General elections were held in

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on 15 November 1960. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p524 The

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remained the largest in the

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, with 76 of the 179 seats. Voter turnout was 86% in Denmark proper, 57% in the

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and 66% in

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.Nohlen & Stöver, p542 They were the last elections in which the

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for the Danish seats was 60,000 votes. The following year the electoral law was amended to make it 2% of the vote.

Results

References

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