| 69th Folketing | |
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| Term | 15 September 2011 — 18 June 2015 |
| Speaker | A Mogens Lykketoft |
| Prime Minister | A Helle Thorning-Schmidt |
| Cabinet | Thorning-Schmidt I Thorning-Schmidt II |
| Previous | 2007-2011 |
| Next | 2015-2019 |
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This is a list of the 179 members of the Folketing, in the 2011 to 2015 session. They were elected at the 2011 general election.
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| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| Denmark proper | |||||
| Venstre | 947,725 | 26.7 | 47 | +1 | |
| Social Democrats (A) | 879,615 | 24.8 | 44 | −1 | |
| Danish People's Party (O) | 436,726 | 12.3 | 22 | −3 | |
| Danish Social Liberal Party (B) | 336,698 | 9.5 | 17 | +8 | |
| Socialist People's Party (F) | 326,192 | 9.2 | 16 | −7 | |
| Red-Green Alliance (Ø) | 236,860 | 6.7 | 12 | +8 | |
| Liberal Alliance (I) | 176,585 | 5.0 | 9 | +4 | |
| Conservative People's Party (C) | 175,047 | 4.9 | 8 | −10 | |
| Christian Democrats (K) | 28,070 | 0.8 | 0 | 0 | |
| Independents | 1,850 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Invalid/blank votes | 34,307 | – | – | – | |
| Total | 3,545,368 | 100 | 175 | 0 | |
| Registered voters/turnout | 4,079,910 | 87.7 | – | – | |
| Faroe Islands | |||||
| Union Party (B) | 6,361 | 30.8 | 1 | 0 | |
| Social Democratic Party (C) | 4,328 | 21.0 | 1 | +1 | |
| Republic (E) | 3,998 | 19.4 | 0 | −1 | |
| People's Party (A) | 3,932 | 19.0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Centre Party (H) | 872 | 4.2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Self-Government Party (D) | 481 | 2.3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Independents | 672 | 3.3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Invalid/blank votes | 301 | – | – | – | |
| Total | 20,644 | 100 | 2 | 0 | |
| Registered voters/turnout | 35,044 | 58.9 | – | – | |
| Greenland | |||||
| Inuit Ataqatigiit | 9,780 | 42.7 | 1 | 0 | |
| Siumut | 8,499 | 37.1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Democrats | 2,882 | 12.6 | 0 | 0 | |
| Atassut | 1,728 | 7.5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Independents | 24 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Invalid/blank votes | 612 | – | – | – | |
| Total | 22,913 | 100 | 2 | 0 | |
| Registered voters/turnout | 40,935 | 57.4 | – | – | |
| Source: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] | |||||
Below is the distribution of the 179 seats as it appeared after the 2011 election, as well at the distribution at the end of the term [6]
| Party | Party leader | Elected seats | End seats | Change |
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| A Social Democrats | Helle Thorning-Schmidt | 44 | 47 |  3 |
| B Social Liberal Party | Morten Østergaard | 17 | 17 |  |
| C Conservatives | Søren Pape Poulsen | 8 | 8 | |
| F Socialist People's Party | Pia Olsen Dyhr | 16 | 12 |  4 |
| I Liberal Alliance | Anders Samuelsen | 9 | 9 | |
| O Danish People's Party | Kristian Thulesen Dahl | 22 | 22 | |
| V Liberals | Lars Løkke Rasmussen | 47 | 47 | |
| Ø Red-Green Alliance | Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen [lower-alpha 1] | 12 | 12 | |
| Å The Alternative | Uffe Elbæk | - | 1 | 1 |
| JF Social Democratic Party | Aksel V. Johannesen | 1 | 1 | |
| SP Union Party | Kaj Leo Johannesen | 1 | 1 | |
| IA Community of the People | Aaja Chemnitz Larsen | 1 | 1 | |
| SI Forward | Aleqa Hammond | 1 | 1 | |
Below are all parliament members that have joined another party or become independent during the term.
| Name | Old party | Constituency | New party | Date |
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| Jesper Petersen | F Socialist People's Party | South Jutland | A Social Democrats | 21 March 2013 |
| Uffe Elbæk | B Social Liberal Party | Copenhagen | . Independent | 17 September 2013 |
| .' Independent | Å The Alternative | 13 March 2015 | ||
| Ida Auken | F Socialist People's Party | Copenhagen | A Social Democrats | 4 February 2014 |
| Astrid Krag | F Socialist People's Party | Zealand | A Social Democrats | 4 February 2014 |
| Ole Sohn | F Socialist People's Party | Zealand | A Social Democrats | 4 February 2014 |
Below are member changes that lasted through the entire term.
Below are temporary member replacements during the term.
The Folketing, also known as the Parliament of Denmark or the Danish Parliament in English, is the unicameral national legislature (parliament) of the Kingdom of Denmark—Denmark proper together with the Faroe Islands and Greenland. Established in 1849, until 1953 the Folketing was the lower house of a bicameral parliament, called the Rigsdag; the upper house was the Landsting. It meets in Christiansborg Palace, on the islet of Slotsholmen in central Copenhagen.
Sjálvstýri is a liberal, autonomist political party on the Faroe Islands. It is currently led by the Mayor of Klaksvík, Jógvan Skorheim.
Høgni Karsten Hoydal, commonly called Høgni Hoydal, is a Faroese politician. He currently serves as Deputy Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade. He has been the party leader of Tjóðveldi since 1998.
Same-sex marriage has been legal in the Faroe Islands since 1 July 2017. Legislation allowing same-sex marriage and adoption by same-sex couples was approved by the Løgting on 29 April 2016. The Danish Parliament approved the necessary legislative adaptations on 25 April 2017, and the law received royal assent on 3 May and went into effect on 1 July 2017.
Høgni Reistrup is a Faroese singer, musician, writer and scientist from Tórshavn, Faroe Islands. He is the co-writer of the book Exit Føroyar ; he wrote it together with Heri á Rógvi. The books was published in 2012 and created a major debate in the Faroe Islands and in Denmark about the problems the Faroe Islands were facing with population decline in the islands, where the biggest problems seemed to be that half of the young people who moved away to study abroad never moved back again; especially the women did not move back again. After a period of six years with negative net migration in the Faroe Islands, the country saw an increase in the population in 2014 and 2015.
Bjørk Herup Olsen is a Faroese athlete. She is until now (2012) the best female middle and long distance runner in the Faroe Islands. Herup Olsen has won several Danish Junior Championships and holds several Faroese records. She was the first Faroese woman, who ran 3000 m under 10 minutes. Bjørk is running for the Faroese club Bragdið and for the Danish club Helsingør Idrætsforening . She signed her letter of intent to run track at East Carolina University.
Progress is a liberal, pro-Faroese independence political party on the Faroe Islands.
Sjúrður Skaale is a Faroese politician, journalist, skydiver, belly dancer, and comedian. He is a member of the Folketing for the Social Democratic Party. From 2008 to 2011 he was a member of the Løgting.
Rasmus Helveg Petersen is a Danish politician, who is a member of the Folketing for the Danish Social Liberal Party. He served as Minister for Development Cooperation from 21 November 2013 to 3 February 2014, and as Minister of Climate, Energy and Building from 3 February 2014 to 28 June 2015. He was elected into parliament at the 2019 Danish general election, having previously served from 2011 to 2015. He is the brother of Morten Helveg Petersen, who serves as a member of the European Parliament for the same party.
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached the Faroe Islands, an autonomous territory of Denmark, in March 2020. The confirmed infection rate was 1 case per 280 inhabitants, one of the highest rates in the world, but the archipelago also tested at a very high frequency, with the number of tests equaling c. 34 per cent of the population. As of 28 February 2022, there have been 34648 confirmed cases. Among these, 31 persons have died with COVID-19.
Katarina Ammitzbøll is a Danish politician, who is a member of the Folketing for the Conservative People's Party. She was elected into parliament at the 2019 Danish general election.
Erling Bonnesen is a Danish politician, who is a member of the Folketing for the Venstre political party. He entered parliament in 2004 after Mariann Fischer Boel resigned her seat.
Jeppe Bruus Christensen is a Danish politician, who is a member of the Folketing for the Social Democrats political party. He was elected into parliament at the 2019 Danish general election. He was previously a member of parliament between 2014 and 2015.
René Bjørn Christensen is a Danish politician, who is a member of the Folketing for the Danish People's Party. He entered parliament in 2008 after Mia Falkenberg resigned her seat. Christensen has a background as teacher and mechanic.
Dennis Flydtkjær is a Danish politician, who is a member of the Folketing for the Danish People's Party. He was elected into parliament at the 2011 Danish general election.
Rosa Lund is a Danish politician, who is a member of the Folketing for the Red–Green Alliance political party. She was elected at the 2019 Danish general election, and previously sat in parliament from 2011 to 2015.
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