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Iceland is divided into sixconstituencies for the purpose of selectingrepresentatives toparliament.[1]
The current division was established by a 1999constitution amendment and was an attempt to balance the weight of different districts of the country whereby voters in the rural districtshave greater representation per head than voters inReykjavík city and itssuburbs.[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]
The constituencies are the following:[2]
Data for the table below is current as of the2017 election:
| Constituency | Electors | Seats | Electors per seat | %[a] | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | Icelandic | ||||
| Reykjavík North | Reykjavíkurkjördæmi norður | 46,073 | 11 | 4,188 | 78.3% |
| Reykjavík South | Reykjavíkurkjördæmi 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 | |||||
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