European Parliament election, 2009 (Denmark)

Denmark European Parliament election, 2009

2004 ← 7 June 2009 → 2014

14 seats to the European Parliament

The European Parliament election of 2009 in Denmark was the election of the delegation from Denmark to the European Parliament on June 7, 2009. The number of Danish MEPs elected was 13 (previously it was 14). The election was held simultaneously with a referendum on changing the Danish Act of Succession.

Parties

Election posters at Vesterbro in Copenhagen.

All Danish parties which were represented in the European Parliament announced they would take part in the election. These were the Social Democrats, Venstre (Liberal Party), Conservative People's Party, June Movement, Socialist People's Party, Danish People's Party, Social Liberal Party and the People's Movement against the EU.

As in the last election, several electoral coalitions were agreed to before the vote. The Social Democrats sided with the Social Liberal Party and the Socialist People's Party, while Venstre teamed up with the Conservative People's Party and Liberal Alliance. EU-critics JuniBevægelsen and the People's Movement against the EU were also in a coalition, meaning that the only party not in a coalition was the Danish People's Party.

Under the Danish electoral code for European Parliament elections, parties that surpassed the 2 % threshold in the last Folketing elections may also take part in the European elections, should they wish so.

Results

  Summary of the June 2009 European Parliament election results

Parties and coalitions		European party	Votes	%	Change	Seats	Change
	A Social Democrats (Socialdemokraterne)	PES	503,439	21.49	-11.1	4	-1
	V Venstre (Venstre, Danmarks Liberale Parti)	ELDR	474,041	20.24	+0.8	3	±0
	F Socialist People's Party (Socialistisk Folkeparti) (SF)	EGP observer	371,603	15.87	+7.8	2	+1
	O Danish People's Party (Dansk Folkeparti)	AEN	357,942	15.28	+8.5	2	+1
	C Conservative People's Party (Det Konservative Folkeparti)	EPP	297,199	12.69	+1.3	1	±0
	N People's Movement against the EU (Folkebevægelsen mod EU)	none (GUE/NGL group)	168,555	7.20	+2.2	1	±0
	B Danish Social Liberal Party (Det Radikale Venstre)		100,094	4.27	-2.2	0	-1
	J June Movement (JuniBevægelsen)		55,459	2.37	-6.8	0	-1
	I Liberal Alliance (Liberal Alliance)		13,796	0.59	N/A	0	N/A
Total			2,342,128	100.00		13	-1
	Blank votes		67,219	1.66
	Invalid votes		6,221	0.15
Turnout			2,415,568	59.51
Electorate			4,059,385
Source: Statistics Denmark

The final list of MEP were determined by a recount of votes on individual politicians:

• Social Democrats (4 seats)
  1. Dan Jørgensen (233,266 votes)
  2. Christel Schaldemose (43,855)
  3. Britta Thomsen (32,569)
  4. Ole Christensen (20,597)
• Conservative People's Party (1 seat)
  1. Bendt Bendtsen (176,786 votes)
• Socialist People's Party (2 seats)
  1. Margrete Auken (204,111 votes)
  2. Emilie Turunen (37,330)
• People's Movement against the EU (1 seat)
  1. Søren Søndergaard (107,429 votes)
• Danish People's Party (2 seats)
  1. Morten Messerschmidt (284,500 votes)
  2. Anna Rosbach Andersen (3,592)
• Venstre (3 seats)
  1. Jens Rohde (171,205 votes)
  2. Morten Løkkegaard (57,175)
  3. Anne Elisabet Jensen (47,906)

After the election, both head of the June Movement Keld Albrechtsen and lead kandidate Hanne Dahl announced that they intended to disband the movement after failing to obtain a seat at the election.

Opinion polls

Source	Date	SD	V	SF	K	DF	FM EU	RV	JB	LA	Undecided
[1]	March 26-1 April	26.4%	22%	17.4%	12.1%	12%	4%	3.9%	2.2%	n.a.	-
[2]	May 22	27.9%	24.4%	13.4%	11.8%	8.6%	6.3%	4.4%	3.2%	n.a.	-
[3]	May 29	26.5%	23.5%	12.1%	13.6%	10.2%	5.3%	4.5%	3.8%	0.5%	-
[4], [5]	June 5	24.1%	23.3%	15.8%	? 12%	11.8%	5.2%	3.7%	3.5%	?	-
[6]	June 6	22.6%	22.4%	15.5%	12.3%	6.7%	6.5%	3.8%	2.9%	0.6%	-