Denmark General election 2015 — Results
Election day: June 18, 2015
- Social Democrats (A): 26.28%, 47 seats
- Danish People's Party (O): 21.08%, 37 seats
- Venstre (V): 19.47%, 34 seats
- Red–Green Alliance (Ø): 7.80%, 14 seats
- Liberal Alliance (I): 7.53%, 13 seats
- The Alternative (Å): 4.80%, 9 seats
- Social Liberals (B): 4.58%, 8 seats
- Green Left – SF (F): 4.19%, 7 seats
Turnout: 85.89%
About this election
The rules of the game
Denmark elects its parliament by one of the most precisely proportional systems in the world. Of the 179 seats, 175 are filled in Denmark proper and two each are reserved for the Faroe Islands and Greenland. In Denmark proper, 135 constituency seats are distributed across ten multi-member constituencies and then topped up by 40 compensatory "levelling" seats (tillægsmandater) that correct any disproportionality, so a party clearing the 2% national threshold wins almost exactly its share of seats. Governments are formed by whichever bloc can command a majority — or, more often, avoid a majority against it — and minority governments supported by other parties are the Danish norm.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 5.20 points separated Social Democrats (A) from Danish People's Party (O) — 183,194 votes.
- Social Democrats (A) converted 26.28% of the vote into 47 of 175 seats (26.86%), 0.58 points more than its vote share.
- The top two shared 47.36% of the vote between them, and 5 lists cleared 5%.
- Support for Social Democrats (A) ranged from 29.68% in Nordjylland to 24.37% in Hovedstaden — a spread of 5.31 points across 5 regions, and it led in 5 of 5.
- Turnout of 85.89% is the highest of the 3 general elections covered here since 2015.
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- Why Official Results Sometimes Take Weeks — the stages between the count and the legal result
- Why Turnout Figures Disagree — why two sources publish different turnout for one election
- D’Hondt vs Sainte-Laguë — how a divisor formula turns vote shares into seats