Denmark 1957 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Social Democrats won 70 of 179 seats with 39.4% of the vote; 83.7% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 3.2 points on 1953.
- Denmark
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Democrats | 70 | −4 | 39.4 | −1.9 | 910,170 |
| Venstre | 45 | +3 | 25.1 | +2.0 | 578,932 |
| Conservative People's Party | 30 | 0 | 16.6 | −0.2 | 383,843 |
| Danish Social Liberal Party | 14 | 0 | 7.8 | 0.0 | 179,822 |
| Justice Party of Denmark | 9 | +3 | 5.3 | +1.8 | 122,759 |
| Communist Party of Denmark | 6 | −2 | 3.1 | −1.2 | 72,315 |
| Independent Party | 0 | 0 | 2.3 | −0.4 | 53,061 |
| Schleswig Party | 1 | 0 | 0.4 | −0.1 | 9,202 |
| Greenland and Faroe Islands | 4 | 0 |
± is the change against the Denmark September 1953 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Social Democrats 910,170
- Venstre 578,932
- Conservative People's Party 383,843
- Danish Social Liberal Party 179,822
- Justice Party of Denmark 122,759
- Communist Party of Denmark 72,315
- Independent Party 53,061
- Schleswig Party 9,202
- Greenland and Faroe Islands
ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.
Share of the vote
Turnout
83.7% of the 2,772,159 registered voters cast a ballot (2,321,097 ballots), up 3.2 points on 1953. 2,310,175 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1947 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Social Democrats39.4% of votes39.1% of seats
- Venstre25.1% of votes25.1% of seats
- Conservative People's Party16.6% of votes16.8% of seats
- Danish Social Liberal Party7.8% of votes7.8% of seats
- Justice Party of Denmark5.3% of votes5.0% of seats
- Communist Party of Denmark3.1% of votes3.4% of seats
- Schleswig Party0.4% of votes0.6% of seats
- Independent Party2.3% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 2.3 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.9 by votes and 3.9 by seats; Social Democrats led Venstre by 14.3 points of the vote. How these are computed.
Sources and licence
Sources and licence
- ParlGov 2024 Release (Döring and Manow), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
- Wikidata, party colours (P465) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
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