2018 Icelandic municipal elections

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2018 Icelandic municipal elections

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Municipal elections took place in Iceland on 26 May 2018.^[1]^[2] 55 of the 72 municipal councils in the country were elected using open list PR.^[3] The rural municipality Tjörneshreppur did not hold an election as only one list was presented, whose candidates were thereby automatically elected.^[4] No list was presented in 16 municipalities. Municipal councils in those municipalities were elected using a form of plurality block voting were voters write in the names of their preferred candidates.^[5] Two of the municipal councils were for new municipalities created after mergers.^[6]

Results


Party		Seats	+/–
	Independence Party	118	–2
	Progressive Party	46	-10
	Social Democratic Alliance	29	-6
	Centre Party	9	New
	Left-Green Movement	8	-1
	Reform Party	6	New
	Pirate Party	3	+2
	People's Party	1	New
	Icelandic Socialist Party	1	New
	Other party lists	199	+21
	Independents	82	-12
Total		502	-2

Source: Statistics Iceland, Statistics Iceland

References

^ "Sveitarstjórnarkosningar 2018 – fréttayfirlit". 10 August 2017.
^ "Sveitarstjórnarkosningar 2018 – Framsókn". Archived from the original on 2017-11-07. Retrieved 2017-11-04.
^ "Kosið til sveitarstjórna í dag".
^ "Lítil stemning fyrir kosningum".
^ "Upplýsingar um sveitarfélög og framboðslista".
^ "Kosið til sveitarstjórna í dag".

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