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Conservative People's Party (Denmark)

Conservative People's Party (Denmark)

The Conservative People's Party (Danish: Det Konservative Folkeparti, DKF), also known as the Conservatives (Konservative) is a conservative[4] centre-right[6] political party in Denmark. The party is a member of the European People's Party (EPP) and International Democrat Union.

Conservative People's Party

Det Konservative Folkeparti
LeaderSøren Pape Poulsen
Founded1916
Preceded byHøjre
Free Conservatives
Moderate faction of Venstre
HeadquartersNyhavn 4
1051 København K
Youth wingYoung Conservatives
Student wingConservative Students
IdeologyConservatism[4]
Liberal conservatism[5]
Green conservatism
Economic liberalism
Political positionCentre-right[6]
European affiliationEuropean People's Party
International affiliationInternational Democrat Union
European Parliament groupEuropean People's Party
Nordic affiliationConservative Group
ColoursGreen
Folketing
12 / 179
European Parliament
1 / 14
Regions:[7]
15 / 205
Municipalities:[8]
225 / 2,432
Mayors:
8 / 98
Election symbol
C
Website
www.konservative.dk [12]
  • Politics of Denmark
  • Political parties
  • Elections

History

Election poster, 1939. It reads: Comrades - let it now be over! Vote for more work. Vote Conservative.

Election poster, 1939. It reads: Comrades - let it now be over! Vote for more work. Vote Conservative.

The party was founded 1916[9] based mostly on its predecessor, Højre ("Right"), but also on the Free Conservatives and a moderate faction of the liberal party Venstre.

The party has participated in several coalition governments, but only one Prime Minister of Denmark, Poul Schlüter, has come from this party, serving from 1982 to 1993.

The youth branch of the Conservative People's Party, albeit an independent organisation, is Young Conservatives, the earliest formed youth organisation in Denmark, founded in December 1904, and believed to be one of the oldest in the world, preceding the Conservative People's Party by 10 years. The student branch is Conservative Students, likewise an independent organisation, which has branches at all Danish Universities.

The Conservative People's Party got its first logo in 1950, and it consists of the serif-letter "C" which is coloured green, because the party had used this logo for over 50 years from 1950 to 2000.

On 24 August 2000, the Conservative People's Party became rebranded as the Conservatives, and were at the same time retiring its classic 50-year-old green-coloured serif-letter "C" logo, thus launching a new logo for the first time of 50 years since 1950. This time, the new logo would now become a circle which contains a chartreuse circle with the letter "C".

From the 2001 parliament elections until 2011, the Conservative People's Party was the junior partner in a coalition government led by Venstre. The Conservative People's Party is currently led by Søren Pape Poulsen,

In the 2004 European parliament elections, the party won a seat, but 4 months later, on 23 October 2004, that same year, it had therefore adopted its current logo which consists of a green circle-squared box that contains a dark-green screen with the letter "C" that is coloured green although the "Konservative" wordmark is placed below the symbol though it is also coloured green too. The member is currently Bendt Bendtsen, who is a member of the EPP Group in the European Parliament. In the 2014 European elections, the party garnered 9.1% of the national vote, retaining Bendsten's seat as MEP.

In the 2011 parliamentary election for the Folketing (Danish national parliament), the Conservative People's Party won eight seats, 10 fewer than it had won in the previous election in 2007, and it received 4.9% of the vote, placing the party eighth place nationally.

On 27 September 2013, the Conservative People's Party got its current version of its now-existing logo, as the letter "C" changes its colour to white, as well as the circle-squared line gets removed from the circle-square that is still retaining its dark-green colour. At the same time, the party gave up of being known as the Conservatives, and so, it had its name being reverted to the Conservative People's Party.

The Conservatives remain committed to a centre-right alliance, working most closely with the liberal Venstre and somewhat less closely with the right-wing populist Danish People's Party. The Conservatives did cooperate with the Social Liberal Party during its time in power in the 1980s and also cooperated with the centre-left government under Poul Nyrup Rasmussen in the 1990s.

List of leaders

Political leaders

John Christmas Møller1928–1947
Ole Bjørn Kraft1947–1955
Aksel Møller1955–1958
Poul Sørensen1958–1969
Poul Møller1969–1971
Erik Ninn-Hansen1971–1974
Poul Schlüter1974–1993
Henning Dyremose1993
Hans Engell1993–1997
Per Stig Møller1997–1998
Pia Christmas-Møller1998–1999
Bendt Bendtsen1999–2008
Lene Espersen2008–2011
Lars Barfoed2011–2014
Søren Pape Poulsen2014–

Party chairmen

Emil Piper1916–28
Charles Tvede1928–32
John Christmas Møller1932–39
Vilhelm Fibiger1939–48
Halfdan Hendriksen1948–57
Einar Foss1957–65
Knud Thestrup1965–72
Erik Haunstrup Clemmensen1972–74
Poul Schlüter1974–77
Ib Stetter1977–81
Poul Schlüter1981–93
Torben Rechendorff1993–95
Hans Engell1995–97
Per Stig Møller1997–98
Poul Andreassen1998–00
Bendt Bendtsen2000–08
Lene Espersen2008–11
Lars Barfoed2011–14
Søren Pape Poulsen2014–

Youth and student wings

  • Young Conservatives (Konservativ Ungdom)

  • Conservative Students (Konservative Studerende)

Notable members

  • John Christmas Møller – Wartime resistance figure.

  • Connie Hedegaard – Appointed as the European Union's first ever European Commissioner for Climate Action in February 2010, Hedegaard was elected to the Danish Parliament as a member for the Conservative People's Party in 1984 at the age of 23, becoming the youngest Danish MP ever at that time. In 1989, Hedegaard became first spokesperson for the Conservative People's Party, but left politics for journalism in 1990.[10]

Electoral performance and parliamentary representation

Election year

of votes

% of Danish vote

of overall seats won

of Danish seats won

+/-Notes
1918167,86518.3 (#4)
22 / 140
22 / 139
Increase14[1]part of the opposition
Apr 1920201,49919.6 (#3)
28 / 140
28 / 139
Increase6parliamentarian crisis
Jul 1920180,29318.9 (#3)
26 / 140
26 / 139
Decrease2tolerating a Venstre-government
Sep 1920216,73317.9 (#3)
27 / 149
27 / 148
N/A[2]tolerating a Venstre-government
1924242,95518.9 (#3)
28 / 149
28 / 148
Increase1part of the opposition
1926275,79320.6 (#3)
30 / 149
30 / 148
Increase2tolerating a Venstre-government
1929233,93516.5 (#3)
24 / 149
24 / 148
Decrease6part of the opposition
1932358,50917.3 (#3)
27 / 149
27 / 148
Increase3part of the opposition
1935293,39317.8 (#2)
26 / 149
26 / 148
Decrease1part of the opposition
1939301,62517.8 (#3)
26 / 149
26 / 148
Steadypart of the opposition until 1940 / then part of a unity government
1943421,52321.0 (#2)
31 / 149
31 / 148
Increase5part of a unity government
1945373,68818.2 (#3)
26 / 149
26 / 148
Decrease5tolerating a Venstre-government
1947259,32412.4 (#3)
17 / 150
17 / 148
Decrease9part of the opposition
1950365,23617.8 (#3)
27 / 151
27 / 149
Increase10part of the Venstre-led government
Apr 1953358,50917.3 (#3)
26 / 151
26 / 149
Decrease1part of the Venstre-led government
Sep 1953383,84316.6 (#3)
30 / 179
30 / 175
N/A[3]part of the opposition
1957383,84316.6 (#3)
30 / 179
30 / 175
Steadypart of the opposition
1960435,76417.9 (#3)
32 / 179
32 / 175
Increase2part of the opposition
1964527,79820.1 (#3)
36 / 179
36 / 175
Increase4part of the opposition
1966522,02818.7 (#3)
34 / 179
34 / 175
Decrease2part of the opposition
1968581,05120.4 (#2)
37 / 179
37 / 175
Increase3part of the Social Liberal-led government
1971481,33516.7 (#2)
31 / 179
31 / 175
Decrease6leading the opposition
1973279,3919.2 (#5)
16 / 179
16 / 175
Decrease15tolerating a Venstre government
1975168,1645.5 (#5)
10 / 179
10 / 175
Decrease6part of the opposition
1977263,2628.5 (#4)
15 / 179
15 / 175
Increase5part of the opposition
1979395,65312.5 (#3)
22 / 179
22 / 175
Increase7part of the opposition
1981451,47814.5 (#2)
26 / 179
26 / 175
Increase4leading the opposition until 1982 / then leading the government (P. Schlüter)
1984788,22423.4 (#2)
42 / 179
42 / 175
Increase16leading the government (P. Schlüter)
1987700,88620.8 (#2)
38 / 179
38 / 175
Decrease4leading the government (P. Schlüter)
1988642,04819.3 (#2)
35 / 179
35 / 175
Decrease3leading the government (P. Schlüter)
1990517,29316.0 (#2)
30 / 179
30 / 175
Decrease5leading the government (P. Schlüter) until 1993 / then leading the opposition
1994499,84515.0 (#3)
27 / 179
27 / 175
Decrease3part of the opposition
1998303,9658.9 (#3)
16 / 179
16 / 175
Decrease11part of the opposition
2001312,7709.1 (#4)
16 / 179
16 / 175
Steadypart of the Venstre-led government
2005344,88610.3 (#4)
18 / 179
18 / 175
Increase2part of the Venstre-led government
2007359,40410.4 (#5)
18 / 179
18 / 175
Steadypart of the Venstre-led government
2011175,0474.9% (#8)
8 / 179
8 / 175
Decrease10part of the opposition
2015118,0153.4% (#9)
6 / 179
6 / 175
Decrease22015–16: tolerating a Venstre-government
2016–2019 : part of the Venstre-led government
2019233,3496.6% (#7)
12 / 179
12 / 175
Increase6part of the opposition

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