Samfylkingin

Social Democratic Alliance Samfylkingin

Chairperson	Logi Már Einarsson
Vice-chairperson	Heiða Björg Hilmisdóttir
Chairperson of the board	Inga Björk Margrétar Bjarnadóttir
Secretary of the board	Þórarinn Snorri Sigurgeirsson
Chairperson of the parliamentary group	Oddný Harðardóttir
Founded	5 May 2000
Merger of	People's Alliance Social Democratic Party National Awakening Women's List
Headquarters	Hallveigarstígur 1, 101 Reykjavík
Youth wing	Social Democratic Youth
Ideology	Social democracy Pro-Europeanism
Political position	Centre-left
European affiliation	Party of European Socialists (Associate)
International affiliation	None
Nordic affiliation	SAMAK
Colours	Red, Orange
Seats in the Althing	7 / 63
Election symbol
S
Website
www.samfylkingin.is
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The Social Democratic Alliance (Icelandic: Samfylkingin jafnaðarmannaflokkur Íslands, literally The Alliance - Iceland's Social Democratic Party) is a social-democratic political party in Iceland. It was founded in 2000 at the convergence of four centre left political parties (The Social Democratic Party, The People's Alliance, The Women's List, and National Awakening) following a joint run by all parties in the 1999 parliamentary election. The vision of the party was to unite the left wing of Icelandic politics, fractured since the 1930 split of the Social Democratic Party and present a united bloc to oppose the ruling Independence Party.

At the snap parliamentary election in 2009 called in the aftermath of the Icelandic financial crisis, the Social Democratic Alliance under the leadership of Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir emerged as the largest party and formed a coalition government with the Left-Green Movement which became the country's first majority left-wing government. The party lost substantial support in the 2013 parliamentary election becoming the third largest in Alþingi and nearly losing all its representatives at the 2016 election where it polled 5.7%. The party then regained support at the 2017 election under the leadership of chairperson Logi Már Einarsson where it again became the third largest party and largest opposition party.