title: Elections in the Faroe Islands
text: # Elections in the Faroe Islands
  
  The Faroe Islands elects on the national level a legislature. The Faroese Parliament (Løgtingið in Faroese) has 33 members of parliament, elected for a four-year term by proportional representation. The Faroe Islands have a multi-party system (disputing on independence and unionism as well as left and right), with numerous parties in which a single party normally does not have a chance of gaining power alone, and therefore the parties must work together in order to form a coalition government.
  
  ## Latest elections
  
  | | Social Democratic Party | 9,094 | 26.58 | 9 | +2 |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Union Party | 6,834 | 19.98 | 7 | 0 |
  | | People's Party | 6,473 | 18.92 | 6 | –2 |
  | | Republic | 6,057 | 17.71 | 6 | 0 |
  | | Progress | 2,571 | 7.52 | 3 | +1 |
  | | Centre Party | 2,242 | 6.55 | 2 | 0 |
  | | Self-Government | 938 | 2.74 | 0 | –1 |
  | Total | Total | 34,209 | 100.00 | 33 | 0 |
  | Valid votes | Valid votes | 34,209 | 99.57 | | |
  | Invalid votes | Invalid votes | 52 | 0.15 | | |
  | Blank votes | Blank votes | 95 | 0.28 | | |
  | Total votes | Total votes | 34,356 | 100.00 | | |
  | Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | 39,020 | 88.05 | | |
  | Source: kvf.fo ||||||
  
  ## Past elections and referendums
  
  * JF – 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
  * FF – People's Party
  * SSF – Self-Government Party
  * MF – Centre Party
  * KFF – Christian People's Party
  * VF – Workers' Movement
  * F – Progress
  
  ### 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 MPs
  
  ### 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 MPs Others – 0.7%, 0 MPs
  
  ### 2011
  
  SF – 24.7%, 8 MPs TF – 23.3%, 8 MPs FF – 18.3%, 6 MPs JF – 17.7%, 6 MPs F – 6.3%, 2 MPs MF – 6.2%, 2 MPs SSF – 4.2%, 1 MP
  
  ### 2015
  
  JF – 25.1%, 8 MPs TF – 20.7%, 7 MPs FF – 18.9%, 6 MPs SF – 18.7%, 6 MPs F – 7.0%, 2 MPs MF – 5.5%, 2 MPs SSF – 4.1%, 2 MPs
  
  