Decisions on the validity of candidate lists before municipal elections.

• As soon as the senior electoral commission of a municipality has completed its examination of the candidate lists of political organisations, and no later than 24 hours after the deadline for submitting candidatures expires, cf. Article 36, it shall review the candidatures submitted and:

a. determine whether the political organisations have remedied any deficiencies identified in their respective candidate lists, cf. Article 44, and the validity of the lists in other respects,

b. decide, if needed, to which political organisations the candidate lists submitted for the election shall be deemed to belong,

c. mark the lists of the political organisations in accordance with the official notice of the letters of the alphabet applying to political organisations that put forward lists in the immediately preceding elections to the Althingi, but if candidate lists are not presented by political organisations, the senior electoral commission of the municipality shall mark them in alphabetical order according to the order in which it received them or as agreed with the lists’ agents,

d. check for consistency in the presentation and finishing details of candidate lists, including how the names of candidates are written, cf. paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article 37.

• At a meeting to which the senior electoral commission of the municipality calls the agents of candidate lists, cf. paragraph 1 of Article 39, no later than three days (3 x 24 hours) and four hours after the deadline for submitting candidatures expires, the Commission shall disclose its processing of individual candidate lists and announce its decisions, cf. paragraph 1. An agent may appeal a decision by the senior electoral commission of a municipality to the Election Appeal Committee, cf. Article 22, within 20 hours from receiving the decision. The Committee shall deliver its ruling within 48 hours after the expiry of the deadline for lodging complaints.


• In the event that only one candidate list is submitted for a municipal election, the senior electoral commission of the municipality shall extend the deadline for submitting candidatures by 48 hours. A new candidate list put forward within that time limit may be afforded four days’ time to meet the conditions under Article 39. Should no new candidate list be submitted before the expiry of this time limit, the list submitted shall be elected unopposed.