National
President of Iceland
- Icelandic: Forseti Íslands
How it's filled
- In plain words
- Elected
- Exact method
- Elected by direct, secret ballot of all voters for a four-year term starting 1 August of the election year; the candidate with the most votes wins, with no run-off and no term limit (Constitution of Iceland, Arts. 4-6). A candidate needs endorsements from 1,500 to 3,000 voters.
- Seats
- 1
Who holds it now
- Halla Tómasdóttir since August 2024 Report Source: althingi.is, checked
Next vote
- Must be held by July 2028 (no fixed date) General election
Sources
- government.is · checked Government of Iceland, Constitution of the Republic of Iceland (Act no. 33/1944 as amended), read 2026-10-12: structure, selection and competences of the President, ministers, Althing and courts. Offices without a dated source are drawn from the Constitution text. For: President of Iceland
- althingi.is · checked Althingi, official Icelandic titles in the ministers list; Icelandic names of bodies from island.is and althingi.is, read 2026-10-12. For: President of Iceland in Icelandic
- althingi.is · checked Althingi, XML list of presiding officers (forsetar), session 158, read 2026-10-12: President of Iceland and Speaker of the Althing. President term dates from Statistics Iceland (statice.is), presidential election 1 June 2024: term 1 Aug 2024 to 31 Jul 2028. For: Halla Tómasdóttir, current term
- althingi.is · checked Constitution of Iceland: Althing elected for four years (Art. 31); President elected for four years from 1 August of the election year (Art. 6, Statistics Iceland 2024 results). No later date announced as of 2026-10-12. For: General election, July 31, 2028