Schleswig Party

Schleswig Party
Slesvigsk Parti
Leader Carsten Leth Schmidt
Founded 1920
Headquarters Vestergade 30
6200 Aabenraa
Ideology Regionalism
Colours Yellow
Regions:
0 / 205
Municipal councils
9 / 2,444
Website
www.slesvigsk-parti.dk

The Schleswig Party (Danish: Slesvigsk Parti, German: Schleswigsche Partei) is a regional political party in Denmark representing the North Schleswig Germans.

History

The party was established in August 1920 as the Schleswig Voters Club (German: Schleswigscher Wählerverein) following the Schleswig Plebiscites and the ceding of Northern Schleswig from Germany to Denmark.[1] It ran in the September 1920 Folketing elections, winning a single seat taken by Johannes Schmidt.[1] The party maintained its single seat in elections in 1924, 1926, 1929, 1932 and 1935, but lost its parliamentary representation in the 1939 elections.[2]

The party did not run in the 1943 or 1945 elections, but returned to contest the 1947 elections,[3] in which it failed to win a seat.[2] 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 Jes Schmidt, 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.[4]

Leaders

Election results

Folketing

Election Votes Seats
# % ± pp # ±
1920 (Sep) 7,505 0.6% New
1 / 179
New
1924 7,715 0.6% 0.0
1 / 179
Steady 0
1926 10,422 0.8% +0.2
1 / 179
Steady 0
1929 9,787 0.7% –0.1
1 / 179
Steady 0
1932 9,868 0.6% –0.1
1 / 179
Steady 0
1935 12,617 0.8% +0.2
1 / 179
Steady 0
1939 15,016 0.9% +0.1
0 / 179
Decrease 1
19431945 Did not run
1947 7,464 0.4% +0.4
0 / 179
Steady 0
1950 6,406 0.3% –0.1
0 / 179
Steady 0
1953 (Apr) 8,438 0.4% +0.1
0 / 179
Steady 0
1953 (Sep) 9,721 0.5% +0.1
1 / 179
Increase 1
1957 9,202 0.4% –0.1
1 / 179
Steady 0
1960 9,058 0.4% 0.0
1 / 179
Steady 0
1964 9,274 0.4% 0.0
0 / 179
Decrease 1
1966 Did not run
1968 6,831 0.2% +0.2
0 / 179
Steady 0
1971 6,743 0.2% 0.0
0 / 179
Steady 0
1973 Did not run

Landsting

Election Votes Seats
1928 6,736
0 / 76
1932 Did not run
1936 8,868
0 / 76
1939 11,122
0 / 76
1943–1953 Did not run

Municipal elections

Election Seats
# ±
1937 Unknown
1943 Unknown
1946 Unknown
1950 Unknown
1954 Unknown
1958 Unknown
1962 Unknown
1966
42 / 10,005
1970
20 / 4,677
Decrease 22
1974
16 / 4,735
Decrease 4
1978
14 / 4,759
Decrease 2
1981
12 / 4,769
Decrease 2
1985
14 / 4,773
Increase 2
1989
9 / 4,737
Decrease 5
1993
9 / 4,703
Steady 0
1997
8 / 4,647
Decrease 1
2001
7 / 4,685
Decrease 1
2005
4 / 2,522
Decrease 3
2009
6 / 2,468
Increase 2
2013
9 / 2,444
Increase 3

Amt & Regional elections

Date Votes Seats
# ±
1935 4737
6 / 299
New
1943
6 / 299
Steady 0
1946
1 / 299
Decrease 5
1950 3123
2 / 299
Increase 1
1954 3912
3 / 299
Increase 1
1958 4069
3 / 303
Steady 0
1962 3860
2 / 301
Decrease 1
1966 3837
3 / 303
Increase 1
1970 7501
1 / 366
Decrease 2
1974 6454
2 / 370
Increase 1
1978 6508
1 / 370
Decrease 1
1981 6285
1 / 370
Steady 0
1985 5593
1 / 374
Steady 0
1981 4877
0 / 374
Decrease 1
1993 5115
1 / 374
Increase 1
1997 4538
1 / 374
Steady 0
2001 4417
1 / 374
Steady 0
2005-2013
Did not run

References

  1. 1 2 The Schleswig Party after 1920 Schleswig Party (German)
  2. 1 2 Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, pp552–553 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  3. Nohlen & Stöver, p540
  4. Hans Schultz Hansen,Sønderjyllands historie siden 1945
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