Prime Minister of Iceland

The **prime minister of Iceland** () is Iceland's head of government. The prime minister is appointed formally by the president.

### Home Rule (1904–1918)

**Political party:**

|No|Portrait|width=170|Name|Took office|Left office|Party|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Hannes Þórður Pétursson Hafstein|1 February 1904|31 March 1909|Home Rule Party|||
||Björn Jónsson|31 March 1909|14 March 1911|Independence Party|||
||Kristján Jónsson|14 March 1911|24 July 1912|Independent|||
||Hannes Hafstein|24 July 1912|21 July 1914|Union Party|||
||Sigurður Eggerz|21 July 1914|4 May 1915|Independence Party|||
||Einar Arnórsson|4 May 1915|4 January 1917|Independence Party (_Langsum_)|||

### Kingdom (1918–1944)

**Political party:**

|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|No.|rowspan="2"|Portrait|rowspan=2|Name|colspan=4|Term  of office|rowspan=2|Political Party|rowspan=2|Cabinet|rowspan=2|Election|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|**Jón Magnússon**|1|4 January 1917|25 February 1920|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Home Rule Party|HP–IP–PP|bgcolor=blue|October 1916 Icelandic parliamentary election|||||
|2|25 February 1920|7 March 1922|HP–others|rowspan=2 bgcolor=blue|1919 Icelandic parliamentary election|||||||||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|**Sigurður Eggerz**|rowspan=2|•|rowspan=2|7 March 1922|rowspan=2|22 March 1924|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Independence Party|rowspan=2|IP–others|||
|rowspan=4 bgcolor=|1923 Icelandic parliamentary election|||||||||||||||||
||**Jón Magnússon**|rowspan=2|3|22 March 1924|23 June 1926||Conservative Party|rowspan=2|CP|||||||||
||Magnús Guðmundsson (1879–1937)|23 June 1926|8 July 1926||Conservative Party|||||||||||||
||**Jón Þorláksson** (1877–1935)|•|8 July 1926|28 August 1927||Conservative Party|CP|||||||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|**Tryggvi Þórhallsson**|rowspan=2|•|rowspan=2|28 August 1927|rowspan=2|3 June 1932|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Progressive Party|rowspan=2|PP|bgcolor=|1927 Icelandic parliamentary election|
|rowspan=2 bgcolor=|1931 Icelandic parliamentary election|||||||||||||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|**Ásgeir Ásgeirsson**|rowspan=2|•|rowspan=2|3 June 1932|rowspan=2|28 July 1934|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Progressive Party|rowspan=2|PP–IP–Peasants|||
|bgcolor=|1933 Icelandic parliamentary election|||||||||||||||||
|rowspan=4||rowspan=4|**Hermann Jónasson**|1|28 July 1934|2 April 1938|rowspan=4||rowspan=4|Progressive Party|PP–SDP|bgcolor=|1934 Icelandic parliamentary election|||||
|2|2 April 1938|17 April 1939|PP|rowspan=3 bgcolor=|1937 Icelandic parliamentary election|||||||||||||
|3|17 April 1939|18 November 1941|PP–IP–SDP|||||||||||||||
|4|18 November 1941|16 May 1942|PP–IP–SDP|||||||||||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|**Ólafur Tryggvason Thors**|rowspan=2|1|rowspan=2|16 May 1942|rowspan=2|16 December 1942|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Independence Party|rowspan=2|IP|bgcolor=|July 1942 Icelandic parliamentary election|
|rowspan=2 bgcolor=|October 1942 Icelandic parliamentary election|||||||||||||||||
||**Björn Þórðarson**|•|16 December 1942|21 October 1944||Independent|—|||||||||||

### Republic (1944–present)

**Political party:**

|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Portrait|rowspan=2|Name|colspan=4|Term of office|rowspan=2|Political Party|rowspan=2|Cabinet|rowspan=2|Election|rowspan=2|President (term)|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||**Ólafur Thors**|2|1944|1947||Independence Party|rowspan="2"|IP–SDP–SP|rowspan=2 bgcolor=|1946 Icelandic parliamentary election|rowspan=4|||||||
||**Stefán Jóhann Stefánsson**|1|1947|1949||Social Democratic Party||||||||||||
||**Ólafur Thors**|3|1949|1950||Independence Party|IP|rowspan=2 bgcolor=|1949 Icelandic parliamentary election|||||||||
||**Steingrímur Steinþórsson**|1|1950|1953||Progressive Party|rowspan="2"|PP–IP||||||||||
||**Ólafur Thors**|4|1953|1956||Independence Party|bgcolor=|1953 Icelandic parliamentary election|rowspan=7|||||||||
||**Hermann Jónasson**|5|1956|1958||Progressive Party|PP–SDP–PA|bgcolor=|1956 Icelandic parliamentary election|||||||||
||**Emil Jónsson**|1|1958|1959||Social Democratic Party|SDP|bgcolor=|June 1959 Icelandic parliamentary election|||||||||
||**Ólafur Thors**|rowspan=3|5|1959|1961||Independence Party|rowspan="6"|IP–SDP|rowspan=3 bgcolor=|October 1959 Icelandic parliamentary election|||||||
||Bjarni Benediktsson|1961|1961||Independence Party|||||||||||||
||**Ólafur Thors**|1962|1963||Independence Party|||||||||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|**Bjarni Benediktsson**|rowspan=2|1|rowspan=2|1963|rowspan=2|1970|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Independence Party|bgcolor=|1963 Icelandic parliamentary election|||
|rowspan=2 bgcolor=|1967 Icelandic parliamentary election|rowspan=6||||||||||||||||
||**Jóhann Hafstein**|1|1970|1971||Independence Party||||||||||||
||**Ólafur Jóhannesson**|1|1971|1974||Progressive Party|PP–PA–LL|bgcolor=|1971 Icelandic parliamentary election|||||||||
||**Geir Hallgrímsson**|1|1974|1978||Independence Party|IP–PP|bgcolor=|1974 Icelandic parliamentary election|||||||||
||**Ólafur Jóhannesson**|2|1978|1979||Progressive Party|PP–PA|bgcolor=|1978 Icelandic parliamentary election|||||||||
||**Benedikt Gröndal**|1|1979|1980||Social Democratic Party|SDP|rowspan=2 bgcolor=|1979 Icelandic parliamentary election|||||||||
||**Gunnar Thoroddsen**|1|1980|1983||Independence Party (*_Gunnar's faction_)|IP*–PP–PA|rowspan=6||||||||||
||**Steingrímur Hermannsson**|1|1983|1987||Progressive Party|PP–IP|bgcolor=|1983 Icelandic parliamentary election|||||||||
||**Þorsteinn Pálsson**|1|1987|1988||Independence Party|IP–PP–SDP|rowspan=3 bgcolor=|1987 Icelandic parliamentary election|||||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|**Steingrímur Hermannsson**|2|rowspan="2"|1988|rowspan="2"|1991|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Progressive Party|PP–SDP–PA|||||
|3|PP–SDP–PA–CiP|||||||||||||||||
|rowspan=4||rowspan=4|**Davíð Oddsson**|1|rowspan="4"|1991|rowspan="4"|2004|rowspan=4||rowspan=4|Independence Party|IP–SDP|bgcolor=|1991 Icelandic parliamentary election|||
|2|rowspan="5"|IP–PP|bgcolor=|1995 Icelandic parliamentary election|rowspan=9|||||||||||||
|3|bgcolor=|1999 Icelandic parliamentary election||||||||||||||||
|4|rowspan=3 bgcolor=|2003 Icelandic parliamentary election||||||||||||||||
||**Halldór Ásgrímsson**|1|2004|2006||Progressive Party||||||||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|**Geir Haarde**|1|rowspan="2"|2006|rowspan="2"|2009|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Independence Party||||||
|2|IP–SDA|rowspan=2 bgcolor=|2007 Icelandic parliamentary election|||||||||||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|**Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir**|1|rowspan="2"|2009|rowspan="2"|2013|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Social Democratic Alliance|rowspan="2"|SDA–LGM||||
|2|bgcolor=|2009 Icelandic parliamentary election||||||||||||||||
||**Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson**|1|2013|2016||Progressive Party|rowspan="2"|PP–IP|rowspan=2 bgcolor=|2013 Icelandic parliamentary election||||||||
||**Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson**|1|2016|2017||Progressive Party|rowspan="4"|||||||||||
||**Bjarni Benediktsson**|1|2017|2017||Independence Party|IP–RP–BF|bgcolor=|2016 Icelandic parliamentary election|||||||||
|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|**Katrín Jakobsdóttir**|1|rowspan="2"|2017|rowspan="2"|2024|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Left-Green Movement|rowspan="3"|LGM–IP–PP|bgcolor=|2017 Icelandic parliamentary election||
|2|rowspan=2 bgcolor=|2021 Icelandic parliamentary election||||||||||||||||
||**Bjarni Benediktsson**|2|2024|rowspan="1"|2024||Independence Party|rowspan="2"||||||||||
|bgcolor= "||||||||||||||||||
||**Kristrún Frostadóttir**|1|2024|_Incumbent_||Social Democratic Alliance|SDA–RP–PP|bgcolor=|2024 Icelandic parliamentary election|||||||||

## Infobox (official post)

- **post**: Prime Minister
- **body**: Iceland
- **insignia**: Coat of arms of Iceland.svg
- **insigniasize**: 125px
- **insigniacaption**: Coat of arms of Iceland
- **image**: Kristrún Frostadóttir 2021.jpg
- **incumbent**: Kristrún Frostadóttir
- **incumbentsince**: 21 December 2024
- **department**: Prime Minister's Office
- **seat**: Reykjavík, Iceland
- **appointer**: President of Iceland, President
- **termlength**: No term limit
- **precursor**: Minister for Iceland
- **inaugural**: Jón Magnússon (politician), Jón Magnússon
- **salary**: 2,021,825 Icelandic króna, kr/US$ 14,038 monthly
- **website**: