Danish general election, 1966

Danish general election, 1966

22 November 1966

All 179 seats to the Folketing 90 seats were needed for a majority Turnout 88.2%   First party Second party Third party   Leader Jens Otto Krag Poul Hartling Poul Sørensen Party Social Democrats Venstre Conservative People's Last election 76 seats, 41.9% 38 seats, 20.8% 36 seats, 20.1% Seats won 69 35 34 Seat change 7 3 2 Popular vote 1,068,911 539,027 522,028 Percentage 38.2% 19.3% 18.7%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Aksel Larsen Karl Skytte Bent Noack Party Socialist People's Social Liberals Liberal Centre Last election 10 seats, 5.8% 10 seats, 5.3% New Seats won 20 13 4 Seat change 10 3 4 Popular vote 304,437 203,858 69,180 Percentage 10.9% 7.3% 2.5%

Prime Minister before election Jens Otto Krag Social Democrats Prime Minister-elect Jens Otto Krag Social Democrats

General elections were held in Denmark on 22 November 1966,^[1] although in Greenland the elections were held on 6 December 1966. The Social Democratic Party remained the largest in the Folketing, with 69 of the 179 seats. Voter turnout was 88.6% in Denmark proper, 48.8% in the Faroe Islands and 59.0% in Greenland (where only one of the two constituencies was contested as the other had only one candidate who was elected unopposed).^[2]

Results

Denmark
Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Social Democratic Party	1,068,911	38.2	69	–7
Venstre	539,027	19.3	35	–3
Conservative People's Party	522,028	18.7	34	–2
Socialist People's Party	304,437	10.9	20	+10
Danish Social Liberal Party	203,858	7.3	13	+3
Liberal Centre	69,180	2.5	4	New
Independent Party	44,994	1.6	0	–5
Communist Party of Denmark	21,553	0.8	0	0
Justice Party of Denmark	19,905	0.7	0	0
Independents	114	0.0	0	0
Invalid/blank votes	8,297	–	–	–
Total	2,802,304	100	175	0
Faroe Islands
Social Democratic Party	3,864	36.6	1	0
People's Party	3,549	33.6	1	+1
Union Party	3,156	29.9	0	–1
Invalid/blank votes	52	–	–	–
Total	10,621	100	2	0
Greenland
Independents	6,522	100	2	0
Invalid/blank votes	138	–	–	–
Total	6,660	100	2	0
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

Popular vote
A			38.26%
D			19.29%
C			18.68%
F			10.90%
B			7.30%
L			2.48%
U			1.61%
K			0.77%
E			0.71%
Others			0.00%

By constitutency

Candidate	Party	Votes	%	Notes
Greenland (Northern Constituency)
Knud Hertling	Independent	Uncontested		Elected
Greenland (Southern Constituency)
Nikolaj Rosing	Independent	3,677	56.3	Elected
Ulrik Rosing	Inuit Party	1,367	20.9
Erling Høegh	Independent	1,291	19.8
Jørgen Olsen	Independent	200	3.1
Invalid/blank votes		130	–
Total		6,665	100
Source: Atuagagdliutit[3]

References

1. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p524 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
2. Nohlen & Stöver, pp542-543
3. Atuagagdliutit/Grønlandsposten 9 December 1966, p. 3