The Schleswig Party (, ) is a regional political party in Denmark representing Schleswig ().
History The party was established in August 1920 as the Schleswig Voters Club () following the Schleswig Plebiscites and the ceding of Northern Schleswig from Germany to Denmark.The Schleswig Party after 1920 Schleswig Party It ran in the September 1920 Folketing elections, winning a single seat taken by . The party maintained its single seat in elections in 1924, 1926, 1929, 1932, 1935 and 1939.Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, pp552–553
The party did not run in the 1943 or 1945 elections, but returned to contest the 1947 elections,Nohlen & Stöver, p540 in which it failed to win a seat. The party remained seatless until the September 1953 elections, retaining its seat in 1957 and 1960. The 1964 elections saw the party lose its single seat, and it did not contest the 1966 elections.
The party returned to run in the 1968 elections, but failed to win a seat. After failing to win a seat in the 1971 elections, the party has not contested any further national elections, although it continues to participate in local politics in North Schleswig.
Between 1973 and 1979 the party was represented in Parliament by , a candidate elected through an electoral agreement with the Centre Democrats. After his death in 1979, the agreement between the two parties stopped because the SP proposed a candidate with a Waffen-SS past, thus unacceptable for the CD.Hans Schultz Hansen,Sønderjyllands historie siden 1945
Leaders (1920–35) Hans Christian Jepsen (1983–91) Peter Bieling (1991–99) Gerhard Mammen (1999–2010) (2010–12) Carsten Leth Schmidt (2012–2022) Rainer Naujeck (2022–)
Election results Folketing ElectionVotes%+/–Seats+/–1920 (Sep)7,5050.6% NewNew19247,7150.6% 0.0 0192610,4220.8% +0.2 019299,7870.7% –0.1 019329,8680.6% –0.1 0193512,6170.8% +0.2 0193915,0160.9% +0.1 01943–1945Did not run19477,4640.4% +0.4 019506,4060.3% –0.1 01953 (Apr)8,4380.4% +0.1 01953 (Sep)9,7210.5% +0.1 119579,2020.4% –0.1 019609,0580.4% 0.0 019649,2740.4% 0.0 11966Did not run19686,8310.2% +0.2 019716,7430.2% 0.0 01973–Did not run
Landsting ElectionVotesSeats19286,7361932Did not run19368,868193911,1221943–1953Did not run
Local elections Municipal elections ElectionSeats+/– 1922 1925 8 1929 6 1933 2 1937 16 1943 1946 1950 1954 7 1958 2 1962 6 1966 2 1970 22 1974 4 1978 2 1981 2 1985 2 1989 5 1993 0 1997 1 2001 1 2005 3 2009 2 2013 3 2017 12021 0 Regional elections ElectionVotesSeats+/– 1935 4,737 1943 0 1946 5 1950 3,123 1 1954 3,912 1 1958 4,069 0 1962 3,860 1 1966 3,837 1 1970 7,501 2 1974 6,454 1 1978 6,508 1 1981 6,285 0 1985 5,593 0 1989 4,877 1 1993 5,115 1 1997 4,538 0 2001 4,417 0 2005-2013Did not run 2017 5,267 02021Did not run Mayors ElectionSeats+/–2005 02009 02013 02017 02021 1
See also April 1920 Danish Folketing election Danish Party July 1920 Danish Folketing election September 1920 Danish Folketing election South Schleswig Voters' Association 1920 Schleswig plebiscites
References
External links Party website