European Parliament election, 2004 (Denmark)
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Elections to the European Parliament were held in Denmark on June 13, 2004. The opposition Social Democrats made major gains, mainly at the expense of Eurosceptic parties such as the June Movement.
Results
Registered voters: 4,012,663 Votes cast: 1,921,541 47.9 Invalid votes: 27,195 1.4 Valid votes: 1,894,346 98.6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Party Votes % Change Seats ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Social Democrats (SD) 618,412 32.6 +16.1 5 +2 Venstre (V) 366,735 19.4 -4.0 3 -2 Conservative People's Party (KF) 214,972 11.3 +2.8 1 June Movement (Juni B.) 171,927 9.1 -7.0 1 -2 Socialist People's Party (SF) 150,766 8.0 +0.9 1 Danish People's Party (DF) 128,789 6.8 +1.0 1 Radical Left (RV) 120,473 6.4 -2.7 1 People's Movement against the EU (Folk B.) 97,986 5.2 1 Christian Democrats (KD) 24,286 1.3 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Total 1,894,346 14 -2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Source: Final results, Danish Ministry of the Interior & Health (http://www.im.dk//imagesupload/dokument/Det%20endelige%20valgresultat.pdf).
Note - seats are allocated first by the D'Hondt method to Electoral coalitions, which were (SD + SF), (RV + KD), (KF + V), (Juni B. + Folk B.) with (DF) by themselves; then subsequently between the parties in each coalition. Compared to straight allocation by party, Folk B. gained 1 seat at the expense of KF.