The World - News from April 26, 1987

No clear favorite emerged as Icelanders went to the polls to decide among 10 parties vying for the 63 seats in Parliament. Prime Minister Steingrimur Hermannsson, who acted as host at last year’s superpower summit in Reykjavik and who is fighting to keep his job, called the splintered political picture “incredible chaos.” The feminist Women’s Alliance and a new party formed by ex-Commerce Minister Albert Gudmundsson were seen as the biggest threats to Hermannsson’s centrist Progressive Party and the larger, rightist Independence Party. Together, those two factions held 38 seats in the old, 60-seat Parliament. There are 170,000 eligible voters among Iceland’s 240,000 people.