• Parliamentary elections were held in Iceland on 24 June 1956. The Independence Party remained the largest party in the Lower House of the Althing, winning...
    4 KB (201 words) - 02:04, 5 May 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) - 17:41, 13 November 2024
  • Parliamentary elections were held in Iceland on 28 June 1953. The Independence Party remained the largest party in the Lower House of the Althing, winning...
    5 KB (201 words) - 02:04, 5 May 2024
  • election 1956 Icelandic parliamentary election 1956 Maltese integration into the United Kingdom referendum 1956 Swedish general election 1956 Austrian legislative...
    3 KB (336 words) - 03:47, 1 August 2024
  • Presidential elections were scheduled to be held in Iceland in 1956. However, incumbent President Ásgeir Ásgeirsson was the only candidate, and the election was...
    1 KB (42 words) - 21:04, 19 June 2024
  • The People's Alliance (Icelandic: Alþýðubandalagið) was an electoral alliance in Iceland from 1956 to 1968 and a socialist political party from 1968 to...
    10 KB (659 words) - 15:43, 11 November 2024
  • Parliamentary elections were held in Iceland on 28 June 1959. The Independence Party and the Progressive Party both won 13 seats in the Lower House of...
    5 KB (213 words) - 21:40, 23 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Althing
    parliamentary election 2021 Icelandic parliamentary election 2024 Icelandic parliamentary election List of members of the parliament of Iceland, 1983–1987 List of...
    46 KB (2,632 words) - 23:05, 24 November 2024
  • 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 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) - 13:28, 24 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) - 13:29, 11 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for President of Iceland
    of Iceland (Icelandic: Forseti Íslands) is the head of state of Iceland. The incumbent is Halla Tómasdóttir, who won the 2024 presidential election. The...
    24 KB (1,236 words) - 21:02, 7 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of Iceland
    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...
    73 KB (8,488 words) - 00:35, 22 November 2024
  • Benedikt Gröndal (born 1924) (category CS1 Icelandic-language sources (is))
    stjornarradid.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 15 August 2024. "Alþingiskosningar 1979", Wikipedia, frjálsa alfræðiritið (in Icelandic), 2 October 2021, retrieved...
    4 KB (251 words) - 21:46, 11 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) - 22:44, 10 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Iceland
    Iceland (Icelandic: Ísland, pronounced [ˈistlant] ) is a Nordic island country between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge...
    219 KB (19,892 words) - 00:55, 22 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Steingrímur Hermannsson
    Steingrímur Hermannsson (category CS1 Icelandic-language sources (is))
    ˈhɛrmanˌsɔn]; 22 June 1928 – 1 February 2010) was an Icelandic politician who served as prime minister of Iceland from 1983 to 1987, and again from 1988 to 1991...
    11 KB (804 words) - 13:45, 10 September 2024
  • Presidential elections were scheduled to be held in Iceland in 1960. However, incumbent President Ásgeir Ásgeirsson was the only candidate, and the election was...
    1 KB (42 words) - 21:09, 19 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) - 09:45, 21 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Iceland in the Cold War
    shaped Icelandic politics for the next decades. A sense of greater global turmoil and internal threat led Icelandic statesmen to reconsider Iceland's security...
    33 KB (4,047 words) - 17:15, 7 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Elections in Sweden
    choosing to vote in European Parliamentary elections in Sweden, become ineligible to vote in European Parliamentary elections in any other EU member state...
    31 KB (2,760 words) - 21:43, 2 November 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
  • Early presidential elections were held for the first time in Iceland on 29 June 1952. The elections were required following the death of incumbent president...
    2 KB (127 words) - 19:40, 22 June 2024
  • 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...
    49 KB (5,194 words) - 18:11, 22 November 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
  • 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) - 03:04, 10 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ministry for Foreign Affairs (Iceland)
    The Ministry for Foreign Affairs (Icelandic: Utanríkisráðuneytið) is an Icelandic cabinet-level ministry founded 18 November 1941. The ministry is responsible...
    15 KB (159 words) - 09:51, 22 November 2024
  • 196/1985. (in Icelandic) Source: Icelandic Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Iceland, European Commission Iceland, EEAS Timeline of events – Iceland's application...
    83 KB (3,820 words) - 16:27, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lists of heads of state of Iceland
    [citation needed]. Still, the last King of Iceland, Kristján X, sent a message of congratulations to the Icelandic people.[citation needed] There have been...
    18 KB (325 words) - 13:56, 19 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Juho Kusti Paasikivi
    Juho Kusti Paasikivi (category 1956 deaths)
    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