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Iceland: Political Parties

Independence Party (Sjálfstæðisflokkurinn)

byH.M.

The falcon symbol which the Independence Party (Sjálfstæðisflokkurinn), founded in 1923, with the unifying of the Conservatives and Liberals (which were very small) and is the biggest party with around 45 % of the vote.
H.M., 7 December 2002

Nationalist Party (Flokkur Þjóðernissinna)

image byTomislav Todorović, 06 April 2013

Nationalist Party (Flokkur Þjóðernissinna) was founded in 1934 byfusion of the Icelandic Nationalist Movement (Þjóðhreyfing Íslendinga), founded in 1933, and the original Nationalist Party,which had broken away from it earlier in 1934. The party believed inthe Aryan supremacy and anti-Semitism and intended to make Iceland aCorporativist state, but unlike most of similar parties in otherEuropean countries, it never developed personality cult of a supremeleader, having had four consecutive heads during its existence. Themembers, whose number never exceeded 450, were mostly passivized bythe beginning of World War II. In 1940, British invasion of Icelandmade many leave the party, begin destroying the objects related totheir membership and even start denying that they have ever been themembers. The party was officially disbanded in 1944 when the waroutcome became obvious. In Iceland today, ancestors' membership in theNationalist Party is still a matter of embarrassment to the people,many descendants having destroyed the relics which had not alreadybeen destroyed by the members themselves. Very few objects, includingthe party flags, have been saved by a small number of collectors whoare interested in this period of Icelandic history.
Nationalist Party used two different flags in national colors. Firstflag was derived either from thethen national flag, by replacing the red cross with a swastika in samecolor, or by adding the swastika to the 19th-century proposal fromwhich the national flag was derived in 1915, which had no red cross atall. The swastika was placed on a rotated white square with edgesparallel to the swastika arms, which was conjoined with the cross intoa single charge. Second flag had atypical Nazi design, with red swastika on a white disk in center ofblue field.
Sources:
[1]Nationalist Party at Wikipedia.
[2] Gentleman's Military Interest Club -topic about the NationalistParty (includes numerous color and b/w photos of the flags, some displaying erroneously oriented swastika).
[3] FOTW website -Iceland flag history:
Tomislav Todorović, 06 April 2013

Pirates (Píratar)

image byTomislav Todorović, 31 March 2013

Pirates (Icelandic: Píratar) isthe official name of the Pirate Party of Iceland. It was founded in2012 and currently has one seat in the Parliament. Party flag ispurple, charged with the logo: white disk with black border, chargedwith a black sail on the mast, shaped so as to resemble letter P andadditionally charged with a white stockfish. This last symbol wasborrowed from theCoat of Armsof Iceland which was used since 16th centuryuntil 1903. Its choice as the national distinctive mark was probablymade due to its maritime symbolism, which makes an additional,although indirect connection with the original pirates.
Sources:
[1]Wikipedia page about the Pirates (in icelandic):
[2]Wikipedia page about theCoat of Armsof Iceland:
[3]Heraldry of the World website -Coat of Armsof Iceland:
[4] Pirates at Facebook -photo of party flag:
[5] Pirates at Facebook -photo of party flag:
[6] Pirates at Facebook -photo of party flag:
[7] Pirates at Facebook -photo of Icelandic and German Pirate Parties' flags:
[8] Pirates at Facebook -photo of Icelandic and German Pirate Parties' flags:
Flag image isderived from the image ofparty logo from Wikipedia.
Shade of purple is chosen after numerous examples of party Webgraphics which employ it, from the galleries at Facebook which alsocontain the photos listed above as the sources. This shade seems to bea good representation of the real-life color.
Tomislav Todorović, 31 March 2013

You've listed the pirates as having 1 MP seat when we actually have 3 as can be seenhere.
Jason, 30 March 2015

Tomislav Todorović wrote the original contribution on 31 March 2013. At that time this party had only one MP (Birgitta Jónsdóttir) in the Icelandic parliament.
Source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_parliamentary_election,_2013#Incumbent_parliament
The elections held on 27 April 2013, when they won three seats, so Tomislav's data was right when he wrote his article,
Zoltan Horvath, 30 March 2015

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