General elections were held in Denmark on 15 November 1960.

[1] The Social Democratic Party remained the largest in the Folketing, with 76 of the 179 seats.

Voter turnout was 86% in Denmark proper, 57% in the Faroe Islands and 66% in Greenland.

[1]: 542  They were the last elections in which the electoral threshold for the Danish seats was 60,000 votes.

The following year the electoral law was amended to make it 2% of the vote.