The World - News from April 26, 1987

Iceland’s center-right coalition appears to have lost its majority in general elections that saw the feminist Women’s Alliance, which first won seats in Parliament in 1983, more than double its vote. With a third of the vote counted, the two parties that have ruled Iceland since 1983 were projected as having won only 30 of the 63 seats in Parliament. If confirmed, the defeat of centrist Prime Minister Steingrimur Hermannsson’s government leaves the feminists holding the balance of power and could herald their entry into a coalition Cabinet, Icelandic politicians said. Hermannsson’s Progressive Party and the rightist Independence Party held 38 seats in the old, 60-seat Parliament.