Faroe Islands

Løgting

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Løgting 2011–2015

2011-10-29 – 2015-09-01

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Party Groupings

  • Fólkaflokkurin

    8 seats

  • Sambandsflokkurin

    8 seats

  • Javnaðarflokkurin

    6 seats

  • Tjóðveldi

    6 seats

  • Framsókn

    2 seats

  • Miðflokkurin

    2 seats

  • Sjálvstýrisflokkurin

    1 seat

What’s in this dataset?

As much as we know. Here’s a taste of the information we have so far.

Biographical 100%
Social links 9%
Contact details 0%
Identifiers 100%

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Aksel V. Johannesen

Javnaðarflokkurin — Norðoyar

Gender male
Born 1972-11-08
wikidata Q556712
wikipedia_fo Aksel V. Johannesen
freebase /m/0_lfs3b

Alfred Olsen

Sambandsflokkurin — Eysturoy

Gender male
Born 1947-03-30
wikidata Q644805
wikipedia_fo Alfred Olsen

Annika Olsen

Fólkaflokkurin — Suðurstreymoy

Gender female
Born 1975-03-13
wikidata Q754857
wikipedia_fo Annika Olsen
freebase /m/01118m_0

Bill Justinussen

Miðflokkurin — Eysturoy

Gender male
Born 1963-08-27
wikidata Q362474
wikipedia_fo Bill Justinussen

Bjarni Djurholm

Fólkaflokkurin — Suðurstreymoy

Gender male
Born 1957-03-19
wikidata Q738756
wikipedia_fo Bjarni Djurholm

Bjørn Kalsø

Sambandsflokkurin — Norðoyar

Gender male
Born 1966-03-23
wikidata Q599944
wikipedia_fo Bjørn Kalsø

Bjørt Samuelsen

Tjóðveldi — Suðurstreymoy

Gender female
Born 1965-03-02
wikidata Q804182
wikipedia_fo Bjørt Samuelsen
google_knowledge /g/1237dbp_

Bárður Nielsen

Sambandsflokkurin — Norðurstreymoy

Gender male
Born 1972-04-16
wikidata Q853551
wikipedia_fo Bárður Nielsen

Edva Jacobsen

Sambandsflokkurin — Eysturoy

Gender female
Born 1964-08-31
wikidata Q16964224
wikipedia_fo Edva Jacobsen

Elsebeth Mercedis Gunnleygsdóttur

Fólkaflokkurin — Norðoyar

Gender female
Born 1963-10-26
wikidata Q16964316
wikipedia_fo Elsebeth Mercedis Gunnleygsdóttur

Eyðgunn Samuelsen

Javnaðarflokkurin — Norðoyar

Gender female
Born 1959-05-23
wikidata Q963652
wikipedia_fo Eyðgunn Samuelsen

Gerhard Lognberg

Javnaðarflokkurin — Sandoy

Gender male
Born 1950-11-01
wikidata Q1009810
wikipedia_fo Gerhard Lognberg

Gunvør Balle

Tjóðveldi — Suðurstreymoy

Gender female
Born 1967-03-31
wikidata Q11973363
wikipedia_fo Gunvør Balle

Hanus Samró

Fólkaflokkurin — Suðurstreymoy

Gender male
Born 1988-05-01
wikidata Q11974153
wikipedia_fo Hanus Samró
lcauth n2016013006

Helgi Abrahamsen

Sambandsflokkurin — Eysturoy

Gender male
Born 1966-11-24
wikidata Q754881
wikipedia_fo Helgi Abrahamsen

Henrik Old

Javnaðarflokkurin — Suðuroy

Gender male
Born 1947-06-20
wikidata Q3818072
wikipedia_fo Henrik Old

Høgni Hoydal

Tjóðveldi — Suðurstreymoy

Gender male
Born 1966-03-28
wikidata Q567780
wikipedia_fo Høgni Hoydal
freebase /m/05t39z
lcauth n96022814
isni 0000 0000 3619 7045

Jacob Vestergaard

Fólkaflokkurin — Suðuroy

Gender male
Born 1961-04-07
wikidata Q730980
wikipedia_fo Jacob Vestergaard
freebase /m/011lb6lp

Janus Rein

Framsókn — Suðurstreymoy

Gender male
Born 1974-05-29
wikidata Q16995924
wikipedia_fo Janus Rein

Jenis av Rana

Miðflokkurin — Suðurstreymoy

Gender male
Born 1953-01-07
wikidata Q254129
wikipedia_fo Jenis av Rana
google_knowledge /g/121xkhkh

Johan Dahl

Sambandsflokkurin — Suðuroy

Gender male
Born 1959-09-19
wikidata Q1100947
wikipedia_fo Johan Dahl

Jákup Mikkelsen

Fólkaflokkurin — Norðoyar

Gender male
Born 1957-08-22
wikidata Q1102350
wikipedia_fo Jákup Mikkelsen (politikari)

Jógvan á Lakjuni

Fólkaflokkurin — Eysturoy

Gender male
Born 1952-11-13
wikidata Q932304
wikipedia_fo Jógvan á Lakjuni

Jørgen Niclasen

Fólkaflokkurin — Vágar

Gender male
Born 1969-01-17
wikidata Q903946
wikipedia_fo Jørgen Niclasen
freebase /m/043ry58

Kaj Leo Holm Johannesen

Sambandsflokkurin — Suðurstreymoy

Gender male
Born 1964-08-28
wikidata Q331786
wikipedia_fo Kaj Leo Holm Johannesen
freebase /m/04mzlgd

Kristin Michelsen

Javnaðarflokkurin — Suðuroy

Gender male
Born 1956-07-30
wikidata Q11982122
wikipedia_fo Kristin Michelsen

Kristina Háfoss

Tjóðveldi — Suðurstreymoy

Gender female
Born 1975-06-26
wikidata Q466349
wikipedia_fo Kristina Háfoss

Kári P. Højgaard

Sjálvstýrisflokkurin — Eysturoy

Gender male
Born 1951-07-21
wikidata Q1062961
wikipedia_fo Kári P. Højgaard
freebase /m/02q_qv7

Poul Michelsen

Framsókn — Suðurstreymoy

Gender male
Born 1944-07-22
wikidata Q1416571
wikipedia_fo Poul Michelsen
google_knowledge /g/120qk_7l

Páll á Reynatúgvu

Tjóðveldi — Sandoy

Gender male
Born 1967-07-26
wikidata Q754851
wikipedia_fo Páll á Reynatúgvu
freebase /m/04ghrfc

Rigmor Dam

Javnaðarflokkurin — Suðurstreymoy

Gender female
Born 1971-12-18
wikidata Q15633676
wikipedia_fo Rigmor Dam

Rósa Samuelsen

Sambandsflokkurin — Vágar

Gender female
Born 1959-12-22
wikidata Q1253548
wikipedia_fo Rósa Samuelsen

Sirið Stenberg

Tjóðveldi — Suðuroy[1]

Gender female
Born 1968-05-26
wikidata Q12000640
wikipedia_fo Sirið Stenberg

Ruby programmer? It’s easy to use this data in your own app! Use the gem like this: 

require 'everypolitician'
country = Everypolitician::Index.new.country('Faroe-Islands')
house = country.legislature('Logting')
house.popolo.terms.find_by(id: 'term/2011').memberships.each do |membership|
  puts "#{membership.person.name} (#{membership.party.name}): #{membership.person.gender}"
end

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