Danish general election, 1971

21 September 1971

All 179 seats to the Folketing
90 seats were needed for a majority

Turnout

86.8%

	First party	Second party

Leader	Jens Otto Krag	Erik Ninn-Hansen
Party	Social Democrats	Conservative People's
Last election	62 seats, 34.2%	37 seats, 20.4%
Seats won	70	31
Seat change	8	6
Popular vote	1,074,777	481,335
Percentage	37.3%	16.7%

Prime Minister before election

Hilmar Baunsgaard
Social Liberals

Prime Minister-elect

Jens Otto Krag
Social Democrats

General elections were held in Denmark on 21 September 1971 and in the Faroe Islands on 5 October.^[1]^[2] The Social Democratic Party remained the largest in the Folketing, with 70 of the 179 seats. Voter turnout was 87.2% in Denmark proper, 56.8% in the Faroe Islands and 52.1% in Greenland (where only one of the two constituencies was contested as the other had only a single candidate who was elected unopposed).^[3]

Results

Denmark
Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Social Democratic Party	1,074,777	37.3	70	+8
Conservative People's Party	481,335	16.7	31	–6
Venstre	450,904	15.6	30	–4
Danish Social Liberal Party	413,620	14.3	27	0
Socialist People's Party	262,756	9.1	17	+6
Christian People's Party	57,072	2.0	0	New
Justice Party of Denmark	50,231	1.7	0	0
Left Socialists	45,979	1.6	0	–4
Communist Party of Denmark	39,564	1.4	0	0
Schleswig Party	6,743	0.2	0	0
Independents	919	0.0	0	0
Invalid/blank votes	20,196	–	–	–
Total	2,904,096	100	175	0
Faroe Islands
Social Democratic Party	4,170	31.8	1	0
Union Party	2,855	21.8	0	0
People's Party	2,680	20.4	1	0
Self-Government Party	648	4.9	0	New
Progress Party	362	2.8	0	0
Independents	2,140	16.3	0	New
Invalid/blank votes	77	–	–	–
Total	13,202	100	2	0
Greenland
Independents	7,148	100	2	0
Invalid/blank votes	195	–	–	–
Total	7,343	100	2	0
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

Popular vote

A			37.27%
C			16.69%
V			15.64%
B			14.34%
F			9.11%
Q			1.98%
E			1.74%
Y			1.59%
K			1.37%
Others			0.27%

References

↑ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p524 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
↑ Denmark Inter-Parliamentary Union
↑ Nohlen & Stöver, pp543-544

Elections and referendums in Denmark
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