic	Centre	Self-Government
Last election	7 seats, 21.8%	2 seats, 5.2%	1 seats, 4.6%
Seats won	6	3	2
Seat change	1	1	1
Popular vote	6,018	2,610	2,244
Percentage	19.3%	8.4%	7.2%

Prime Minister before election

Jóannes Eidesgaard
Social Democratic

Prime Minister

Jóannes Eidesgaard
Social Democratic

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Parliamentary elections were held in the Faroe Islands on 19 January 2008, the latest possible date. The Self-Government Party and the Centre Party gained a seat each while the Social Democratic Party lost a seat. The number of women went from three to seven.^[1]

It had been considered to amend the election law to hold the election two weeks later to pass a number of important bills before the election, but in the end the negotiations on this failed and the election was called on 2007-12-07.^[2]^[3] Prior to this election, the electoral system was changed in 2007 from a constituency-based d'Hondt proportional representation (with seven multi-member constituencies), which had some elements of mixed member proportional voting, to a nationwide d'Hondt based proportional system to reduce disproportionality.^[4]

Prior to the election, the Social Democratic Party formed a centrist unionist government with the People's Party and the Union Party. After the elections, four days of negotiations saw a centre-left separatist government emerge; while the Social Democratic Party retained the PM's post, the strongly pro-independence Republic got the majority of ministerial posts (including the newly created post of foreign minister). The Centre Party also participated in the new government. Among the coalition agreement points was a plan to draft a constitution for the Faroe Islands, which would be approved in a referendum to be held in 2010.

The coalition broke up in mid-2008, however, and a government consisting of the parties governing before the 2008 election was sworn in on 26 September 2008, with Kaj Leo Johannesen as PM instead.^[5]

Results

Summary of the results of the election to the Faroese Løgting
held on 19 January 2008
Parties		Votes	%	Seats
	Republic (Tjóðveldi)	7,250	23.3	8
	Union Party (Sambandsflokkurin)	6,529	21.0	7
	People's Party (Fólkaflokkurin)	6,240	20.1	7
	Social Democratic Party (Javnaðarflokkurin)	6,018	19.3	6
	Centre Party (Miðflokkurin)	2,610	8.4	3
	Self-Government Party (Sjálvstýrisflokkurin)	2,244	7.2	2
	Students' Party (Miðnámsflokkurin)	221	0.7	0
Totals (electorate 34,845 : turnout 89.7% )		31,112	100.0	33
Source: logting.elektron.fo (turnout includes invalid votes; other figures exclude invalid votes)

References

↑ Nýggja løgtingið valt - stór útskifting og fleiri kvinnur Kringvarp Føroya, 20 January 2008 (Faroese)
↑ Faroese election Norden, 10 December 2007
↑ Faeroes to head to polls The Copenhagen Post, 7 December 2007
↑ Elections to the Faroese Løgting Election Resources on the Internet
↑ http://www.tinganes.fo/Default.aspx?ID=435&M=News&PID=1022&NewsID=1620

Elections and referendums in the Faroe Islands

Løgting elections	1906 1908 1910 1912 1914 1916 1918 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1940 1943 1945 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1980 1984 1988 1990 1994 1998 2002 2004 2008 2011 2015

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Referendums	1907 1946 1973 2009

See also: Elections and referendums in Denmark Elections and referendums in Greenland

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Faroese general election, 2008

Results

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