Danish legislative elections in 2001 – Wikipedia

Danish legislative elections of 2001
179 Folketing seats (Absolute majority: 90 seats)
November 20, 2001
Electoral and results
Registered				4 070 773
Voters				3 484 915
				87.1%
	Left – Anders Fogh Rasmussen
	Voice			1 077 858
	31.2%				7.2
	Seats obtained			56	14
	Social democracy- Poul Nyrup Rasmussen
	Voice			1 003 023
	29.1%				6.8
	Seats obtained			52	11
	Danish popular party – Pia Kjærsgaard
	Voice			413 987
	twelfth %				4.6
	Seats obtained			22	9
	Popular Conservative Party – Bendt Bendtsen
	Voice			312 770
	9.1%
	Seats obtained			16
	Socialist Popular Party – Holger K. Nielsen
	Voice			201 047
	6.4%				1.2
	Seats obtained			twelfth	first
	Danish social-liberal party- Marianne Jelved
	Voice			179 023
	5.2% after-content-x4				1.3
	Seats obtained			9	2
	Unit list – Collegiate direction
	Voice			82 685
	2.4%				0.3
	Seats obtained			4	first
	Democratic Christians – Jann Sjursen
	Voice			78 793
	2.3%				0.2
	Seats obtained			4
Representation of the Assembly
Government
Outgoing			Elected
Nyrup Rasmussen IV A – B – F – Ø – Q – D			Fogh Rasmussen I. V – C – O – Z
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THE Danish legislative elections of 2001 took place on November 20, 2001 . They resulted in the victory of the center-right party Venstre, whose leader Anders Fogh Rasmussen becomes Prime Minister with the support of the Conservative Popular Party.

The Social Democratic Party has achieved its worst score since 1973. It is the first time since September 1920 that it is not the best represented party in Parliament.

Electoral system [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The 179 Folketing deputies, the only room of the Danish parliament, are elected via a mixed electoral system associating a proportional multinominal ballot within the framework of the constituency with a distribution by compensation. 175 seats are divided between 3 regions: Copenhagen, Jutland and the islands. These 3 regions are subdivided into 3 urban constituencies and 7 rural constituencies. The number of seats allocated to each of these constituencies, proportional to the number of its inhabitants, is revised every five years. 135 of these seats are reserved for the constituency, the other 40 being compensatory and divided between the different political parties entering parliament in order to ensure them as exact as possible. To access the distribution of compensatory seats, training must have obtained a minimum of seats in a given district or a number of votes greater than or equal to the number of votes necessary to obtain a seat in at least 2 of 3 of 3 regions of the kingdom, or at least 2% of the votes cast at the national level. Voters also have a preferential vote, allowing them to express their preference for a candidate within the list for which they vote: the distribution of seats within the lists therefore takes place according to the preferential votes, the elected candidates being those who have gathered the most preferential votes on their name. Finally, 2 seats are reserved for the Faroe Islands and 2 others in Greenland.

To present lists in the legislative elections, any party must be represented in folketing when the ballot holds. If this is not the case, he must then collect a number of signatures corresponding to 1/175 ^{It is} Votes declared valid in the last legislative elections.