Danish general election, 2007

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13 November 2007

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

Turnout

86.6%

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Anders Fogh Rasmussen	Helle Thorning-Schmidt	Pia Kjærsgaard
Party	Venstre	Social Democrats	Danish People's
Last election	52 seats, 29.0%	47 seats, 25.9%	24 seats, 13.3%
Seats won	46	45	25
Seat change	6	2	1
Popular vote	908,472	881,037	479,532
Percentage	26.2%	25.5%	13.9%

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Villy Søvndal	Bendt Bendtsen	Margrethe Vestager
Party	Socialist People's	Conservative People's	Social Liberals
Last election	11 seats, 6.0%	18 seats, 10.3%	17 seats, 9.2%
Seats won	23	18	9
Seat change	12	0	8
Popular vote	450,975	359,404	177,161
Percentage	13.0%	10.4%	5.1%

	Seventh party	Eighth party

Leader	Naser Khader	Collective leadership
Party	New Alliance	Red-Green
Last election	New party	6 seats, 3.4%
Seats won	5	4
Seat change	5	2
Popular vote	97,295	74,982
Percentage	2.8%	2.2%

Prime Minister before election

Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Venstre

PM-elect

Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Venstre

General elections were held in Denmark on 13 November 2007. The election allowed prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen to continue for a third term in a coalition government consisting of the Liberals and the Conservative People's Party with parliamentary support from the Danish People's Party.

According to the Constitution of Denmark, Denmark is governed according to the principle of negative parliamentarism, meaning that while a government doesn't need the majority of seats in parliament, it must never have a majority of seats against it in a vote of no confidence. Before the ongoing elections, this was relevant since the government, consisting of the Conservative People's Party and the Liberals did not have a majority of seats, but depended on the support of the Danish People's Party. Early opinion polls showed that neither a right-wing or a left-wing government could gather enough seats to be in government without the support of the newly established New Alliance. This caused a lot of interest, since New Alliance had stated that they would first give the government the opportunity to propose a programme for government, but that they would not definitely support a right-wing government prior to seeing how many of their political agendas they could work together on. Many people were unsure how this would be possible, since New Alliance was originally formed to limit the influence of the Danish People's Party, without whom a right-wing government did not seem possible in opinion polls. After the elections, however, it was clear that New Alliance did not get enough seats in parliament to break the previous right-wing majority.

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