The Social Democratic Party is maintaining a lead of 46.1% of voters, according to an opinion poll conducted by the party in the community of Hafnarfjörður. The Independence Party came in second with 33.6% of voter support, followed by 17.9% for the Left Greens. The Progressive Party tailed the procession with 2.4% voter support. If these were the results of the election, the Social Democrats would win five seats, the Independence Party four and the Left Greens two.

Asked about the position of chairman of the district council, 68% of Hafnarfjörður residents said that they wanted Lúðvík Geirsson to remain in his position as mayor of Hafnarfjörður, according to a press release from the Social Democrats. He is in sixth place on the list of candidates for the party in Hafnarfjörður and would therefore not win the mayoral election, and according to the poll the majority has all but disappeared in the town. The Social Democrats currently hold six of the eleven available seats.

As the situation stands, 69% of residents would prefer to delay debt repayments rather than cutting back on welfare services.

The social sciences department of the University of Iceland conducted the poll for the Social Democratic Party over the period of the 3rd–12th May 2010. Respondents could choose any of the chairmen of the parties who are running in Hafnarfjörður that they wanted for the position of mayor in the upcoming election. Valdimar Svavarsson (17%), Guðrún Ágústa Guðmundsdóttir (9%) and Valdimar Sigurjónsson (1%) came behind Lúðvík Geirsson in the mayoral opinion poll. Approximately 5% of respondents chose someone else.

Source: mbl.is

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