1963 Greenlandic Provincial Council election

none Greenland All 16 seats in the Provincial Council (plus compensatory seats) 1959 1967 1963 6 28 yes 54.05% yes yes Independents 16 16 Provincial Council elections were held in Greenland on 28 June 1963. Independents won all 16 seats. Electoral system Members of the Provincial Council were elected by first-past-the-post voting in 16 single-member constituencies. Political parties or lists were entitled to compensatory seats if they received more than one-sixteenth of the valid votes cast (6.25%). Results Independents 16 7996 204 15170 Atuagagdliutit,Atuagagdliutit Danmarks StatistikDanmarks Statistik Elected members ConstituencyElected memberAasiaatHans LyngeAngmagssalikJørgen Borchersen deAttuLars Ostermann deIlulissatRicard Petersen deIttoqqortoormiitMagtikalaat Arqe de Magtakalât ÂrĸêManiitsoqAlibak Josefsen deNarsaqErik Egede deNuukPeter K. S. Heilmann dePaamiutAnthon Petersen deQaqortoqOluf Høegh deQullissatAndreas Nielsen (Greenlandic politician) de Andreas Nielsen (Politiker, 1910) Andreas NielsenSisimiutJørgen C. F. Olsen deTasiusaqJørgen Poulsen de Jørgen Poulsen (Politiker, 1920)ThulePeter Jensen (politician) de Peter Jensen (Politiker, 1914) Peter JensenUpernavikKnud Kristiansen de Knud Kristiansen (Politiker, 1918)UummannaqElisabeth JohansenSource: Kjœr SørensenKjœr Sørensen Aftermath Ricard Petersen de and Magtikalaat Arqe de Magtakalât Ârĸê were unable to attend sessions in May 1965, with Marius Sivertsen de and Sivert Petersen de acting as substitutes; Petersen acted as a substitute for Arqe again in March 1966. Jørgen Borchersen de was replaced by Harald Ignatiussen de for sessions in autumn 1966.Axel Kjœr Sørensen (2007) Denmark-Greenland in the twentieth Century p176 References Category:Elections in Greenland Category:1960s in Greenland Category:1963 in Denmark Category:1963 in North America Greenland Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results