Heidi Farsøe Bank (born 1 August 1972 in Hørsholm) is a Danish politician, who is a member of the Folketing for the Venstre political party. She was elected into the Folketing in the

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

. She has a background as a real estate agent.

Political career

Bank first ran for a political office in the

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 sea ...

, where she was a candidate for Venstre in Aarhus Municipality. She was elected member of the municipal council with 2,109 votes cast for her. Bank was elected into parliament at the 2019 election, where she received 2,943 personal votes, securing a seat in the Folketing as a

levelling seat Leveling seats ( da, tillægsmandat, sv, utjämningsmandat, no, utjevningsmandater, is, jöfnunarsæti, german: Ausgleichsmandat), commonly known also as adjustment seats, are an election mechanism employed for many years by all Nordic countrie ...

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"Valgte kandidater og stedfortrædere, Folketingsvalg onsdag 5. juni 2019" Retrieved 11 January 2021

External links

Biography on the website of the Danish Parliament (Folketinget)

References

Living people 1972 births People from Hørsholm Municipality 21st-century Danish women politicians Women members of the Folketing Venstre (Denmark) politicians Aarhus municipal council members Members of the Folketing 2019–2022 {{Denmark-politician-stub