List of political parties in Iceland

Template:Short description Template:Politics of 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.

Nine parties were elected at the 2022 Icelandic municipal elections. Six parties were elected at the 2024 Icelandic parliamentary election to the Althing.

Political parties

Parliamentary representation from November 2024

The box below shows the distribution of seats in the incumbent parliament.

Party		Election symbol	Ideology	Political position	Leader	Founded	MPs	Municipal seats
Template:Party color cell	Social Democratic Alliance Template:Lang	S	Template:Nowrap	Centre-left	Kristrún Frostadóttir	2000	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar
Template:Party color cell	Independence Party Template:Lang	D	Template:Nowrap	Centre-right	Bjarni Benediktsson	1929	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar
Template:Party color cell	Liberal Reform Party Template:Lang	C	Template:Nowrap	Centre to centre-right	Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir	2016	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar
Template:Party color cell	People's Party Template:Lang	F	Template:Nowrap	Fiscal: Centre-left Social: Right-wing	Inga Sæland	2016	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar
Template:Party color cell	Centre Party Template:Lang	M	Template:Nowrap	Centre-right to right-wing	Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson	2017	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar
Template:Party color cell	Progressive Party Template:Lang	B	Template:Nowrap	Centre to centre-right	Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson	1916	Template:Composition bar	Template:Composition bar

Active parties, without representation in the Althing

Party		Election symbol	Ideology	Political position	Leader	Founded	Municipal seats
Template:Party color cell	Left-Green Movement Template:Lang	V	Democratic socialism, eco-socialism, feminism, euroscepticism	Template:Nowrap to Template:Nowrap	Svandís Svavarsdóttir	1999	Template:Composition bar
Template:Party color cell	Pirate Party Template:Lang	P	Pirate politics, direct democracy, open government		NoneTemplate:Refn	2012	Template:Composition bar
Template:Party color cell	Socialist Party of Iceland Template:Lang	J	Socialism, democratic socialism, anti-neoliberalism	Left-wing	Vacant	2017	Template:Composition bar
Template:Party color cell	Humanist Party Template:Lang	H	Universal humanism, libertarian socialism, anti-capitalism, collectivist anarchism	Left-wing	Júlíus Valdimarsson	1984	Template:Composition bar
Template:Party color cell	Bright Future Template:Lang	A	Liberalism, social liberalism, green liberalism, pro-Europeanism	Centre	Template:Ill	2012	Template:Composition bar
Template:Party color cell	People's Front of Iceland Template:Lang	R	Anti-capitalism, environmentalism, hard euroscepticism, pacifism	Left-wing to far-left	Template:Ill	2013	Template:Composition bar
Template:Party color cell	Liberal Democratic Party Template:Lang	O	Classical liberalism, sustainable development, direct democracy, euroscepticism	Right-wing	Guðmundur Franklín Jónsson	2020	Template:Composition bar
Template:Party color cell	Responsible Future Template:Lang	Y	Right-libertarianism, anti-vaccination	Right-wing	Jóhannes Loftsson	2021	Template:Composition bar
Template:Party color cell	Democratic Party Template:Lang	L	Libertarian conservatism, right-libertarianism, euroscepticism	Right-wing	Arnar Þór Jónsson	2024	Template:Composition bar
Template:Party color cell	The Greens Template:Lang	G	Green politics	Centre-left	Kikka Sigurðardóttir	2024	Template:Composition bar