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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.
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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.
Eight parties were elected at the November 2024 election. The box below shows the distribution of seats in the incumbent parliament.
| Party | Election symbol | Ideology | Spectrum | Leader | Founded | MPs | Municipal Seats | ||
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 | Social Democratic Alliance Samfylkingin | S | Social democracy, Pro-Europeanism | Centre-left | Kristrún Frostadóttir | 2000 | 15 / 63 | 26 / 470 | |
 | Independence Party Sjálfstæðisflokkurinn | D | Conservatism, Economic liberalism, Liberal conservatism | Centre-right | Bjarni Benediktsson | 1929 | 14 / 63 | 113 / 470 | |
 | Liberal Reform Party Viðreisn | C | Liberalism, Economic liberalism, Green liberalism | Centre to centre-right | Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir | 2016 | 11 / 63 | 5 / 470 | |
 | People's Party Flokkur Fólksins | F | Populism, Disability rights, Pensioners' interests, Euroscepticism | Fiscal: Centre-left Social: Right-wing | Inga Sæland | 2016 | 10 / 63 | 2 / 470 | |
 | Centre Party Miðflokkurinn | M | Conservatism, Agrarianism, Populism, Euroscepticism | Centre-right to right-wing | Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson | 2017 | 8 / 63 | 6 / 470 | |
 | Progressive Party Framsóknarflokkurinn | B | Liberalism, Agrarianism, Euroscepticism, Liberal conservatism | Centre to centre-right | Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson | 1916 | 5 / 63 | 69 / 470 | |
In politics, a red–green alliance or red–green coalition is an alliance of "red" parties with "green" parties. The alliance is often based on common left political views, especially a shared distrust of corporate or capitalist institutions. While the "red" social-democratic parties tend to focus on the effects of capitalism on the working class, the "green" environmentalist parties tend to focus on the environmental effects of capitalism.
The Social Democratic Alliance is a social democratic political party in Iceland. The party is positioned on the centre-left of the political spectrum and their leader is Kristrún Frostadóttir.
The Progressive Party is an agrarian political party in Iceland.
An electoral alliance is an association of political parties or individuals that exists solely to stand in elections.
Pro-Europeanism, sometimes called European Unionism, is a political position that favours European integration and membership of the European Union (EU). The opposite of Pro-Europeanism is Euroscepticism.
The People's Alliance was an electoral alliance in Iceland from 1956 to 1968 and a socialist political party from 1968 to 1998.
