Iceland votes amid splintered political landscape

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Left-wing parties are also calling for more government spending on healthcare, which has been the most important topic in the election.
49% : "If we get such a government, we are going to see some changes when it comes to taxation of the rich, and environmental questions are going to be more important," said Baldvin Bergsson, a political analyst at broadcaster RUV.
44% : Climate change is an important issue for Icelanders, who like to call their nation the "Land of Fire and Ice" because of its other-worldly landscape of volcanoes and glaciers.
40% : "The pandemic was a huge blow to the important tourism industry," said Stefania Oskarsdottir, a political scientist at the University of Iceland, adding high public spending has fuelled optimism.

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