2020 Icelandic presidential election

2020 Icelandic presidential election

27 June 2020
Turnout	66.95%
Candidate Guðni Th. Jóhannesson Guðmundur Franklín Jónsson Popular vote 150,913 12,797 Percentage 92.18% 7.82%
President before election Guðni Th. Jóhannesson Elected President Guðni Th. Jóhannesson

Presidential elections were held in Iceland on 27 June 2020.[1] Absentee voting opened on 25 May 2020.[2] Incumbent president Guðni Th. Jóhannesson was re-elected with 92% of the vote.

Electoral system

The President of Iceland is elected by first-past-the-post voting,[3] with a simple plurality of votes needed to win.

Candidates

Incumbent president of Iceland Guðni Th. Jóhannesson announced in his new year's address on 1 January 2020 that he would seek re-election.[4]

Guðmundur Franklín Jónsson, a businessman and activist, announced that he would run for the office of president in a Facebook-live video on 22 April.[5]

Several other persons announced their interest in running for the office, including Axel Pétur Axelsson, a self described social engineer, who was quoted as saying that his first matter of business as president would be to dismiss all members of the Icelandic government.[6] Only the incumbent president Guðni Th. Jóhannesson and challenger Guðmundur Franklín Jónsson gathered the required number of signatures to get on the ballot.[7]

Results

Candidate	Votes	%
Guðni Th. Jóhannesson	150,913	92.18
Guðmundur Franklín Jónsson	12,797	7.82
Total	163,710	100.00
Valid votes	163,710	96.97
Invalid/blank votes	5,111	3.03
Total votes	168,821	100.00
Registered voters/turnout	252,152	66.95
Source: Statistics Iceland

References

1. Republic of Iceland: Election for President 2020 IFES
2. "Absentee Voting for President Starts Monday". Iceland Review. 24 May 2020. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
3. Republic of Iceland: Election for President 2016 IFES
4. Ruv.is - Guðni gefur kost á sér til endurkjörs RÚV, 1 January 2020
5. Vísir - Guðmundur Franklín Jónsson býður sig fram til forseta Vísir, 23 April 2020
6. Axel Pétur í forsetaframboð: Fyrsta verk að reka alla ríkisstjórnina Fréttablaðið, 9 April 2020
7. Tveir frambjóðendur hafa skilað meðmælum í öllum kjördæmum Visir.is, 20 May 2020