Presidential election in Iceland 2016

Guðni Th. Jóhannesson (September 2016), winner of the 2016 presidential election

The 2016 presidential election in Iceland took place on June 25th of that year. The Icelandic head of state is elected for a period of four years. The winner of the election is the historian Guðni Th. Jóhannesson , who won the election ahead of the runner-up, the entrepreneur Halla Tómasdóttir . The new president took office on August 1, 2016.

Candidates

Confirmed candidates

Candidates had to be submitted by May 20, 2016. On May 25, the Icelandic Ministry of the Interior announced the definitive list of candidates:

Surname	activity
Andri Snær Magnason	writer
Ástþór Magnússon	Entrepreneur and peace activist
Davíð Oddsson	Politician, former Prime Minister of Iceland
Elísabet Kristín Jökulsdóttir	Writer and journalist
Guðni Th. Jóhannesson	historian
Guðrún Margrét Pálsdóttir	Nurse, founder of a children's charity
Halla Tómasdóttir	Entrepreneur and Investor
Hildur Þórðardóttir	Ethnologist, author of Lebenshilfe literature
Sturla Jónsson	Truck driver, leader of the Sturla Jónsson party

Other

Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson , who had been in office since the 1996 presidential election and was in his fifth term, declared on May 9, 2016 not to run for re-election. During his televised address on January 1, 2016, he had originally said that he would not be available for a sixth term, but announced his candidacy on April 18. The day before his final retirement as a candidate, Ólafur Ragnar said in a television interview that the candidacies of Guðni Th. Jóhannesson and Davíð Oddsson had changed the starting position. Ólafur Ragnar's resignation is also associated with the fact that it has since become known that his wife's name appears in the Panama Papers .

Also have Jón Gnarr , comedian and former mayor of Reykjavik , and katrín jakobsdóttir , the chairman of the Left-Green Movement , renounced his candidacy. Both were considered to be potentially promising candidates. Numerous other people who had announced their candidacy have withdrawn or did not reach the minimum number of 1,500 supporters required by the Icelandic constitution .

Survey results

According to a survey of May 11, 2016, carried out by the newspaper Fréttablaðið , the TV station Stöð 2 and the news portal Vísir , Andri Snær Magnason, Davíð Oddsson and Guðni Th. Jóhannesson were the three most promising candidates, with a clear Ahead for Guðni Th. Jóhannesson. All other candidates together - as of April 18, 2016, 15 people had already announced their candidacy - would only have been elected by 6.7% of the survey participants.

On May 25, the results of three surveys were published in quick succession. Guðni Th. Jóhannesson was still clearly ahead in all the polls, but on the one hand support for Davíð Oddsson had increased and on the other hand Halla Tómasdóttir also emerged more strongly. Another survey published on June 2 by the MMR institute showed similar values ​​to the one carried out a week earlier by the University of Iceland's Social Science Research Institute. More than 2% of those questioned now spoke in favor of Sturla Jónsson, which was also listed separately in the results with 2.2%.

source	Period	Andri Snær Magnason	Davíð Oddsson	Guðni Th. Jóhannesson	Halla Tómasdóttir	Other
MMR	12-20 May 2016	11.0%	18.1%	65.6%	2.2%	3.0%
Gallup	19.-25. May 2016	10.9%	22.0%	57.2%	5.4%	4.6%
Félagsvísindastofnun HÍ	23-25 May 2016	12.0% (approx.)	22.0%	57.0%	5.0% (approx.)	4.0% (approx.)
MMR	May 26–1. June 2016	10.9%	20.1%	56.6%	6.9%	5.5%
Kjarninn	May 26th – 3rd June 2016	11.2%	19.8%	56.9%	7.5%	4.5%
Félagsvísindastofnun HÍ	June 13, 2016	11%	15.9%	55.1%	12.3%	5.7%

Results

A total of 185,390 valid votes were cast. 2782 votes were blank or invalid ballot papers. The turnout was 75.7%.

Results

candidate	Suður kjördæmi (Southern constituency)	Suðvestur kjördæmi (Southwest Constituency)	Norðaustur kjördæmi (Northeast Constituency)	Reykjavíkur kjördæmi norður (constituency of Reykjavík North)	Norðvestur kjördæmi (Northwest Constituency)	Reykjavíkur kjördæmi suður (Constituency Reykjavík South)	Iceland as a whole
							be right	%
Andri Snær Magnason	7.3	12.9	8.9	23.8	7.2	19.1	26,037	14.26
Ástþór Magnússon	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.5	0.3	615	0.34
Davíð Oddsson	16.7	13.9	11.2	12.9	14.1	13.6	25,108	13.75
Elísabet Kristín Jökulsdóttir	0.6	0.5	0.4	1.2	0.5	0.9	1,280	0.70
Guðni Th. Jóhannesson	35.2	39.9	45.1	36.0	42.1	38.5	71,356	39.08
Guðrún Margrét Pálsdóttir	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.3	477	0.26
Halla Tómasdóttir	34.2	28.9	31.1	22.0	32.0	23.5	50,995	27.93
Hildur Þórðardóttir	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2	294	0.16
Sturla Jónsson	5.1	3.3	2.5	3.4	3.2	3.7	6,446	3.53
Blank ballot papers	1.6	1.0	1.1	1.1	1.3	1.2	2,160	1.20
Invalid ballot	0.0	0.4	0.3	0.5	0.3	0.4	622	0.34
Voters	26,132	51,753	22,487	34,050	16,798	34,170	185,390	100.0
Eligible voters	35,136	67,478	29,531	45,338	21,424	46.097	245.004	-

Constituency results in graphical representation

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  Results by constituency (the relative area of ​​the districts corresponds to the respective number of voters)

Web links

• Forsetakosningar 2016 ( Memento from July 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Ministry of the Interior of Iceland , Icelandic, more extensive than the English page
• Presidential Election 2016 ( Memento from July 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Ministry of the Interior of Iceland, English
• Forsetakosningar 2016 ( Memento from July 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), RÚV , Icelandic

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Presidential Election 2016 ( English ) Ministry of the Interior of Iceland (Innanríkisráðuneytið). Retrieved May 12, 2016.
2. ↑ Iceland elects newcomer to politics as president. Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 26, 2016, accessed on the same day.
3. ↑ Frambjóðendur til kjörs forseta Íslands 2016 ( Icelandic ) Ministry of Interior of Iceland (Innanríkisráðuneytið). Retrieved June 5, 2020.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Vala Hafstad: Iceland's President Withdraws Candidacy ( English ) In: Iceland Review Online . May 9, 2016. Retrieved May 12, 2016.
5. ^ Vala Hafstad: Iceland's President Runs for Sixth Term ( English ) In: Iceland Review Online . April 18, 2016. Retrieved May 12, 2016.
6. ↑ Jessica Sturmberg: Presidential election campaign in Iceland: Turbulence around Panama Papers influence election . In: Deutschlandfunk . June 7, 2016. Retrieved June 9, 2016.
7. ^ Former mayor of Reykjavík and comedian Jón Gnarr will NOT run for president of Iceland ( English ) In: Iceland Magazine . January 16, 2016. Retrieved May 12, 2016.
8. ^ Vala Hafstad: Left-Green Leader not Running for President ( English ) In: Iceland Review Online . March 9, 2016. Retrieved May 12, 2016.
9. ↑ Constitution of the Republic of Iceland ( English ) Retrieved on 5 June 2020th
10. ↑ ^{a b} Ný forsetakönnun: Guðni með tæplega 70 prósent fylgi ( Icelandic ) In: Vísir . Retrieved May 12, 2016.
11. ↑ Vala Hafstad: Will President Ólafur Ragnar Run Once More? ( English ) In: Iceland Review Online . April 18, 2016. Retrieved May 12, 2016.
12. ↑ Guðni fengi um tvo þriðju hluta atkvæða ( Icelandic ) MMR. May 25, 2016. Retrieved May 27, 2016.
13. ↑ Könnun Gallup um fylgi forsetaframbjóðenda ( Icelandic ) mbl.is. May 25, 2016. Retrieved May 27, 2016.
14. ↑ The news portal visir.is quotes a survey by the Social Science Research Institute of the University of Iceland (Félagsvísindastofnun HÍ), but gives some inaccurate information (“rúmlega 12%” - “around 12%”). Kannanir á vegum stuðningsmanna Davíðs og Guðna sýna sömu niðurstöður ( Icelandic ) visir.is. May 26, 2016. Retrieved May 27, 2016.
15. ↑ Breytingar á stuðningi við forsetaframbjóðendur ( Icelandic ) MMR. June 2, 2016. Retrieved June 3, 2016.
16. ↑ Includes 2.2% for Sturla Jónsson.
17. ↑ Evaluation of several surveys. Fylgi við Höllu Tómasdóttur tekur á rás ( Icelandic ) Kjarninn. June 5, 2016. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
18. ↑ Includes 2.4% for Sturla Jónsson.
19. ↑ Halla bætir við sig mestu fylgi ( Icelandic ) mbl.is. June 13, 2016. Retrieved June 17, 2016.
20. ↑ Date of publication.
21. ↑ ^{a b} Forsetakosningar 2016. RÚV , June 26, 2016, archived from the original on June 25, 2016 ; Retrieved June 26, 2016 (Icelandic). 
22. ↑ ^{a b} Alma Ómarsdóttir: Lokatölur úr öllum kjördæmum. RÚV, June 26, 2016, accessed October 25, 2016 (Icelandic). 
23. ↑ Forsetakosningar 2016. kosningasaga.wordpress.com, accessed October 25, 2016 (Icelandic).