Constituencies of Iceland
You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Icelandic. (January 2022) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
- Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
- Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
- You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is
Content in this edit is translated from the existing Icelandic Wikipedia article at [[:is:Kjördæmi Íslands]]; see its history for attribution. - You should also add the template
{{Translated|is|Kjördæmi Íslands}}to the talk page. - For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.
Politics of Iceland |
|---|
 |
| Government |
| Legislature |
| |
|
|
 Iceland portal |
|
Iceland is divided into six constituencies for the purpose of selecting representatives to parliament.[1]
History
The 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 twice, in the elections in 2007 and 2013. On both occasions, a seat was transferred from the Northwest constituency to the Southwest constituency.[3]
Composition
The 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 | 13 | 5,350 | 100.0% |
| Northwest (Icelandic: Norðvesturkjördæmi) | 21,521 | 8 | 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
- ^ Electors per seat as percent of the highest number in any constituency.
- ^ a b c National Electoral Commission of Iceland 2013, p. 4
- ^ a b National Electoral Commission of Iceland 2013, p. 5
- ^ National Electoral Commission of Iceland 2013, p. 6
References
- "Apportionment of Seats to Althingi, the Icelandic Parliament" (PDF). National Electoral Commission of Iceland. 2013. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
See also
- Administrative divisions of Iceland
- Geography of Iceland
- Municipalities of Iceland
- Regions of Iceland
External links
Media related to Constituencies of Iceland at Wikimedia Commons
- (in Icelandic) Article on Alþingi website
Iceland articles | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| History |
|  | |||||
| Geography |
| ||||||
| Politics | |||||||
| Economy |
| ||||||
| Society |
| ||||||
| |||||||
