Iceland National Awakening

The party was founded around Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, future Prime Minister of Iceland.

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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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. 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. In 2000 the parties merged with to form the Social Democratic Alliance.