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Iceland is divided into six constituencies for the purpose of selecting representatives to parliament.[1]
History
editThe current division was established by a 1999 constitution amendment and was an attempt to balance the weight of different districts of the country whereby voters in the rural districts have greater representation per head than voters in Reykjavík city and its suburbs.[1] The new division comprises three countryside constituencies (NW, NE and S) and three city constituencies (RN, RS and SW).[2] The imbalance of votes between city and country still exists and a provision in the election law states that if the number of votes per seat in parliament in one constituency goes below half of what it is in any other constituency, one seat shall be transferred between them.[1] This has occurred three times, in the elections in 2007, 2013 and 2024. On each occasion, a seat was transferred from the Northwest constituency to the Southwest constituency.[3]
Composition
editThe constituencies are the following:[2]
Data for the table below is current as of the 2017 election:
| Constituency | Electors | Seats | Electors per seat |
%[a] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reykjavík North (Icelandic: Reykjavíkurkjördæmi norður) | 46,073 | 11 | 4,188 | 78.3% |
| Reykjavík South (Icelandic: Reykjavíkurkjördæmi suður) | 45,584 | 11 | 4,144 | 77.5% |
| Southwest (Icelandic: Suðvesturkjördæmi) | 69,544 | 14 | 5,350 | 100.0% |
| Northwest (Icelandic: Norðvesturkjördæmi) | 21,521 | 7 | 2,690 | 50.3% |
| Northeast (Icelandic: Norðausturkjördæmi) | 29,620 | 10 | 2,836 | 55.4% |
| South (Icelandic: Suðurkjördæmi) | 36,143 | 10 | 3,251 | 67.6% |
| Source: Statistics Iceland | ||||
Notes
edit- ^ Electors per seat as percent of the highest number in any constituency.
References
edit- "Apportionment of Seats to Althingi, the Icelandic Parliament" (PDF). National Electoral Commission of Iceland. 2013. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
See also
editExternal links
editMedia related to Constituencies of Iceland at Wikimedia Commons
- (in Icelandic) Article on Alþingi website