Denmark 1987 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Social Democrats won 54 of 179 seats with 29.3% of the vote; 86.7% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 1.7 points on 1984.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Democrats | 54 | −2 | 29.3 | −2.3 | 985,906 |
| Conservative People's Party | 38 | −4 | 20.8 | −2.6 | 700,866 |
| Socialist Peoples Party | 27 | +6 | 14.6 | +3.1 | 490,176 |
| Venstre | 19 | −3 | 10.5 | −1.6 | 354,291 |
| Danish Social Liberal Party | 11 | +1 | 6.2 | +0.7 | 209,086 |
| Centre Democrats | 9 | +1 | 4.8 | +0.2 | 161,070 |
| Progress Party | 9 | +3 | 4.8 | +1.2 | 160,461 |
| Christian Democrats | 4 | −1 | 2.4 | −0.3 | 79,664 |
| Common Course | 4 | 2.2 | 72,631 | ||
| Left Socialists | 0 | −5 | 1.4 | −1.3 | 46,141 |
| The Greens | 0 | 1.3 | 45,076 | ||
| Forward (Greenland) | 1 | 0 |
The other parties and groups
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| People's Party (Faroe Islands) | 1 | 0 | |||
| Social Democratic Party (Faroe Islands) | 1 | ||||
| Solidarity (Greenland) | 1 | 0 |
± is the change against the Denmark 1984 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Social Democrats 985,906
- Conservative People's Party 700,866
- Socialist Peoples Party 490,176
- Venstre 354,291
- Danish Social Liberal Party 209,086
- Centre Democrats 161,070
- Progress Party 160,461
- Christian Democrats 79,664
- Common Course 72,631
- Left Socialists 46,141
- The Greens 45,076
- Forward (Greenland)
- People's Party (Faroe Islands)
- Social Democratic Party (Faroe Islands)
- Solidarity (Greenland)
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
86.7% of the 3,907,454 registered voters cast a ballot (3,389,201 ballots), down 1.7 points on 1984. 3,362,557 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Social Democrats29.3% of votes30.2% of seats
- Conservative People's Party20.8% of votes21.2% of seats
- Socialist Peoples Party14.6% of votes15.1% of seats
- Venstre10.5% of votes10.6% of seats
- Danish Social Liberal Party6.2% of votes6.1% of seats
- Centre Democrats4.8% of votes5.0% of seats
- Progress Party4.8% of votes5.0% of seats
- Christian Democrats2.4% of votes2.2% of seats
- Common Course2.2% of votes2.2% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 1.8 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 5.8 by votes and 5.6 by seats; Social Democrats led Conservative People's Party by 8.5 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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