Professor Silja Bára R. Ómarsdóttir, at the Faculty of Political Scicence, has been elected Rector at the University of Iceland. The election results were announced in the Main Building’s Ceremonial Hall late this afternoon. She received 50,7% of the votes in the election and will be nominated by the University Council to the Minister of Culture, Innovation, and Higher Education for the position of Rector.
The electronic voting for the second round of the rectorial election was open from 9 am on Wednesday 26 March to 5 pm on Thursday 27 March 2025. The candidates were Professors Magnús Karl Magnússon and Silja Bára R. Ómarsdóttir.
Electoral register and voter turnout
The same electoral register was used for the second round of the rector election as in the first. 14,557 individuals were on the electoral register: 1,752 members of staff and 12,805 students. A total of 1.543 staff members or 88.1% of the electoral register and 5.335 students or 41.7% of the electoral register voted. Altogether, 6.878 votes were cast. The overall voter turnout was thus 47.3%. Blank ballots accounted for 1.7% of the total votes cast.
