Election Name: | 2018 Icelandic municipal elections |
Country: | Iceland |
Previous Election: | 2014 Icelandic municipal elections |
Previous Year: | 2014 |
Next Election: | 2022 Icelandic municipal elections |
Next Year: | 2022 |
Election Date: | 26 May 2018 |
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]