1973 Danish general election

1973 Danish general election

← 1971 4 December 1973 1975 →
All 179 seats in the Folketing 90 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	88.72%
Party Leader % Seats +/– Social Democrats Anker Jørgensen 25.65 46 −24 Progress Mogens Glistrup 15.89 28 New Venstre Poul Hartling 12.26 22 −8 Social Liberals Hilmar Baunsgaard 11.24 20 −7 Conservatives Erik Ninn-Hansen 9.15 16 −15 Centre Democrats Erhard Jakobsen 7.76 14 New SF Sigurd Ømann 6.01 11 −6 KrF Jacob Christensen 4.05 7 +7 Communists Knud Jespersen 3.63 6 +6 Justice Ib Christensen 2.88 5 +5 Elected in the Faroe Islands Social Democratic Atli Dam 28.60 1 0 Republican Signar Hansen 25.11 1 New Elected in Greenland Independents – 100 2 0 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Largest party within each nomination district and constituency. Distribution of constituency and levelling seats. Prime Minister before Prime Minister-elect Anker Jørgensen Social Democrats Poul Hartling Venstre

General elections were held in Denmark on 4 December 1973 and in the Faroe Islands on 13 December.^[1][2] It has since been referred to as the Landslide Election (Danish: Jordskredsvalget),^[3] as five new or previously unrepresented parties won seats, and more than half the members of the parliament were replaced. The Social Democratic Party, which had led a minority government until this election, lost a third of their seats. After the election Poul Hartling, the leader of the liberal Venstre, formed the smallest minority government in Denmark's history with only 22 seats, supported by the Progress Party, the Conservative People's Party, the Social Liberal Party, the Centre Democrats and the Christian People's Party.

Voter turnout was 89% in Denmark proper, 55% in the Faroe Islands and 66% in Greenland.^[4]