Mariners and other voters, who will be absent on the election day can at the earliest cast their votes four months before the election.
Your local municipal office will make the voting register available for public inspection at the least 4 weeks prior to the election. The voting register lists all registered voters to the municipal election, and public persons are entitled to check the register until 2 weeks prior to the election.
The local municipal office will usually release the information about where to inspect the voting register 5 weeks prior to the election.
In some municipalities the candidates are nominated on party-affiliated lists, and in other municipalities the candidates form a non-partisan list.
In the Municipality of Tórshavn the candidates are usually nominated on party-affiliated lists, and the letters of the lists (A, B, C etc.) correlate with the letters of the political parties.
The lists must contain a minimum of 15 and a maximum of 25 nominators, and must contain an appendix with the names, professions, addresses and dates of births of the nominators.
The lists must be handed to the the election inspector or the municipal office before 18:00 at least 3 weeks prior to the election.
The Ministry of Environmental and Industry Affairs has examples of a list of candidates. Find the title »Valevnislisti (vegleiðandi dømi)« in the list to the right and click on it.
Municipal elections - Ministry of Environmental and Industry Affairs (uvmr.fo)
The election committee approves the valid nomination lists and assigns a letter to the lists that will be written before the name of the candidate on the election ballot.
You may cast your absentee vote 1 week before the election day if you are prevented from physically showing up to vote at the voting station on the election day.
If your home address is in the Municipality of Tórshavn, you can contact the Citizen Service Centre (Snarskivan) on +298 30 20 10 and request to vote from home. Two representatives from the election committee will then come to your home to validate your vote.
If you are admitted to a hospital or another care facility, or receive medical care in your own home, you may also request to vote at the hospital, care facility or doctor's office.
If you are receiving medical treatment in the Municipality of Tórshavn, but your home address is in another municipality, you should contact your own municipality and ask your municipality to help you vote in absentia.
You can absentee vote from November 3rd to November 9th.
November 9th is the deadline for absentee voting.
You can vote in person at your voting station on the election day, November 10th.
Your voting station will be listed on your voting invitation, which you will have received in the mail 2 weeks prior to the election.
All voting stations open at 10:00 and close at 20:00. Voting stations will however remain open until the last person in the queue has finished voting.
Poll workers and voting inspectors will be present at the voting stations to ensure that the election proceeds correctly.
The ballots will be counted at 20:00 or as soon as the last person in the queue has finished voting. The public may under normal circumstances supervise the ballot counting at the voting station from behind a designated barrier. The public is not advised to congregate in public spaces for this election due to Coronavirus precautions.
The election results will be reported live at the voting station, in the radio, on television and online. The election results are usually known before midnight on the election day.
The election committee or the City Council may request an immediate recount if the results were very close or if there is suspicion that some votes are counted incorrectly.
The recount must be held at the latest on the day after the election.
The final results will then be published after the recount.
The newly elected City Council members will meet in December to form the new City Council and appoint the mayor and the vice mayor.
The public does not have a direct influence on who becomes mayor.
The members also forms the Financial Committee and other committees and appoint the chairs of the committees. They also appoint the City Council representatives in the different public committees.
The City Council sits for 4 years from January 1st following the election to December 31st.
