Iceland parliamentary election

[MaxQue]

One element that explains part of the leftist governments decline in the polls is the media situation in Iceland.

Its largest media corporation by far is 365 Miðlar which is primarily owned by Ingibjörg Pálmadóttir, the wife of London based businessman Jon Asgeir Johannesson, the richest "financial viking" from the boom era. Its well known that Jon Asgeir has been using his influence to change stories about himself, but he has also used it against politicians he perceives as "unfriendly to investors" (read leftists) .
 
The second large private media corporation in Iceland is the one centered around Morgunbladid, which used to be the only daily in Iceland and has strong ties to IP. Its dominant shareholder is Gudbjorg Matthiasdottir, who is on the Top 5 of the richest persons in Iceland. She owns a large fishing enterprise and a lot of valuable fishing quota. Editor in chief is no other than Mr. David Oddson, ex IP prime minister (1991-2004), chairman of the board of governors of the central bank (2005-2009), and generally viewed as more responsible for the banking crash than any other politician in Iceland. All though Morgunbladid is nominally independent conservative this translates as Independence Party conservative and the paper is highly biased against the government.

Its of course not uncommon that rich right wingers own the media, but in a small country like Iceland the effect becomes stronger.

The left should have passed a Media Pluralism Act of some kind when they had the opportunity.

What would that entail?

Fairness guidelines, plus if necessary splitting the biggest media corporations and forcing them to sell part of their facilities to smaller companies.

And what of free speech?

There is no free speech currently. You have speech in media if you agree with the bosses of those medias.

[MaxQue]

At 57.8%, the seat distribution is the same than at 31%

[MaxQue]

At 71.9%, PP has gained a seat from IP, so the distribution is now:

IP 20
PP 19
SDA 10
LG 8
BF 6

Looks solid for a PP-SDA-BF coalition at this point.

Should improve for PP, worsen for the left, given the outstanding areas.

Counted votes by area:
Reykjavik North: 96% (IP leads PP 24-17)
Reykjavik South: 98% (IP leads PP 27-17)
Southwest: 53% (IP leads PP 32-22)
Northwest: 55% (PP leads IP 36-24)
Northeast: 57% (PP leads IP 33-22)
South: 82% (PP leads IP 35-28)

[MaxQue]

I see than Murphy's Law has striken again.

[MaxQue]

Counted votes by area:
Reykjavik North: 97% (IP leads PP 23-16)
Reykjavik South: 98% (IP leads PP 27-17)
Southwest: 98% (IP leads PP 31-22)
Northwest: 68% (PP leads IP 37-24)
Northeast: 98% (PP leads IP 35-23)
South: 97% (PP leads IP 35-28)

[MaxQue]

Okay, thats isolated West Fiord Areas missing, this might take some time.

Given than they are isolated, it's important to wait them. I would suppose isolated areas to have lopsided results. I also suppose than Pirates aren't popular there, so, they are at risk of falling under threshold.