Iceland Has The First Female-Majority Parliament In Europe.

According to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, no other European country has crossed the 50 percent threshold, with Sweden being the closest to 47 percent. Unlike some other countries, Iceland does not have a legal quota for women's representation in parliament, although some parties impose a minimum number of female candidates.

According to a World Economic Forum report released in March, the country has long been recognized as a leader in gender equality and was ranked the country with the highest gender equality in 12 years. It gave men and women equal parental leave, and its first law on equal pay for men and women began in 1961. 

One of those elected was Lenya Run Taha Karim of the opposition Pirate Party, who became the youngest member from parliament in the country's history at 21.

"I just woke up not too long ago - I'm not going to lie - and I turned off the phone in airplane mode, and it all exploded," he told reporters. "Full, full, full of messages, and I can see a message that says, Congratulations, so I'm assuming I'm there." Only five other countries currently have parliaments where women hold at least half of the seats. Rwanda came out on top, with women making up 61.3% of the House of Commons.

Cuba followed them with 53.4%, Nicaragua with 50.6%, and Mexico and the United Arab Emirates with 50%. Women make up only 34.2% of the British House of Commons and only 27.6% of the United States House of Representatives.

Meanwhile, yesterday's election showed that the current left-right coalition, led by Prime Minister Catherine Jacobsdottir, is increasing in the majority. His green-left movement party appears to have lost several seats while his right-wing counterpart has won five, questioning his future as prime minister.

Polls predict the coalition will not get a majority. Still, the jump in support for the center-right Progressive Party, which won five more seats than in 2017, has brought the total number of coalitions to 37, according to state television RUV. The current government, consisting of the left-green movement Ms. Jakobsdottir, the Conservative Independence Party, and the center Progressive Party, said ahead of the election that they would negotiate further cooperation if they had a majority.