Denmark Folketing election 1981
Denmark elections · 1981-12-08 · held
175 seats allocated in the transcribed result table.
Results: final · partial coverage · Mainland Denmark valid votes where available; separate North Atlantic counts are outside this table
Turnout: 83.26%
| Party / candidate | Votes | Vote share | Seats | Previous seats | Gain / loss | Electoral votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Democrats | 1026726 | 32.87% | 59 | 68 | -9 | — |
| Conservative People's Party | 451478 | 14.45% | 26 | 22 | +4 | — |
| Socialist People's Party | 353373 | 11.31% | 21 | 11 | +10 | — |
| Venstre | 353280 | 11.31% | 20 | 22 | -2 | — |
| Progress Party | 278383 | 8.91% | 16 | 20 | -4 | — |
| Centre Democrats | 258522 | 8.28% | 15 | 6 | +9 | — |
| Social Liberals | 160053 | 5.12% | 9 | 10 | -1 | — |
| Left Socialists | 82711 | 2.65% | 5 | 6 | -1 | — |
| Christian Democrats | 72174 | 2.31% | 4 | 5 | -1 | — |
| Justice Party | 45174 | 1.45% | 0 | 5 | -5 | — |
| Communist Party of Denmark | 34625 | 1.11% | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Communist Workers Party | 4223 | 0.14% | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Socialist Workers Party | 2034 | 0.07% | 0 | — | — | — |
| Independents | 807 | 0.03% | 0 | — | — | — |
Seats are the election result for the listed Danish party or historical grouping, not a later parliamentary membership snapshot. Where the source separates Denmark proper from the Faroe Islands and Greenland, only the mainland count is transcribed here; vote shares and turnout use that same electorate. Separate territorial results are not silently combined with mainland percentages. Missing vote counts remain blank, including elections with uncontested constituencies. Historical group and alliance labels are preserved without dividing shared lists into invented party votes. Colours are a display palette; ideology labels describe broad party traditions. Coverage is partial.
Sources & further reading
Historical result table and cited electoral bibliography
Statistics Denmark: historical election publication archive
Statistics Denmark: 2019 election report, historical series and bibliography