Folk election 2019
- Unit list (Ø): 13
- Socialist People's Party (F): 14
- Social Democrats (A): 48
- Alternative (Å): 5
- Social Liberals (B): 16
- Faroe Islands / Greenland: 4
- Liberal Alliance (I): 4
- Liberal Party (V): 43
- Conservatives (C): 12
- Danish People's Party (O): 16
- New Bourgeois (D): 4
The 2019 Folketing election was the 69th election to the Danish Folketing Parliament . It was announced on May 7, 2019 by Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen and took place on June 5, 2019 and thus on Danish Basic Law Day. 179 members of the Folketing were elected in the election, 175 of them directly in Denmark and two each in the autonomous regions of the Faroe Islands and Greenland .
Starting position
In the 2015 Folketing Elections, a total of 9 parties entered parliament. The “blue bloc” made up of the Danish People's Party , Venstre , the Liberal Alliance and the Conservative People's Party gained a slim majority. The parties in the blue bloc won a total of 90 seats compared to 89 seats in the “red bloc”, made up of the other parties represented in parliament, led by the Social Democrats . As a result, Lars Løkke Rasmussen (Venstre) led a minority government supported by the other parties in the blue bloc . In November 2016, Rasmussen formed a coalition government backed by the Danish People's Party consisting of Venstre, Liberal Alliance and Conservatives .
New parties since 2015
According to the electoral rules, a political party not represented in the Folketing has to show the support of 1/175 of the number of voters of the last Folketing election in order to be allowed to vote (this would theoretically receive one of the 175 Danish seats in the Folketing). In concrete terms, this corresponded to 20,109 supporter votes in the current election. Since the 2015 election, four additional parties have qualified to participate in the Folketing election. These included two distinctly right-wing populist parties: the right-wing, economically liberal New Bourgeoisie, founded in 2015, and the openly Islamophobic party Stramme Kurs of the lawyer Rasmus Paludan . In addition, the also populist, albeit less xenophobic party, Klaus Riskær Pedersen (named after its founder), and the Christian Democrats were allowed to vote. The Christian Democrats were founded as the Christian People's Party in the 1970s , but have not been represented in the Folketing since the 2005 election or 2011. In terms of social policy, the Christian Democrats represent conservative values and are pro-European.
Both the Stramme course and Klaus Riskær Pedersen had partially circumvented the applicable rules for voting registration and were thus able to shorten their registration significantly. The 'established' large parties in the Folketing then decided to change the electoral code in order to plug such loopholes in the future.
In the run-up to the election
In June 2018, the Social Democrats declared that they did not want to lead the election campaign in coalition with the left-wing liberal radical Venstre , but that they wanted a single social democratic government. As a justification, the chairwoman of the Social Democrats, Mette Frederiksen, cited differences regarding foreign policy. The Social Democrats are behind the strict foreigner and immigration policy that the majority of the Danish population wants. The chairman of the Radical Venstre, Morten Østergaard , accused the Social Democrats of wanting to move closer to the Danish People's Party. The small green party Alternative even declared that it wanted to vote with its chairman Uffe Elbæk as its own candidate for prime ministerial office and not vote for the social democrat Mette Frederiksen as before.
After the Tight Course was allowed to vote , the leaders of the Venstre bourgeois parties , the Liberal Alliance and the Conservative People's Party declared that they did not want to work with this new party and did not see it as part of the bourgeois "blue bloc". The Danish People's Party left this option open.
In May 2019, Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen started thinking about a possible coalition between his liberal Venstre and the Social Democrats, but at the same time claimed that he would continue to campaign for a right-wing majority. These coalition ideas were rejected by the Social Democrats and Rasmussen took them back shortly before the election date.
Survey
Results
Denmark
The most obvious result of the election was the heavy losses of the Danish People's Party , which had become the second strongest party in the last election and this time lost more than half of its seats. The Social Democrats remained almost constant in terms of the proportion of votes and mandates. The social liberals ( Radical Venstre ) and the Socialist People's Party recorded gains in the “red” party spectrum, while the green alternative and the left-wing unified list lost seats. In the “blue” spectrum of parties, Venstre and the Conservative People's Party gained , while the Liberal Alliance fell .
The social-liberal radical Venstre was able to get a particularly large number of votes in the foreign quarters affected by the demolition. The Danish People's Party, on the other hand, lost many votes to the liberal Venstre , but also to the Social Democrats and the two newly founded right-wing parties Nye Borgerlige and Stram Kurs .
The outcome of the election was usually seen as an election victory for the left, social democratic-led camp.
| Political party | be right | percent | Percent +/- |
Total mandates |
Mandates +/- |
Constituency mandates |
List mandates |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. | Socialdemokraterne (Social Democrats) | 914,883 | 25.9% | −0.4% | 48 | +1 | 44 | 4th | |
| B. | Radikal Venstre (Social Liberal Party of Denmark) | 304.714 | 8.6% | + 4.0% | 16 | +8 | 12 | 4th | |
| C. | Det Conservative Folkeparti (Conservative People's Party) | 233,865 | 6.6% | + 3.2% | 12 | +6 | 9 | 3 | |
| D. | Nye Borgerlige (New Bourgeois) | 83.201 | 2.4% | (New) | 4th | (New) | 0 | 4th | |
| E. | Klaus Riskær Pedersen | 29,600 | 0.8% | (New) | 0 | (New) | 0 | 0 | |
| F. | Socialistisk Folkeparti (Socialist People's Party) | 272,304 | 7.7% | + 3.5% | 14th | +7 | 12 | 2 | |
| I. | Liberal Alliance (Liberal Alliance) | 82,270 | 2.3% | −5.2% | 4th | −9 | 0 | 4th | |
| K | Kristdemokraterne (Christian Democrats) | 60,944 | 1.7% | + 0.9% | 0 | ± 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| O | Dansk Folkeparti (Danish People's Party) | 308,512 | 8.7% | −12.4% | 16 | −21 | 11 | 5 | |
| P | Stram course (hard course) | 63.114 | 1.8% | (New) | 0 | (New) | 0 | 0 | |
| V | Venstre (Liberal Party of Denmark) | 826.161 | 23.4% | + 3.9% | 43 | +9 | 39 | 4th | |
| O | Enhedslisten - de rød-grønne (Unit List - The Red-Greens) | 245,100 | 6.9% | −0.9% | 13 | −1 | 7th | 6th | |
| Å | Alternative (alternative) | 104.278 | 3.0% | −1.8% | 5 | −4 | 1 | 4th | |
| Individual applicants | 2,774 | 0.1% | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| Valid votes | 3,531,720 | ||||||||
| Blank ballot papers | 27,781 | ||||||||
| Other invalid votes | 10,019 | ||||||||
| Total invalid votes | 37,800 | ||||||||
| Total votes cast | 3,569,520 | 84.6% | |||||||
| Eligible voters | 4,219,537 | ||||||||
| Source: Danmarks Statistics | |||||||||
Greenland
| Political party | be right | percent | Percent +/- | Mandates | Mandates +/- | Listed first | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inuit Ataqatigiit | 6881 | 33.4% | −4.9% | 1 | 0 | Aaja Chemnitz Larsen | ||
| Siumut | 6058 | 29.4% | −8.6% | 1 | ± 0 / + 1 | Aki-Matilda Høegh-Dam | ||
| Democracy | 2262 | 11.0% | + 2.0% | 0 | ± 0 | Nivi Olsen | ||
| Nunatta Qitornai | 1616 | 7.8% | + 7.8% | 0 | −1 / ± 0 | Aleqa Hammond | ||
| Partii Naleraq | 1565 | 7.6% | + 2.5% | 0 | ± 0 | Pele Broberg | ||
| Atassut | 1099 | 5.3% | −2.1% | 0 | ± 0 | Bentiaraq Ottosen | ||
| Suleqatigiissitsisut | 520 | 2.5% | + 2.5% | 0 | ± 0 | Looqi Sigurdsen | ||
| Eligible voters | 41,344 | |||||||
| Valid votes | 20.001 | |||||||
| Blank ballot papers | 360 | |||||||
| Invalid votes | 254 | |||||||
| Votes cast | 20,615 | 49.9% | ||||||
| Source: valg.gl | ||||||||
Faroe Islands
The two seats that will be filled by the election in the Faroe Islands will be distributed according to the D'Hondt procedure. Of the 37,264 eligible voters, 26,206 (70.3%) took part. 145 and 99 ballot papers were empty or invalid. One candidate from Sambandsflokkurin and one from Javnaðarflokkurin was elected .
| grouping | Election 2019 | Election 2015 | modification | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| be right | % | be right | % | |||
| B. | Sambandsflokkurin ( Union ) | 7349 | 28.3 | 5500 | 23.5 | +4.8 |
| C. | Javnaðarflokkurin ( Social Democratic Party ) | 6630 | 25.5 | 5666 | 24.3 | +1.3 |
| A. | Fólkaflokkurin ( People's Party ) | 6181 | 23.8 | 4368 | 18.7 | +5.1 |
| E. | Tjóðveldi ( Republic ) | 4830 | 18.6 | 5730 | 24.5 | −5.9 |
| F. | Framsókn ( progress ) | 639 | 2.5 | 749 | 3.2 | −0.8 |
| D. | Sjálvstýri ( self-government ) | 333 | 1.3 | 403 | 1.7 | −0.4 |
| Source: Valúrslit | ||||||
Individual evidence
- ↑ FOLKETINGSVALG ONSDAG 5 JUNE 2019. Danmarks Statistics, accessed on 27 June 2019 (Danish).
- ↑ Folketingsvalg. Folketing website, accessed June 6, 2019 (Danish).
- ↑ a b Anna Sol Jørgensen: 20.109 silent sig bag Klaus Riskær: Har underskrifter i hus på lyntid. Danmarks Radio, February 18, 2019, accessed on June 5, 2019 (Danish).
- ↑ Nye Borgerlige kan stille op til næste valg. Danmarks Radio , October 6, 2016, accessed June 5, 2019 (Danish).
- ^ Stram course he nu officielt clear til folketingsvalg. Danmarks Radio, May 6, 2019, accessed on June 5, 2019 (Danish).
- ↑ Oliver Batchelor: Kristdemokraterne melder sig clear til next folketingsvalg. Danmarks Radio, October 14, 2017, accessed June 5, 2019 (Danish).
- ↑ Riskær and 'Stram Kurs' har brudt reglerne: Flertal vil lukke smutvej til vælgererklæringer. Danmarks Radio, February 15, 2019, accessed on June 5, 2019 (Danish).
- ↑ Christine Cordsen: Mette Frederiksen går til valg på socialdemokratisk et-parti-regering. Danmarks Radio, June 4, 2018, accessed June 6, 2019 (Danish).
- ↑ Cecilie Lund Kristiansen: Vil ikke støtte Mette Frederiksen: Uffe Elbæk vil selv være statsminister. Politiken, June 26, 2018, accessed June 6, 2019 (Danish).
- ↑ Regering saving animal afviser Blat valgforbund med Stram course. Berlingske, May 10, 2019, accessed on June 6, 2019 (Danish).
- ↑ Helene Kristine Holst, Hans Skovgaard Andersen, Karen Haaning: Løkke med ny melding: Førsteprioritet er nu en regering hen over midten. Berlingske, May 10, 2019, accessed on June 6, 2019 (Danish).
- ↑ radicals stormer frem i landets ghetto-områder. TV 2 Danmark, June 7, 2019, accessed June 9, 2019 (Danish).
- ↑ Dansk Folkeparti har afleveret Lante vælgere retur til Venstre. Danmarks Radio (DR), June 8, 2019, accessed June 9, 2019 (Danish).
- ↑ Denmark election: Social Democrats win as PM admits defeat. BBC News, June 6, 2019, accessed June 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Election results in Greenland at valg.gl
- ↑ Endaligt úrslit - 58 valstøð. kvf.fo, accessed on June 6, 2019 (Faroese).
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