| Post: | Prime Minister |
| Body: | Iceland |
| Insignia: | Coat of arms of Iceland.svg |
| Insigniasize: | 125px |
| Insigniacaption: | Coat of arms of Iceland |
| Incumbent: | Bjarni Benediktsson |
| Incumbentsince: | 9 April 2024 |
| Department: | Prime Minister's Office |
| Seat: | Reykjavík, Iceland |
| Appointer: | President |
| Termlength: | No term limit |
| Precursor: | Minister for Iceland |
| Inaugural: | Jón Magnússon |
| Salary: | 2,021,825 kr/US$ 14,038 monthly[1] |
| Website: | |
The prime minister of Iceland (Icelandic: Forsætisráðherra Íslands) is head of government of the Republic of Iceland. The prime minister is appointed formally by the president and exercises executive authority along with the cabinet subject to parliamentary support.
The prime minister is appointed by the president under the Constitution of Iceland, Section II Article 17, and chairs the Cabinet of Iceland:
Icelandic: Fundunum stjórnar sá ráðherra, er forseti lýðveldisins hefur kvatt til forsætis, og nefnist hann forsætisráðherra.[2]
The [cabinet] meetings shall be presided over by the Minister called upon by the President of the Republic to do so, who is designated Prime Minister.[3]
The prime minister's office is located in Stjórnarráðið, Reykjavik, where their secretariat is based and where cabinet meetings are held.[4] The prime minister has a summer residence, Þingvallabær in Þingvellir. The prime minister also has a reception house at Tjarnargata, Reykjavik, which was the prime ministerial residence until 1943.[5]
See also: Minister for Iceland.
Political party:
| Portrait | Name | Took office | Left office | Party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hannes Hafstein | 1 February 1904 | 31 March 1909 | Home Rule Party | |||
| 2 | Björn Jónsson | 31 March 1909 | 14 March 1911 | Independence Party | |||
| 3 | Kristján Jónsson | 14 March 1911 | 24 July 1912 | Independent | |||
| (1) | Hannes Hafstein | 24 July 1912 | 21 July 1914 | Union Party | |||
| 4 | Sigurður Eggerz | 21 July 1914 | 4 May 1915 | Independence Party | |||
| 5 | Einar Arnórsson | 4 May 1915 | 4 January 1917 | Independence Party (Langsum) | |||
Political party:
| Portrait | Name | Term of office | Political Party | Cabinet | Election | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took Office | Left Office | Days | |||||||||
| 6 | Jón Magnússon | 1 | 4 January 1917 | 25 February 1920 | Home Rule Party | HP–IP–PP | bgcolor=blue | ||||
| 2 | 25 February 1920 | 7 March 1922 | HP–others | ||||||||
| (4) | Sigurður Eggerz | 1 | 7 March 1922 | 22 March 1924 | Independence Party | IP–others | |||||
| (6) | Jón Magnússon | 3 | 22 March 1924 | 23 June 1926 | Conservative Party | CP | |||||
| 7 | Magnús Guðmundsson | 23 June 1926 | 8 July 1926 | Conservative Party | |||||||
| 8 | Jón Þorláksson (1877–1935) | 1 | 8 July 1926 | 28 August 1927 | Conservative Party | ||||||
| 9 | Tryggvi Þórhallsson | 1 | 28 August 1927 | 3 June 1932 | Progressive Party | PP | bgcolor= | ||||
| 10 | Ásgeir Ásgeirsson | 1 | 3 June 1932 | 28 July 1934 | Progressive Party | PP–IP–Peasants | |||||
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| 11 | Hermann Jónasson | 1 | 28 July 1934 | 16 May 1942 | Progressive Party | PP–SDP | bgcolor= | ||||
| 2 | PP | ||||||||||
| 3 | PP–IP–SDP | ||||||||||
| 4 | |||||||||||
| 12 | Ólafur Thors | 1 | 16 May 1942 | 16 December 1942 | Independence Party | IP | bgcolor= | ||||
| 13 | Björn Þórðarson | 1 | 16 December 1942 | 21 October 1944 | Independent | — | |||||
Political party: