Denmark Parliamentary Election - June 18, 2015

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Ah, I see that Denmark shares that issue wrt double-barreled names with England.

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In fairness though, most countries have better polling industries than Britain.

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Are the election districts on the same boundaries as last time or do I need to make a few adjustments before making the cartographic equivalents of delicious sweeties that Danish elections always produce?

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What time is the exit poll out at?

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Working class as a description can certainly be used for people in poorly paid service sector jobs and the like. Thinking otherwise is to deny the reality of the modern economy. And it certainly applies to relevant retired people and so on. What the hell? Stop being so weird all of you.

Anyway in Denmark the two parties with the most obviously working class voter profile (however defined) are the SDs and the DPP (although both, of course, attract votes from other sources). Other parties (whatever the camp) tend to have a more affluent* profile. I generalise greatly of course.

_{*I'm a country boy, I regard farmers as affluent even when they aren't.}

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So the first time that the Social Democrats have been the largest party since 1998.

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I think we wait until a few more votes are counted than those cast in random Jutland agricultural villages...

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Well this looks to be spectacularly messy. Can a genuinely stable government even be formed from figures such as these?

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The potential for a hilarious trainwreck of a government is, I think, quite definite.

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denmark 2015=austria 1999?

The situation is different in almost all respects (Denmark and Austria are really quite different countries). One of which is that the DPP - whatever one might say about elements of its past - is considerably less toxic than the FPO: it has never gone into government out of (cynical, calculated) choice.

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Because the whole appeal of the DPP is based on the fact that the DPP will never be part of government but will extract concessions from governments. Which is why today's narrow but clear victory for the Right looks pretty Pyrrhic...

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Electoral churn is even more complicated in Denmark than in most places (ah fragmented party systems, don't you love them), but I'd advise you to look at where the DPP gained the most. Looks to me as if there was a hell of a lot of direct Venstre to DPP switching going on...

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Lovely maps Hash; it means I get an excuse to just go and make party vote ones straight off.

Oh great, another sh*tty election result.

Well yes. But the good news is that it's actually quite quite sh!tty for the winners as well.

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Maybe she can run for Cynon Valley when Ann Clwyd stands down for real next time?

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Maps are coming along nicely.

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Maps of the Left parties will be either later this evening or some time tomorrow.

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Basically just did this for fun:

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Leading party within the City:

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Note that the keys are the same as for the national maps (thus lmao Venstre). I will probably (possibly?) do some with city specific keys in the future.

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So, when Venstre is as good as wiped out at the next election, who will benefit? Liberal Annoyance?