Denmark General election 2019 — Results
Election day: June 5, 2019
- Social Democrats (A): 25.90%, 48 seats
- Venstre (V): 23.39%, 43 seats
- Danish People's Party (O): 8.74%, 16 seats
- Social Liberals (B): 8.63%, 16 seats
- Green Left – SF (F): 7.71%, 14 seats
- Red–Green Alliance (Ø): 6.94%, 13 seats
- Conservatives (C): 6.62%, 12 seats
- The Alternative (Å): 2.95%, 5 seats
Turnout: 84.60%
About this election
The rules of the game
The 179-member Folketing is elected by proportional representation, with 175 seats in Denmark proper (135 constituency plus 40 levelling seats) and two each for the Faroes and Greenland; the threshold is 2%. The system's high proportionality and Denmark's bloc politics mean elections are usually decided not by who is largest but by whether the "red" or "blue" bloc can muster 90 seats.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 2.51 points separated Social Democrats (A) from Venstre (V) — 88,721 votes.
- Social Democrats (A) converted 25.90% of the vote into 48 of 175 seats (27.43%), 1.53 points more than its vote share.
- The top two shared 49.29% of the vote between them, and 7 lists cleared 5%.
- Social Democrats (A) moved −0.38 points against the 2015 general election (26.28% → 25.90%).
- Support for Social Democrats (A) ranged from 33.52% in Nordjylland to 20.98% in Hovedstaden — a spread of 12.54 points across 5 regions, and it led in 4 of 5.
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- Why Election Maps Look Different From the Popular Vote — why a map can look one-sided when the vote was close
- How a Constituency Map Gets Built — what happens when no boundary file matches the districts
- How We Check an Election Figure — the checks every number passes before publication