Country: | Iceland |
Election Date: | 28 June 2008 |
Type: | presidential |
Previous Election: | 2004 Icelandic presidential election |
Previous Year: | 2004 |
Next Election: | 2012 Icelandic presidential election |
Next Year: | 2012 |
Image1: | Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, September 2011 (cropped).jpeg |
Candidate1: | |
Popular Vote1: | Unopposed |
President | |
After Election: | Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson |
Presidential elections were planned to be held in Iceland on 28 June 2008.[1]
The incumbent president Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, first elected in 1996, stated in his New Year's speech that he would contest the election for a fourth term.[2]
Ástþór Magnússon, who ran unsuccessfully in 1996 and 2004, ruled out running for the presidency.[3]
No challenger to the incumbent president filed by the deadline to declare a candidacy on 24 May 2008,[4] and so Ólafur Ragnar's fourth term was won uncontested.[5]
Ólafur Ragnar was sworn in on 1 August 2008.[6]