Elections in Denmark

Elections to local councils (municipal or regional) and to the European Parliament are held on fixed dates.

The Kingdom of Denmark (including the Faroe Islands and Greenland) elects a unicameral parliament, the Folketing, on a national level.

Recently, the Danish government was highly criticized when it did not hold a referendum regarding the controversial Lisbon treaty.

Overall the election was a win for the "red bloc" – the parties that supported Mette Frederiksen, leader of the Social Democrats, as prime minister.

[3] The Social Democrats defended their position as the largest party, and won an additional seat despite a slightly reduced voter share.

The Danish People's Party's vote share fell by 12.4 percentage points (pp), well over half of their support.

Leader Kristian Thulesen Dahl speculated that the bad result was due to an extraordinary good election in 2015, and that some voters felt they could "gain [their] policy elsewhere".

[4] The Liberal Alliance saw their vote share fall by over two-thirds and became the smallest party in the Folketing, only 0.3pp above the 2% election threshold.

[8] In the Faroe Islands, Republic (which had finished first in the 2015 elections)[9] dropped to fourth place and lost their seat.