Faroe Islands

Løgting

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Løgting 2015–

2015-09-01 – current

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Party Groupings

  • Javnaðarflokkurin

    8 seats

  • Tjóðveldi

    7 seats

  • Fólkaflokkurin

    6 seats

  • Sambandsflokkurin

    6 seats

  • Framsókn

    2 seats

  • Miðflokkurin

    2 seats

  • Sjálvstýrisflokkurin

    2 seats

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 12%
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

Annika Olsen

Fólkaflokkurin — Suðurstreymoy

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

Annita á Fríðriksmørk

Tjóðveldi — Suðurstreymoy

Gender female
Born 1968-07-27
wikidata Q466097
wikipedia_fo Annita á Fríðriksmørk

Bill Justinussen

Miðflokkurin — Eysturoy

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

Bjarni Hammer

Javnaðarflokkurin — Suðuroy

Gender male
Born 1975-03-08
wikidata Q20900614
wikipedia_fo Bjarni Hammer

Bjørn Kalsø

Sambandsflokkurin — Norðoyar

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

Bárður Nielsen

Sambandsflokkurin — Norðurstreymoy

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

Edmund Joensen

Sambandsflokkurin — Eysturoy

Gender male
Born 1944-09-19
wikidata Q678236
wikipedia_fo Edmund Joensen
freebase /m/04n5gw7
lcauth n2015063050

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

Hanna Jensen

Framsókn — Suðurstreymoy

Gender female
Born 1973-02-19
wikidata Q20667495
wikipedia_fo Hanna Jensen

Henrik Old

Javnaðarflokkurin — Suðuroy

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

Heðin Mortensen

Javnaðarflokkurin — Suðurstreymoy

Gender male
Born 1946-04-07
wikidata Q331777
wikipedia_fo Heðin Mortensen

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

Jenis av Rana

Miðflokkurin — Suðurstreymoy

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

Jákup Mikkelsen

Fólkaflokkurin — Norðoyar

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

Jógvan Skorheim

Sjálvstýrisflokkurin — Norðoyar

Gender male
Born 1982-06-16
wikidata Q3445137
wikipedia_fo Jógvan Skorheim

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

Katrin Kallsberg

Tjóðveldi — Suðurstreymoy

Gender female
Born 1967-07-30
wikidata Q20900365
wikipedia_fo Katrin Kallsberg

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

Magni Arge

Tjóðveldi — Suðurstreymoy

Gender male
Born 1959-12-15
wikidata Q16167420
wikipedia_fo Magni Arge

Magni Laksáfoss

Sambandsflokkurin — Suðurstreymoy

Gender male
Born 1969-12-03
wikidata Q782053
wikipedia_fo Magni Laksáfoss

Magnus Rasmussen

Sambandsflokkurin — Eysturoy

Gender male
Born 1962
wikidata Q17106707
wikipedia_fo Magnus Rasmussen

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

Sirið Stenberg

Tjóðveldi — Suðuroy[4]

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

Sonja Jógvansdóttir

Javnaðarflokkurin — Suðurstreymoy

Gender female
Born 1977-11-09
wikidata Q20900706
wikipedia_fo Sonja Jógvansdóttir

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/2015').memberships.each do |membership|
  puts "#{membership.person.name} (#{membership.party.name}): #{membership.person.gender}"
end

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