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Iceland: election results by parliamentary constituency

1952–2024 · 28 elections · ISL

SAGE has legislative and presidential election results for Iceland from 28 elections between 1952 and 2024: 1952, 1959, 1963, 1967, 1968, 1971, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021 and 2024. The smallest unit is the parliamentary constituency. The 2024 election has 6 parliamentary constituencies, and 100% of them have a location. Unit boundaries are available for 1959, 1963, 1967, 1971, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1983, 1987, 1991, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021 and 2024.

Elections

Units are the smallest units in the data, and located units are those with coordinates. A year with several rows has several contests or votes; filter on them before you add up votes.

YearElection typeVote typeRound Units% locatedVotes Polygons
1952Presidential80%68,224[map]
1959Legislative (unicameral)8100%85,095yes[map]
1963Legislative (unicameral)8100%89,352yes[map]
1967Legislative (unicameral)8100%96,090yes[map]
1968Presidential80%102,972[map]
1971Legislative (unicameral)8100%105,395yes[map]
1974Legislative (unicameral)8100%114,108yes[map]
1978Legislative (unicameral)8100%122,207yes[map]
1979Legislative (unicameral)8100%123,751yes[map]
1980Presidential80%129,049[map]
1983Legislative (unicameral)8100%129,962yes[map]
1987Legislative (unicameral)8100%152,722yes[map]
1988Presidential80%124,004[map]
1991Legislative (unicameral)8100%157,769yes[map]
1995Legislative (unicameral)8100%165,043yes[map]
1996Presidential80%165,233[map]
1999Legislative (unicameral)8100%165,727yes[map]
2003Legislative (unicameral)6100%183,172yes[map]
2004Presidential60%105,913yes[map]
2007Legislative (unicameral)6100%182,169yes[map]
2009Legislative (unicameral)6100%187,183yes[map]
2012Presidential60%159,207yes[map]
2013Legislative (unicameral)6100%189,023yes[map]
2016Legislative (unicameral)6100%189,648yes[map]
Presidential60%182,608yes
2017Legislative (unicameral)6100%196,259yes[map]
2020Presidential60%163,710yes[map]
2021Legislative (unicameral)6100%199,730yes[map]
2024Presidential6100%214,320yes[map]

Download

csv opens in Excel, Stata, R, or Python. gpkg has the unit boundaries for QGIS, ArcGIS, R, or Python. parquet has the vote rows as Parquet. rds is the native R sf object. Each ZIP has a README with the columns.

All years: [csv 57 KB] [gpkg 21 MB] [parquet 6.1 MB] [rds 241 MB] [codebook 97 KB]

YearDownloads
2024[csv 2 KB] [gpkg 2.4 MB] [parquet 8 KB]
2021[csv 2 KB] [gpkg 2.4 MB] [parquet 9 KB]
2020[csv 2 KB] [gpkg 6 KB] [parquet 7 KB]
2017[csv 2 KB] [gpkg 2.4 MB] [parquet 9 KB]
2016[csv 3 KB] [gpkg 2.4 MB] [parquet 9 KB]
2013[csv 3 KB] [gpkg 2.4 MB] [parquet 9 KB]
2012[csv 2 KB] [gpkg 6 KB] [parquet 7 KB]
2009[csv 2 KB] [gpkg 2.4 MB] [parquet 8 KB]
2007[csv 2 KB] [gpkg 2.4 MB] [parquet 9 KB]
2004[csv 2 KB] [gpkg 6 KB] [parquet 7 KB]
2003[csv 2 KB] [gpkg 2.4 MB] [parquet 8 KB]
1999[csv 4 KB] [gpkg 128 KB] [parquet 10 KB]
1996[csv 2 KB] [gpkg 6 KB] [parquet 7 KB]
1995[csv 4 KB] [gpkg 128 KB] [parquet 10 KB]
1991[csv 4 KB] [gpkg 128 KB] [parquet 10 KB]
1988[csv 2 KB] [gpkg 6 KB] [parquet 7 KB]
1987[csv 4 KB] [gpkg 128 KB] [parquet 10 KB]
1983[csv 4 KB] [gpkg 128 KB] [parquet 10 KB]
1980[csv 2 KB] [gpkg 6 KB] [parquet 7 KB]
1979[csv 4 KB] [gpkg 128 KB] [parquet 10 KB]
1978[csv 4 KB] [gpkg 128 KB] [parquet 10 KB]
1974[csv 4 KB] [gpkg 128 KB] [parquet 10 KB]
1971[csv 4 KB] [gpkg 128 KB] [parquet 10 KB]
1968[csv 2 KB] [gpkg 6 KB] [parquet 7 KB]
1967[csv 4 KB] [gpkg 128 KB] [parquet 10 KB]
1963[csv 4 KB] [gpkg 128 KB] [parquet 10 KB]
1959[csv 4 KB] [gpkg 128 KB] [parquet 10 KB]
1952[csv 2 KB] [gpkg 6 KB] [parquet 7 KB]

In R or Python:

R:      install.packages("sage")
        sage::sage_load("Iceland", years = 2024)

Python: import sage
        sage.sage_load("Iceland", years=[2024])

Sources

Citation

Dasanaike, Noah. “The Small-Area Global Elections (SAGE) Dataset.” Scientific Data (2026). Paper · Harvard Dataverse

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