| 72nd Folketing | |
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| Term | 1 November 2022 - |
| Speaker | V Søren Gade [1] |
| Prime Minister | A Mette Frederiksen |
| Cabinet | Frederiksen II |
| Previous | 2019–2022 |
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This is a list of the 179 members of the Folketing in the 2022 session. They were elected at the 2022 Danish general election. [2]
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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| Denmark proper | |||||
| Social Democrats | 971,995 | 27.50 | 50 | +2 | |
| Venstre | 470,546 | 13.32 | 23 | –20 | |
| Moderates | 327,699 | 9.27 | 16 | New | |
| Green Left | 293,186 | 8.30 | 15 | +1 | |
| Denmark Democrats | 286,796 | 8.12 | 14 | New | |
| Liberal Alliance | 278,656 | 7.89 | 14 | +10 | |
| Conservative People's Party | 194,820 | 5.51 | 10 | –2 | |
| Red–Green Alliance | 181,452 | 5.13 | 9 | –4 | |
| Danish Social Liberal Party | 133,931 | 3.79 | 7 | –9 | |
| Nye Borgerlige | 129,524 | 3.67 | 6 | +2 | |
| The Alternative | 117,567 | 3.33 | 6 | +1 | |
| Danish People's Party | 93,428 | 2.64 | 5 | –11 | |
| Independent Greens | 31,787 | 0.90 | 0 | New | |
| Christian Democrats | 18,276 | 0.52 | 0 | 0 | |
| Independents | 4,288 | 0.12 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 3,533,951 | 100.00 | 175 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 3,533,951 | 98.36 | |||
| Invalid votes | 12,599 | 0.35 | |||
| Blank votes | 46,272 | 1.29 | |||
| Total votes | 3,592,822 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 4,269,048 | 84.16 | |||
| Source: DST | |||||
| Faroe Islands | |||||
| Union Party | 8,198 | 30.19 | 1 | 0 | |
| Social Democratic Party | 7,659 | 28.20 | 1 | 0 | |
| Republic | 4,927 | 18.14 | 0 | 0 | |
| People's Party | 4,222 | 15.55 | 0 | 0 | |
| Centre Party | 1,217 | 4.48 | 0 | New | |
| Progress | 936 | 3.45 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 27,159 | 100.00 | 2 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 27,159 | 99.20 | |||
| Invalid votes | 73 | 0.27 | |||
| Blank votes | 146 | 0.53 | |||
| Total votes | 27,378 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 38,387 | 71.32 | |||
| Source: kvf.fo | |||||
| Greenland | |||||
| Siumut | 7,424 | 38.58 | 1 | 0 | |
| Inuit Ataqatigiit | 4,852 | 25.21 | 1 | 0 | |
| Democrats | 3,656 | 19.00 | 0 | 0 | |
| Naleraq | 2,416 | 12.55 | 0 | 0 | |
| Atassut | 720 | 3.74 | 0 | 0 | |
| Cooperation Party | 176 | 0.91 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 19,244 | 100.00 | 2 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 19,244 | 97.52 | |||
| Invalid votes | 197 | 1.00 | |||
| Blank votes | 293 | 1.48 | |||
| Total votes | 19,734 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 41,305 | 47.78 | |||
| Source: Qinersineq | |||||
Below is the distribution of the 179 seats as it appeared after the 2022 election, as well as the current distribution.
The list of new or re-elected parliament members. [3]
Below are all parliament members that have joined another party or become independent during the term.
| Name | Shift from | Shift to | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mette Thiesen [4] [5] | D Nye Borgerlige | . Independent | 7 November 2022 |
| . Independent | O Danish People's Party | 6 February 2023 | |
| Mikkel Bjørn [6] | D Nye Borgerlige | O Danish People's Party | 24 January 2023 |
| Lars Boje Mathiesen [7] | D Nye Borgerlige | . Independent | 9 March 2023 |
| Jon Stephensen [8] | M Moderates | . Independent | 17 August 2023 |
| Theresa Scavenius [9] | Å The Alternative | . Independent | 21 September 2023 |
| Mike Fonseca [10] | M Moderates | . Independent | 17 November 2023 |
| Pernille Vermund [11] [12] | D Nye Borgerlige | . Independent | 10 January 2024 |
| . Independent | I Liberal Alliance | 17 January 2024 | |
| Peter Seier Christensen [11] | D Nye Borgerlige | . Independent | 10 January 2024 |
| Kim Edberg Andersen [11] [13] | D Nye Borgerlige | . Independent | 16 January 2024 |
| . Independent | Æ Denmark Democrats | 19 March 2024 | |
| Mads Fuglede [14] | V Liberals | Æ Denmark Democrats | 19 March 2024 |
| Christian Friis Bach [15] | B Social Liberal Party | V Liberals | 5 August 2024 |
| Jeppe Søe [16] | M Moderates | . Independent | 5 September 2024 |
Below are member changes that will last through the entire term.
The Christian Democrats are a political party in Denmark. The party was founded in April 1970 as the Christian People's Party to oppose the liberalization of restrictions on pornography and the legalization of abortion. The party renamed itself to its current name in 2003. Originally, the party was not considered part of the European Christian-democratic tradition, and it was better known as a religious conservative party.
Troels Lund Poulsen is a Danish politician, who is the Deputy Prime Minister of Denmark and leader of Venstre. He also serves as Minister of Defence. He previously served as Minister for the Environment from 2007 to 2010, Minister for Taxation from 2010 to 2011, Minister of Education in 2011, Minister for Commerce, Business and Growth from 2015 to 2016, Minister for Employment from 2016 to 2019, and Minister for Economic Affairs from 2022 to 2023. He has been a member of the Folketing since 2001, representing the Hedensted nomination district.
Jeppe Sebastian Kofod is a former Danish politician of the Social Democratic Party who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Denmark between 27 June 2019 to 15 December 2022.
The Alternative is a green and pro-European political party in Denmark. The party was publicly launched on 27 November 2013 by former Minister of Culture Uffe Elbæk and Josephine Fock; Elbæk had been a parliamentarian for the Social Liberal Party. Elbæk was the leader of the party until February 2020, where he stepped down and was succeeded by Fock. Currently the party is led by Franciska Rosenkilde. It collaborates with DiEM25 at the European level. The Alternative regards itself as a political movement and a cultural voice, as well as a political party.
Martin Henriksen is a Danish politician and since April 2024 leader of the New Right party. He is a former MP, at the time representing the Danish People's Party in Parliament from 8 February 2005 to 5 June 2019 in various constituencies, but left that party in 2022 after losing the election for party leadership. In 2023, he joined the New Right party.
Nye Borgerlige is a national-conservative and right-wing populist political party in Denmark. Formed by Pernille Vermund and Peter Seier Christensen in 2015, it first entered the Folketing in 2019 with four seats and again in 2022 with six. After three defections in the first months after the election, by March 2023 the party's number of seats in the Folketing was reduced to three.
Alex Dominique Kristensen Vanopslagh is a French-born Danish politician. He is a member of the Folketing, and party leader of the Liberal Alliance. He is a former chairman of its youth wing, Liberal Alliance Youth.
Ann Pernille Vermund Bretton-Meyer is a Danish architect (MAA) and politician, being a member of the Folketing since 2019. She is known for co-founding and being the leader of the national-conservative political party Nye Borgerlige from its founding in 2015 until February 2023 and again from October 2023 to January 2024. On 10 January 2024, she surprisingly announced that she had left Nye Borgerlige, recommending its dissolution. A week later, she joined the parliamentary group of the Liberal Alliance.
The Frederiksen I Cabinet took office on 27 June 2019 and succeeded the Lars Løkke Rasmussen III Cabinet following the 2019 Danish general election. Headed by Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, it was a minority government consisting of the Social Democrats. It relied on parliamentary support from the Red–Green Alliance, the Socialist People's Party, and the Social Liberal Party.
Jakob Ellemann-Jensen is a Danish former politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Denmark and Minister of Defence under Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen from 2022 to 2023. He led the Venstre party from 2019 to 2023.
The 2024 European Parliament election in Denmark was held on 9 June 2024. The elections were held as part of the wider 2024 European Parliament election, but did not take place in the Faroe Islands and Greenland, which are not part of the European Union.
Mette Thiesen is a Danish politician and former schoolteacher who has been a member of the Folketing since June 2019, at first representing the Nye Borgerlige political party, but from November 2022 being an independent, and from February 2023 representing the Danish People's Party.
Lars Boje Mathiesen is a Danish politician who has been an independent member of the Danish Parliament, the Folketing, since March 2023. Previously a member of the Nye Borgerlige political party before his expulsion in 2023, he was first elected to the Folketing at the 2019 general election for the Nye Borgerlige and again at the 2022 general election.
The Moderates is a liberal political party in Denmark founded by former Prime Minister and current Minister of Foreign Affairs Lars Løkke Rasmussen. He announced the name in a foundational speech on 5 June 2021. At the same time, he said that his main scenario was that the party would be formed after the 2021 Danish local elections. The name was, according to Rasmussen, inspired by the fictitious Prime Minister Birgitte Nyborg's party Moderaterne in the hit political TV drama Borgen as well as the Swedish Moderate Party, the then–second largest party in the Swedish Riksdag. The Moderates' political position is referred to as centre to centre-right.
Mikkel Bjørn Sørensen is a Danish politician and former teacher. In November 2022, he became a member of the Folketing for the Nye Borgerlige (NB) party, but in January 2023 changed his party allegiance to the Danish People's Party (DF). Formerly, in 2016-2021 he was the first national chairman of Nye Borgerlige's youth wing. Growing up near Juelsminde in Jutland, Bjørn has since 2022 lived in Nyborg on Funen.
Henrik Frandsen is a Danish politician serving as Member of the Folketing for the Moderates since the 2022 election. He was formerly mayor of Tønder Municipality.
Nye Borgerliges Ungdom (NBU) was the youth wing of the Danish political party Nye Borgerlige. It was founded in 2015 as "Unge Nye Borgerlige" and changed to its present name the following year. It was dissolved in March 2024.
Kristian Klarskov is a Danish politician and entrepreneur who was a Member of the Folketing for the Moderates from 1 November 2022 to 23 November 2022.
The Frederiksen II Cabinet is the current Government of Denmark, which took office on 15 December 2022. It succeeded the Frederiksen I Cabinet following the 2022 general election.
Events in the year 2023 in Denmark.
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