Copenhagen Municipality
Copenhagen Municipality (), also known in English language, English as the Municipality of Copenhagen, located in the Capital Region of Denmark, is the largest of the four municipalities that constitute the City of Copenhagen (), the other three ...
. It was created in 1915, though its boundaries have been changed since then.
In
general elections
A general election is an electoral process to choose most or all members of a governing body at the same time. They are distinct from by-elections, which fill individual seats that have become vacant between general elections. General elections ...
, the district is an extremely strong area for parties commonly associated with the red bloc, with them having won 77.1% of the vote in the 2022 election, the highest any bloc received in a nominating district that year.
General elections results
General elections in the 2020s
2022 Danish general election
General elections were held in the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark on 1 November 2022, except in the Faroe Islands, where they were held on 31 October as 1 November was a national day of mourning for victims at sea. Of the 179 members of the Fo ...
General elections in the 2010s
2019 Danish general election
General elections were held in the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark on 5 June 2019 to elect all 179 members of the Folketing; 175 in Geography of Denmark, Denmark proper, two in the Faroe Islands and two in Greenland. The elections took place te ...
2015 Danish general election
General elections were held in the Kingdom of Denmark on 18 June 2015 to elect the 179 members of the Folketing. 175 members were elected in the Denmark proper, two in the Faroe Islands and two in Greenland. Although the ruling Social Democrats b ...
2011 Danish general election
General elections were held in Denmark on 15 September 2011 to elect the 179 members of the Folketing. Of those 179, 175 members were elected in Denmark, two in the Faroe Islands and two in Greenland.
The incumbent centre-right coalition led b ...
General elections in the 2000s
2007 Danish general election
General elections were held in Denmark on 13 November 2007. The elections allowed Prime minister of Denmark, prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen to continue for a third term in a coalition government consisting of Venstre (Denmark), Venstre and ...
2005 Danish general election
General elections were held in Denmark on 8 February 2005.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p525 Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen's Venstre remained the largest party in the Folketing and his go ...
2001 Danish general election
General elections were held in Denmark on 20 November 2001.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p525 For the first time since the 1924 elections, the Social Democrats did not win the most seats. Anders ...
General elections in the 1990s
1998 Danish general election
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanent ...
1994 Danish general election
General elections were held in Denmark on 21 September 1994.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p525 The coalition of the Social Democratic Party, the Danish Social Liberal Party and the Centre Democr ...
1990 Danish general election
General elections were held in Denmark on 12 December 1990.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p525 Although the election resulted in a strong gain for the Social Democrats (Denmark), Social Democratic ...
General elections in the 1980s
1988 Danish general election
General elections were held in Denmark on 10 May 1988,Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p. 525 just eight months after the last elections. Prime Minister Poul Schlüter chose to call for an electio ...
1987 Danish general election
General elections were held in Denmark on 8 September 1987.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p. 525 The Social Democratic Party remained the largest in the Folketing with 54 of the 179 seats. The Co ...
1984 Danish general election
General elections were held in Denmark on 10 January 1984,Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p525 after the opposition voted against the centre-right four-party government's state budget bill. Althoug ...
1979 Danish general election
General elections were held in Denmark on 23 October 1979.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p524 The Social Democratic Party remained the largest in the Folketing, with 68 of the 179 seats. Voter tur ...
1971 Danish general election
General elections were held in Denmark on 21 September 1971 and in the Faroe Islands on 5 October.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p524 1968 Danish general election
General elections were held in Denmark on 23 January 1968.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p524 The Social Democrats (Denmark), Social Democratic Party remained the largest in the Folketing, with 62 ...
1966 Danish general election
General elections were held in Denmark on 22 November 1966,Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p524 although in Greenland the elections were held on 6 December 1966. The Social Democrats (Denmark), Soc ...
1964 Danish general election
General elections were held in Denmark on 22 September 1964.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p524 The Social Democratic Party remained the largest in the Folketing, with 76 of the 179 seats. Voter t ...
1960 Danish general election
General elections were held in Denmark on 15 November 1960. The Social Democratic Party remained the largest in the Folketing, with 76 of the 179 seats. Voter turnout was 86% in Denmark proper, 57% in the Faroe Islands and 66% in Greenland. They ...
General elections in the 1950s
1957 Danish general election
General elections were held in Denmark on 14 May 1957.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p524 The Social Democratic Party remained the largest in the Folketing, with 70 of the 179 seats. Voter turnout ...
1947 Danish Folketing election
Folketing elections were held in Denmark on 28 October 1947,Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p524 except in the Faroe Islands where they were held on 18 February 1948. The Social Democratic Party re ...
1945 Danish Folketing election
Folketing elections were held alongside 1945 Danish Landsting election, Landsting elections in Denmark on 30 October 1945,Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p524 except in the Faroe Islands where the ...
1943 Danish Folketing election
Folketing elections were held in Denmark on 23 March 1943 alongside Landsting elections,Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p524 except in the Faroe Islands where they were held on 3 May. They were th ...
General elections in the 1930s
1939 Danish Folketing election
Folketing elections were held in Denmark on 3 April 1939,Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p524 except in the Faroe Islands where they were held on 19 April. They followed a dissolution of both chamb ...
1935 Danish Folketing election
Folketing elections were held in Denmark on 22 October 1935,Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p524 except in the Faroe Islands where they were held on 11 November. The Social Democratic Party led by ...
1932 Danish Folketing election
Folketing elections were held in Denmark on 16 November 1932,Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p524 except in the Faroe Islands where they were held on 12 December. The Social Democrats (Denmark), So ...
General elections in the 1920s
1929 Danish Folketing election
Folketing elections were held in Denmark on 24 April 1929,Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p524 except in the Faroe Islands where they were held on 29 May. The Social Democratic Party remained the l ...
1926 Danish Folketing election
Folketing elections were held in Denmark on 2 December 1926,Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p524 except in the Faroe Islands where they were held on 20 December. The Social Democratic Party remaine ...
1924 Danish Folketing election
Folketing elections were held in Denmark on 11 April 1924.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p524 The result was a victory for the Social Democratic Party led by Thorvald Stauning, which won 55 of the ...
September 1920 Danish Folketing election
Folketing elections were held in Denmark on 21 September 1920,Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p524 except in the Faroe Islands, where they were held on 30 October. They were the first in which Sout ...
2024 European Parliament election in Denmark
The 2024 European Parliament election in Denmark was held on 9 June 2024. The elections were held as part of the wider 2024 European Parliament election, but did not take place in the Faroe Islands and Greenland, which are not part of the Europea ...
2019 European Parliament election in Denmark
The 2019 European Parliament election in Denmark was held on 26 May 2019, and elected the Danish members to the European Parliament. The elections are part of the 2019 European Parliament election, EU-wide elections for the parliament. Denmark ...
2014 European Parliament election in Denmark
The 2014 European Parliament election in Denmark was an election held in Denmark on 25 May 2014 to decide who would represent Denmark in the European Parliament (EP) from 2014 to 2019. The Danish People's Party with 26.6% of the votes became t ...
2009 European Parliament election in Denmark
European Parliament elections were held in Denmark on 7 June 2009 to elect the 13 Danish members of the European Parliament. The election was held simultaneously with a referendum on changing the Danish Act of Succession.
Contesting parties
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2004 European Parliament election in Denmark
European Parliament elections were held in Denmark on 13 June 2004 to elect the 14 Danish members of the European Parliament. The opposition Social Democrats made major gains, mainly at the expense of Eurosceptic parties such as the June Movement ...
1989 European Parliament election in Denmark
European Parliament elections were held in Denmark on 15 June 1989 to elect the 16 Danish members of the European Parliament.
Results
Seats are allocated first by the D'Hondt method to electoral coalitions (Social Democrats and Danish Social Lib ...
1984 European Parliament election in Denmark
European Parliament elections were held in Denmark on 14 June 1984 to elect the 15 Danish members of the European Parliament. Elections were held separately in Greenland to elect one Greenlandic member.
Results
Seat apportionment
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2015 Danish European Union opt-out referendum
A referendum on one of the country's opt-outs from the European Union was held in Denmark on 3 December 2015. Specifically, the referendum was on whether to convert Denmark's current full opt-out on home and justice matters into an opt-out with ...
2014 Danish Unified Patent Court membership referendum
A referendum on joining the Unified Patent Court was held in Denmark on 25 May 2014 alongside 2014 European Parliament election in Denmark, European Parliament elections. The referendum was approved with 62.5% of the vote, enabling the government ...
2009 Danish Act of Succession referendum
A referendum on changing the Act of Succession (Denmark), Danish Act of Succession, the rules governing the succession to the Danish throne, was held in Denmark, the Faroe Islands, and Greenland on 7 June 2009, simultaneously with the 2009 Europe ...
2000 Danish euro referendum
A referendum on joining the Eurozone was held in Denmark on 28 September 2000. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p525 It was rejected by 53.2% of voters with a turnout of 87.6%.1998 Danish Amsterdam Treaty referendum
1993 Danish Maastricht Treaty referendum
The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as:
* International Year for the World's Indigenous People
The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...
1992 Danish Maastricht Treaty referendum
A referendum on the Maastricht Treaty for the founding of the European Union was held in Denmark on 2 June 1992. The treaty was rejected by 50.7% of voters with a turnout of 83.1%.
1972 Danish European Communities membership referendum
A referendum on joining the European Economic Community was held in Denmark on 2 October 1972.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p524 The result was 63% in favour with a turnout of 90%. The law that D ...
1953 Danish constitutional and electoral age referendum
A constitutional and electoral age referendum was held in Denmark on 28 May 1953. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p524 Both proposals were approved by voters, leading to both a new constitution taking effe ...