Denmark 1960 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Social Democrats won 76 of 179 seats with 42.1% of the vote; 85.8% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 2.1 points on 1957.
- Denmark
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Democrats | 76 | +6 | 42.1 | +2.7 | 1,023,794 |
| Venstre | 38 | −7 | 21.1 | −4.0 | 512,041 |
| Conservative People's Party | 32 | +2 | 17.9 | +1.3 | 435,764 |
| Socialist Peoples Party | 11 | 6.1 | 149,440 | ||
| Danish Social Liberal Party | 11 | −3 | 5.8 | −2.0 | 140,979 |
| Independent Party | 6 | +6 | 3.3 | +1.0 | 81,134 |
| Justice Party of Denmark | 0 | −9 | 2.2 | −3.1 | 52,330 |
| Communist Party of Denmark | 0 | −6 | 1.1 | −2.0 | 27,298 |
| Schleswig Party | 1 | 0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 9,058 |
| Greenland and Faroe Islands | 4 | 0 |
± is the change against the Denmark 1957 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Social Democrats 1,023,794
- Venstre 512,041
- Conservative People's Party 435,764
- Socialist Peoples Party 149,440
- Danish Social Liberal Party 140,979
- Independent Party 81,134
- Justice Party of Denmark 52,330
- Communist Party of Denmark 27,298
- Schleswig Party 9,058
- 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
85.8% of the 2,842,336 registered voters cast a ballot (2,439,936 ballots), up 2.1 points on 1957. 2,431,947 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1945 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Social Democrats42.1% of votes42.5% of seats
- Venstre21.1% of votes21.2% of seats
- Conservative People's Party17.9% of votes17.9% of seats
- Socialist Peoples Party6.1% of votes6.1% of seats
- Danish Social Liberal Party5.8% of votes6.1% of seats
- Independent Party3.3% of votes3.4% of seats
- Schleswig Party0.4% of votes0.6% of seats
- Justice Party of Denmark2.2% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 2.4 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.8 by votes and 3.8 by seats; Social Democrats led Venstre by 21.0 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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