Mayor of Reykjavík
Borgarstjóri Reykjavíkur
Municipal coat of arms
Incumbent
Einar Þorsteinsson
since 16 January 2024
Reykjavík City Council
SeatReykjavík
Term lengthFour years
Renewable indefinitely with the support of the Reykjavík City Council.
Constituting instrumentLocal Government Act
Formation1907
First holderJón Þorláksson
DeputyÞorsteinn Gunnarsson
Salary1,976,025 ISK monthly (2021)[1]
Websitereykjavik.is/en (in English)
reykjavik.is (in Icelandic)

The post of Mayor of Reykjavík (Icelandic: Borgarstjóri Reykjavíkur) was created in 1907 and advertised in 1908. Páll Einarsson and Knud Zimsen applied for the job and Páll got the position for a period of six years, at the end of which he did not wish to renew his tenure. Rather than a direct election, Reykjavík City Council members elect the mayor from within their ranks.

Between 1932 and 1994 the centre-right Independence Party dominated Reykjavík municipal politics, but since then other parties have been more competitive. Since 2003 seven people have held the mayor position, due to an unprecedented amount of instability in Reykjavík's municipal coalition government caused in part by the 2008–11 Icelandic financial crisis.

The incumbent mayor is Dagur Bergþóruson Eggertsson, who was elected in 2014. Dagur's Social Democratic Alliance currently governs the city as the senior coalition partner with the Pirate Party, Reform and the Left-Greens.

List of mayors

No. Portrait Mayor Took office Left office Duration Party
1 Páll Einarsson
(1868–1954)		 7 May 1908 7 May 1914 6 years
(2,191 days)		 indep.
2 Knud Zimsen
(1875–1953)		 7 May 1914 30 December 1932 18 years, 7 months, 23 days
(6,812 days)		 indep.
3 Jón Þorláksson
(1877–1935)		 30 December 1932 20 March 1935 2 years, 2 months, 20 days
(810 days)		 IP
4 Pétur Halldórsson
(1887–1940)		 20 March 1935 26 November 1940 5 years, 8 months, 6 days
(2,078 days)		 IP
5 Bjarni Benediktsson
(1908–1970)		 26 November 1940 10 February 1947 6 years, 2 months, 15 days
(2,267 days)		 IP
6 Gunnar Thoroddsen
(1910–1983)		 10 February 1947 19 November 1959 12 years, 9 months, 9 days
(4,665 days)		 IP
7 Auður Auðuns
(1911–1999)		 19 November 1959 6 October 1960 10 months, 17 days
(322 days)		 IP
Geir Hallgrímsson
(1925–1990)		 1 December 1972 13 years, 12 days
(4,761 days)		 IP
8 Birgir Ísleifur Gunnarsson
(1936–2019)		 1 December 1972 15 August 1978 5 years, 8 months, 14 days
(2,083 days)		 IP
9 Egill Skúli Ingibergsson
(1926–2021)		 15 August 1978 27 May 1982 3 years, 9 months, 12 days
(1,381 days)		 indep.
10 Davíð Oddsson
(b. 1948)		 27 May 1982 16 July 1991 9 years, 1 month, 19 days
(3,337 days)		 IP
11 Markús Örn Antonsson
(b. 1943)		 16 July 1991 17 March 1994 2 years, 8 months, 1 day
(975 days)		 IP
12 Árni Sigfússon
(b. 1956)		 17 March 1994 13 June 1994 2 months, 27 days
(88 days)		 IP
13 Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir
(b. 1954)		 13 June 1994 1 February 2003 8 years, 7 months, 19 days
(3,155 days)		 Reykjavík List
14 Þórólfur Árnason
(b. 1957)		 1 February 2003 30 November 2004 1 year, 9 months, 29 days
(668 days)		 indep.
15 Steinunn Valdís Óskarsdóttir
(b. 1965)		 30 November 2004 13 June 2006 1 year, 6 months, 14 days
(560 days)		 Reykjavík List
16 Vilhjálmur Þórmundur Vilhjálmsson
(b. 1946)		 13 June 2006 16 October 2007 1 year, 4 months, 3 days
(490 days)		 IP
17 Dagur Bergþóruson Eggertsson
(b. 1972)		 16 October 2007 24 January 2008 3 months, 8 days
(100 days)		 SDA
18 Ólafur Friðrik Magnússon
(b. 1952)		 24 January 2008 21 August 2008 6 months, 28 days
(210 days)		 LP
19 Hanna Birna Kristjánsdóttir
(b. 1966)		 21 August 2008 15 June 2010 1 year, 9 months, 25 days
(663 days)		 IP
20 Jón Gnarr
(b. 1967)		 15 June 2010 16 June 2014 4 years, 2 days
(1,463 days)		 BP
21 Dagur Bergþóruson Eggertsson
(b. 1972)		 16 June 2014 16 January 2024 9 years, 7 months, 1 day
(3,502 days)		 SDA
22 Einar Þorsteinsson
(b. 1978)		 16 January 2024 Incumbent 0 days
(0 days)		 PP

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Laun og kostnaðargreiðslur borgarfulltrúa". 30 January 2019.
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