Kristján Þórður Snæbjarnarson (born 21 October 1980) is an

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ic trade unionist, politician and member of the

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. A member of the

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, he has represented the Reykjavík South constituency since November 2024. Kristján was born on 21 October 1980 in

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. He is the son of electrical engineer Snæbjörn Kristjánsson and office representative Sigurlaug Sigurðardóttir. He spent the first six years of his life in Lyngholt, Barðaströnd before the family moved to

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in 1986. They lived in the

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district until 1993. He studied

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at Iðnskólinn í Reykjavík. He also studied electrical engineering (2008) and business administration (2010) at

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. He worked for many years as an electronic technician at the ISAL

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in Straumsvík. Kristján became involved in trade unionism in 2004 and took part in the pay negotiation at ISAL. He was elected chairman of the Association of Electronic Engineers () in 2008. He has been chairman of the Electrical Industry Association of Iceland (RSÍ) since 2011. He was elected second vice-president of the Icelandic Confederation of Labour (ASI) in 2018 and first vice-president in 2020. He was elected to the

at the 2024 parliamentary election. Kristján married to Díana Lynn Simpson in 2002 and has two daughters and a son.

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