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full screen Kristrún Frostadóttir, party leader of the Social Democratic Alliance, votes in the Icelandic election. Photo: Marco Di Marco/AP/TT
With over a third of the votes counted, the Social Democratic Party looks to be making strong progress in the Icelandic election.
The Social Democratic Alliance party, led by Kristrún Frostadóttir, is on 21.2 percent of the votes according to the report made by the Icelandic television and radio company Ruv.
If the result holds, it would mean that the party more than doubles its support compared to the last election in 2021, when it received 9.9 percent.
– There will be a change in the governance of this country. It is clear, party leader Frostadóttir said at an election vigil – but at the same time stressed that the votes are still being counted and that no result has been determined.
Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson’s three-party government, which consisted of the Green Left, the conservative Independence Party and the centre-right Progress Party, resigned in October after deep divisions.
According to the early results, Benediktsson’s Independence Party looks to be the second largest with 19.9 percent. Next comes the Liberal Reform Party with 16 percent.
According to the same preliminary results, the Green Left looks set to lose all its parliamentary seats because they do not reach the five percent threshold.