Jón Þór Ólafsson (born 13 March 1977) is an Icelandic politician. A business administration student at the

University of Iceland The University of Iceland ( ) is a public research university in Reykjavík, Iceland, and the country's oldest and largest institution of higher education. Founded in 1911, it has grown steadily from a small civil servants' school to a modern co ...

, he was elected to the

Althing The (; ), anglicised as Althingi or Althing, is the Parliamentary sovereignty, supreme Parliament, national parliament of Iceland. It is the oldest surviving parliament in the world. The Althing was founded in 930 at ('Thing (assembly), thing ...

in the

2013 Icelandic parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Iceland on 27 April 2013. Fifteen parties contested the elections, compared to just seven in the previous elections. The result was a victory for the two centre-right opposition parties, the Independence Par ...

. He is a member of the Pirate Party Iceland. He represented the Reykjavik Constituency South until he resigned in 2015, and was replaced by Ásta Helgadóttir. In 2016 he was again elected to the Althing.

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