| 68th Folketing | |
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| Term | 13 November 2007 – 15 September 2011 |
| Speaker | V Thor Pedersen |
| Prime Minister | V Anders Fogh Rasmussen V Lars Løkke Rasmussen |
| Cabinet | Fogh Rasmussen III Lars Løkke Rasmussen I |
| Previous | 2005–2007 |
| Next | 2011–2015 |
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This is a list of the 179 members of the Folketing, in the 2007 to 2011 session. They were elected at the 2007 general election.
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| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | ||
| Denmark proper | ||||||
| Venstre | 908,472 | 26.2 | 46 | –6 | ||
| Social Democrats | 881,037 | 25.5 | 45 | –2 | ||
| Danish People's Party | 479,532 | 13.9 | 25 | +1 | ||
| Socialist People's Party | 450,975 | 13.0 | 23 | +12 | ||
| Conservative People's Party | 359,404 | 10.4 | 18 | ±0 | ||
| Danish Social Liberal Party | 177,161 | 5.1 | 9 | –8 | ||
| New Alliance | 97,295 | 2.8 | 5 | New | ||
| Red-Green Alliance | 74,982 | 2.2 | 4 | –2 | ||
| Christian Democrats | 30,013 | 0.9 | 0 | ±0 | ||
| Independents | 549 | 0.0 | 0 | ±0 | ||
| Invalid/blank votes | 24,113 | – | – | – | ||
| Total | 3,483,533 | 100 | 175 | 0 | ||
| Faroe Islands | ||||||
| Republic | 5,849 | 25.4 | 1 | ±0 | ||
| Union Party | 5,414 | 23.5 | 1 | +1 | ||
| People's Party | 4,728 | 20.5 | 0 | –1 | ||
| Social Democratic Party | 4,702 | 20.4 | 0 | ±0 | ||
| Centre Party | 1,573 | 6.8 | 0 | ±0 | ||
| Self-Government Party | 799 | 3.5 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Invalid/blank votes | 149 | – | – | – | ||
| Total | 23,214 | 100 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Greenland | ||||||
| Inuit Ataqatigiit | 8,068 | 32.5 | 1 | ±0 | ||
| Siumut | 8,068 | 32.5 | 1 | ±0 | ||
| Democrats | 4,584 | 18.5 | 0 | ±0 | ||
| Atassut | 4,094 | 16.5 | 0 | ±0 | ||
| Invalid/blank votes | 500 | – | – | – | ||
| Total | 25,589 | 100 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Source: Nohen & Stöver [1] | ||||||
Below is the distribution of the 179 seats as it appeared after the 2007 election, as well as the distribution at the end of the term.
On 27 August 2008 New Alliance changed their name to Liberal Alliance. All mentions of the party on this page will be under the name Liberal Alliance. [2]
| Party | Party leader | Elected seats | End seats | Change |
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| A Social Democrats | Helle Thorning-Schmidt | 45 | 45 |  |
| B Social Liberal Party | Margrethe Vestager | 9 | 9 | |
| C Conservatives | Lars Barfoed | 18 | 17 |  1 |
| F Socialist People's Party | Villy Søvndal | 23 | 23 | |
| I Liberal Alliance | Anders Samuelsen | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| K Christian Democrats | Per Ørum Jørgensen | - | 1 |  1 |
| O Danish People's Party | Pia Kjærsgaard | 25 | 24 | 1 |
| V Liberals | Lars Løkke Rasmussen | 46 | 46 | |
| Ø Red-Green Alliance | Collective leadership | 4 | 4 | |
| TJ Republic | Høgni Hoydal | 1 | 1 | |
| SP Union Party | Kaj Leo Johannesen | 1 | 1 | |
| IA Community of the People | Kuupik Kleist | 1 | 1 | |
| SI Forward | Aleqa Hammond | 1 | 1 | |
| . Outside group | - | 2 | 2 |
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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| Pia Christmas-Møller | C Conservatives | North Zealand | . Independent | 5 December 2007 |
| Gitte Seeberg | I Liberal Alliance | North Zealand | . Independent | 29 January 2008 |
| Malou Aamund | I Liberal Alliance | North Zealand | V Liberals | 6 February 2008 |
| Jørgen Poulsen | I Liberal Alliance | South Jutland | . Independent | 23 June 2008 |
| . Independent | B Social Liberal Party | 12 August 2008 | ||
| Simon Emil Ammitzbøll-Bille | B Social Liberal Party | Zealand | . Independent | 8 October 2008 |
| . Independent | I Liberal Alliance | 16 June 2009 | ||
| Naser Khader | I Liberal Alliance | Copenhagen | . Independent | 5 January 2009 |
| . Independent | C Conservatives | 18 March 2009 | ||
| Christian H. Hansen | O Danish People's Party | West Jutland | . Independent | 18 January 2010 |
| Per Ørum Jørgensen | C Conservatives | West Jutland | . Independent | 19 May 2010 |
| . Independent | K Christian Democrats | 21 June 2010 |
Below are member changes that lasted through the entire term.
Below are temporary member replacements during the term.
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