Jakob Sølvhøj (born 12 September 1954 in

Helsingør Helsingør ( , ; sv, Helsingör), classically known in English as Elsinore ( ), is a city in eastern Denmark. Helsingør Municipality had a population of 62,686 on 1 January 2018. Helsingør and Helsingborg in Sweden together form the northern ...

) 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 Red–Green Alliance political party. He was elected 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

Sølvhøj was first elected in the 2015 election, where he received 753 votes. Despite the relatively low vote count, this was enough to guarantee Sølvhøj one of the Red-Green Alliance's levelling seats. The same happened in

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, where Sølvhøj received 913 votes.

References

External links

Biography on the website of the Danish Parliament (Folketinget)
1954 births Living people People from Helsingør Red–Green Alliance (Denmark) politicians Members of the Folketing 2015–2019 Members of the Folketing 2019–2022 {{Denmark-politician-stub