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Denmark 2022 election -- list PR in districts and in overall top-up

Updated: Aug 24

Denmark 2022 

2022 Danish general election

conducted using list PR in multiple-member districts and also overall country-wide top-up (levelling seats) given to parties who are under-represented in district elections, if they are eligible for top-up.

(to get top-up, the party must have more than two percent of country-wide vote or meet other qualifications)


(SD = Social Democrats; V = Ventres; M = Moderates; GL = Green-Left; LA = Liberal Alliance; RG = Red-Green; SL = Social Liberals; NR = New Right; DPP = Denmark People's Party; Alt = The Alternative)


District seats SD V M G-L DD LA C RG SL oth

North Jutland 15 7 2 1 1 3 1 0 0 0

South Jutland 17 6 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 0 NR1

East  Jutland 18 6 3 1 2 1 2 1 1 1

West Jutland 13 4 3 1 1 2 1 1 0 0

Funen 12 6 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 0

Zealand 20 7 3 2 2 2 1 1 0 0 NR1DPP1

North Zealand 10 4 2 1 1 0 1 1 0 0

Greater Copenhagen 11 5 1 2 1 0 1 1 0 0

Copenhagen 17 4 2 0 2 0 2 1 3 1  (Alt2

Bornholm 2 1 1 -- - - - - - -

          135 50 22 11 12 11 11 7 4 2 NR2 Alt2 DPP1

TOTAL  135

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Levelling seats 0 1 5 3 3 3 3 5 5 NR4 Alt4 DPP4

TOTAL 40

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Total seats 50 23 16 15 14 14 10 9 7 NR6 Alt6 DPP5

TOTAL  175

Votes percentage 28 13 9 8 8 8 6 5 4 NR4 Alt3 DPP3

Seats percentage (175) 28 13 9 9 8 8 6 5 4 NR3 Alt3 DPP3

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(see below for different table showing same info)


All parties who are eligible for top-up received a higher percentage of the seats than their percentage of votes except the New Right.

perhaps the New Right did not run enough candidates or there is some other reason that they got a slightly lower percentage of seats than their overall percentage of votes.

The other parties received a higher percentage of seat then their vote percentage because about 1.6 percent of the votes were not given any representation.

those extra 2.8 seats were awarded to the other parties.

G-L actually getting one more percentage of seats than their vote percentage.

The other parties (except New Right) also got slightly more but this is not easily visible in the table above, due to rounding.

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Levelling seats are allocated to particular districts perhaps based on best-loser system.

so all members have local districts to represent even if elected based on overall party vote shares.

The use of list PR at the district level (and how the use of MMDs prevented the creation of many micro-districts) prevented Social Democrats from getting too many seats (overhang) even though it was plurality winner in every district.

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Wasted votes 1.6 percent of the vote


in addition to the 175 seats allocated in the table above, there was:

Faroe Isl 2

Greenland 2

the parties that ran for these four seats were in many cases not the same as ran for the 175 seats on the "mainland"

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Social Democrts got no levelling seats becasuse it received its full proportional share of seats at the district level.


PARTIES p.c. of vote seats won p.c. of 175 seats

Social Democrats 28 50 28

Venstre 13 23 13

Moderates 9 16 9

Green-Left  8 15 9

Denmark Democrats 8 14 8

Liberal Alliance  8 14 8

Conservatives 6 10 6

Red-Green Alliance  5 9 5

Social Liberals 4 7 4

New Right 3.7 6 3.4

The Alternative 3 6 3

Danish People’s Party 3 5 3

12 parties 97 175 99



DPP won five seats:  2.6 percent of the vote

Zealand DM-20  4 percent of the vote (8 percent ineffective)  1 seat

All other seats came through levelling seats


The Alternative won six seats  3.33 percent of the vote overall

both in Copenhagen DM-17  9 percent of the vote in the district (7 percent of the vote wasted)

All other seats came through levelling seats


Social Liberals won seven seats (3.8 percent of the vote overall)

Two seats won in districts:

East Jutland DM-18 4.6 percent of the vote in the district (11 percent of vote wasted)

Copenhagen DM-17    7 percent of the vote in the district (7 percent of the vote wasted)

All other seats came through levelling seats


Small parties get two to three times their overall vote percentage in a single district.


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These numbers were composed using numbers in the Wiki "2022 Danish general election" article.


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Parties' district seats and top-up seats

Social Democrats 50 district seats 0 top-up 50 total

Venstre 21 district seats 2 top-up 23 total

Moderates 13 district seats 3 top-up 16 total

Green-Left 12 district seats 3 top-up 15 total

Denmark Democrats 11 district seats 3 top-up 14 total

Liberal Alliance 10 district seats 4 top-up 14 total

Conservative People's 7 district seats 3 top-up 10 total

Red-Green 4 district seats 5 top-up 9 total

Social Liberals 2 district seats 5 top-up 7 total

New Right 2 district seats 4 top-up 6 total

Alternative 2 district seats 4 top-up 6 total

Danish People's 1 district seats 4 top-up 5 total seats


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