This article is a list of political parties in Iceland. Iceland has a multi-party system with many political parties, in which often no one party has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.
Political partiesEdit
Parliamentary representation from September 2021Edit
Eight parties were elected at the September 2021 election. The box below shows the distribution of seats in the incumbent parliament.
Active parties, without representation in the AlthingEdit
Party[1] | Ideology | Election symbol[2] | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Freedom Party Frelsisflokkurinn |
Right-wing nationalism[disambiguation needed] | Þ | ||
Humanist Party Húmanistaflokkurinn |
Humanism | H | ||
Icelandic National Front Íslenska þjóðfylkingin |
Right-wing populism | E | ||
People's Front of Iceland Alþýðufylkingin |
Anti-capitalism | R | ||
Icelandic Socialist Party Sósíalistaflokkur Íslands |
Socialism | J | ||
Liberal Democratic Party Frjálslyndi lýðræðisflokkurinn |
Classical liberalism | O | ||
Responsible Future Ábyrg framtíð |
Anti-vaccinationism | Y |
Defunct partiesEdit
- Best Party (Besti flokkurinn)
- Bright Future (Björt framtið)
- Citizens' Movement (Borgarahreyfingin)
- Citizen's Party (Borgaraflokkurinn)
- Communist Party (Kommúnistaflokkurinn)
- Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist) (Kommúnistaflokkurinn (m-l))
- Democracy Movement (Lýðræðishreyfingin)
- Dawn (Dögun)
- Home Rule Party (Heimastjórnarflokkurinn)
- Households Party (Flokkur Heimilanna)
- Iceland Democratic Party (Lýðræðisvaktin)
- Icelandic Movement – Living Land (Íslandshreyfingin – lifandi land)
- Liberal Party (Frjálslyndi flokkurinn)
- National Awakening (Þjóðvaki)
- Nationalist Party (Flokkur Þjóðernissinna)
- National Preservation Party (Þjóðvarnarflokkurinn)
- New Force (Nýtt afl)
- Old Independence Party (Sjálfstæðisflokkurinn eldri)
- People's Alliance (Alþýðubandalagið)
- People's Unity Party – Socialist Party (Sameiningarflokkur alþýðu - Sósíalistaflokkurinn)
- Rainbow (Regnboginn)
- Right-Green People's Party (Hægri grænir, flokkur fólksins)
- Rural Party (Landsbyggðarflokkurinn)
- Social Democratic Party (Alþýðuflokkurinn)
- Solidarity (Samstaða)
- The Movement (Hreyfingin)
- Union of Liberals and Leftists (Samtök frjálslyndra og vinstri manna)
- Women's List (Kvennalistinn)