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Article 31
 

The Althingi shall be composed of 63 Members elected by the people by secret ballot on the basis of proportional representation for a term of four years.


The electoral districts shall be no fewer than six and no more than seven in number. Their boundaries shall be determined by law, except that the National Election Board may be authorized to determine electoral district boundaries in Reykjavík and vicinity.


In each electoral district there shall be at least six district seats, to be allocated on the basis of the election results within the district. The number of Althingi seats for each district shall in other respects be determined by law, subject, however, to paragraph 5 below.


Seats other than district seats shall be distributed upon the electoral districts and be allocated for purposes of equalisation among political parties in order that each party will receive the number of Althingi seats corresponding the most closely with the overall number of votes received by that party. However, only those political parties which have received at least five per cent of all votes validly cast across the country shall qualify for such allocation.


In the event that, after elections to the Althingi, the number of registered voters behind each Althingi seat, including equalisation seats, in any one electoral district becomes lower by one-half than the number in any other electoral district, the National Election Board shall change the number of seats in the electoral districts for the purpose of reducing such difference. This shall be provided for in further detail by law.


Provisions of law relating to election district boundaries and the methods of allocating seats in the Althingi can only be amended by a two-thirds majority of the Althingi vote.