European Parliament elections were held inDenmark on 7 June 2009 to elect the 13 Danish members of theEuropean Parliament . The election was held simultaneously with areferendum on changing the Danish Act of Succession .
All Danish parties which were represented in the European Parliament announced they would take part in the election. These were theSocial Democrats ,Venstre (Liberal Party) ,Conservative People's Party ,June Movement ,Socialist People's Party ,Danish People's Party ,Social Liberal Party and thePeople's Movement against the EU .
As inthe last election , several electoral coalitions were agreed to before the vote. TheSocial Democrats sided with theSocial Liberal Party and theSocialist People's Party , whileVenstre teamed up with theConservative People's Party andLiberal Alliance . EU-criticsJuniBevægelsen and thePeople's Movement against the EU were also in a coalition, meaning that the only party not in a coalition was theDanish People's Party .[ 1]
Under the Danish electoral code for European Parliament elections, parties that surpassed the 2%threshold in the last Folketing elections may also take part in the European elections, should they wish so.
Source Date SD V SF K DF FM EU RV JB LA Undecided [1] 26–1 March April 2009 26.4% 22% 17.4% 12.1% 12% 4% 3.9% 2.2% – – [2] 22 May 2009 27.9% 24.4% 13.4% 11.8% 8.6% 6.3% 4.4% 3.2% – – [3] 29 May 2009 26.5% 23.5% 12.1% 13.6% 10.2% 5.3% 4.5% 3.8% 0.5% – [4] ,[5] 5 June 2009 24.1% 23.3% 15.8% ? 12% 11.8% 5.2% 3.7% 3.5% ? – [6] 6 June 2009 22.6% 22.4% 15.5% 12.3% 6.7% 6.5% 3.8% 2.9% 0.6% –
Party Votes % Seats +/– Social Democrats 503,439 21.49 4 –1 Venstre 474,041 20.24 3 0 Socialist People's Party 371,603 15.87 2 +1 Danish People's Party 357,942 15.28 2 +1 Conservative People's Party 297,199 12.69 1 0 People's Movement against the EU 168,555 7.20 1 0 Danish Social Liberal Party 100,094 4.27 0 –1 June Movement 55,459 2.37 0 –1 Liberal Alliance 13,796 0.59 0 New Total 2,342,128 100.00 13 –1 Valid votes 2,342,128 96.96 Invalid/blank votes 73,440 3.04 Total votes 2,415,568 100.00 Registered voters/turnout 4,057,100 59.54 Source:Statistics Denmark
The final list ofMEP were determined by a recount of votes on individual politicians:[ 2]
Social Democrats (4 seats)Dan Jørgensen (233,266 votes)Christel Schaldemose (43,855)Britta Thomsen (32,569)Ole Christensen (20,597)Conservative People's Party (1 seat)Bendt Bendtsen (176,786 votes)Socialist People's Party (2 seats)Margrete Auken (204,111 votes)Emilie Turunen (37,330)People's Movement against the EU (1 seat)Søren Søndergaard (107,429 votes)Danish People's Party (2 seats)Morten Messerschmidt (284,500 votes)Anna Rosbach Andersen (3,592)Venstre (3 seats)Jens Rohde (171,205 votes)Morten Løkkegaard (57,175)Anne Elisabet Jensen (47,906)After the election, both head of theJune Movement Keld Albrechtsen [ 3] Hanne Dahl [ 4]
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