The 2017 Danish regional elections and the victorious parliamentary parties

In: Kjaer , U 2020 , ' The 2017 Danish regional elections and the victorious parliamentary parties ' , Regional and Federal Studies , vol. 30 , no. 3 , pp. 461-473 . https://doi.org/10.1080/13597566.2019.1689492

Abstract

Regional politics is not at the centre of most Danes' political attention, but at the 2017 regional elections more than 7 in 10 Danes showed up at the polls to vote in the five Danish regions. Although several regional lists and smaller nationwide parties ran at the elections, the established parties already represented in the national parliament conquered all but two of the 205 seats. This is not to say that the voters simply copied their national vote–almost 3 in 10 voted for a different party at the regional elections than the one they would have preferred had they been voting at a general election.