Daniel Toft Jakobsen (born 12 May 1978 in

Kongens Lyngby Kongens Lyngby (, Danish for "the King's Heather Town"; short form Lyngby) is the seat and commercial centre of Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality in the northern suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark. Lyngby Hovedgade is a busy shopping street and the site of ...

) is a Danish politician, who is a member of the

Folketing The Folketing ( da, Folketinget, ; ), also known as the Parliament of Denmark or the Danish Parliament in English, is the unicameral national legislature (parliament) of the Kingdom of Denmark—Denmark proper together with the Faroe Islands ...

for the Social Democrats political party. He was elected into parliament at the

2015 Danish general election General elections were held in the Kingdom of Denmark The Danish Realm ( da, Danmarks Rige; fo, Danmarkar Ríki; kl, Danmarkip Naalagaaffik), officially the Kingdom of Denmark (; ; ), is a sovereign state located in Northern Europe and Nor ...

Political career

Jakobsen first ran for parliament in the 2011 election, where he received 2,424 votes. While not enough for a seat in parliament, this made him the Social Democrats' secondary substitute in the East Jutland constituency. He acted as substitute for

Kirsten Brosbøl Kirsten Brosbøl (born 14 December 1977 in Odder) is a Danish politician. She represented the Social Democrats in the Folketing from 2005 to 2019, and served as Minister for the Environment from 2014 to 2015. Political career From 2001 to 200 ...

from 23 October 2012 to 1 December 2013. He sat in the municipal council of

Hedensted Municipality Hedensted Kommune is a municipality (Danish, '' kommune'') in Region Midtjylland formed out of three former municipalities, one of which with the same name, 1 January 2007 on the Jutland peninsula in central Denmark. Its seat and main town is Hede ...

from 2014 to 2015. He ran again in the 2015 election, where he was elected into parliament with 4,344 votes. He was reelected in

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with 4,615 votes.Dst.dk
"Valgte kandidater og stedfortrædere, Folketingsvalg onsdag 5. juni 2019" Retrieved 6 April 2021

External links

Biography on the website of the Danish Parliament (Folketinget)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jakobsen, Daniel Toft Living people 1978 births People from Kongens Lyngby Social Democrats (Denmark) politicians Danish municipal councillors Members of the Folketing 2015–2019 Members of the Folketing 2019–2022