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Queen: Margrethe II. · Løgmaður: Bárður á Steig Nielsen (SB) · Governing parties: SB, FF, MF
Legislative elections: Føroya Løgting, 4-year term, 33 seats, 4% threshold, party-list PR:

Party 2019 2015
Fólkaflokkurin (FF)
People's Party		 Separatism
Conservatism
Economic liberalism		 24,5% 8 18,9% 6
Javnaðarflokkurin (JF)
Social Democratic Party		 Unionism
Social democracy		 22,1% 7 25,1% 8
Sambandsflokkurin (SB)
Union Party		 Unionism
Agrarianism
Conservative liberalism		 20,3% 7 18,7% 6
Tjóðveldi (TJ)
Republic		 Separatism
Democratic socialism		 18,1% 6 20,7% 7
Miðflokkurin (MF)
Centre Party		 Regionalism
Christian democracy
Social conservatism		 5,4% 2 5,5% 2
Framsókn (F)
Progress		 Separatism
Liberalism		 4,6% 2 6,9% 2
Nýtt Sjálvstýri (NSS)
New Self-Government 		Regionalism
Social liberalism		 3,4% 1 4,0% 2
Others 1,4% - - -
Total - 33 - 33
Turnout 89,7% 88,8%

 © 2019 Wolfram Nordsieck. Source: Kringvarp Føroya (http://www.kvf.fo).
Archive: Legislative elections, 1998-2015 ( For full coverage, 1945-present, click here):
1998 2002 2004 2008 2011 2015
JF % 21,9 20,9 21,8 19,4 17,7 25,1
  S. 7 7 7 6 6 8
TJ (TF) %  23,8 23,7  21,7 23,3 18,3 20,7
  S.  8  8 8 8 6 7
FF %  21,3  20,8 20,6 20,1 22,5 18,9
  S.  8  7 7 7 8 6
SB % 18,0 26,0 23,7 21,0 24,7 18,7
  S. 6 8 7 7 8 6
F % - - - - 6,3 6,9
  S. - - - - 2 2
MF % 4,1 4,2 5,2 8,4 6,2 5,5
  S. 1 1 2 3 2 2
NSS (SSF) %  7,7 4,4 4,6 7,2 4,2 4,0
  S.  2 1 1 2 1 2
Others % 3,3 - 2,4 0,7 - -
  S. - - - - - -
Total S. 32 32 32 33 33 33
Turnout % 88,2 91,6 92,3 89,2 86,6 88,8

Abbreviations: JF: Social Democratic Party; TJ: Republic (1998-2004: Republican Party, TF); FF: People's Party; SB: Union Party; F: Progress; MF: Centre Party; NSS: New Self-Government (1998-2011: Self-Government Party, SSF). © 2019 Wolfram Nordsieck.