Northeast (Icelandic: Norðaustur) is one of the six multi-member constituencies of the Althing, the national legislature of Iceland. The constituency was established in 2003 following the re-organisation of constituencies across Iceland when the Northeastern constituency was merged with the Eastern constituency (excluding Sveitarfélagið Hornafjörður municipality which was merged into the South constituency) and Siglufjörður municipality from the Northwestern constituency. Northeast consists of the regions of Eastern and Northeastern. The constituency currently elects nine of the 63 members of the Althing using the open party-list proportional representation electoral system. At the 2024 parliamentary election it had 31,071 registered electors.
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History
In September 1997 Prime Minister Davíð Oddsson appointed a committee headed by Friðrik Klemenz Sophusson to review the division of constituencies in Iceland and the organisation of elections. The committee's report was published in October 1998 and recommended, amongst other things, that the number of constituencies be reduced and that they be more equal in population size. The Althing passed an amendment to the constitution in June 1999 which removed the reference to specific eight constituencies contained within Article 31 and instead simply stated that there would be six or seven constituencies and that the Althing would determine the boundaries between the constituencies. The amendment also required that if, following an election to Althing, the number of registered electors per seat (including compensatory seats) in any constituency is less than half of that in another constituency, the National Electoral Commission shall change the allocation of seats so as to reduce the imbalance.
Northeast was one of six constituencies (kjördæmi) established by the "Elections to the Althing Act no. 24/2000" (Lög um kosningar til Alþingis, nr. 24/2000) passed by the Althing in May 2000. The Act initially allocated ten seats to the constituency - nine constituency seats and one compensatory seat.
Electoral system
Northeast currently elects nine of the 63 members of the Althing using the open party-list proportional representation electoral system. Constituency seats are allocated using the D'Hondt method. Compensatory seats (equalisation seas) are calculated based on the national vote and are allocated using the D'Hondt method at the constituency level. Only parties that reach the 5% national threshold compete for compensatory seats.
Election results
Summary
(Excludes compensatory seats.)
Detailed
Results of the 2024 parliamentary election held on 30 November 2024:
The following candidates were elected:
Constituency seats - Eydís Ásbjörnsdóttir (S), 3,906.25 votes; Ingibjörg Ólöf Isaksen (B), 3,436.75 votes; Ingvar Þóroddsson (C), 2,291.00 votes; Jens Garðar Helgason (D), 3,563.00 votes; Logi Már Einarsson (S), 5,104.00 votes; Njáll Trausti Friðbertsson (D), 2,712.00 votes; Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson (M), 3,795.00 votes; Sigurjón Þórðarson (F), 3,456.33 votes; and Þorgrímur Sigmundsson (M), 2,848.50 votes.
Compensatory seats - Þórarinn Ingi Pétursson (B), 2,568.00 votes.
Results of the 2021 parliamentary election held on 25 September 2021:
The following candidates were elected:
Constituency seats - Berglind Ósk Guðmundsdóttir (D), 3,263.75 votes; Bjarkey Gunnarsdóttir (V), 3,013.50 votes; Ingibjörg Ólöf Isaksen (B), 5,981.33 votes; Jakob Frímann Magnússon (F), 2,004.00 votes; Líneik Anna Sævarsdóttir (B), 4,998.67 votes; Logi Már Einarsson (S), 2,454.33 votes; Njáll Trausti Friðbertsson (D), 4,291.75 votes; Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson (M), 2,080.33 votes; and Þórarinn Ingi Pétursson (B), 4,016.33 votes.
Compensatory seats - Jódís Skúladóttir (V), 2,284.50 votes.
Results of the 2017 parliamentary election held on 28 October 2017:
The following candidates were elected:
Constituency seats - Anna Kolbrún Árnadóttir (M), 3,292.50 votes; Bjarkey Gunnarsdóttir (V), 3,582.50 votes; Kristján Þór Júlíusson (D), 4,736.25 votes; Líneik Anna Sævarsdóttir (B), 2,530.25 votes; Logi Már Einarsson (S), 3,268.00 votes; Njáll Trausti Friðbertsson (D), 3,585.25 votes; Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson (M), 4,368.00 votes; Steingrímur J. Sigfússon (V), 4,450.00 votes; and Þórunn Egilsdóttir (B), 3,369.50 votes.