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Best Party

Best Party
Besti flokkurinn
ChairpersonJón Gnarr
Vice-chairpersonHeiða Kristín Helgadóttir
FounderJón Gnarr
Founded16 November 2009
Dissolved16 June 2014
HeadquartersLaugavegur 40a, Reykjavík
National affiliationBright Future (2014)
International affiliationPirate Parties International (observer)
ColoursBlue / Pink

The Best Party (Icelandic: Besti flokkurinn) was an Icelandic political party founded by Jón Gnarr on 16 November 2009.[1] The party ran in the 2010 city council election in Reykjavík and won a plurality on the Reykjavík City Council, receiving 34.7% of the vote, defeating the Independence Party which received 33.6%.[2][3][4] It was an observer member of the International Pirate Party, but not associated with the Pirate Party Iceland.[5] Jón Gnarr announced that the party was to be dissolved after he stepped down as mayor after the upcoming local elections in May 2014. Many of the Best Party's members joined Bright Future, although Jón himself stopped political participation.

The founder and chairman of the party was the former Mayor of Reykjavík Jón Gnarr.[6] The party was founded several months after the Icelandic parliamentary election in 2009, and was closely related to the national Bright Future party, led by MP and Best Party Vice President Heiða Kristín Helgadóttir.

The party's initial success is seen as a backlash against establishment parties in the wake of Iceland's 2008–2011 financial crisis.[7]

  1. ^ "Jón Gnarr creates a political party" (in Icelandic). Visir.is. 16 November 2009. Archived from the original on 13 April 2014. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
  2. ^ "Besti flokkurinn stærstur í Reykjavík". Morgunblaðið. 17 May 2010. Retrieved 19 May 2010.
  3. ^ "Kosningavefur Dómsmálaráðuneytisins". Icelandic Ministry of Justice. Archived from the original on 8 May 2010. Retrieved 19 May 2010.
  4. ^ "Best Party wins polls in Iceland's Reykjavik". BBC. 30 May 2010. Retrieved 30 May 2010.
  5. ^ "Best Party Integrated Into International Pirate Party" (in Icelandic). The Reykjavík Grapevine. 23 April 2013. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
  6. ^ "Kosningavefur Dómsmálaráðuneytisins". Icelandic Ministry of Justice. Archived from the original on 22 May 2010. Retrieved 19 May 2010.
  7. ^ "Satiric political party wins council poll in Iceland" Archived 2018-09-21 at the Wayback Machine, Indo-Asian News Service, May 30, 2010. (accessed 24 January 2012)

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