Danish general election, 1984

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10 January 1984

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All 179 seats to the Folketing
90 seats were needed for a majority

Turnout

88.0%

	First party	Second party

Leader	Anker Jørgensen	Poul Schlüter
Party	Social Democrats	Conservative People's
Last election	59 seats, 32.9%	26 seats, 14.5%
Seats won	56	42
Seat change	3	16
Popular vote	1,062,561	788,224
Percentage	31.6%	23.4%

Prime Minister before election

Poul Schlüter
Conservative People's

Prime Minister-elect

Poul Schlüter
Conservative People's

General elections were held in Denmark on 10 January 1984, after the opposition voted against the government's state budget bill. Although the Social Democratic Party remained the largest in the Folketing with 56 of the 179 seats, the Conservative People's Party achieved its best-ever result, gaining 16 seats. The coalition partners Venstre and the Christian People's Party also increased their representation, although the fourth government party, the Centre Democrats, lost seven of their 15 seats. Overall the coalition won three more seats, and Poul Schlüter continued as Prime Minister

Voter turnout was 88.4% in Denmark proper, 61.0% in the Faroe Islands and 63.9% in Greenland.

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