Parliamentary elections were held in Iceland on 10 September 1914. They were the last parliamentary elections in which only men could vote. The 30 elected...
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combatants were born in Iceland, the rest were of Icelandic descent. 10 women of Icelandic descent and 4 women born in Iceland served as nurses for the...
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The Union Party (Icelandic: Sambandsflokkurinn) was a political party in Iceland. It was founded after the 1911 elections as an alliance between the Home...
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The prime minister of Iceland (Icelandic: Forsætisráðherra Íslands) is head of government of the Republic of Iceland. The prime minister is appointed formally...
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Parliamentary elections were held in Iceland on 5 August 1916, the first elections held after women's suffrage was introduced. Following reforms to the...
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extra-assemblies (Icelandic: aukaþing), beginning after elections in spring and adjourning before the start of a regular assembly. Although parliamentary assemblies...
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choosing to vote in European Parliamentary elections in Sweden, become ineligible to vote in European Parliamentary elections in any other EU member state...
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Constitutional monarchy (redirect from Parliamentary monarchy)
Constitutional monarchy, also known as limited monarchy, parliamentary monarchy or democratic monarchy, is a form of monarchy in which the monarch exercises...
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perceived the Icelandic banks to be increasingly risky. Trust in the banks gradually faded, leading to a sharp depreciation of the Icelandic króna in 2008...
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1916 in Iceland. Monarch – Christian X Minister – Einar Arnórsson 5 August – Icelandic parliamentary election, August 1916 21 October – Icelandic parliamentary...
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Christian X of Denmark (redirect from Christian of Iceland)
occupation of Iceland, the Icelandic government concluded that Christian was unable to perform his duties as head of state of Iceland, and thus appointed...
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Sveinn Björnsson (category CS1 Icelandic-language sources (is))
Sveinn Björnsson (Icelandic: [ˈsveitn̥ ˈpjœsːɔn]; 27 February 1881 – 25 January 1952) was the first president of Iceland (1944–1952). Sveinn was born in...
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Reykjavík (Althing constituency) (category CS1 Icelandic-language sources (is))
across Iceland. Reykjavík was conterminous with the municipality of Reykjavík. (Excludes compensatory seats.) Results of the 1999 parliamentary election held...
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This is a list of speakers of the Althing, the Icelandic parliament. The Speaker of the Althing (Icelandic: Forseti Alþingis, literally the President of...
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Albert Kristjansson (category Icelandic emigrants to Canada)
the United Conference of Icelandic Churches. Kristjansson was elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1920 provincial election as a Labour Party candidate...
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legal dependence on the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition...
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Alan (2000). Comparative European Party Systems: An Analysis of Parliamentary Elections Since 1945. Garland. p. 467. Elias, Anwen (2006). "From 'full national...
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Stjórnarráð Íslands" [Bill regarding the Cabinet of Iceland.] (PDF). Legal Code (in Icelandic). Parliament of Iceland. Retrieved 13 November 2012. Official website...
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Republic (section Icelandic Commonwealth)
California. In states with a parliamentary system the president is usually elected by the parliament. This indirect election subordinates the president...
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Commonwealth (category Articles containing Icelandic-language text)
was in existence. The Icelandic Commonwealth or the Icelandic Free State (Icelandic: Þjóðveldið) was the state existing in Iceland between the establishment...
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the King appoints the leader of the parliamentary bloc with the majority as prime minister. When the parliamentary situation is unclear, the King relies...
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Yulia Tymoshenko (category Candidates in the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election)
election. An early parliamentary election was held on 30 September 2007. Following balloting in the 2007 parliamentary elections held on 30 September...
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Sanomat (in Finnish). 16 March 1951. p. 5. ISSN 0355-2047. Icelandic Presidency Website (Icelandic), Order of the Falcon, Juho Kusti Paasikivi Archived 2014-01-14...
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Boss Johnson (category Canadian people of Icelandic descent)
election—at 61% the greatest percentage of the popular vote in BC history. Although Maitland's caucus was crucial to the government's parliamentary mandate...
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Women's suffrage (section Iceland)
occasion when women could vote was the elections held in January 1920. Iceland was under Danish rule until 1944. Icelandic women acquired full voting rights...
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Zoroastrians, Jews and Christians; commercial production illegal) Iraq (parliamentary ban, rarely enforced) Ireland (selling in stores between 10 p.m. and...
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Løgting (section Election results since 1906)
is a parliamentary assembly, which gained legislative power when home rule was introduced in 1948. Together with the Manx Tynwald and the Icelandic Alþing...
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retained strong diplomatic ties to the Ottoman Empire. When the great crisis of 1914 arrived, Italy left the alliance and the Ottoman Empire formally allied with...
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Enoch Powell (section Post-parliamentary life)
Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 090017806X....
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the Crisis of Liberalism." Parliamentary History 36.3 (2017): 361–371. Trevor Wilson, The Downfall of the Liberal Party: 1914–1935 (1966), pp. 90–131. Trevor...
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