It had been considered to amend the election law to hold the election two weeks later to pass a number of important bills before the election, but in the end the negotiations on this failed and the election was called on 2007-12-07.[2][3] Prior to this election, the electoral system was changed in 2007 from a system with seven multi-member constituencies, which had some elements of mixed member proportional voting, to a system with a single constituency for the whole country in order to reduce disproportionality.[4]
Prior to the election, the Social Democratic Party formed a centrist unionist government with the People's Party and the Union Party. After the elections, four days of negotiations saw a centre-left separatist government emerge; while the Social Democratic Party retained the PM's post, the strongly pro-independence Republic got the majority of ministerial posts (including the newly created post of foreign minister). The Centre Party also participated in the new government. Among the coalition agreement points was a plan to draft a constitution for the Faroe Islands, which would be approved in a referendum to be held in 2010.
The coalition broke up in mid-2008, however, and a government consisting of the parties governing before the 2008 election was sworn in on 26 September 2008, with Kaj Leo Johannesen as PM instead.[5]
^Faeroes to head to polls The Copenhagen Post, 7 December 2007
^Elections to the Faroese Løgting Election Resources on the Internet
^. Archived from the original on 2011-05-24. Retrieved 2008-10-02.
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2008, faroese, general, election, general, elections, were, held, faroe, islands, january, 2008, latest, possible, date, self, government, party, centre, party, gained, seat, each, while, social, democratic, party, lost, seat, 2004, january, 2008, 2011, party,. General elections were held in the Faroe Islands on 19 January 2008 the latest possible date The Self Government Party and the Centre Party gained a seat each while the Social Democratic Party lost a seat 1 2008 Faroese general election 2004 19 January 2008 2011 Party Leader Seats Republic Hogni Hoydal 23 3 8 0 Union Kaj Leo Johannesen 21 0 7 0 People s Jorgen Niclasen 20 1 7 0 Social Democratic Joannes Eidesgaard 19 3 6 1 Centre Jenis av Rana 8 4 3 1 Self Government Kari P Hojgaard 7 2 2 1 This lists parties that won seats See the complete results below Prime Minister before Prime MinisterJoannes EidesgaardSocial Democratic Joannes EidesgaardSocial Democratic It had been considered to amend the election law to hold the election two weeks later to pass a number of important bills before the election but in the end the negotiations on this failed and the election was called on 2007 12 07 2 3 Prior to this election the electoral system was changed in 2007 from a system with seven multi member constituencies which had some elements of mixed member proportional voting to a system with a single constituency for the whole country in order to reduce disproportionality 4 Prior to the election the Social Democratic Party formed a centrist unionist government with the People s Party and the Union Party After the elections four days of negotiations saw a centre left separatist government emerge while the Social Democratic Party retained the PM s post the strongly pro independence Republic got the majority of ministerial posts including the newly created post of foreign minister The Centre Party also participated in the new government Among the coalition agreement points was a plan to draft a constitution for the Faroe Islands which would be approved in a referendum to be held in 2010 The coalition broke up in mid 2008 however and a government consisting of the parties governing before the 2008 election was sworn in on 26 September 2008 with Kaj Leo Johannesen as PM instead 5 Results edit nbsp PartyVotes Seats Republic7 25023 3080Union Party6 52920 9970People s Party6 24020 0670Social Democratic Party6 01819 346 1Centre Party2 6108 393 1Self Government Party2 2447 212 1Students Party2210 710NewTotal31 112100 0033 1Valid votes31 11299 79Invalid blank votes650 21Total votes31 177100 00Registered voters turnout34 83589 50Source LogtingSee also editList of members of the Logting 2008 11References edit Nyggja logtingid valt stor utskifting og fleiri kvinnur Archived 2008 02 08 at the Wayback Machine Kringvarp Foroya 20 January 2008 in Faroese Faroese election permanent dead link Norden 10 December 2007 Faeroes to head to polls The Copenhagen Post 7 December 2007 Elections to the Faroese Logting Election Resources on the Internet New Coalition formed Archived from the original on 2011 05 24 Retrieved 2008 10 02 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 2008 Faroese general election amp oldid 1141091295, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
