Centre Democrats (Denmark)

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Centre Democrats
Centrum-Demokraterne
AbbreviationCD
Leader Ben Haddou
Founded7 November 1973 (1973-11-07)
Dissolved26 January 2008 (2008-01-26)
Split from Social Democrats
HeadquartersOmøgade 8, 2. sal
2100 København
Youth wing Youth of the Centre-Democrats (1982-2006/2008)
Ideology Centrism [1]
Social democracy [2]
Liberal conservatism [3]
Political position Centre [4]
European Parliament group European People's Party (1984-1994)
ColoursPurple
Election symbol
D [lower-alpha 1]
Website
www.centrumdemokraterne.dk

The Centre Democrats (Danish : Centrum-Demokraterne, CD) were a Danish political party.

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The Centre Democrats (Centrum-Demokraterne) in 1977 CD DK 1977.png
The Centre Democrats (Centrum-Demokraterne) in 1977

History

The party was formed in 1973 [5] by Erhard Jakobsen, a former MP and mayor of Gladsaxe, as a centrist splinter group from the Danish Social Democrats. [6] It participated in both centre-right governments (1982–1988) and centre-left governments (1993–1996).

In the 2001 election, it lost its parliamentary representation, a severe setback for the party. In the 2005 election, it got 33,635 votes (1% of votes nationwide). It also ran in several municipalities in the Danish municipal election in November 2005. It also ran in simultaneous elections to the new Regional Councils, except in Region Midtjylland, where a local party official forgot to hand in the required number of voters' signatures before the deadline closed. [7]

On 26 January 2008, an extraordinary party conference decided to dissolve the party by 1 February 2008. [8]

Party leaders

Election results

Parliament (Folketing)

DateVotesSeats
# %± pp#±
1973 236.7847.8%+7.8
14 / 179
New
1975 66.3162.2%-5.6
4 / 179
Decrease2.svg 10
1977 200.3476.4%+4.2
11 / 179
Increase2.svg 7
1979 102.1323.2%-3.2
6 / 179
Decrease2.svg 5
1981 258.5228.3%+5.1
15 / 179
Increase2.svg 9
1984 154.5534.6%-3.7
8 / 179
Decrease2.svg 7
1987 161.0704.8%+0.2
9 / 179
Increase2.svg 1
1988 155.4644.7%-0.1
9 / 179
Steady2.svg 0
1990 165.5565.1%+0.4
9 / 179
Steady2.svg 0
1994 94.4962.8%-2.3
5 / 179
Decrease2.svg 4
1998 146.8024.3%+1.5
8 / 179
Increase2.svg 3
2001 61.0311.8%-2.5
0 / 179
Decrease2.svg 8
2005 33.8801.0%-0.8
0 / 179
Steady2.svg 0
2007 Did not run.

Municipal elections

DateSeats
#±
2001
2 / 4,647
Steady2.svg 0
2005
0 / 2,522
Decrease2.svg 2

Regional elections

DateVotesSeats
#±
2001 24,914
3 / 374
Steady2.svg 0
2005 4,987
0 / 205
Decrease2.svg 3

European Parliament elections

DateVotesSeats
# %± pp#±
1979 107.7906.1%+6.1
1 / 15
New
1984 131.9846.6%+0.5
1 / 15
Steady2.svg 0
1989 142.1908.0%+1.4
2 / 16
Increase2.svg 1
1994 18.3650.9%-7.1
0 / 16
Decrease2.svg 2
1999 68.7173.5%+2.6
0 / 16
Steady2.svg 0
2004 Did not run.

Notes

  1. Previously used M

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