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Elections to the Danish Parliament

How many people vote at the elections to the Danish Parliament? How many are entitled to vote? At each election, it is the task of Statistics Denmark to collect and tally the votes for the entire country.

Selected statistics on Elections to the Danish Parliament

This page shows selected popular statistics on the subject of Elections to the Danish Parliament. In Statbank Denmark, you can find more data and compile your own statistics.

Development in voter turnout

Here you can see the development in the share of the population who have voted in the elections to Parliament.
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Last update
10.5.2023
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The municipalities are responsible for organising an elections and adding the results. Results are disseminated electronically to Statistics Denmark via the IT company KMD. On election night Statistics Denmark also gets results by telephone.

Development in the number of voters

Here you can see the development in the number of people entitled to vote in the elections to Parliament.
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Last update
10.5.2023
Source data

The municipalities are responsible for organising an elections and adding the results. Results are disseminated electronically to Statistics Denmark via the IT company KMD. On election night Statistics Denmark also gets results by telephone.

Development in the postal vote percentage and invalid vote percentage

Here you can see how big a proportion of votes cast in the elections to Parliament that are postal votes and invalid votes.
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Last update
10.5.2023
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The municipalities are responsible for organising an elections and adding the results. Results are disseminated electronically to Statistics Denmark via the IT company KMD. On election night Statistics Denmark also gets results by telephone.

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Here you will find results from elections to the Danish and European Parliament as well as referendums.

On the statistics – documentation, sources and method

Gain an overview of the purpose, contents and quality of the statistics. Learn about the data sources of the statistics, the contents of the statistics and how often they are published.

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National Elections in Denmark

Statistics Denmark have overtaken the responsibility for making statistics on national elections from the Ministry of Interior in October 2008. It is Statistics Denmark, who make and announce all the official results regarding elections.

Need more data on Elections to the Danish Parliament?

You can go on searching on your own in Statbank Denmark. Find more detailed figures, e.g. the number of votes disaggregated on parties and geography.

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