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Queen: Margrethe II. · Løgmaður: Aksel V. Johannesen (JF) · Governing parties: JF, TJ, F
Legislative elections: Føroya Løgting, 4-year term, 33 seats, 4% threshold, party-list PR:

Party 2022 2019
Javnaðarflokkurin (JF)
Social Democratic Party		 Unionism
Social democracy		 26,6% 9 22,1% 7
Sambandsflokkurin (SB)
Union Party		 Unionism
Conservative liberalism
Agrarianism		 20,0% 7 20,3% 7
Fólkaflokkurin (FF)
People's Party		 Separatism
Conservatism
Economic liberalism		 18,9% 6 24,5% 8
Tjóðveldi (TJ)
Republic		 Separatism
Democratic socialism		 17,7% 6 18,1% 6
Framsókn (F)
Progress		 Separatism
Liberalism		 7,5% 2 4,6% 2
Miðflokkurin (MF)
Centre Party		 Regionalism
Christian democracy
Social conservatism		 6,6% 2 5,4% 2
Nýtt Sjálvstýri (NSS)
New Self-Government 		Regionalism
Social liberalism		 2,7% - 3,4% 1
Others - - 1,4% -
Total - 33 - 33
Turnout 88,1% 89,7%

 © 2022 Wolfram Nordsieck. Source: Kringvarp Føroya (http://www.kvf.fo).
Archive: Legislative elections, 2002-2019 ( For full coverage, 1945-present, click here):
2002 2004 2008 2011 2015 2019
FF %  20,8 20,6 20,1 22,5 18,9 24,5
  S.  7 7 7 8 6 8
JF % 20,9 21,8 19,4 17,7 25,1 22,1
  S. 7 7 6 6 8 7
SB % 26,0 23,7 21,0 24,7 18,7 20,3
  S. 8 7 7 8 6 7
TJ  % 23,7  21,7 23,3 18,3 20,7 18,1
  S.  8 8 8 6 7 6
MF % 4,2 5,2 8,4 6,2 5,5 5,4
  S. 1 2 3 2 2 2
F % - - - 6,3 6,9 4,6
  S. - - - 2 2 2
NSS % 4,4 4,6 7,2 4,2 4,0 3,4
  S. 1 1 2 1 2 1
Others % - 2,4 0,7 - - 1,4
  S. - - - - - -
Total S. 32 32 33 33 33 33
Turnout % 91,6 92,3 89,2 86,6 88,8 89,7

Abbreviations: FF: People's Party; JF: Social Democratic Party; SB: Union Party; TJ: Republic (2002-2004: Republican Party, TF); MF: Centre Party; F: Progress; NSS: New Self-Government (2002-2011: Self-Government Party, SSF). © 2022 Wolfram Nordsieck.