• Parliamentary elections were held in Iceland on 12 June 1931. Voters elected all 28 seats in the Lower House of the Althing and eight of the fourteen seats...
    3 KB (71 words) - 17:55, 15 January 2022
  • Parliamentary elections were held in Iceland on 16 July 1933. Voters elected all 28 seats in the Lower House of the Althing and eight of the fourteen seats...
    3 KB (77 words) - 17:58, 15 January 2022
  • The Independence Party (Icelandic: Sjálfstæðisflokkurinn) is a conservative political party in Iceland. It is currently the largest party in the Alþingi...
    29 KB (1,965 words) - 16:15, 8 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Progressive Party (Iceland)
    The Progressive Party (Icelandic: Framsóknarflokkurinn, FSF) is an agrarian political party in Iceland. For most of its history, the Progressive Party...
    30 KB (1,732 words) - 02:13, 8 November 2024
  • Elections to the Upper House of the Althing were held in Iceland on 15 June 1930. Following reforms in 1915, the six seats in the Upper House appointed...
    2 KB (125 words) - 11:33, 17 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for Prime Minister of Iceland
    The prime minister of Iceland (Icelandic: Forsætisráðherra Íslands) is head of government of the Republic of Iceland. The prime minister is appointed formally...
    35 KB (259 words) - 09:44, 8 November 2024
  • legislative election (followed by 2006 Thai coup d'état) 2010 Icelandic Constitutional Assembly election 2011 Kosovan presidential election (parliamentary vote...
    9 KB (976 words) - 13:42, 5 November 2024
  • The Communist Party of Iceland (Icelandic: Kommúnistaflokkur Íslands) was a Marxist –Leninist communist party in Iceland from 1930 to 1938. In the early...
    4 KB (296 words) - 16:51, 29 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Parliamentary republic
    A parliamentary republic is a republic that operates under a parliamentary system of government where the executive branch (the government) derives its...
    67 KB (2,067 words) - 10:05, 4 November 2024
  • extra-assemblies (Icelandic: aukaþing), beginning after elections in spring and adjourning before the start of a regular assembly. Although parliamentary assemblies...
    30 KB (456 words) - 00:31, 15 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Reykjavík (Althing constituency)
    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...
    109 KB (4,257 words) - 02:43, 18 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Constitutional monarchy
    Constitutional monarchy, also known as limited monarchy, parliamentary monarchy or democratic monarchy, is a form of monarchy in which the monarch exercises...
    48 KB (5,157 words) - 18:59, 8 November 2024
  • unions of Iceland. In 1920 its first member of the Althing, the Icelandic parliament, Jón Baldvinsson was elected. The party would contest elections to the...
    10 KB (394 words) - 19:02, 23 September 2024
  • This is a list of speakers of the Althing, the Icelandic parliament. The Speaker of the Althing (Icelandic: Forseti Alþingis, literally the President of...
    4 KB (38 words) - 00:55, 8 November 2024
  • in one of the three elections of the current members of the National Diet, i.e. the last House of Representatives general election and the last two House...
    44 KB (4,566 words) - 18:15, 3 November 2024
  • Universal suffrage (category CS1 Icelandic-language sources (is))
    British-controlled colony in which women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections. This was followed shortly after by the colony of South Australia...
    96 KB (6,187 words) - 17:12, 6 November 2024
  • Michael Brotherton (category 1931 births)
    (born 26 May 1931) is a British journalist and politician. A Conservative, he had a promising Parliamentary career and worked as a Parliamentary consultant...
    9 KB (863 words) - 19:41, 4 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Johannes Rau
    Johannes Rau (category 1931 births)
    parliamentary question about the Decoration of Honour" (PDF) (in German). p. 1654. Retrieved 1 November 2012. Icelandic Presidency Website (Icelandic)...
    17 KB (1,375 words) - 05:38, 9 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for House of Representatives (Japan)
    bodies such as the German Bundestag or the New Zealand Parliament the election of single-seat members and party list members is linked, so that the overall...
    102 KB (2,821 words) - 00:54, 6 November 2024
  • (1974). British Parliamentary Election Results: 1885-1918. London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 9781349022984. British Parliamentary Election Results 1885–1918...
    5 KB (202 words) - 07:56, 1 February 2023
  • 1933 in Iceland. Monarch – Kristján X Prime Minister – Ásgeir Ásgeirsson 16 July – Icelandic parliamentary election, 1933 21 October – Icelandic prohibition...
    2 KB (85 words) - 09:35, 16 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Perennial candidate
    Ástþór Magnússon is an Icelandic businessman and politician who unsuccessfully campaigned for the post of President of Iceland six times; in 1996, 2000...
    84 KB (8,543 words) - 16:03, 8 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Juho Kusti Paasikivi
    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...
    33 KB (3,355 words) - 02:07, 22 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for First-past-the-post voting
    Kingdom, 19 of the 24 general elections since 1922 have produced a single-party majority government. In all but two of them (1931 and 1935), the leading party...
    69 KB (6,837 words) - 22:37, 5 November 2024
  • 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...
    252 KB (25,334 words) - 14:40, 8 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for President of Finland
    parties which have received at least one seat in the previous parliamentary elections. A candidate may also be nominated by 20,000 enfranchised citizens...
    35 KB (3,636 words) - 00:37, 30 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Minister for Foreign Affairs (Iceland)
    Stjórnarráð Íslands" [Bill regarding the Cabinet of Iceland.] (PDF). Legal Code (in Icelandic). Parliament of Iceland. Retrieved 13 November 2012. Official website...
    18 KB (105 words) - 08:01, 24 July 2024
  • Minister of Justice (Icelandic: Dómsmálaráðherra) in Iceland is the head of the Ministry of Justice and is a member of the Cabinet of Iceland. The Ministry was...
    27 KB (251 words) - 20:55, 8 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Timeline of women's suffrage
    all women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections; from 1893. However women could not stand for election to parliament until 1919, when three...
    68 KB (6,500 words) - 22:42, 19 October 2024
  • California. In states with a parliamentary system, the president is usually elected by the parliament. This indirect election subordinates the president...
    75 KB (9,370 words) - 10:48, 7 November 2024