Denmark 2001 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Venstre won 56 of 179 seats with 31.2% of the vote; 87.1% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 1.2 points on 1998.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venstre | 56 | +14 | 31.2 | +7.2 | 1,077,858 |
| Social Democrats | 52 | −11 | 29.1 | −6.8 | 1,003,323 |
| Danish People's Party | 22 | +9 | 12.0 | +4.6 | 413,987 |
| Conservative People's Party | 16 | 0 | 9.1 | +0.2 | 312,770 |
| Socialist Peoples Party | 12 | −1 | 6.4 | −1.2 | 219,842 |
| Danish Social Liberal Party | 9 | +2 | 5.2 | +1.3 | 179,023 |
| Red–Green Alliance | 4 | −1 | 2.4 | −0.3 | 82,685 |
| Christian Democrats | 4 | 0 | 2.3 | −0.2 | 78,793 |
| Centre Democrats | 0 | −8 | 1.8 | −2.5 | 61,031 |
| Progress Party | 0 | −4 | 0.5 | −1.9 | 19,340 |
| Community of the People | 1 | ||||
| Forward (Greenland) | 1 | 0 | |||
| Republic (Faroe Islands) | 1 | ||||
| Union Party (Faroe Islands) | 1 |
± is the change against the Denmark 1998 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Venstre 1,077,858
- Social Democrats 1,003,323
- Danish People's Party 413,987
- Conservative People's Party 312,770
- Socialist Peoples Party 219,842
- Danish Social Liberal Party 179,023
- Red–Green Alliance 82,685
- Christian Democrats 78,793
- Centre Democrats 61,031
- Progress Party 19,340
- Community of the People
- Forward (Greenland)
- Republic (Faroe Islands)
- 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
87.1% of the 3,998,957 registered voters cast a ballot (3,484,915 ballots), up 1.2 points on 1998. 3,449,668 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1984 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Venstre31.2% of votes31.3% of seats
- Social Democrats29.1% of votes29.1% of seats
- Danish People's Party12.0% of votes12.3% of seats
- Conservative People's Party9.1% of votes8.9% of seats
- Socialist Peoples Party6.4% of votes6.7% of seats
- Danish Social Liberal Party5.2% of votes5.0% of seats
- Red–Green Alliance2.4% of votes2.2% of seats
- Christian Democrats2.3% of votes2.2% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 1.6 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.7 by votes and 4.7 by seats; Venstre led Social Democrats by 2.1 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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