2019 Danish general election

2019 Danish general election

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All 179 seats in the Folketing 90 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	84.60%[1] (1.29 pp)
Party Leader % Seats +/– Elected in Denmark proper Social Democrats Mette Frederiksen 25.90 48 +1 Venstre Lars Løkke Rasmussen 23.39 43 +9 DPP Kristian Thulesen Dahl 8.74 16 −21 Social Liberals Morten Østergaard 8.63 16 +8 SF Pia Olsen Dyhr 7.71 14 +7 Red–Green Pernille Skipper[a] 6.94 13 −1 Conservatives Søren Pape Poulsen 6.62 12 +6 The Alternative Uffe Elbæk 2.95 5 −4 New Right Pernille Vermund 2.36 4 New Liberal Alliance Anders Samuelsen 2.33 4 −9 Elected in the Faroe Islands Union Bárður á Steig Nielsen 28.32 1 +1 Social Democratic Aksel V. Johannesen 25.55 1 0 Elected in Greenland Inuit Ataqatigiit Múte Bourup Egede 34.35 1 0 Siumut Kim Kielsen 30.33 1 0 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Most voted-for party by polling area Most voted-for party by nomination district and constituency Most voted-for bloc by nomination district and constituency Distribution of constituency and levelling seats Prime Minister before Prime Minister after Lars Løkke Rasmussen Venstre Mette Frederiksen Social Democrats

General elections were held in the Kingdom of Denmark on 5 June 2019 to elect all 179 members of the Folketing;^[3] 175 in Denmark proper, two in the Faroe Islands and two in Greenland. The elections took place ten days after the European Parliament elections.^[4]

The elections resulted in a victory for the "red bloc", comprising parties that supported the Social Democrats' leader Mette Frederiksen as candidate for Prime Minister. The "red bloc", consisting of the Social Democrats, the Social Liberals, Socialist People's Party, the Red–Green Alliance, the Faroese Social Democratic Party and the Greenlandic Siumut,^[5] won 93 of the 179 seats, securing a parliamentary majority. Meanwhile, the incumbent governing coalition, consisting of Venstre, the Liberal Alliance and the Conservative People's Party whilst receiving parliamentary support from the Danish People's Party and Nunatta Qitornai, was reduced to 76 seats (including the Venstre-affiliated Union Party in the Faroe Islands).

On 6 June, incumbent Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen of the centre-right liberal Venstre party tendered his resignation, and Frederiksen was tasked with forming a new government. On 25 June, Frederiksen reached an agreement with the red bloc, and on 27 June she was appointed Prime Minister and her government, a single-party Social Democratic government, took office.

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