Elections in Iceland

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Elections in Iceland gives information on election and election results in Iceland.

Iceland elects on national level a head of state - the president - and a legislature. The president is elected for a four year term by the people. The General Assembly (Alþingi) has 63 members, elected for a four year term by proportional representation. Iceland has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, so parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.

Latest elections

2009 Parliamentary election

Main article: Icelandic parliamentary election, 2009

 Summary of the 25 April 2009 Icelandic Althing election results

Party		Leader(s)	Votes	%	±	Seats	±
	Social Democratic Alliance (Samfylkingin)	Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir	55,758	29.79	1.16	20	2
	Independence Party (Sjálfstæðisflokkurinn)	Bjarni Benediktsson, Jr.	44,371	23.70	9.98	16	9
	Left-Green Movement (Vinstrihreyfingin-grænt framboð)	Steingrímur Sigfússon	40,581	21.68	12.87	14	5
	Progressive Party (Framsóknarflokkurinn)	Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson	27,699	14.80	2.93	9	2
	Citizens' Movement (Borgarahreyfingin)	No designated leader	13,519	7.22	7.2	4	4
	Liberal Party (Frjálslyndi flokkurinn)	Guðjón Kristjánsson	4,148	2.22	5.16	0	4
	Democratic Movement	—	1,107	0.59	—	—	—
Valid votes			187,183	96.50
Invalid votes			566	0.29
Blank votes			6,226	3.21
Total			193,975	100.00	—	63	—
Electorate and voter turnout			227,896	85.12
Source: Statistics Iceland

2007 Parliamentary election

Main article: Icelandic parliamentary election, 2007

 Summary of the 12 May 2007 Icelandic Althing election results

Party		Leader(s)	Votes	%	±	Seats	±
	Independence Party (Sjálfstæðisflokkurinn)	Geir Haarde	66,749	36.6	2.9	25	3
	Social Democratic Alliance (Samfylkingin)	Ingibjörg Gísladóttir	48,742	26.8	2.4	18	2
	Left-Green Movement (Vinstrihreyfingin – grænt framboð)	Steingrímur Sigfússon	26,136	14.3	5.5	9	4
	Progressive Party (Framsóknarflokkurinn)	Jón Sigurðsson	21,349	11.7	6.0	7	5
	Liberal Party (Frjálslyndi flokkurinn)	Guðjón Kristjánsson	13,233	7.3	0.1	4	0
	Icelandic Movement – Living Land (Íslandshreyfingin – lifandi land)	Ómar Ragnarsson and Sigurlín Sigurðardóttir	5,953	3.3	3.3	—	—
Totals			182,679	100.00	—	63	—
Electorate and voter turnout				83.6
Source: http://www.mbl.is/mm/frettir/kosningar/

2004 Presidential election

Main article: Icelandic presidential election, 2004

  Summary of the 26 June 2004 Icelandic presidential election results

Candidates	Votes	%
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson	90,662	85.6
Baldur Ágústsson	13,250	12.3
Ástþór Magnússon	2,001	1.9
Total valid votes (turnout 63.0%)	105,913	100.0
Empty ballots	27,627	23.3%
Void votes	834
Source: ruv.is

See also

• Electoral calendar
• Electoral system

External links

• Adam Carr's Election Archive
• Parties and elections
• NSD: European Election Database - Iceland publishes regional level election data; allows for comparisons of election results, 1991-2009