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ELECTIONS

Elections to Inatsisartut/Landstinget

Since the introduction of the Home Rule Government in 1979, ten general elections have been held, the most recent on 2 June 2009.

Overview 1

Elections to Inatsisartut/Landstinget

Date	Votes, total	Atassut	Inuit Ataqati-giit	Issittup Partiia	Siumut	Akulliit Partiiat	Demo-krater-ne	Arnat Partiiat	Kandi-datfor- bundets Parti	Sorlaat Partiiat	Single candidates	Poll
	Number	Per cent
4 April 1979	19.951	41,7	4,4	.	46,1	.	.	.	.	.	2,1	69,6
12 April 1983	25.204	46,6	10,6	.	42,3	.	.	.	.	.	0,5	75,1
6 June 1984	23.088	43,8	12,1	.	44,1	.	.	.	.	.	.	66,8
26 May 1987	25.764	40,1	15,3	4,4	39,8	.	.	.	0,4	.	.	69,6
5 March 1991	25.915	30,1	19,4	2,8	37,3	9,5	.	.	0,9	.	.	67,1
4 March 1995	26.134	30,1	20,3	0,4	38,4	6,1	.	.	4,7	.	.	69,6
16 February 1999	28.490	25,2	22,1	.	35,2	.	.	.	12,3	.	5,3	76,0
3 December 2002	28.616	20,2	25,3	.	28,5	.	15,9	2,4	5,3	.	1,3	74,6
15 November 2005	29.139	19,0	22,4	.	30,4	.	22,6	.	4,0	.	0,7	74,9
2 June 2009	28.510	10,9	43,7	.	26,5	.	12,7	.	3,8	1,3	0,2	71,3

Sources: the Electoral Council, the Home Rule Government of Greenland

Overview 2

Distribution of Mandates at Elections to Inatsisartut /Landstinget

	1979	1983	1984	1987	1991	1995	1999	2002	2005	2009
Mandates, total	21	26	25	27	27	31	31	31	31	31
Men	21	26	25	27	23	26	22	20	20	19
Women	…	…	…	…	4	5	9	11	11	12
Siumut	13	12	11	11	11	12	11	10	10	9
Men	13	12	11	11	10	8	10	8	8	6
Women	…	…	…	…	1	4	1	2	2	3
Atassut	8	12	11	11	8	10	8	7	6	3
Men	8	12	11	11	2	10	5	4	4	3
Women	…	…	…	…	2	…	3	3	2	…
Inuit Ataqatigiit	…	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	7	14
Men	…	2	3	4	4	5	3	4	3	6
Women	…	…	…	…	1	1	4	4	4	8
Demokraterne	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	5	7	4
Men	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	3	4	3
Women	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	2	3	1
Kandidatforbundets Parti	…	…	…	…	…	…	4	1	1	1
Men	…	…	…	…	…	…	3	1	1	1
Women	…	…	…	…	…	…	1	…	…	…
Sorlaat Partiiat	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…
Men	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…
Women	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…
Single candidates	…	…	…	…	…	1	1	…	…	…
Men	…	…	…	…	…	1	1	…	…	…
Women	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…
Issittup Partia	…	…	…	1	1	…	…	…	…	…
Men	…	…	…	1	1	…	…	…	…	…
Women	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…
Akulliit Partiat	…	…	…	…	2	2	…	…	…	…
Men	…	…	…	…	2	2	…	…	…	…
Women	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…	…

Sources: Landstingets Bureau and Statistics Greenland

Overview 3

Votes at Elections to Inatsisartut / Landstinget on 2 June 2009 by Party and District

	Atassut	Inuit Ataqa- tigiit	Siumut	Demo- kraterne	Kandi-dat- For-bundets Parti	Sorlaat Partiiat	Enkelt- kandidater	Blanke og ugyldige stemmer	Votes, total	Voters, total	Poll
	Number of votes
2 June 2009	3.094	12.457	7.567	3.620	1.084	383	70	235	28.510	39.990	71,3
Nanortalik	90	499	362	97	12	12	0	5	1.077	1.498	71,9
Qaqortoq	177	856	534	319	21	25	0	33	1.965	2.599	75,6
Narsaq	183	471	308	79	17	15	3	10	1.086	1.403	77,4
Ivittuut	2	16	9	28	1	3	0	3	62	140	44,3
Paamiut	87	411	310	72	20	10	0	9	919	1.319	69,7
Nuuk	492	4.157	1.473	1.611	99	136	20	81	8.069	11.579	69,7
Maniitsoq	327	672	564	111	26	24	3	13	1.740	2.494	69,8
Sisimiut	328	1.278	957	391	60	50	9	19	3.092	4.435	69,7
Kangaatsiaq	69	243	253	19	21	10	1	5	621	862	72,0
Aasiaat	222	946	239	112	55	19	1	10	1.604	2.313	69,3
Qasigiannguit	78	226	265	47	51	12	0	3	682	907	75,2
Ilulissat	146	1.038	537	441	471	22	2	17	2.674	3.539	75,6
Qeqertarsuaq	89	212	109	53	28	8	0	2	501	683	73,4
Uummannaq	138	389	579	47	76	16	2	6	1.253	1.632	76,8
Upernavik	237	431	486	58	90	5	27	6	1.340	1.874	71,5
Qaanaaq	100	95	144	23	23	5	1	1	392	534	73,4
Ammassalik	308	388	369	100	13	8	1	12	1.199	1.858	64,5
Illoqqortoormiut	21	129	69	12	0	3	0	0	234	321	72,9
	Previous elections to Inatsisartut / Landstinget
15 November 2005	5.528	6.516	8.861	6.595	1.169	-	216	254	29.139	38.924	74,9
3 December 2002	5.780	7.244	8.151	4.558	1.510	0	374	313	28.616	38.365	74,6
16 Februar 1999	7.100	6.217	9.899	-	3.453	0	1.486	335	28.490	37.485	76,0
	Differences compared to previous elections to Inatsisartut / Landstinget
2 June 2009	-2.434	5.941	-1.294	-2.975	-85	383	-146	-19	28.510	39.990	71,3
15 November 2005	-252	-728	710	2.037	-341	0	-158	-59	29.616	38.365	74,9
3 December 2002	-1.320	1.027	-1.748	4.558	-1.943	0	-1.112	22	28.616	38.365	74,6
16 February 1999	-574	1.037	105	-	-	0	290	-299	28.490	37.485	76,0

Kilde: The Electoral Council, the Home Rule Government of Greenland

Elections to the Municipal Councils

The most recent election was held on 8 April 2008 for the election of members to the transitional committees for the new municipalities.

Overview 4

Votes at the Election of the Trasitional Committee on 8 April 2008 by Municipality and Party

Municipality	Atassut	Demo-kraterne	Inuit Ataqatigiit	Siumut	Kandidat-forbund 1	Kandidat-forbund 2	Sorlaat Partiiat	Single candidates	Invalid and blank votes	Votes, total	Electorate	Poll
Total	3.768	3.285	6.591	9.259	1.138	74	128	34	349	24.626	39.665	61,7
Qaasuitsup Kommunia	1.631	433	1.844	3.001	983	0	0	17	82	7.991	12.482	64,0
Qeqqata Kommunia	770	454	985	1.786	36	0	0	0	57	4.088	6.801	60,1
Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq	958	2.003	2.536	2.515	119	74	128	17	111	8.461	14.854	57,0
Kommune Kujalleq	409	395	1.226	1.957	0	0	0	0	99	4.086	5.528	73,1

Source: the Electoral Council, the Home Rule Government of Greenland

Overview 5

Votes Cast in Elections to Municipal Councils in 2005 and 2008 by Parties and Federations of Candidates

	2008			Difference	2005
	Votes	Per cent	Elected 1)		Votes	Per cent	Elected 1)
Landsplan i alt	24.626	0,0	72		25.911	67,4	168
Atassut	0	15,5	10	-5,4	4.955	19,1	36
Demokraterne	0	13,5	8	13,1	3.384	13,1	14
Inuit Ataqatigiit	0	27,1	21	2,4	5.899	22,8	42
Siumut	0	38,1	30	-3,4	10.548	40,7	67
Kattusseqatigiit Partiiat	0	4,7	2	-4,4	1.025	4,0	8
Kandidatforbund Ivittuut	0	0,3	1	0,2	47	0,2	1
Sorlaat Partiiat	0	0,5	0
Independent candidate no. 1	0	0,1	0	-0,6	53	0,2	-
National key figures
Electorate	39.665	-	.	1.017	38.929	.	.
Valid votes	24.277	-	.	783	25.911	.	.
Blank votes	0	.	.	-95	194	.	.
Invalid votes	0	.	.	-138	137	.	.
Votes cast	24.626	.	.	550	26.242	.	.
Poll	62,1	.	.	-0,4	67,4	.	.

Note: 1) At the election in 2005, Greenland was divided into 18 municipalities, the municipal councils having a total of 168 seats. At the election in 2008 Greenland consisted of four municipalities, the municipal councils having 72 seats.

Sources: The protocol for the elections to the municipal councils on 5 April 2005 and 8 April 2008

Overview 6

Mandates Obtained in Elections to Municipal Councils in 2005 and 2008

	Atassut		Demokraterne		Inuit Ataqaatigiit		Siumut		Kandidat-forbund 1		Kandidat-forbund 2		Total
	2005	2008	2005	2008	2005	2008	2005	2008	2005	2008	2005	2008	2005	2008
Qaasuitsup Kommunia	18	4	2	1	21	5	23	9	6	2	-	-	70	21
Qeqqata Kommunia	6	3	3	1	4	4	11	7	-	-	-		24	15
Kommune-qarfik Sermersooq	8	2	6	5	9	7	19	6	2	-	1	1	45	21
Kommune Kujalleq	4	1	3	1	8	5	14	8	-	-	-	-	29	15
Total 2)	36	10	14	8	42	21	67	30	8	2	1	1	168	72
Elected Women	6	3	4	3	12	11	12	8	3	0	0	0	37	25
In per cent of the elected	16,67	30	28,57	37,5	28,57	52,38	17,91	26,67	37,5	0	0	0	22,0	34,7
Mayors 1)	3	-	-	-	1	1	11	3	2	-	-	-	17	4

Notes: 1) The total for number of mayors for 2005 is not 18 as Enok Sandgreen, elected for IA in Aasiaat, withdrew from the party and consequently became a mayor, politically independent. 2) At the election in 2005, Greenland was divided into 18 municipalities, the municipal councils having a total of 168 seats. At the election in 2008, Greenland consisted of four municipalities, the municipal councils having 72 seats.

Sources: The protocol for the elections to the municipal councils on 5 April 2005 and 8 April 2008

Overview 7

Elections to the Municipal Councils since the Introduction of the Home Rule

Date	Atassut	Demokraterne	Inuit Ata-qatigiit	Siumut	Issittup Partiia	Akulliit Partiiat	Kandidatforbund 1	Kandidatforbund 2	Poll
	Per cent
4 April 1979 1)	28,1	.	2,7	33,7	.	.	32,6	.	69,9
12 April 1983	44,1	.	7,4	39,9	.	.	8,6	.	74,9
4 April 1989	31,3	.	14,2	41,8	2,2	.	10,5	.	63,5
6 April 1993	25,5	.	17,7	39,7	0,9	9,1	7,0	.	70,9
8 April 1997	26,5	.	19,2	47,3	.	1,9	5,2	.	70,6
3 april 2001	24,5	.	20,3	44,1	.	.	10,2	.	68,0
5 April 2005	19,1	13,1	22,8	40,7	.	.	4,0	0,2	67,4
8 April 2008	15,3	13,3	26,8	37,6	.	.	4,6	0,3	62,1

Note: The percentages are calculated on the basis of the number of valid votes.

Notes: 1) Sulisartut Partiiat 2,9 per cent.

Source: The Electoral Council, the Home Rule Government: Protocol for the election to the municipal councils on 8 April 2008.

Elections to Settlement Councils

Elections to settlement councils were held on 28 April 2009. In connection with the municipal reform, a number of settlement councils were merged.

When elections were held in 2005, there were 56 settlement councils with 180 members. Following elections in April 2009, there were 26 settlement councils with 106 members.

Elections to Folketinget

Greenland elects two members to the Danish Folketing. The most recent election to the parliament was held on 13 November 2007. On that occasion, Juliane Henningsen (IA) and Lars Emil Johansen (Siumut) were elected.

Overview 8

Election to the Folketing on 13 November 2007

	Electorate	Atassut	Inuit Ataqatigiit	Siumut	Demo- kraterne	Kandidat-forbundet	Votes, total	Blank and invalid votes	Poll
	Votes
Total	39.706	4.097	8.347	8.075	4.586	0	25.105	293	63,2
Nanortalik	1.576	154	348	457	110	-	1.069	12
Qaqortoq	2501	180	539	683	372	-	1.774	20
Narsaq	1.436	193	327	337	129	-	986	22
Ivittuut	134	8	5	4	43	-	60	2
Paamiut	1.323	143	325	338	71	-	877	1
Nuuk	11.374	726	2.347	1.711	2.238	-	7.022	107
Maniitsoq	2.501	370	402	549	133	-	1.454	7
Sisimiut	4.318	405	790	930	560	-	2.685	27
Kangaatsiaq	908	152	188	202	32	-	574	7
Aasiaat	2.245	293	684	263	131	-	1.371	14
Qasigiannguit	866	138	171	196	48	-	553	1
Ilulissat	3.554	365	928	613	332	-	2.238	20
Qeqertarsuaq	712	96	187	134	29	-	446	6
Uummannaq	1.645	202	339	494	101	-	1.136	11
Upernavik	1.861	217	348	488	96	-	1.149	18
Qaanaaq	551	112	75	161	39	-	387	4
Ammassalik	1.876	294	257	434	104	-	1.089	12
Illoqqortoormiut	325	49	87	81	18	-	235	2

Source: The High Commissioner of Greenland

Overview 9

Elections to the Folketing since the Introduction of Home Rule

Date	Akulliit Partiia	Atassut	Inuit Ataqatigiit	Issittup Partiia	Siumut	Demo- kraterne	Uden for partierne	Stemmeprocent	Votes, total
	Per cent								Number
10 April 1984	.	43,5	13,7	.	42,8	.	.	63,9	21.028
2 September 1987	.	41,3	12,5	2,9	43,3	.	.	44,9	16.980
10 May 1988	.	38,7	17,3	3,9	40,1	.	.	57,8	20.157
12 December 1990	.	36,6	17,0	1,9	42,8	.	1,7	50,8	19.339
21 September 1994 1)	7,4	34,7	-	-	-	.	57,8	58,7	22.360
11 March 1998	0,4	36,0	21,6	-	36,4	.	5,6	64,2	24.305
20 November 2001	-	22,0	31,0	-	26,0	.	21,0	61,5	23.819
8 February 2005 2)	-	16,4	25,0	-	33,6	21,3	3,6	59,4	23.525
13 November 2007	-	16,3	33,2	-	32,2	18,3	.	63,2	25.105
Elected persons	-	-	1	-	1	-	-	-	-
Women	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-

Note: The poll is calculated on the basis of the number of valid votes up until the election on 20 November 2001. From 2005 onwards, the poll is calculated on the basis of the number of votes cast.

Note: 1) Alliance between Siumut and IA. 2) The candidates from Kandidatforbundet, which was not established as a party proper until after the election, ran in the election to the Folketing independently of the parties.

Source: The High Commissioner of Greenland

Links

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