Denmark 1990 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Social Democrats won 69 of 179 seats with 37.4% of the vote; 82.8% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 1.1 points on 1988.
- Denmark
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Democrats | 69 | +14 | 37.4 | +7.6 | 1,211,121 |
| Conservative People's Party | 30 | −5 | 16.0 | −3.3 | 517,293 |
| Venstre | 29 | +7 | 15.8 | +4.0 | 511,643 |
| Socialist Peoples Party | 15 | −9 | 8.3 | −4.7 | 268,759 |
| Progress Party | 12 | −4 | 6.4 | −2.6 | 208,484 |
| Centre Democrats | 9 | 0 | 5.1 | +0.4 | 165,556 |
| Danish Social Liberal Party | 7 | −3 | 3.5 | −2.1 | 114,888 |
| Christian Democrats | 4 | 0 | 2.3 | +0.3 | 74,174 |
| Common Course | 0 | 0 | 1.8 | −0.1 | 57,896 |
| Red–Green Alliance | 0 | 1.7 | 54,038 | ||
| Forward (Greenland) | 1 | 0 | |||
| People's Party (Faroe Islands) | 1 | 0 | |||
| Social Democratic Party (Faroe Islands) | 1 | ||||
| Solidarity (Greenland) | 1 | 0 |
± is the change against the Denmark 1988 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Social Democrats 1,211,121
- Conservative People's Party 517,293
- Venstre 511,643
- Socialist Peoples Party 268,759
- Progress Party 208,484
- Centre Democrats 165,556
- Danish Social Liberal Party 114,888
- Christian Democrats 74,174
- Common Course 57,896
- Red–Green Alliance 54,038
- 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
82.8% of the 3,941,499 registered voters cast a ballot (3,265,240 ballots), down 1.1 points on 1988. 3,239,662 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout since 1953 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Social Democrats37.4% of votes38.5% of seats
- Conservative People's Party16.0% of votes16.8% of seats
- Venstre15.8% of votes16.2% of seats
- Socialist Peoples Party8.3% of votes8.4% of seats
- Progress Party6.4% of votes6.7% of seats
- Centre Democrats5.1% of votes5.0% of seats
- Danish Social Liberal Party3.5% of votes3.9% of seats
- Christian Democrats2.3% of votes2.2% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 2.2 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.8 by votes and 4.6 by seats; Social Democrats led Conservative People's Party by 21.4 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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