Denmark 1989 European Parliament election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Social Democrats won 4 of 16 seats with 23.3% of the vote; 46.2% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 6.2 points on 1984.
- Denmark
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European Parliament result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Democrats | 4 | +1 | 23.3 | +3.8 | 417,076 |
| People's Movement against the EUwith Red–Green Alliance | 4 | 0 | 18.9 | −1.9 | 338,953 |
| Venstre | 3 | +1 | 16.6 | +4.1 | 297,565 |
| Conservative People's Party | 2 | −2 | 13.3 | −7.5 | 238,760 |
| Socialist Peoples Party | 1 | 0 | 9.1 | −0.1 | 162,902 |
| Centre Democrats | 2 | +1 | 8.0 | +1.4 | 142,190 |
| Progress Party | 0 | 0 | 5.3 | +1.8 | 93,985 |
| Danish Social Liberal Party | 0 | 0 | 2.8 | −0.3 | 50,196 |
| Christian Democrats | 0 | 0 | 2.7 | 0.0 | 47,768 |
± is the change against the Denmark 1984 European Parliament election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Social Democrats 417,076
- People's Movement against the EU 338,953
- Venstre 297,565
- Conservative People's Party 238,760
- Socialist Peoples Party 162,902
- Centre Democrats 142,190
- Progress Party 93,985
- Danish Social Liberal Party 50,196
- Christian Democrats 47,768
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.
ParlGov counts an alliance's votes and seats under its first party: such a row names the allies it counts.
Share of the vote
Turnout
46.2% of the 3,923,549 registered voters cast a ballot (1,811,558 ballots), down 6.2 points on 1984. 1,789,395 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Social Democrats23.3% of votes25.0% of seats
- People's Movement against the EU18.9% of votes25.0% of seats
- Venstre16.6% of votes18.8% of seats
- Conservative People's Party13.3% of votes12.5% of seats
- Centre Democrats8.0% of votes12.5% of seats
- Socialist Peoples Party9.1% of votes6.3% of seats
- Progress Party5.3% of votes0.0% of seats
- Danish Social Liberal Party2.8% of votes0.0% of seats
- Christian Democrats2.7% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 7.6 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 6.5 by votes and 5.1 by seats; Social Democrats led People's Movement against the EU by 4.4 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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