Parliamentary election in Greenland 2002
In the parliamentary elections in Greenland in 2002 on December 3, all 31 seats in the Inatsisartut or Landsting, the Greenland parliament , had to be filled. There were a total of six parties.
Starting position
As a result of the result of the last parliamentary election, the Motzfeldt VII cabinet was formed in 1999 under the leadership of Jonathan Motzfeldt (Siumut), which held office for the entire legislative period until the Inatsisartut was re-elected.
Result
The social democratic party Siumut was again the strongest force . For the first time, the Democrats took part. The Social Liberal Party immediately won 16.1% of the vote and took five seats in Inatsisartut. The Inuit Ataqatigiit and Atassut were able to roughly hold their results with slight gains or losses. The big loser was the Kattusseqatigiit Partiiat . The conservative party lost three of its four previous parliamentary seats.
| Political party | German meaning | Alignment | be right | Seats | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number | % | +/- | number | +/- | ||||
| Siumut | Forward | Social democracy | 8,151 | 28.8 | −6.4 | 10 | −1 | |
| Inuit Ataqatigiit | Inuit community | Democratic socialism | 7,243 | 25.6 | +3.5 | 8th | +1 | |
| Atassut | Common sense | Right liberalism | 5,845 | 20.6 | −4.6 | 7th | −1 | |
| Democracy | Democrats | Social liberalism | 4,558 | 16.1 | +16.1 | 5 | +5 | |
| Kattusseqatigiit Partiiat | Party of the united | conservatism | 1,510 | 5.3 | −7.0 | 1 | −3 | |
| Arnat Partiiat | Women's party | feminism | 686 | 2.4 | +2.4 | - | ± 0 | |
| Independent candidates | 328 | 1.2 | −4.1 | - | −1 | |||
| total | 28,321 | 100.0 | 31 | ± 0 | ||||
| Valid votes | 28,321 | 99.0 | ||||||
| Empty and invalid votes | 295 | 1.0 | ||||||
| Votes cast | 28,616 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Turnout: 74.8% (−1.2% p), source: Statistics Greenland | ||||||||
consequences
After the election, Hans Enoksen (Siumut) was elected Prime Minister on December 14, 2002. He took over the office from his party colleague Jonathan Motzfeldt and formed the Enoksen I cabinet .
