National Awakening (Iceland)

For the Indonesian political party, see National Awakening Party.

National Awakening – People's Movement (Icelandic: Þjóðvaki – Hreyfing Fólksins, ÞPM) was a social-democratic^[1][2] political party in Iceland. The party was founded around Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, future Prime Minister of Iceland.^[3]

National Awakening Þjóðvaki – Hreyfing Fólksins
Leader	Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir
Founded	1994
Dissolved	2000
Split from	Social Democratic Party
Merged into	Social Democratic Alliance
Ideology	Social democracy
Political position	Centre-left
Election symbol
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History

The party was formed in 1994 in preparation for the 1995 parliamentary election; one of the co-founders was Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir after she lost an internal election for the leadership of the Social Democratic Party.^[4] She was joined by members of the People's Alliance. In the 1995 parliamentary elections, the party won 7.2% of the vote and four seats.^[3]

On 2 October 1996, its members of parliament joined the Social Democratic Party to form a unified parliamentary group. For the 1999 parliamentary elections it formed the United Front electoral alliance with the Social Democratic Party and the People's Alliance and the Women's List, winning 30% of the vote and 20 seats.^[4][5] In 2000, the parties merged with to form the Social Democratic Alliance.

Electoral results

Election	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Position	Government
1995	11,806	7.2	4 / 63	4	5th	Opposition