1971 Danish general election

none 1971 Danish general election Kingdom of Denmark 1968 1973 All 179 seats in the Folketing 90 21 September 1971 Social Democrats (Denmark) Jens Otto Krag 62 70 37.27 Conservative People's Party (Denmark) Poul Møller 37 31 16.69 Venstre (Denmark) Poul Hartling 34 30 15.64 Danish Social Liberal Party Hilmar Baunsgaard 27 27 14.34 Socialist People's Party (Denmark) Sigurd Ømann 11 17 9.11 Elected in the Faroe Islands Social Democratic Party (Faroe Islands) Jákup Frederik Øregaard 1 1 31.77 People's Party (Faroe Islands) Hákun Djurhuus 1 1 20.42 Elected in Greenland Independents – 2 2 100 Government Baunsgaard R–K–V Government after election Krag III Social Democrats (Denmark) 87.16% 300px Largest party within each nomination district and constituency. 300px Distribution of constituency and levelling seats. General elections were held in Denmark on 21 September 1971 and in the Faroe Islands on 5 October.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p524 978-3-8329-5609-7Denmark Inter-Parliamentary Union The Social Democratic Party remained the largest in the Folketing, with 70 of the 179 seats. Voter turnout was 87% in Denmark proper, 57% in the Faroe Islands and 52% in Greenland (where only one of the two constituencies was contested as the other had only a single candidate who was elected unopposed).Nohlen & Stöver, pp543-544 Electoral system All members were elected by party-list proportional representation in multi-member constituencies and in levelling seats filled at-large using overall party vote shares. The districts elected between 2 and 14 members each. They were the first elections using the new counties as constituencies. Campaign The incumbent Baunsgaard government called an early election as a referendum on the Danish ascension to the common market. The campaign was also dominated by the policies of austerity instituted by the government.Folketinget (January 1971) Election results Denmark https://data.ipu.org/parliament/DK/DK-LC01/election/DK-LC01-E19710921 2025-09-25 IPU Parline: global data on national parliaments en-GB Results File:1971 Danish general election Result.svg Denmark proper Social Democrats 1074777 70 +8 Conservative People's Party 481335 31 –6 Venstre 450904 30 –4 Danish Social Liberal Party 413620 27 0 Socialist People's Party 262756 17 +6 Christian People's Party 57072 0 New Justice Party of Denmark 50231 0 0 Left Socialists 45979 0 –4 Communist Party of Denmark 39564 0 0 Schleswig Party 6743 0 0 Independents 919 0 0 20196 3332004 0 y Faroe Islands Social Democratic Party 4170 1 0 Union Party 2855 0 0 People's Party 2680 1 0 Self-Government 648 0 New Progress Party 362 0 0 Independents 2410 0 New 77 23260 0 y Greenland Independents 7148 2 0 195 14104 0 Nohlen & Stöver, Danmarks Statistik Aftermath The election result was one of the closest in Danish history, with the right and left mainland blocks separated by only one seat. Ultimately former prime minister Jens Otto Krag was returned to power through an agreement with the two independents elected from the Greenland constituencies.Kurrild-Klitgaard Peter December 2011 Election inversions, coalitions and proportional representation: Examples from Danish elections https://ideas.repec.org//p/pra/mprapa/35302.html MPRA Paper en References Category:1971 elections in Denmark Category:September 1971 in Europe Category:Folketing elections