Folk election 2011
The 2011 Folketing election was the 67th election to the Danish Parliament ( Folketing ). It took place on Thursday, September 15, 2011.
Around four million voters decided on the distribution of the 179 seats in parliament. 175 seats were awarded in Denmark and 2 each in the autonomous regions of the Faroe Islands and Greenland . There was a 2 percent hurdle .
The opposition electoral alliance around the Social Democrats led by top candidate Helle Thorning-Schmidt won a narrow majority in the Folketing. Thorning-Schmidt became the first woman in the office of the Danish Prime Minister .
Election date
The right to call new elections and to determine the exact date of the election rests with the Prime Minister. Since the electoral period of the Folketing is limited to four years, the upcoming election had to be held by November 13, 2011. Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen had always declared that he wanted to make full use of the legislative period. He set the date on August 26, 2011 after the government camp was unable to immediately agree on some economic policy measures.
It has become established practice to allow at least three weeks to elapse between the announcement and the implementation of the election so that the authorities can take the necessary precautions and parties and candidates can explain their applications. In addition, the voters should be able to orientate themselves in a sufficiently informative election campaign.
Traditionally, Danish polls take place on working days, not on a Sunday as in many European countries. In 1990, 1994 and 1998 election day was Wednesday; 2001, 2005 and 2007 were voted on on a Tuesday. In 2011 the election took place on a Thursday.
Starting position
Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen ( Venstre ) led his first election campaign as head of government. He followed Anders Fogh Rasmussen in 2009 when he moved to the post of Secretary General of NATO . Lars Løkke Rasmussen wanted to continue the existing coalition of Venstre and the conservatives with the tolerance of the Danish People's Party . The neoliberal Liberal Alliance also wanted to keep him in office.
His challenger Helle Thorning-Schmidt from the Social Democrats was supported, as in 2007, by the Socialist People's Party , Social Liberals and the left unity list .
Polls in the election year
The regular voter surveys, which were commissioned by daily newspapers and television stations, saw a stable lead for the left opposition camp for a long time. In the week leading up to the election date, the conservative newspaper Berlingske projected the left-wing parties 11 seats ahead of the ruling right-wing Alliance, while the poll for left-wing liberal politics at the same time saw a twenty-one seat lead.
Results
Although Venstre was able to post slight gains from Prime Minister Rasmussen and remained the strongest party, his coalition lost the majority in the Folketing. This was mainly due to the heavy losses of the Conservatives, who lost more than half of their votes. The electoral alliance achieved a total of 86 seats in the Folketing.
On the other hand, the Social Democrats lost votes slightly and achieved the worst result in their party history. Their electoral alliance as a whole was able to grow and won a majority in the Folketing. The winners on the left were the social liberals, who were able to compensate for their massive losses in the 2007 election, and the red-green unity list, which tripled its result. Together, the electoral alliance achieved 89 seats. Thus there is no vote for an absolute majority in the Folketing. The electoral alliance has this, however, through the declaration of support from three MPs from Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
In the Faroe Islands, as in 2007, one mandate each went to the left and right camps. The election winner was the liberal-unionist Sambandsflokkurin , who gained more than 7 percentage points. The biggest loser was the socialist-secessionist Tjóðveldi , who lost 6 percentage points and had to hand over her mandate in the Folketing to the social-democratic-unionist Javnaðarflokkurin . Both mandates went to unionist parties.
In Greenland the distribution of seats remained unchanged, with both seats going to the left camp. The socialist Inuit Ataqatigiit and the social democratic Siumut were able to increase their share of the vote considerably, while the liberal Atassut in particular lost massively.
Denmark
| Political party | list | Leading candidate | be right | percent | +/-% | Seats | +/- seats |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Party | V | Lars Løkke Rasmussen | 947.725 | 26.7 | +0.5 | 47 | +1 |
| Danish People's Party | O | Pia Kjærsgaard | 436.726 | 12.3 | −1.6 | 22nd | −3 |
| conservative | C. | Lars Barfoed | 175,047 | 4.9 | −5.5 | 8th | −10 |
| Liberal Alliance | I. | Samuelsen is different | 176,585 | 5.0 | +2.2 | 9 | +4 |
| Christian Democrats | K | Per Ørum Jørgensen | 28,070 | 0.8 | −0.1 | 0 | 0 |
| Social democrats | A. | Helle Thorning-Schmidt | 879.615 | 24.8 | −0.7 | 44 | −1 |
| People's Socialist Party | F. | Villy Søvndal | 326.192 | 9.2 | −3.8 | 16 | −7 |
| Social Liberals | B. | Margrethe Vestager | 336,698 | 9.5 | +4.4 | 17th | +8 |
| Unit list | O | 236.860 | 6.7 | +4.5 | 12 | +8 | |
| Others | 1,850 | 0.1 | +0.1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Eligible voters | 4,079,910 | ||||||
| Votes cast | 3,579,675 | 87.7 | +1.1 | ||||
| Valid votes | 3,545,368 | 175 | 0 | ||||
Source: Danmarks Statistics
Note: The changes in the number of seats refer to the 2007 election results, not to the situation immediately before the 2011 election
Faroe Islands
| Political party | orientation | be right | percent | +/-% | Seats | +/- seats | Best placed within the list | Personal voices |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sambandsflokkurin | unionist / liberal | 6.361 | 30.8 | +7.3 | 1 | 0 | Edmund Joensen | 1,578 |
| Fólkaflokkurin | secessionist / conservative | 3,932 | 19.0 | −1.5 | 0 | 0 | Annika Olsen | 1,193 |
| Miðflokkurin | Christian Democratic | 872 | 4.2 | −2.6 | 0 | 0 | Jenis av Rana | 291 |
| Javnaðarflokkurin | unionist / social democratic | 4,328 | 21.0 | +0.6 | 1 | +1 | Sjúrður Skaale | 1,539 |
| Tjóðveldi | secessionist / socialist | 3,998 | 19.4 | −6.0 | 0 | −1 | Høgni Hoydal | 1,605 |
| Sjálvstýrisflokkurin | unionist / social liberal | 481 | 2.3 | −1.2 | 0 | 0 | Kristianna Winther Poulsen | 128 |
| Individual applicants | 672 | 3.3 | +3.3 | 0 | 0 | Poul Michelsen | 672 | |
| Eligible voters | 35,044 | |||||||
| Votes cast | 20,945 | 58.9 | ||||||
| Valid votes | 20,644 | |||||||
Sources: Faroese radio and imperial ombudsman in the Faroe Islands . For the division into secessionist and unionist parties, see also Autonomy of the Faroe Islands .
Greenland
| Political party | orientation | be right | percent | +/-% | Seats | +/- seats | Best placed within the list | Personal voices |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inuit Ataqatigiit | secessionist / socialist | 9,780 | 42.7 | +9.2 | 1 | 0 | Sara Olsvig | 8,129 |
| Siumut | social democratic | 8,499 | 37.1 | +5.7 | 1 | 0 | Doris Jakobsen | 5,709 |
| Democracy | unionist / conservative-populist | 2,882 | 12.6 | −3.6 | 0 | 0 | Niels Thomsen | 2,055 |
| Atassut | unionist / liberal | 1,728 | 7.6 | −11.3 | 0 | 0 | Steen Lynge | 870 |
| Eligible voters | 40,930 | |||||||
| Votes cast | 23,493 | 57.4 | −7.0 | |||||
| Valid votes | 22,889 | |||||||
Preliminary result. Source: Greenlandic Broadcasting Corporation
Web links
- Folketing : Publications in English on the Danish parliament , February 16, 2014 (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Danmarks Radio (Danish) ( Memento of September 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Special election pages , accessed on January 1, 2011
- ^ Danmarks Radio (Danish) ( Memento of September 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Special election pages , accessed on January 1, 2011
- ↑ Berlingske -Wahlbarometer retrieved (Danish) September 6, 2011
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Narrow majority for center-left , accessed on September 16, 2011
- ↑ Folketingsvalg torsdag September 15, 2011: Result - Hele lands: Fintællingsresultat. Danmarks Statistics, September 19, 2011, accessed on September 30, 2011 (Danish).
- ↑ result of Folkatingsval ( Memento of 30 September 2011 at the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Final result Folketingsvalg Faroe Islands 2007 (Danish)
- ^ Preliminary election results (Danish) Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa , September 16, 2011, accessed on January 1, 2012