Icelandic parliamentary election, 2013

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All 63 seats to the Althing
32 seats needed for a majority

Turnout

81.44%

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Bjarni Benediktsson	Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson	Árni Páll Árnason
Party	Independence	Progressive	Social Democratic
Leader since	29 March 2009	18 January 2009	2 February 2013
Last election	16 seats, 23.70%	9 seats, 14.80%	20 seats, 29.79%
Seats won	19 / 63	19 / 63	9 / 63
Seat change	3	10	11
Popular vote	50,454	46,173	24,292
Percentage	26.70%	24.43%	12.85%
Swing	3.00%	9.63%	16.94%

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Katrín Jakobsdóttir	Guðmundur Steingrímsson	Birgitta Jónsdóttir
Party	Left-Green	Bright Future	Pirates
Leader since	24 February 2013	6 January 2012	24 November 2012
Last election	14 seats, 21.68%	new party	new party
Seats won	7 / 63	6 / 63	3 / 63
Seat change	4	6	3
Popular vote	20,546	15,583	9,647
Percentage	10.87%	8.25%	5.10%
Swing	11.19%	8.25%	5.10%

Prime Minister before election

Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir0000
Social Democratic

Prime Minister-designate

Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson
Progressive

Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir0000
Social Democratic

Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson
Progressive

An Icelandic parliamentary election was held on 27 April 2013. Fifteen parties contested the election in Iceland, compared to just seven in the previous election. The election was won by the two centre-right opposition parties, the Independence Party and Progressive Party, who subsequently formed a coalition government. The parties are eurosceptic, and their win brought to a halt partially completed negotiations with the European Union regarding Icelandic membership.

The previous elections in 2009 were won by the Social Democratic Alliance — the first time that the Independence Party was not the largest party in the Althing. The Social Democratic Alliance was able to form a coalition with the Left-Green Movement. As a result of this, Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir became the first female prime minister of Iceland, as well as the first openly lesbian head of government in the world.

Five parties were elected at the previous election, held in April 2009. Since then, the parliamentary representation for one of these, Citizens' Movement, first mostly moved to The Movement and then, in March 2012, to the new party Dawn. In January 2012, the new party Solidarity was founded by an incumbent MP, Lilja Mósesdóttir, who was elected as a member of the Left-Green Movement. Another new party, Bright Future, was formed in February 2012 with the involvement of two MPs from, respectively, the Progressive Party and Social Democratic Alliance. One MP originally elected for Citizens' Movement, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, also participated in the establishment of a new party in 2012, namely the Pirate Party. Two euroskeptic Left-Green Movement MPs, Jón Bjarnason and Atli Gíslason, also decided to defect and form the new Rainbow Movement in March 2013. The box below shows the distribution of seats in the incumbent parliament on 28 March 2013, the last working day of the parliament's term.

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