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The first woman elected president of a country was Vigdís Finnbogadóttir of Iceland, who won the 1980 presidential election as well as three subsequent elections, remaining in office for a total of 16 years, which makes her the longest-serving non-hereditary female head of state in history.
Jul 30, 2020 · She was the first woman to be democratically elected president in any nation on June 29, 1980. She won the simple plurality vote with 33.8% of the votes, ahead of Guðlaugur Thisorvaldsson (32.3%), Albert Guðmundsson (19.8%), and Pétur J. Thorsteinsson (14.1%).
Jul 31, 2020 · When Vigdis Finnbogadottir assumed Iceland's presidency on August 1 1980, she made history as the first elected female head of state in the world, and four decades later the 90-year-old...
Feb 2, 2021 · Female political leaders around the world have grown since the first female president. Learn some women leaders currently presiding worldwide. Sanna Marin - prime minister of Finland since 2020; Katerina Sakellaropoulou - president of Greece since 2020; Rose Christiane Raponda - prime minister of Gabon since 2020
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On 29 June 1980, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir won the Icelandic presidential election. This made her the world’s first-ever elected female president. She was re-elected with no rival candidates in 1984 and 1992, and received more than 90% of the votes cast in the 1988 elections.
Feb 5, 2020 · (Argentina’s Isabel Perón, the first woman to hold the title of president, had been sworn in only after her husband died in office; she was his vice president.) Known for championing...
Finnbogadóttir’s election made her Iceland’s first woman head of state, and the first woman in the world to be elected president of a country. With a term length of exactly 16 years, she also became the longest-serving woman head of state in any country in history.
