Denmark 1994 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Social Democrats won 62 of 179 seats with 34.6% of the vote; 84.3% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 1.4 points on 1990.
- Denmark
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Democrats | 62 | −7 | 34.6 | −2.8 | 1,150,048 |
| Venstre | 42 | +13 | 23.3 | +7.5 | 775,176 |
| Conservative People's Party | 27 | −3 | 15.0 | −1.0 | 499,845 |
| Socialist Peoples Party | 13 | −2 | 7.3 | −1.0 | 242,398 |
| Progress Party | 11 | −1 | 6.4 | 0.0 | 214,057 |
| Danish Social Liberal Party | 8 | +1 | 4.6 | +1.1 | 152,701 |
| Red–Green Alliance | 6 | +6 | 3.1 | +1.4 | 104,701 |
| Centre Democrats | 5 | −4 | 2.8 | −2.3 | 94,496 |
| Christian Democrats | 0 | −4 | 1.8 | −0.5 | 61,507 |
| Independents | 1 | 1.0 | 23,358 | ||
| Other parties (seats only) | 1 | ||||
| People's Party (Faroe Islands) | 1 | 0 | |||
| Solidarity (Greenland) | 1 | 0 | |||
| Union Party (Faroe Islands) | 1 |
± is the change against the Denmark 1990 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Social Democrats 1,150,048
- Venstre 775,176
- Conservative People's Party 499,845
- Socialist Peoples Party 242,398
- Progress Party 214,057
- Danish Social Liberal Party 152,701
- Red–Green Alliance 104,701
- Centre Democrats 94,496
- Christian Democrats 61,507
- Independents 23,358
- Other parties (seats only)
- 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
84.3% of the 3,988,787 registered voters cast a ballot (3,360,637 ballots), up 1.4 points on 1990. 3,327,597 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1987 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Social Democrats34.6% of votes34.6% of seats
- Venstre23.3% of votes23.5% of seats
- Conservative People's Party15.0% of votes15.1% of seats
- Socialist Peoples Party7.3% of votes7.3% of seats
- Progress Party6.4% of votes6.1% of seats
- Danish Social Liberal Party4.6% of votes4.5% of seats
- Red–Green Alliance3.1% of votes3.4% of seats
- Centre Democrats2.8% of votes2.8% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 1.6 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.8 by votes and 4.7 by seats; Social Democrats led Venstre by 11.3 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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