1987 Danish general election

none 1987 Danish general election Kingdom of Denmark no 1984 1988 All 179 seats in the Folketing 90 8 September 1987 Social Democrats (Denmark) Anker Jørgensen 56 54 29.32 Conservative People's Party (Denmark) Poul Schlüter 42 38 20.84 Socialist People's Party (Denmark) Gert Petersen 21 27 14.58 Venstre (Denmark) Uffe Ellemann-Jensen 22 19 10.54 Danish Social Liberal Party Niels Helveg Petersen 10 11 6.22 Centre Democrats (Denmark) Erhard Jakobsen 8 9 4.79 Progress Party (Denmark) Johannes Sørensen 6 9 4.77 KrF Christian Christensen 5 4 2.37 Common Course Preben Møller Hansen new 4 2.16 Elected in the Faroe Islands People's Party (Faroe Islands) Jógvan Sundstein 1 1 28.84 Social Democratic Party (Faroe Islands) Atli Dam 0 1 24.68 Elected in Greenland Siumut Jonathan Motzfeldt 1 1 43.28 Atassut Otto Steenholdt 1 1 41.30 Government Schlüter I K–V–CD–KrF Government after election Schlüter II K–V–CD–KrF 86.74% 300px Most voted-for party by nomination district and constituency 300px Most voted-for party by municipality 300px Distribution of constituency and levelling seats General elections were held in Denmark on 8 September 1987.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p. 525 978-3-8329-5609-7 The Social Democratic Party remained the largest in the Folketing with 54 of the 179 seats. The Conservative People's Party-led coalition government lost its majority, but since the parties on the left did not have a majority to form their own government, the incumbent government was able to continue as a minority coalition government.Borre Ole 1988-04-01 The Danish general election of 1987 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0261379488900212 Electoral Studies 7 1 75–78 10.1016/0261-3794(88)90021-2 0261-3794 subscription Voter turnout was 87% in Denmark proper, 69% in the Faroe Islands and 45% in Greenland.Nohlen & Stöver, p547 Results Denmark proper File:1987 Danish general election Result.svg Social Democrats 985906 54 –2 Conservative People's Party 700886 38 –4 Socialist People's Party 490176 27 +6 Venstre 354291 19 –3 Danish Social Liberal Party 209086 11 +1 Centre Democrats 161070 9 +1 Progress Party 160461 9 +3 Christian People's Party 79664 4 –1 Common Course 72631 4 New Left Socialists 46141 0 –5 The Greens 45076 0 New Communist Party of Denmark 28974 0 0 Justice Party of Denmark 16359 0 0 Humanist Party 5675 0 New Socialist Workers Party 1808 0 0 Communist Party of Denmark/Marxist–Leninists 987 0 0 Independents 3366 0 0 26644 3907454 0 y Faroe Islands People's Party 6411 1 0 Social Democratic Party 5486 1 +1 Union Party 5345 0 –1 Republican Party 3478 0 0 Self-Government 1070 0 0 Progress Party 438 0 New 157 32484 0 y Greenland Siumut 6944 1 0 Atassut 6627 1 0 Inuit Ataqatigiit 2001 0 0 Polar Party 474 0 New 934 37800 0 Nohlen & Stöver See also List of members of the Folketing, 1987–1988 References Category:1987 elections in Denmark Category:September 1987 in Europe Category:Folketing elections