Women candidates win majority of seats in Iceland’s election
Al Jazeera
Voters elect 33 women to parliament, up from 24 in the last election.
Iceland’s national election has, for the first time, seen more women than men elected to a European parliament.
Final results on Sunday also showed the country’s ruling left-right coalition strengthening its majority.
Opinion polls had earlier forecast the coalition would fall short of a majority but a surge in support for the centre-right Progressive Party, which won five more seats than in 2017, pushed its total count to 37 seats in the 63-seat parliament Althingi, according to state broadcaster RUV.
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