1977 Danish general election

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1977 Danish general election
Danish Realm
← 1975 15 February 1977 1979 →
All 179 seats in the Folketing
90 seats needed for a majority
Turnout88.4%
Party Leader % Seats +/–
Social Democrats Anker Jørgensen 37.0% 65 +12
Progress Mogens Glistrup 14.6% 26 +2
Venstre Poul Hartling 12.0% 21 −21
Conservatives Poul Schlüter 8.5% 15 +5
Centre Democrats Erhard Jakobsen 6.4% 11 +7
SF Gert Petersen 3.9% 7 −2
Communists Knud Jespersen 3.7% 7 0
Social Liberals Svend Haugaard 3.6% 6 −7
scope="row" style="border-left: 4px solid Template:Christian Democrats (Denmark)/meta/color;" | KrF Jens Møller 3.4% 6 −3
Justice Ib Christensen 3.3% 6 +6
Left Socialists Collective leadership 2.7% 5 +1
Elected in the Faroe Islands
Union Pauli Ellefsen 31.7% 1 +1
Social Democratic Atli Dam 22.5% 1 0
Elected in Greenland
Independent – 100% 2 0
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Prime Minister before Prime Minister-elect
Anker Jørgensen
Social Democrats		 Anker Jørgensen
Social Democrats

General elections were held in Denmark on 15 February 1977.[1] The Social Democratic Party remained the largest in the Folketing, with 65 of the 179 seats. Voter turnout was 88.7% in Denmark proper, 62.9% in the Faroe Islands and 70.0% in Greenland.[2]

Results

Popular vote in Denmark
A
 
 37.03%
Z
 
 14.61%
V
 
 11.97%
C
 
 8.48%
M
 
 6.45%
F
 
 3.87%
K
 
 3.67%
B
 
 3.65%
Q
 
 3.42%
E
 
 3.29%
Y
 
 2.69%
P
 
 0.87%
Others
 
 0.01%
Party Votes % Seats +/–
Denmark proper
bgcolor=Template:Social Democrats (Denmark)/meta/color| Social Democratic Party 1,150,355 37.0 65 +12
bgcolor=Template:Progress Party (Denmark)/meta/color| Progress Party 453,792 14.6 26 +2
bgcolor=Template:Venstre (Denmark)/meta/color| Venstre 371,728 12.0 21 –21
bgcolor=Template:Conservative People's Party (Denmark)/meta/color| Conservative People's Party 263,262 8.5 15 +5
bgcolor=Template:Centre Democrats (Denmark)/meta/color| Centre Democrats 200,347 6.4 11 +7
bgcolor=Template:Socialist People's Party (Denmark)/meta/color| Socialist People's Party 120,357 3.9 7 –2
bgcolor=Template:Communist Party of Denmark/meta/color| Communist Party of Denmark 114,022 3.7 7 0
bgcolor=Template:Danish Social Liberal Party/meta/color| Danish Social Liberal Party 113,330 3.6 6 –7
bgcolor=Template:Christian Democrats (Denmark)/meta/color| Christian People's Party 106,082 3.4 6 –3
bgcolor=Template:Justice Party of Denmark/meta/color| Justice Party of Denmark 102,149 3.3 6 +6
Left Socialists 83,667 2.7 5 +1
Pensioners' Party 26,889 0.9 0 New
bgcolor=Template:Independent politician/meta/color| Independents 317 0.0 0 0
Invalid/blank votes 18,670 – – –
Total 3,124,967 100 175 0
Faroe Islands
bgcolor=Template:Union Party (Faroe Islands)/meta/color| Union Party 5,183 31.7 1 +1
bgcolor=Template:Social Democratic Party (Faroe Islands)/meta/color| Social Democratic Party 3,681 22.5 1 0
bgcolor=Template:Republic (Faroe Islands)/meta/color| Republican Party 3,057 18.7 0 –1
bgcolor=Template:People's Party (Faroe Islands)/meta/color| People's Party 2,773 17.0 0 0
bgcolor=Template:New Self-Government/meta/color| Self-Government Party 551 3.4 0 New
bgcolor=Template:Christian People's Party (Faroe Islands)/meta/color| Progress Party 207 1.3 0 New
bgcolor=Template:Independent politician/meta/color| Independents 891 5.5 0 New
Invalid/blank votes 43 – – –
Total 16,386 100 2 0
Greenland
bgcolor=Template:Independent politician/meta/color| Independents 17,605 100 2 0
Invalid/blank votes 384 – – –
Total 17,989 100 2 0
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

References

  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p524 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p545
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