Denmark 2011 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Venstre won 47 of 179 seats with 26.7% of the vote; 87.7% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 1.1 points on 2007.
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venstre | 47 | +1 | 26.7 | +0.5 | 947,725 |
| Social Democrats | 44 | −1 | 24.8 | −0.7 | 879,615 |
| Danish People's Party | 22 | −3 | 12.3 | −1.6 | 436,726 |
| Danish Social Liberal Party | 17 | +8 | 9.5 | +4.4 | 336,698 |
| Socialist Peoples Party | 16 | −7 | 9.2 | −3.8 | 326,192 |
| Red–Green Alliance | 12 | +8 | 6.7 | +4.5 | 236,860 |
| Liberal Alliance | 9 | +4 | 5.0 | +2.2 | 176,585 |
| Conservative People's Party | 8 | −10 | 4.9 | −5.5 | 175,047 |
| Christian Democrats | 0 | 0 | 0.8 | −0.1 | 28,070 |
| Community of the People | 1 | 0 | |||
| Forward (Greenland) | 1 | 0 | |||
| Social Democratic Party (Faroe Islands) | 1 | ||||
| Union Party (Faroe Islands) | 1 | 0 |
± is the change against the Denmark 2007 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Venstre 947,725
- Social Democrats 879,615
- Danish People's Party 436,726
- Danish Social Liberal Party 336,698
- Socialist Peoples Party 326,192
- Red–Green Alliance 236,860
- Liberal Alliance 176,585
- Conservative People's Party 175,047
- Christian Democrats 28,070
- Community of the People
- Forward (Greenland)
- Social Democratic Party (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
87.7% of the 4,079,910 registered voters cast a ballot (3,579,675 ballots), up 1.1 points on 2007. 3,545,368 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1984 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Venstre26.7% of votes26.3% of seats
- Social Democrats24.8% of votes24.6% of seats
- Danish People's Party12.3% of votes12.3% of seats
- Danish Social Liberal Party9.5% of votes9.5% of seats
- Socialist Peoples Party9.2% of votes8.9% of seats
- Red–Green Alliance6.7% of votes6.7% of seats
- Liberal Alliance5.0% of votes5.0% of seats
- Conservative People's Party4.9% of votes4.5% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 1.1 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 5.7 by votes and 5.9 by seats; Venstre led Social Democrats by 1.9 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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