| 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 (is|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 the Governing Council (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 in Tjarnargata, Reykjavik, which was the prime ministerial residence until 1943.[5]
See also: Minister for Iceland.
| Portrait | Name | Took office | Left office | Party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hannes Hafstein | 1904 | 1909 | Home Rule Party | |||
| 2 | Björn Jónsson | 1909 | 1911 | Independence Party | |||
| 3 | Kristján Jónsson | 1911 | 1912 | Independent | |||
| (1) | Hannes Hafstein | 1912 | 1914 | Union Party | |||
| 4 | Sigurður Eggerz | 1914 | 1915 | Independence Party | |||
| 5 | Einar Arnórsson | 1915 | 1917 | Independence Party (Langsum) | |||
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| Portrait | Name | Term of office | Political Party | Cabinet | Election | Monarch (Reign) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Days | ||||||||||
| 6 | Jón Magnússon | 1 | 1917 | 1920 | Home Rule Party | HP–IP–PP | bgcolor=blue | |||||
| 2 | 1920 | 1922 | HP–others | |||||||||
| (4) | Sigurður Eggerz | 1 | 1922 | 1924 | Independence Party | IP–others | ||||||
| (6) | Jón Magnússon | 3 | 1924 | 1926 | Conservative Party | CP | ||||||
| 7 | Magnús Guðmundsson | 1926 | 1926 | Conservative Party | ||||||||
| 8 | Jón Þorláksson (1877–1935) | 1 | 1926 | 1927 | Conservative Party | |||||||
| 9 | Tryggvi Þórhallsson | 1 | 1927 | 1932 | Progressive Party | PP | bgcolor= | |||||
| 10 | Ásgeir Ásgeirsson | 1 | 1932 | 1934 | Progressive Party | PP–IP–Peasants | ||||||
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| 11 | Hermann Jónasson | 1 | 1934 | 1942 | Progressive Party | PP–SDP | bgcolor= | |||||
| 2 | PP | |||||||||||
| 3 | PP–IP–SDP | |||||||||||
| 4 | ||||||||||||
| 12 | Ólafur Thors | 1 | 1942 | 1942 | Independence Party | IP | bgcolor= | |||||
| 13 | Björn Þórðarson | 1 | 1942 | 1944 | Independent | |||||||
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