Denmark 1988 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Social Democrats won 55 of 179 seats with 29.8% of the vote; 84.0% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 2.8 points on 1987.
- Denmark
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Democrats | 55 | +1 | 29.8 | +0.5 | 992,682 |
| Conservative People's Party | 35 | −3 | 19.3 | −1.5 | 642,048 |
| Socialist Peoples Party | 24 | −3 | 13.0 | −1.6 | 433,261 |
| Venstre | 22 | +3 | 11.8 | +1.3 | 394,190 |
| Progress Party | 16 | +7 | 9.0 | +4.2 | 298,132 |
| Danish Social Liberal Party | 10 | −1 | 5.6 | −0.6 | 185,707 |
| Centre Democrats | 9 | 0 | 4.7 | −0.1 | 155,464 |
| Christian Democrats | 4 | 0 | 2.0 | −0.4 | 68,047 |
| Common Course | 0 | −4 | 1.9 | −0.3 | 63,263 |
| The Greens | 0 | 0 | 1.4 | +0.1 | 44,960 |
| Forward (Greenland) | 1 | 0 | |||
| People's Party (Faroe Islands) | 1 | 0 | |||
| Solidarity (Greenland) | 1 | 0 | |||
| Union Party (Faroe Islands) | 1 |
± is the change against the Denmark 1987 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Social Democrats 992,682
- Conservative People's Party 642,048
- Socialist Peoples Party 433,261
- Venstre 394,190
- Progress Party 298,132
- Danish Social Liberal Party 185,707
- Centre Democrats 155,464
- Christian Democrats 68,047
- Common Course 63,263
- The Greens 44,960
- Forward (Greenland)
- People's Party (Faroe Islands)
- Solidarity (Greenland)
- Union Party (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
84.0% of the 3,991,897 registered voters cast a ballot (3,352,651 ballots), down 2.8 points on 1987. 3,329,129 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout since 1981 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Social Democrats29.8% of votes30.7% of seats
- Conservative People's Party19.3% of votes19.6% of seats
- Socialist Peoples Party13.0% of votes13.4% of seats
- Venstre11.8% of votes12.3% of seats
- Progress Party9.0% of votes8.9% of seats
- Danish Social Liberal Party5.6% of votes5.6% of seats
- Centre Democrats4.7% of votes5.0% of seats
- Christian Democrats2.0% 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 5.8 by votes and 5.6 by seats; Social Democrats led Conservative People's Party by 10.5 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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