Denmark 1968 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Social Democrats won 62 of 179 seats with 34.1% of the vote; 89.3% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 0.7 points on 1966.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Democrats | 62 | −7 | 34.1 | −4.2 | 974,833 |
| Conservative People's Party | 37 | +3 | 20.4 | +1.7 | 581,051 |
| Venstre | 34 | −1 | 18.6 | −0.7 | 530,167 |
| Danish Social Liberal Party | 27 | +14 | 15.0 | +7.7 | 427,304 |
| Socialist Peoples Party | 11 | −9 | 6.1 | −4.8 | 174,553 |
| Left Socialists | 4 | 2.0 | 57,184 | ||
| Liberal Centre | 0 | −4 | 1.3 | −1.2 | 37,407 |
| Communist Party of Denmark | 0 | 1.0 | 29,706 | ||
| Greenland and Faroe Islands | 4 | 0 |
± is the change against the Denmark 1966 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Social Democrats 974,833
- Conservative People's Party 581,051
- Venstre 530,167
- Danish Social Liberal Party 427,304
- Socialist Peoples Party 174,553
- Left Socialists 57,184
- Liberal Centre 37,407
- Communist Party of Denmark 29,706
- 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
89.3% of the 3,208,646 registered voters cast a ballot (2,864,805 ballots), up 0.7 points on 1966. 2,854,647 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout of this kind in our data, which begins in 1945. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Social Democrats34.1% of votes34.6% of seats
- Conservative People's Party20.4% of votes20.7% of seats
- Venstre18.6% of votes19.0% of seats
- Danish Social Liberal Party15.0% of votes15.1% of seats
- Socialist Peoples Party6.1% of votes6.1% of seats
- Left Socialists2.0% of votes2.2% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 2.0 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.6 by votes and 4.4 by seats; Social Democrats led Conservative People's Party by 13.7 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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