National Awakening (Iceland)
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{{Infobox political party
| name = National Awakening
| native_name = Þjóðvaki – Hreyfing Fólksins
| country = Iceland
| logo = Logo of the National Awakening (Iceland).png
| founded = 1994
| dissolved = 2000
| leader = Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir
| split = Social Democratic Party
| merged = Social Democratic Alliance
| ideology = Social democracy
| position = Centre-left
| colorcode = {{party color|National Awakening (Iceland)}}
| symbol = J
}}
National Awakening – People's Movement ({{langx|is|Þjóðvaki – Hreyfing Fólksins}}, ÞPM) was a social-democratic{{cite book|author=Svanur Kristjánsson|chapter=Iceland: A Parliamentary Democracy with a Semi-presidential Constitution|editor1=Kaare Strøm|editor2=Wolfgang C. Müller|title=Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xY3fNI0oLLsC&pg=PA402|year=2006|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-929160-1|page=402}}{{Cite book |last=Bale |first=Tim |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1256593260 |title=Riding the populist wave: Europe's mainstream right in crisis |date=2021 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |others=Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser |isbn=978-1-009-00686-6 |location=Cambridge, United Kingdom |pages=35 |oclc=1256593260}} political party in Iceland. The party was founded around Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, future Prime Minister of Iceland.{{cite book|editor1=Sverrir Jakobsson|editor2=Gudmundur Halfdanarson|title=Historical Dictionary of Iceland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OrV8CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA254|year=2016|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|isbn=978-1-4422-6291-1|page=254}}
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.{{cite book|author=Peter Lamb|title=Historical Dictionary of Socialism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vSHuCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA219|year=2015|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|isbn=978-1-4422-5827-3|page=219}} 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.
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.{{cite book|author1=Svanur Kristjánsson|author2=Indridi Indridason|chapter=Iceland: Dramatic Shifts|editor1=Torbjörn Bergman|editor2=Kaare Strøm|title=The Madisonian Turn: Political Parties and Parliamentary Democracy in Nordic Europe|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gaSOvreVZg4C&pg=PA162|year=2011|publisher=University of Michigan Press|isbn=978-0-472-11747-5|pages=162, 165}} In 2000, the parties merged with to form the Social Democratic Alliance.
Electoral results
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| Election
! Votes ! % ! Seats ! +/– ! Position ! Government |
|---|
| 1995
| 11,806 | 7.2 | {{Composition bar|4|63|hex={{party color|National Awakening (Iceland)}}}} | {{increase}} 4 | {{increase}} 5th | {{no2|Opposition}} |