Danish general election, 2001
- Ø: 4
- F: 12
- A: 52
- B: 9
- I: 0
- V: 56
- K: 4
- C: 16
- O: 22
The general election on 20 November 2001 was the 64th election to the Folketing, the Danish parliament.
The ruling Social Democrats of Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen suffered significant losses. For the first time since 1920, they fell behind the right-wing liberal Venstre back to second place. Its chairman, Anders Fogh Rasmussen was able to form a minority government with the Conservatives, received a cooperation with the right-wing populist Danish People's Party.
Venstre forward momentum mainly in the cities of Copenhagen, Aarhus and Aalborg, while the Danish People's Party achieved its best result with 14.0 per cent in South Jutland office. The strongholds of the conservatives were traditionally in Frederiksborg Amt and Frederiksberg. The Social Democrats had last 1973 similarly weak cut off, as the Danish party system was subjected to massive changes and the number of parliamentary parties of five doubled to 10. Two of the parties created at that time had to leave in 2001 the Folketing: Centre Democrats and Progressives failed due to the two-percent hurdle. 2005 should follow them, the Christian People's Party.
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- General Election 2001
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