European elections in Denmark 2009

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The European elections in Denmark in 2009 took place on June 7, 2009 at the same time as a referendum on changing the Danish Succession Act. It was carried out in the course of the EU- wide European elections in 2009 , with 13 of the 736 seats in the European Parliament in Denmark .

Campaigning parties

Election posters in Vesterbro ( Copenhagen ).

All Danish parties that had already won seats in the European Parliament in the 2004 European elections ran again. These were the Social Democrats (S, 2004: 5 seats), the liberal Venstre (V, 3 seats), the Conservative Folkeparti (KF; 1), the green-left Socialistisk Folkeparti (SF, 1), the social liberal Radical Venstre (B , 1), the national conservative Dansk Folkeparti (DF, 1) as well as the EU-skeptical Junibevægelsen (J, 1) and the EU-rejecting Folkebevægelsen mod EU (N, 1). In addition, the Liberal Alliance stood for election.

The election took place according to the proportional representation with preferential votes according to the D'Hondt procedure , whereby the whole country was considered as a single constituency . Since the D'Hondt process slightly favors larger parties, there were lists of various parties as in 2004 :

  • the social democrats with the radical Venstre and the Socialistisk Folkeparti,
  • the Venstre with the Conservative Folkeparti and the Liberal Alliance,
  • the Junibevægelsen with the Folkebevægelsen mod EU.

Only the Dansk Folkeparti competed without a list connection.

Results

Danish MEPs 1979–2009 by party. The non-partisan anti-Europe movements are losing weight.

The turnout was 59.5%, above the European average (43.1%) and also higher than in the 2004 European elections in Denmark (47.9%).

The Social Democrats lost a lot of votes, but were just able to hold out as the strongest party in front of the Venstre, which barely gained. Especially SF and DF experienced significant gains. The radical Venstre lost slightly, the Junibevægelsen clearly in votes; both lost their seats in parliament.

In detail, the parties achieved the following results:

Political party be right percent change Seats change
Political party European party EP Group
Social democrats SPE S&D 503,439 21.5% −11.1% 4th -1
Venstre ELDR ALDE 474.041 20.2% + 0.8% 3 0
Socialistisk Folkeparti - Greens / EFA 371,603 15.9% + 7.9% 2 +1
Dansk Folkeparti AEN EVS 357.942 15.3% + 8.5% 2 +1
Det conservative folk party EPP EPP 297.199 12.7% +1.4% 1 0
Folkebevægelsen mod EU - GUE / NGL 168,555 7.2% + 2.0% 1 0
Det Radical Venstre ELDR ALDE 100.094 4.3% -2.1% 0 -1
Junibevægelsen EU Democrats (until 2009: Ind / Dem ) 55,459 2.4% -6.7% 0 -1
Liberal Alliance - 13,796 0.6% + 0.6% 0 0
total 2,342,128 100% 13 -1
Blank ballot papers 67.219 1.7%
Invalid votes 6.221 0.2%
Votes cast 2,415,568
Eligible voters 4,059,385

Election sequences

While most Danish parties rejoined the political groups in the European Parliament to which they had already belonged after the election, difficulties arose for the Dansk Folkeparti. Before the election, this group had belonged to the national-conservative parliamentary group Union for a Europe of Nations (UEN), but after the election it no longer met the conditions for founding a parliamentary group and dissolved. The DF then joined the newly founded right-wing conservative-Eurosceptic parliamentary group Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD).

The Junibevægelsen , which was founded in 1992 as a party focused only on European issues and only ever stood in European elections, announced its dissolution immediately after losing its only seat in the European Parliament.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the election website of the Danish statistical office (Danish).
  2. ↑ TV 2 Nyhederne, June 7, 2009: Tæppet går ned for Junibevægelsen , Dahl: Junibevægelsen er færdig (Danish).