Icelandic parliamentary election, 1963
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Bjarni Benediktsson
Bjarni Benediktsson
Bjarni Benediktsson was Prime Minister of Iceland from 14 November 1963 to 10 July 1970. His father, Benedikt Sveinsson , was a leader in the independence movement in Iceland and a member of Althingi from 1908 to 1931.Bjarni studied constitutional law and became professor at the University of...

 became Prime Minister
Prime Minister of Iceland
The Prime Minister of Iceland is Iceland's head of government. The prime minister is appointed formally by the President and exercises executive authority along with the cabinet subject to parliamentary support....

 after these elections.

Summary of the 9 June 1963 Iceland
Iceland
Iceland , described as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population...

ic Althing
Althing
The Alþingi, anglicised variously as Althing or Althingi, is the national parliament of Iceland. The Althingi is the oldest parliamentary institution in the world still extant...

 election results
Elections in Iceland
Elections in Iceland gives information on election and election results in Iceland.Iceland elects on national level a head of state - the president - and a legislature. The president is elected for a four year term by the people...


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!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left valign=top|Parties
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Votes
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|%
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Seats
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|+/-
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|align=left|Independence Party
Independence Party (Iceland)
The Independence Party is a centre-right political party in Iceland. Liberal conservative and Eurosceptic, it is the second-largest party in the Althing, with sixteen seats. The chairman of the party is Bjarni Benediktsson and vice chairman is Ólöf Nordal....

 (Sjálfstæðisflokkurinn)
|align="right" |37.021
|align="right" |41.4
|align="right" |24
|-
|align=left|Progressive Party
Progressive Party (Iceland)
The Progressive Party is an agrarian, liberal and centrist party in Iceland. The party is a member of the Liberal International. Current chairman of the party is Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson. He was elected on January 18, 2009. His predecessor was Valgerður Sverrisdóttir, who only served as...

 (Framsóknarflokkurinn)
|align="right" |25.217
|align="right" |28.2
|align="right" |19
|-
|align=left|People's Alliance
People's Alliance (Iceland)
The People's Alliance was an electoral alliance in Iceland from 1956 to 1968 and a political party from 1968 to 1998.-History:In 1916 the Social Democratic Party was formed in Iceland. In 1930 a split surged, thus forming the Communist Party of Iceland , recognised as the Icelandic section of the...

 (Alþýðubandalagið)
|align="right" |14.274
|align="right" |16.0
|align="right" |9
|-
|align=left|Social Democratic Party
Social Democratic Party (Iceland)
The Social Democratic Party was an Icelandic Political Party based on social-democratic ideas. It was founded in 1916 as the political representation of the trade unions of Iceland....

(Alþýðuflokkurinn)
|align="right" |12.697
|align="right" |14.2
|align="right" |8
|-
|align=left|Other
|align="right" |143
|align="right" |0,2
|align="right" |0
|-
|align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total (turnout 89.352)
|width="75" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|
|width="30" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 
|width="30" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|60
|width="30" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| 
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|align=left colspan=5|Source: Ríkisútvarpið
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