Regular general elections to the Althingi shall be held no later than at the end of the electoral term. The beginning and end of an electoral term shall be on the same weekday of the month, counting from the beginning of the month.

The electoral term shall be four years.

If the Althingi is dissolved, parliamentary elections shall be held on the date when the dissolution takes effect.

All Icelandic citizens who have reached the age of 18 at the time of polling and are domiciled in Iceland are entitled to vote in elections to the Althingi.

Icelandic citizens who have reached the age of 18 and have been domiciled in Iceland are entitled to vote for sixteen years after transferring their domicile from Iceland. After that period, they must apply to Registers Iceland to be added to the electoral register. A decision to add a person’s name to the electoral register shall be valid for four years as of the 1 December immediately following the submission of the application.

Constituency is a geographical delimitation of the area in which a voter exercises the right to vote. There are six constituencies, with Reykjavík being divided into two electoral districts:

• North-Western Constituency

• North-Eastern Constituency

• Southern Constituency

• South-Western Constituency

• Reykjavík South

• Reykjavík North