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Conservative People's Party (Denmark)

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Danish political party
"DKF" redirects here. For other uses, seeDKF (disambiguation).
Conservative People's Party
Det Konservative Folkeparti
AbbreviationK
C[a]
ChairpersonMona Juul
Founded22 February 1916; 109 years ago (1916-02-22)
Preceded byHøjre[1]
Free Conservatives
Moderate faction ofVenstre
HeadquartersChristiansborg
1240København K
Youth wingYoung Conservatives
Student wingConservative Students
Membership(2022)Increase 13,600[2]
Ideology
Political positionCentre-right[8]
European affiliationEuropean People's Party
European Parliament groupEuropean People's Party Group
International affiliationInternational Democracy Union
Nordic affiliationConservative Group
Colours
  •   Dark green (official)
  •   Green[9] (customary)
Folketing
10 / 179
[b]
European Parliament
1 / 15
Regions[10]
30 / 205
Municipalities[11]
379 / 2,436
Mayors
14 / 98
Election symbol
Website
konservative.dk

TheConservative People's Party (Danish:Det Konservative Folkeparti,DKF), also known asThe Conservatives (De Konservative) is acentre-rightpolitical party in Denmark. The party is a member of theInternational Democracy Union and theEuropean People's Party.

History

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Election poster, 1939. It reads:Comrades – let it now be over! Vote for more work! Vote Conservative.

The party was founded in 1916[1] based mostly on its predecessor,Højre ("Right") after its downfall, but also on theFree Conservatives and a moderate faction of the liberal partyVenstre ("Left"). The party was a part of the coalition government duringWorld War II, where the leaderJohn Christmas Møller provided the voice for BBC London's daily radio to Denmark. However, while a number of conservatives participated in the resistance movement, some conservatives were sympathetic tofascist ideology, and theyouth wing of the party praised several fascist movements in Europe during the 1930s.[12]

Since World War II, the party has participated in severalcoalition governments, but only onePrime Minister of Denmark,Poul Schlüter, has come from this party; he served as prime minister from 1982 to 1993. His government had to resign after theTamil Case, when the Justice Minister,Erik Ninn-Hansen (himself a former Conservative leader), was impeached.[13]

The party used its first logo in 1950, consisting of the serif-letter "C" coloured green. On 24 August 2000, the Conservative People's Party rebranded itself as the Conservatives, and at the same time retired its 50-year-old green serif-letter "C" logo, thus launching a new logo for the first time since 1950. The new logo was a circle which contains a chartreuse circle with the letter "C".

From the2001 parliament elections until 2011, the Conservative People's Party was the junior partner in acoalition government led byVenstre. In the2004 European parliament elections, the party won a seat. Four months later, on 23 October 2004, it adopted a logo consisting of a green circle-squared box that contains a dark-green screen with the letter "C" that is coloured green; the "Konservative" wordmark is placed below the symbol, though it too is also coloured green. The member is currentlyBendt Bendtsen, who is a member of theEPP Group in theEuropean Parliament. In the2014 European election, the party garnered 9.1% of the national vote, retaining Bendtsen's seat as MEP.

In the2011 parliamentary election for theFolketing (Danish national parliament), the Conservative People's Party won eight seats, 10 fewer than it had won in theprevious election in 2007, and it received 4.9% of the vote, placing the party in eighth place nationally. On 27 September 2013, the Conservative People's Party received the current version of its logo: the colour of the letter "C" was changed to white, the circle-square retained its dark-green colour, and the circle-squared line was removed from it. At the same time, the party gave up being known as the Conservatives, reverting to its former name as the Conservative People's Party.

At the2015 election, the party did badly and was reduced to a mere six seats, which made it the smallest party in theFolketing. ButSøren Pape Poulsen (who had taken over as leader the previous year) managed to double the party's seats to 12 in the2019 election with 6.6% of the vote.[14] After that election, several opinion polls indicated that the party enjoyed wider popular support than Venstre,[15][16][17] but at the2022 election gained just 5.5%, following an election campaign significantly influenced by affairs concerning Pape Poulsen's personal life.[18] Poulsen died suddenly at the age of 52 on 2 March 2024, leaving the party leadership vacant.[19]

Organization

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The youth branch of the Conservative People's Party, albeit an independent organisation, isYoung Conservatives, the earliest formed youth organisation in Denmark, founded in December 1904, and believed to be one of the oldest in the world,[20] preceding the Conservative People's Party by 10 years. The student branch isConservative Students, likewise an independent organisation, which has branches at all Danish Universities.

The party remains committed to acentre-right alliance, working most closely with the liberalVenstre and somewhat less closely with the right-wing populistDanish People's Party. The Conservative People's Party cooperated with theSocial Liberal Party during its time in power in the 1980s, and also with thecentre-left government underPoul Nyrup Rasmussen in the 1990s.

Ideology and policies

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Part ofa series on
Conservatism in Denmark

The party's current purpose clause states: "The Conservative People's Party aims to gather everyone who joins the party's program and to work for the spread of conservative views."[21] The party has namedEdmund Burke as one of its intellectual sources.[22]

The Conservative People's Party presently advocates individual freedom and responsibility, afree market economy, respecting private property, the importance of community for the individual, modernization of the public sector,decentralization, ensuring up-to-date military defense, and an emphasis on protecting Denmark's national history and traditions.[citation needed] In foreign policy, the party supports economic cooperation with theEuropean Union to aid Denmark's economic growth and keep peace in Europe, but maintains the EU must also respect the right to national identity and calls for a less centralized EU in which member states can maintain sovereignty over their national, regional and local decision making powers.[23] The party also highlights environmentalism as one of its core philosophies in accordance togreen conservatism.[7]

List of leaders

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Political leaders

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John Christmas Møller1928–1947
Ole Bjørn Kraft1947–1955
Aksel Møller1955–1958
Poul Sørensen1958–1969
Poul Møller1969–1971
Erik Ninn-Hansen1971–1974
Poul Schlüter1974–1993
Henning Dyremose1993
Hans Engell1993–1997
Per Stig Møller1997–1998
Pia Christmas-Møller1998–1999
Bendt Bendtsen1999–2008
Lene Espersen2008–2011
Lars Barfoed2011–2014
Søren Pape Poulsen2014–2024
Mona Juul2024–present

Party chairmen

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Emil Piper1916–1928
Charles Tvede1928–1932
John Christmas Møller1932–1939
Vilhelm Fibiger1939–1948
Halfdan Hendriksen1948–1957
Einar Foss1957–1965
Knud Thestrup1965–1972
Erik Haunstrup Clemmensen1972–1974
Poul Schlüter1974–1977
Ib Stetter1977–1981
Poul Schlüter1981–1993
Torben Rechendorff1993–1995
Hans Engell1995–1997
Per Stig Møller1997–1998
Poul Andreassen1998–2000
Bendt Bendtsen2000–2008
Lene Espersen2008–2011
Lars Barfoed2011–2014
Søren Pape Poulsen2014–2024
Mona Juul2024–present

Notable members

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  • John Christmas Møller – World War II resistance figure in exile in England.
  • Poul Schlüter – The longest-serving Danish prime minister sinceThorvald Stauning. Schlüter is the Conservative People's Party's only prime minister to date. He led the Conservative People's Party to its best-ever result at a national election, reaching 23.4% of the national vote. After his term as prime minister ended he was elected to theEuropean Parliament in 1994, reaching a record breaking number of 247,956 personal votes.
  • Connie Hedegaard – Appointed as theEuropean Union's first everEuropean Commissioner for Climate Action in February 2010, Hedegaard was elected to theDanish Parliament as a member for the Conservative People's Party in 1984 at the age of 23, becoming the youngest Danish MP ever at that time. In 1989, Hedegaard became first spokesperson for the Conservative People's Party, but left politics forjournalism in 1990.[24]
  • Stefan G. Rasmussen (born 23 July 1947), a former Danish pilot who captained the crash-landingSAS flight 751 on 27 December 1991, in which there were no fatalities. He then entered politics, serving in the DanishFolketing from 1994 to 1996.

Election results

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Parliament

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ElectionVotes%Seats+/-Government
1918167,86518.3 (#4)
22 / 140
Increase 14[c]Opposition
1920
(Apr)		201,49919.6 (#3)
28 / 140
Increase 6Caretaker government
1920
(Jul)		180,29318.9 (#3)
26 / 140
Decrease 2External support
Sep
1920		216,73317.9 (#3)
27 / 149
Increase 1External support
1924242,95518.9 (#3)
28 / 149
Increase 1Opposition
1926275,79320.6 (#3)
30 / 149
Increase 2External support
1929233,93516.5 (#3)
24 / 149
Decrease 6Opposition
1932358,50917.3 (#3)
27 / 149
Increase 3Opposition
1935293,39317.8 (#2)
26 / 149
Decrease 1Opposition
1939301,62517.8 (#3)
26 / 149
SteadyOpposition(1939–1940)
Coalition(1940–1943)
1943421,52321.0 (#2)
31 / 149
Increase 5Coalition
1945373,68818.2 (#3)
26 / 149
Decrease 5External support
1947259,32412.4 (#3)
17 / 150
Decrease 9Opposition
1950365,23617.8 (#3)
27 / 151
Increase 10Coalition
1953
(Apr)		358,50917.3 (#3)
26 / 151
Decrease 1Coalition
1953
(Sep)		383,84316.6 (#3)
30 / 179
Increase 4Opposition
1957383,84316.6 (#3)
30 / 179
SteadyOpposition
1960435,76417.9 (#3)
32 / 179
Increase 2Opposition
1964527,79820.1 (#3)
36 / 179
Increase 4Opposition
1966522,02818.7 (#3)
34 / 179
Decrease 2Opposition
1968581,05120.4 (#2)
37 / 179
Increase 3Coalition
1971481,33516.7 (#2)
31 / 179
Decrease 6Opposition
1973279,3919.2 (#5)
16 / 179
Decrease 15External support
1975168,1645.5 (#5)
10 / 179
Decrease 6Opposition
1977263,2628.5 (#4)
15 / 179
Increase 5Opposition
1979395,65312.5 (#3)
22 / 179
Increase 7Opposition
1981451,47814.5 (#2)
26 / 179
Increase 4Opposition(1981–1982)
Coalition(1982–1984)
1984788,22423.4 (#2)
42 / 179
Increase 16Coalition
1987700,88620.8 (#2)
38 / 179
Decrease 4Coalition
1988642,04819.3 (#2)
35 / 179
Decrease 3Coalition
1990517,29316.0 (#2)
30 / 179
Decrease 5Coalition(1990–1993)
Opposition(1993–1994)
1994499,84515.0 (#3)
27 / 179
Decrease 3Opposition
1998303,9658.9 (#3)
16 / 179
Decrease 11Opposition
2001312,7709.1 (#4)
16 / 179
SteadyCoalition
2005344,88610.3 (#4)
18 / 179
Increase 2Coalition
2007359,40410.4 (#5)
18 / 179
SteadyCoalition
2011175,0474.9 (#8)
8 / 179
Decrease 10Opposition
2015118,0153.4 (#9)
6 / 179
DecreaseExternal support(2015–2016)
Coalition(2016–2019)
2019233,3496.6 (#7)
12 / 179
Increase 6Opposition
2022194,8205.5 (#7)
10 / 179
Decrease 2Opposition

Local elections

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Municipal elections
YearSeats
No.±
1925
332 / 11,289
1929
626 / 11,329
Increase 294
1933
543 / 11,424
Decrease 83
1937
602 / 11,425
Increase 59
1943
724 / 10,569
Increase 122
1946
592 / 11,488
Decrease 132
1950
647 / 11,499
Increase 55
1954
609 / 11,505
Decrease 38
1958
603 / 11,529
Decrease 6
1962
707 / 11,414
Increase 104
1966
842 / 10,005
Increase 135
Municipal reform
1970
650 / 4,677
Decrease 192
1974
439 / 4,735
Decrease 211
1978
508 / 4,759
Increase 69
1981
640 / 4,769
Increase 132
1985
824 / 4,773
Increase 184
1989
602 / 4,737
Decrease 222
1993
493 / 4,703
Decrease 109
1997
481 / 4,685
Decrease 12
2001
444 / 4,647
Decrease 37
Municipal reform
2005
257 / 2,522
Decrease 187
2009
262 / 2,468
Increase 5
2013
205 / 2,444
Decrease 57
2017
225 / 2,432
Increase 20
2021
403 / 2,436
Increase 178
 
Regional elections
YearSeats
No.±
1935
40 / 299
1943
36 / 299
Decrease 4
1946
31 / 299
Decrease 5
1950
37 / 299
Increase 6
1954
36 / 299
Decrease 1
1958
39 / 303
Increase 3
1962
47 / 301
Increase 8
1966
59 / 303
Increase 12
Municipal reform
1970
72 / 366
Increase 13
1974
45 / 370
Decrease 27
1978
52 / 370
Increase 7
1981
60 / 370
Increase 8
1985
77 / 374
Increase 17
1989
53 / 374
Decrease 24
1993
44 / 374
Decrease 9
1997
40 / 374
Decrease 4
2001
35 / 374
Decrease 5
Municipal reform
2005
20 / 205
Decrease 15
2009
20 / 205
Steady 0
2013
15 / 205
Decrease 5
2017
15 / 205
Steady 0
2021
31 / 205
Increase 16
 
Mayors
YearSeats
No.±
2005
11 / 98
2009
12 / 98
Increase 1
2013
13 / 98
Increase 1
2017
8 / 98
Decrease 5
2021
14 / 98
Increase 6

European Parliament

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YearList leaderVotes%Seats+/–EP Group
1979Poul Møller245,30914.06 (#4)
2 / 15
Increase 2ED
1984414,17720.81 (#1)
4 / 15
Increase 2
1989Marie Jepsen238,76013.34 (#4)
2 / 16
Decrease 2
1994Poul Schlüter368,89017.74 (#2)
3 / 16
Increase 1EPP
1999Christian Rovsing166,8848.47 (#5)
1 / 16
Decrease 2EPP-ED
2004Gitte Seeberg214,97211.35 (#3)
1 / 14
Steady 0
2009Bendt Bendtsen297,19912.69 (#5)
1 / 13
Steady 0EPP
2014208,2629.15 (#5)
1 / 13
Steady 0
2019Pernille Weiss170,5446.18 (#6)
1 / 14
Steady 0
2024Niels Flemming Hansen216,3578.84 (#4)
1 / 15
Steady 0

Notes

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  1. ^Official party letter on voting ballot
  2. ^Only 175 of the 179 seats in the Danish Parliament, theFolketing, are obtainable byDanish political parties asGreenland and theFaroe Islands are assigned two seats each due to their status as territories in theKingdom of Denmark.
  3. ^Compared toHøjre inthe 1915 election

References

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  2. ^Hoffmann-Hansen, Henrik; Nilsson, Simone; Jespersen, Johan Storgaard; Krasnik, Benjamin; Fabricius, Kitte; Schmidt, Mara Malene Raun; Gosmann, Mie Borggreen Winther og Sara Mathilde (2022-10-03)."Overblik: Partierne i Danmark".Kristeligt Dagblad (in Danish). Retrieved2023-01-04.
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  12. ^Knud Holt Nielsen (Information), 29 January 2004:"Danske konservative var fascineret af fascismen"
  13. ^Thi kendes for ret. Dokument. Rigsrettens dom over forhenværende justitsminister Erik Ninn- Hansen afsagt 22. juni 1995. Weekendavisen, 23 June 1995, 1._sektion, Side 3
  14. ^Konservativ folketingsgruppe nikker ja til Pape, Politiken, 7 August 2014
  15. ^Anne Sofie Møller Petersen (21 January 2021)."Nu er Det Konservative Folkeparti størst i blå blok – vælgerne flygter fra Venstre".TV 2 / Nyheder. RetrievedMarch 16, 2022.
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