1960 Danish general election
General elections were held in Denmark on 15 November 1960.[1] The Social Democratic Party remained the largest in the Folketing, with 76 of the 179 seats. Voter turnout was 85.8% in Denmark proper, 57.1% in the Faroe Islands and 65.8% in Greenland.[2] They were the last elections in which the electoral threshold for the Danish seats was 60,000 votes. The following year the electoral law was amended to make it 2% of the vote.
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Turnout | 85.5% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Results
Denmark | ||||
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Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– |
Social Democratic Party | 1,023,794 | 42.1 | 76 | +6 |
Venstre | 512,041 | 21.1 | 38 | –7 |
Conservative People's Party | 435,764 | 17.9 | 32 | +2 |
Socialist People's Party | 149,440 | 6.1 | 11 | New |
Danish Social Liberal Party | 140,979 | 5.8 | 11 | –3 |
Independent Party | 81,134 | 3.3 | 6 | +6 |
Justice Party of Denmark | 52,330 | 2.2 | 0 | –9 |
Communist Party of Denmark | 27,298 | 1.1 | 0 | –6 |
Schleswig Party | 9,058 | 0.4 | 1 | 0 |
Independents | 109 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 |
Invalid/blank votes | 7,989 | – | – | – |
Total | 2,439,936 | 100 | 175 | 0 |
Faroe Islands | ||||
Social Democratic Party | 3,712 | 34.2 | 1 | +1 |
Union Party | 2,391 | 22.0 | 1 | 1 |
People's Party | 2,158 | 19.9 | 0 | –1 |
Independents | 2,583 | 23.8 | 0 | New |
Invalid/blank votes | 55 | – | – | – |
Total | 10,899 | 100 | 2 | 0 |
Greenland | ||||
Independents | 8,489 | 100 | 2 | 0 |
Invalid/blank votes | 71 | – | – | – |
Total | 8,560 | 100 | 2 | 0 |
Source: Nohlen & Stöver |
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References
- Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p524 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
- Nohlen & Stöver, p542
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