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2016 Icelandic presidential election

2016 Icelandic presidential election

← 2012 25 June 2016 2020 →
Turnout75.70%
 
Candidate Guðni Th. Jóhannesson Halla Tómasdóttir
Popular vote 71,356 50,995
Percentage 39.08% 27.93%
 
Candidate Andri Snær Magnason Davíð Oddsson
Popular vote 26,037 25,108
Percentage 14.26% 13.75%

President before election

Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson

Elected President

Guðni Th. Jóhannesson

Presidential elections were held in Iceland on 25 June 2016.[1] President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, elected in 1996, stepped down after serving five consecutive terms. The history professor Guðni Th. Jóhannesson was elected after receiving a plurality of 39.1% of the vote.[2] He took office on 1 August, as the first new president of Iceland in twenty years.[3]

  1. ^ "Ólafur Ragnar mun láta af embætti forseta í sumar". Fréttablaðið (in Icelandic). 1 January 2016. Retrieved 1 January 2016.
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  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference ndtv was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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