The Faroe Islands elects on national level a legislature

Legislature

A legislature is a kind of deliberative assembly with the power to pass, amend, and repeal laws. The law created by a legislature is called legislation or statutory law. In addition to enacting laws, legislatures usually have exclusive authority to raise or lower taxes and adopt the budget and...

. The Faroese Parliament

Løgting

Løgting is the unicameral parliament of the Faroe Islands, a self-ruling dependency of Denmark.The name literally means "Law Thing" - that is, a law assembly - and derives from Old Norse lǫgþing, which was a name given to ancient assemblies. A ting or Þing has existed on the Faroe Islands for over...

(Løgtingið in Faroese

Faroese language

Faroese , is an Insular Nordic language spoken by 48,000 people in the Faroe Islands and about 25,000 Faroese people in Denmark and elsewhere...

) has up to 33 members of parliament, elected for a four year term by proportional representation

Proportional representation

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. The Faroe Islands have a multi-party system (disputing on independence and unionism as well as left and right), with numerous parties

Political Parties

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 in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties

Political Parties

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 must work with each other to form coalition government

Coalition government

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Latest elections

Past elections and referendums

• JF
  Social Democratic Party (Faroe Islands)
  The Social Democratic Party is a social-democratic, political party in the Faroe Islands, led by Jóannes Eidesgaard.At the legislative elections, 19 January 2008, the party won 19.3% of the popular vote and 6 out of 32 seats....
  
  - Social-Democrats (Equality Party)
• SF - Union Party (have been in coalition with the Labour Front and the Self-Government Party at some elections)
• TF
  Republican Party (Faroe Islands)
  The Republic is a left-wing political party in the Faroe Islands committed to Faroese Independence. It was founded in 1948 as a reaction to independence not being proclaimed after a public vote on the matter showed a significant plurality for it in 1946.In 1998 Høgni Hoydal succeeded Heini O....
  
  - Republican Party
• FF
  People's Party (Faroe Islands)
  The Faroese People's Party – Radical Self-Government is a liberal conservative political party in the Faroe Islands, led by Jørgen Niclasen. One of the four major parties, it's had eight seats in the Løgting since the 2011 election, making it the joint-largest party, but neither of the Faroes'...
  
  - People's Party
• SSF - Self-Government Party
• MF
  Centre Party (Faroe Islands)
  The Centre Party is a Christianity-based, agrarian and conservative political party in the Faroe Islands, led by Jenis av Rana.At the 2008 parliamentary election, the party won 8.4% of the popular vote and 3 out of 33 seats...
  
  - Centre Party
• KFF - Christian People's Party
• VF - Workers' Movement

1984

JF - 23.4%, 8 MPs

FF - 21.6%, 7 MPs

SF - 21.2%, 7 MPs

TF - 19.5%, 6 MPs

SSF - 8.5%, 2 MPs

KFF - 5.8%, 2 MPs

1988

FF - 23.2%, 8 MPs

JF - 21.6%, 7 MPs

SF - 21.2%, 7 MPs

TF - 16.2%, 6 MPs

SSF - 7.1%, 2 MPs

KFF - 5.5%, 2 MPs

Others - 2.2%, 0 members

1990

JF - 27.5%, 10 MPs

FF - 21.9%, 7 MPs

SF - 18.9%, 6 MPs

TF - 14.7%, 4 MPs

SSF - 8.8%, 3 MPs

KFF - 5.9%, 2 MPs

Others - 2.3%, 0 MPs

1994

SF - 23.4%, 8 MPs

FF - 16.0%, 6 MPs

JF - 15.4%, 5 MPs

TF - 13.7%, 4 MPs

VF - 9.5%, 3 MPs

KFF - 6.3%, 2 MPs

MF - 5.8%, 2 MPs

SSF - 5.6%, 2 MPs

Others - 4.3%, 0 MPs

1998

TF - 23.8%, 8 MPs

JF - 21.9%, 7 MPs

FF - 21.3%, 8 MPs

SF - 18.0%, 6 MPs

SSF - 7.7%, 2 MPs

MF - 4.1%, 1 MPs

KFF - 2.5%, 0 MPs

VF - 0.8%, 0 MPs

Others - 0.8%, 0 MPs

2002

SF - 26.0%, 8 MPs

TF - 23.7%, 8 MPs

JF - 20.9%, 7 MPs

FF - 20.8%, 7 MPs

SSF - 4.4%, 1 MPs

MF - 4.2%, 1 MP

2004

SF - 23.7%, 7 MPs

JF - 21.8%, 7 MPs

TF - 21.7%, 8 MPs

FF - 20.6%, 7 MPs

MF - 5.2%, 2 MPs

SSF - 4.6%, 1 MP

2008

TF - 23.3%, 8 MPs

SF - 21%, 7 MPs

FF - 20.1%, 7 MPs

JF - 19.4%, 6 MPs

MF - 8.4%, 3 MPs

SSF - 7.2%, 2 MP

External links

• Statistics Faroe Islands: Election results 1906-present (in English)