Constituencies of Iceland

Iceland is divided into six constituencies for the purpose of selecting representatives to parliament.National Electoral Commission of Iceland 2013, p. 4

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. The new division comprises three countryside constituencies (NW, NE and S) and three city constituencies (RN, RS and SW).National Electoral Commission of Iceland 2013, p. 5 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. 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.National Electoral Commission of Iceland 2013, p. 6

Composition The constituencies are the following:

Data for the table below is current as of the 2017 election: ConstituencyElectorsSeatsElectorsper seat% English Icelandic Reykjavík North Reykjavíkurkjördæmi norður 46,073 11 4,188 78.3% Reykjavík SouthReykjavíkurkjördæmi suður 45,584 11 4,144 77.5% Southwest Suðvesturkjördæmi 69,544 14 5,350 100.0% Northwest Norðvesturkjördæmi 21,521 7 2,690 50.3% Northeast Norðausturkjördæmi 29,620 10 2,836 55.4% South Suðurkjördæmi 36,143 10 3,251 67.6% Source: Statistics Iceland

See also Administrative divisions of Iceland Geography of Iceland Municipalities of Iceland Regions of Iceland

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Constituencies of Iceland

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