Denmark 2005 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Venstre won 52 of 179 seats with 29.0% of the vote; 84.5% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 2.6 points on 2001.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venstre | 52 | −4 | 29.0 | −2.2 | 974,636 |
| Social Democrats | 47 | −5 | 25.8 | −3.3 | 867,349 |
| Danish People's Party | 24 | +2 | 13.3 | +1.3 | 444,947 |
| Conservative People's Party | 18 | +2 | 10.3 | +1.2 | 344,886 |
| Danish Social Liberal Party | 17 | +8 | 9.2 | +4.0 | 308,212 |
| Socialist Peoples Party | 11 | −1 | 6.0 | −0.4 | 201,047 |
| Red–Green Alliance | 6 | +2 | 3.4 | +1.0 | 114,123 |
| Christian Democrats | 0 | −4 | 1.7 | −0.6 | 58,071 |
| Centre Democrats | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | −0.8 | 33,880 |
| Community of the People | 1 | 0 | |||
| Forward (Greenland) | 1 | 0 | |||
| People's Party (Faroe Islands) | 1 | ||||
| Republic (Faroe Islands) | 1 | 0 |
± is the change against the Denmark 2001 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Venstre 974,636
- Social Democrats 867,349
- Danish People's Party 444,947
- Conservative People's Party 344,886
- Danish Social Liberal Party 308,212
- Socialist Peoples Party 201,047
- Red–Green Alliance 114,123
- Christian Democrats 58,071
- Centre Democrats 33,880
- Community of the People
- Forward (Greenland)
- People's Party (Faroe Islands)
- Republic (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
84.5% of the 4,003,616 registered voters cast a ballot (3,384,560 ballots), down 2.6 points on 2001. 3,357,212 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout since 1994 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Venstre29.0% of votes29.1% of seats
- Social Democrats25.8% of votes26.3% of seats
- Danish People's Party13.3% of votes13.4% of seats
- Conservative People's Party10.3% of votes10.1% of seats
- Danish Social Liberal Party9.2% of votes9.5% of seats
- Socialist Peoples Party6.0% of votes6.1% of seats
- Red–Green Alliance3.4% of votes3.4% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 1.7 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 5.2 by votes and 5.1 by seats; Venstre led Social Democrats by 3.2 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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