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2021 Danish Local Elections
The Danish local elections of 2021 were held in 2021 for Denmark's 98 municipal councils and five regional councils. All 2,436 seats were contested for the 2022–2025 term of office, together with 205 seats in five regional councils. Frederiksberg Municipality had increased their number of councillors from 25 to 29. Opinion polls Results Results of regional elections The regions are not municipalities but are financed only through block grants. Number of councillors and political parties in the regional councils Old and new chairs of the regional councils In four of the five regions, the incumbent chairman kept the position. However, in the North Denmark Region, an agreement was made between Venstre, the Danish People's Party, New Right and the Conservative People's Party to give the chairmanship to Mads Duedahl of Venstre. This was the first time since the region's establishment in 2007 that the Social Democrats did not win the region's chairmanship. Results of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Danish Local Elections
The Danish local elections of 2017 were held on 21 November 2017 for Denmark's 98 municipal councils and five regional councils. All 2,432 seats were contested for the 2018–21 term of office, together with 205 seats (a fixed number of 41 seats in each council) in five regional councils. In the previous election, there were 2,444 seats in the municipal councils. Results Results of regional elections The Danish ministry of economy and interior informed that voter turnout was 70.6%. 3,074,840 cast their votes. They voted for 205 seats in the five regional councils. This number remains unchanged since the first elections for the regional councils in the newly created regions, which were set up 1 January 2007 after the 13 counties were abolished. The regions are not municipalities but are financed only through block grants paid by the central government and their constituent municipalities. Number of councillors and political parties in the Regional Councils Old and new C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danmark Kommunalvalg 2021 - Afstemningsområder
Danmark may refer to: *The Danish, Norwegian and Swedish name for the country of Denmark, see Etymology of Denmark *The minor locality of Danmark in Uppsala Municipality, Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ... Danmark is also a common ship's name: * Danish ironclad ''Danmark'', an armoured frigate, 1864-1900 * ''Danmark'' (1906), a three-masted bark used on the Danmark Expedition 1906-1908 * ''Danmark'' (ship), a full-rigged training ship, 1932-present See also * Denmark (other) {{Disambiguation, ship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Right (Denmark)
New Right ( da, Nye Borgerlige) is a national-conservative and right-wing populist Danish political party. The party was founded in the autumn 2015 by Pernille Vermund and Peter Seier Christensen. In the 2019 general election New Right won four seats. The party has the party letter D, and its youth organisation is named Nye Borgerliges Ungdom (NBU) or in English (''New Right's Youth).'' In February 2021 the party was the third largest Danish party based on membership, only succeeded by the Social Democrats and Venstre. The party has in November the same year 18,000 members. Etymology The party's name includes the plural of the Danish word which literally translates to 'civic', derived from meaning 'citizen'. It is the usual Danish term for non-socialist parties in general, and the country's right-of-centre parties in particular. As a Marxist term, the word has the meaning 'bourgeoise'. Imperfect translations include 'right-wing', 'conservative', 'civic', or 'bourgeoise' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danish Social Liberal Party
The Danish Social Liberal Party ( da, Radikale Venstre, , Radical Left) is a social-liberal political party in Denmark. The party was founded as a split from the Venstre Reform Party in 1905. Historically, the centrist party has played a central role in Danish politics and has supported governments on both sides of the political spectrum, as co-operation is a primary belief of the party. A pro-European party, it is a member of Liberal International and the ALDE, and has two MEPs in the Renew Europe group in the European Parliament. History 1905–1930s The party was founded in 1905 as a split from the Venstre Reform Party. The initial impetus was the expulsion of Venstre's antimilitarist wing from the party in January 1905. The expelled members held a founding conference for the new party in Odense, on 21 May 1905. In addition to the differences over military spending, the social liberals also took a more positive view than Venstre towards measures that aimed to reduce so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red–Green Alliance (Denmark)
The Red–Green Alliance or Unity List ( da, Enhedslisten – De Rød-Grønne, , EL) is an eco-socialist political party in Denmark. It was founded in 1989 with the merger of three Marxist parties and it is the furthest left-wing party in the Danish parliament, where it advocates for an expansion of welfare and social justice as well as socialist transformation in Denmark and internationally. During the 2021 Danish municipal elections the party placed first in the Danish capital Copenhagen, with 24.6% of the votes. The party is also active in various Danish trade unions. Political and ideological position The party describes itself as a socialist and democratic grassroots party, which claims also to represent green politics, peace movement, anti-discrimination, and trade union movement. The party's ideological position is set out in a manifesto from 2014. It proposes that a socialistic society of the future "neither can nor should be described in detail, but rather be devel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Left (Denmark)
The Green Left ( da, Socialistisk Folkeparti, SF) is a democratic socialist political party in Denmark. It was formerly known in English as the Socialist People's Party, the literal translation of its Danish name. History 1959–1969 The SF was founded on 15 February 1959 by Aksel Larsen, a former leader of the Communist Party of Denmark (DKP). Larsen was removed from the ranks of the DKP for his criticism over the Soviet intervention in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Larsen and the new SF sought to form a third way between Denmark's United States-oriented social democracy and Soviet Union–oriented communism, which sought to combine democracy with socialism. He was joined by a large share of the members of the DKP. They all supported the idea of independence from the Soviet Union. In the 1960 elections, the party entered the Folketing with eleven seats. The DKP lost all of its six seats. In the 1964 elections the party lost one seat. During the 1960s the SF became inv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conservative People's Party (Denmark)
The Conservative People's Party ( da, Det Konservative Folkeparti, DKF), also known as The Conservatives () is a conservative centre-right political party in Denmark. The party is a member of the European People's Party (EPP) and International Democrat Union. History The party was founded in 1916 based mostly on its predecessor, Højre ("Right") after its downfall, but also on the Free Conservatives and a moderate faction of the liberal party Venstre. The party was a part of the coalition government during World War II, where the leader John Christmas Møller provided the voice for BBC London's daily radio to Denmark. However while a number of conservatives participated in the resistance movement, some conservatives were sympathetic to fascist ideology, and the youth wing of the party praised several fascist movements in Europe during the 1930s. Since World War II the party has participated in several coalition governments, but only one Prime Minister of Denmark, Poul Schl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venstre (Denmark)
VenstreThe party name is officially not translated into any other language, but is in English often referred to as the Liberal Party. Similar rules apply for the name of the party's youth wing Venstres Ungdom. (, ), full name Venstre, Danmarks Liberale Parti ( en, Left, Denmark's Liberal Party), is a Conservative liberalism, conservative-liberal, Nordic agrarian parties, agrarian List of political parties in Denmark, political party in Denmark. Founded as part of a peasants' movement against the Landed nobility, landed aristocracy, today it espouses an Economic liberalism, economically liberal, pro-Free market, free-market ideology. Venstre is the major party of the centre-right in Denmark, and the second-largest party in the country. The party has produced many List of Prime Ministers of Denmark, Prime Ministers. In the 2019 Danish general election, 2019 general elections, Venstre received 23.4% of the vote and 43 out of 179 seats. Its current leader is Jakob Ellemann-Jensen foll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Democrats (Denmark)
The Social Democrats ( da, Socialdemokraterne, ) is a social democratic political party in Denmark. A member of the Party of European Socialists (PES), the Social Democrats have 50 out of 179 members of the Danish parliament (following the latest Danish general election held in 2022), Folketing, and three out of fourteen MEPs elected from Denmark. Founded by Louis Pio in 1871, the party first entered the Folketing in the 1884 Danish Folketing election. By the early 20th century, it had become the party with the largest representation in the Folketing, a distinction it would hold for 77 years. It first formed a government after the 1924 Danish Folketing election under Thorvald Stauning, the longest-serving Danish Prime Minister of the 20th century. During Stauning's government which lasted until the 1926 Danish Folketing election, the Social Democrats exerted a profound influence on Danish society, laying the foundation of the Danish welfare state. From 2002 to 2016, the par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Block Grant
A block grant is a grant-in-aid of a specified amount from a larger government to a smaller regional government body. Block grants have less oversight from the larger government and provide flexibility to each subsidiary government body in terms of designing and implementing programs. Block grants, categorical grants, and general revenue sharing are three types of federal government grants-in-aid programs.A block grant differs from a categorical grant, in that the latter has stricter and more specific provisions on the how it is to be spent. Graphical representation The figure demonstrates the impact of an education block grant on a town's budget constraint. According to microeconomic theory, the grant shifts the town's budget constraint outwards, enabling the town to spend more on both education and other goods, due to the income effect. While this increases the town's utility, it does not maximize the town's spending on education. Therefore, if the goal of a grant progr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederiksberg Municipality
Frederiksberg Kommune is a Municipalities of Denmark, municipality (Danish language, Danish, ''Commune (subnational entity), kommune'') on the island of Zealand (Denmark), Zealand (''Sjælland'') in Denmark. Part of the Capital Region of Denmark and the city of Copenhagen, it is surrounded by Copenhagen Municipality. The municipality, co-extensive with Frederiksberg, its seat, covers a total area (land and water) of according to the Municipal Key Figures and has a population of 104,305 (1 January 2020) making it the smallest municipality in Denmark area-wise, the fifth most populous, and the most densely populated. Its mayor is Michael Vindfeldt from the Social Democrats (Denmark), Social Democrats serving from 1 January 2022. The city of Frederiksberg is the only town in the municipality, and is therefore the site of its municipal council. Frederiksberg is located as an enclave within the Copenhagen municipality, municipality of Copenhagen, the national capital. The municipalit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Term Of Office
A term of office, electoral term, or parliamentary term is the length of time a person serves in a particular elected office. In many jurisdictions there is a defined limit on how long terms of office may be before the officeholder must be subject to re-election. Some jurisdictions exercise term limits, setting a maximum number of terms an individual may hold in a particular office. United Kingdom Being the origin of the Westminster system, aspects of the United Kingdom's system of government are replicated in many other countries. Monarch The monarch serves as head of state until their death or abdication. House of Commons In the United Kingdom Members of Parliament (MPs) in the House of Commons are elected for the duration of the parliament. Following dissolution of the Parliament, a general election is held which consists of simultaneous elections for all seats. For most MPs this means that their terms of office are identical to the duration of the Parliament. An individual' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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