Icelandic presidential election, 1980

The Icelandic presidential election of 1980 saw Vigdís Finnbogadóttir

Vigdís Finnbogadóttir

Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is an Icelandic politician who served as the fourth President of Iceland from 1980 to 1996. In addition to being both Iceland's and Europe's first female president, she was the world's first democratically elected female head of state...

being elected president of Iceland

President of Iceland

The President of Iceland is Iceland's elected head of state. The president is elected to a four-year term by universal adult suffrage and has limited powers. The president is not the head of government; the Prime Minister of Iceland is the head of government. There have been five presidents since...

Vigdís Finnbogadóttir

|align="right" |43,611
|align="right" |33.8
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|align=left|Guðlaugur Þorvaldsson
|align="right" |41,700
|align="right" |32.3
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|align=left|Albert Guðmundsson

Albert Guðmundsson

Albert Sigurður Guðmundsson was the first Icelandic professional football player and played for, amongst others, Rangers, Arsenal, FC Nancy and AC Milan. After retiring from his sporting career he became a politician and was a member of Alþingi for 15 years, serving as Minister of Finance and...

|align="right" |25,599
|align="right" |19.8
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|align=left|Pétur J. Thorsteinsson
|align="right" |18,139
|align="right" |14.1
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|align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid votes (turnout 63.0%)
|width="30" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|129.049
|width="30" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.0
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|align=left colspan=3|Source: Ruv.is. All four candidates stood as independents. These are the final figures.
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