Parliamentary election in Greenland 2018

The parliamentary election in Greenland 2018 ( Danish Landstingsvalget i Grønland 2018 ) was the 13th election of Inatsisartut . It had to take place no later than four years after the 2014 election , i.e. by November 27, 2018. On March 13, 2018, Parliament set the date on April 24 at the suggestion of Prime Minister Kim Kielsen .

Siumut won the election despite considerable losses in front of the also significantly weakened Inuit Ataqatigiit . The clearest election winners were the Demokraatit . The newly founded parties Suleqatigiissitsisut and Nunatta Qitornai also benefited from the losses of the two strongest parties in the country and were each able to win a seat in the Inatsisartut.

Suffrage

The 31 members of the Inatsisartut are elected in multiple constituencies using proportional representation . In the allocation of seats, only parties or lists that overcome an explicit blocking clause amounting to 2% of the valid votes cast are taken into account . The seat assignment is done according to the D'Hondt method .

Starting position

Kim Kielsen, Acting Prime Minister

After several cabinet reshuffles in the past legislative period , the social democratic party Siumut led a center-left coalition government with the socialist party Inuit Ataqatigiit and the centrist Partii Naleraq . The three parties had a comfortable two-thirds majority in the Inatsisartut . In addition to the Prime Minister, Siumut had four ministers in the government ( Naalakkersuisut ). Inuit Ataqatigiit also had four ministerial posts, while the Partii Naleraq sent a cabinet member with ex-head of government Hans Enoksen.

Participating parties

The following parties competed:

	Abbreviation	German meaning	Alignment	Camp before the election
Siumut	S.	Forward	social democratic	government
Inuit Ataqatigiit	IA	Inuit community	democratic-socialist
Partii Naleraq	PN	Party of the bearing mark	centrist , interest party
Atassut	A.	Common sense	right-wing liberal	parliamentary opposition
Democracy	D.	Democrats	social liberal to conservative	parliamentary opposition
Nunatta Qitornai	NQ	Children of our country	regionalist	extra-parliamentary opposition
Suleqatigiissitsisut	Su	Party of cooperation	socially to economically liberal	extra-parliamentary opposition

The Nunatta Qitornai and the Suleqatigiissitsisut were only founded by Vittus Qujaukitsoq and Michael Rosing and Tillie Martinussen at the end of 2017 and the beginning of 2018, respectively , and thus competed for the first time. On March 12th and 13th, they gave the signatures that are needed to take office.

The separatist Partii Inuit disbanded after the 2014 election, in which they fell from the government directly below the hurdle that would have meant one seat. The former party members stood for the Partii Naleraq, which was also striving for the independence of Greenland.

Party leaders of the incoming parties

Chairman
Chairman	Kim Kielsen	Sara Olsvig	Randi Vestergaard Evaldsen	Hans Enoksen	Siverth K. Heilmann	Vittus Qujaukitsoq	Michael Rosing
Political party	Siumut	Inuit Ataqatigiit	Democracy	Partii Naleraq	Atassut	Nunatta Qitornai	Suleqatigiissitsisut

Survey

A survey conducted by HS Analyze in March gave the first tendencies for the election result. Another survey was carried out in April. The number in brackets indicates the number of forecast parliamentary seats.

Institute	date	Siumut	Inuit Ataqatigiit	Democracy	Partii Naleraq	Atassut	Nunatta Qitornai	Suleqatigiissitsisut
General election	April 25, 2018	27.4% (9)	25.8% (8)	19.7% (6)	13.6% (4)	6.0% (2)	4.1% (1)	3.5% (1)
HS analysis	Apr. 2018	27.4% (9)	31.0% (10)	18.8% (6)	11.1% (3)	5.2% (1)	3.6% (1)	2.9% (1)
HS analysis	March 2018	32.6% (11)	33.7% (11)	12.6% (4)	10.6% (3)	4.1% (1)	4.6% (1)	1.8% (0)
General election	Nov 28, 2014	34.7% (11)	33.5% (11)	11.9% (4)	11.7% (3)	6.6% (2)	- (-)	- (-)

Result

Result of the parliamentary elections in Greenland 2018
Political party		be right			Seats
Political party		number	%	+/-	number	+/-
	Siumut (S)	7,959	27.4	−7.2	9	−2
	Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA)	7,478	25.8	−7.7	8th	−3
	Democracy (D)	5,712	19.7	+7.8	6th	+2
	Partii Naleraq (PN)	3,931	13.6	+1.9	4th	+1
	Atassut (A)	1,730	6.0	−0.6	2	± 0
	Suleqatigiissitsisut (Su)	1,193	4.1	+4.1	1	+1
	Nunatta Qitornai (NQ)	1.002	3.5	+3.5	1	+1
total		29.005	100.0		31	± 0
Valid votes		29.005	99.0
Invalid votes		291	1.0
voter turnout		29,296	71.9
Eligible voters		40,769	100.0
Source: valg.gl

consequences

31 politicians were elected to the 13th Inatsisartut . On May 4, 2018, the incumbent Prime Minister and Siumut Chairman Kim Kielsen announced the formation of a four-party government consisting of his party and Partii Naleraq, Atassut and Nunatta Qitornai. This has a majority of 16 of the 31 seats in parliament. At the same time it was announced that the Partii-Naleraq chairman Hans Enoksen will succeed Lars-Emil Johansen in the parliamentary chairmanship .