2013 Iceland Parliament Election - Saturday April 27,2013

The 2013 Iceland Parliament Election is scheduled for Saturday April 27,2013 and 15 parties will contest the election, compared to just 7 in the  2009 election .Polls are due to open at 09:00 GMT and close at 22:00 GMT, with more than 230,000 voters eligible to cast their ballots

The Conservative Independence Party and their traditional coalition partners the Progressives are expected to secure a majority in the 63-strong parliament.

The parties' leaders, Bjarni Benediktsson and Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson, are then predicted to compete in a race to succeed the Social Democrat Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir, who is retiring from politics

Bjarni Benediktsson, Chairman of the Independence Pary

 
Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson,Chairman of the Progressive Party

Social Democrat Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir

Opinion polls suggest the main governing Social Democratic Alliance will suffer a heavy defeat.


The Number of Available Seats in Each Constituency at the 2013 Parliamentary Election

Constituency	Constituency Seats	Leveling Seats	Total Seats
Reykjavik North	9	2	11
Reykjavik South	9	2	11
Southwest	11	2	13
Northwest	7	1	8
Northeast	9	1	10
South	9	1	10
Total	54	9	63

On April 16,2013 the National Election Committee  published its list of 15 approved parties with 72 candidate lists, as 11 parties had opted to run in all six constituencies, while 2 parties opted only to run in two constituencies, and the final 2 parties were only present in one constituency


Political Parties Position in the Incumbent Parliament

Political Party	Total Seats
Social Democratic Alliance	19
Independence Party	16
Left Green Movement	11
Progressive Party	9
Bright Future	2
Dawn	2
Rainbow	2
Pirate Party	1
Solidarity	1
Total	63

In the 2009 election,The Social Democratic Alliance won the election and formed a coalition with the Left Green Movement It was the first time that the Independence Party was not the largest party in the Althing(Parliament of Iceland)

Iceland centre-right wins back power

Iceland's centre-right opposition scored a clear win in the island's parliamentary poll that allowed the two parties to begin negotiations for a coalition government A final count on Sunday showed that the right-wing Independence Party was ahead in the popular vote with 26.7%. That gave it 19 seats in parliament, up from 16. Its leader, Bjarni Benediktsson, who claimed the post of prime minister earlier on Sunday, was set to seek a government with the support of the agrarian-centrist Progressive Party, which won 24.4 % of the vote and 19 legislative seats.