Municipal elections took place in Iceland on 26 May 2018. 55 of the 72 municipal councils in the country were elected using

open list Open list describes any variant of party-list proportional representation where voters have at least some influence on the order in which a party's candidates are elected. This is as opposed to closed list, which allows only active members, par ...

PR. The rural municipality

Tjörneshreppur Tjörneshreppur () is a municipality in Iceland, part of the Norðurland eystra region. It is surrounded by the Norðurþing Norðurþing () is a municipality located in northern Iceland. Norðurþing was formed in 2006 when the municipalities o ...

did not hold an election as only one list was presented, whose candidates were thereby automatically elected. No list was presented in 16 municipalities. Municipal councils in those municipalities were elected using a form of

plurality block voting Plurality block voting, also known as plurality-at-large voting, block vote or block voting (BV) is a non- proportional voting system for electing representatives in multi-winner elections. Each voter may cast as many votes as the number of sea ...

were voters

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the names of their preferred candidates. Two of the municipal councils were for new municipalities created after mergers.

Results

References

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