Iceland’s snap parliamentary election yesterday ended inconclusively, with losses for the ruling Independence Party and the wipeout of its previous junior coalition partner, but without the expected gains for the Left-Green Movement that opinion polls had projected. The conservatives of Independence (Sjalfstaedisflokkur), effectively forced into the country’s second election in a year, lost nearly four […]
Category: Iceland
Iceland’s Social Democrats make poll gains
Both of Iceland’s main polling organisations have now published their June surveys, and the generally calm picture they show is quite a contrast to the huge volatility of the last two years. That picture is quite similar between Gallup (for RUV) and MMR Market & Media Research: The ruling centre-right Independence Party, with around 25 […]
Junior coalition partners frozen out by Iceland voters
Both the governing Independence Party and the biggest opposition group, the Left Green Movement, achieve their best scores of 2017 in today’s University of Iceland opinion poll commissioned jointly by the Fréttabladid newspaper, its publisher Visir and sister TV channel Stod 2. At 32.1 per cent, Independence is polling at 5.5 points above this month’s […]
Left and right still close together in Iceland, Pirates hope to stop the rot
Two months into the new centre-right coalition government in Iceland, there is little distance between the main left and right forces in today’s poll from MMR Market and Media Research. The ruling Independence Party drops by 1.5 points compared to MMR’s last survey published on 24 February. However the main opposition Left-Green Movement also falls […]
Pirates plummet to lowest depths for two years
Iceland’s Pirate Party continues its spectacular fall from last spring’s heights in this month’s Gallup poll for national broadcaster RUV. The alternative direct democracy movement falls to just 12 per cent, its lowest with Gallup since January 2015, and 2.5 points below its General Election score on 29 October. The heady year between May 2015 […]