Iceland's female prime minister, Katrín Jakobsdóttir, was elected in 2017. Jakobsdóttir, 45, is a member of Left Green Party, which lost several seats in the election but kept eight.

Iceland briefly celebrated electing a female-majority parliament Sunday — before a recount showed the result fell just short of that landmark for gender parity in the North Atlantic island nation.

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Icelanders voted to elect a new parliament Saturday after disagreements over immigration, energy policy and the economy forced Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson to ...

Iceland nearly elected its first female majority parliament after an election where the country’s center-right party won the most seats. According to an initial vote count on Sunday, female ...

Iceland fell short of a historic achievement after a recount prevented the country from electing Europe’s first female-majority parliament. Initial results indicated that Iceland would achieve ...