2016 Icelandic presidential election
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Presidential elections were held in Iceland on 25 June 2016.[1] President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, elected in 1996, stepped down after serving five consecutive terms. The history professor Guðni Th. Jóhannesson was elected after receiving a plurality of 39.1% of the vote.[2] He took office on 1 August, as the first new president of Iceland in twenty years.[3]
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