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Apportionment of Seats to Althingi, the Icelandic Parliament
(PDF). National Electoral Commission of Iceland. 2013. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
Article on Alþingi website
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Iceland
Iceland ( is, Ísland; ) is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Arctic Ocean. Iceland is the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland's capital and largest city is Reykjavík, which (along with its ...
is divided into 6 constituencies for the purpose of selecting representatives to parliament
In modern politics, and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three functions: representing the electorate, making laws, and overseeing the government via hearings and inquiries. Th ...
.National Electoral Commission of Iceland 2013, p. 4
History
The current division was established by a 1999constitution
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When these pr ...
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
Reykjavík ( ; ) is the capital and largest city of Iceland. It is located in southwestern Iceland, on the southern shore of Faxaflói bay. Its latitude is 64°08' N, making it the world's northernmost capital of a sovereign state. With a po ...
city and its suburb
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s. 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 twice, in the elections in 2007 and 2013. On both occasions, 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:Notes
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
This article shows the administrative divisions of Iceland.
Contemporary
Constituencies
Until 2003, the constituencies for the parliament elections were the same as the regions, but by an amendment to the constitution they were changed to the ...
* Geography of Iceland
* Municipalities of Iceland
* Regions of Iceland
External links
Article on Alþingi website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Constituencies Of Iceland Government of Iceland Subdivisions of Iceland Iceland politics-related lists
Iceland
Iceland ( is, Ísland; ) is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Arctic Ocean. Iceland is the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland's capital and largest city is Reykjavík, which (along with its ...