Centre Democrats (Denmark)

Centre Democrats

Centrum-Demokraterne
Centre Democrats Centrum-Demokraterne
Abbreviation	CD
Leader	Ben Haddou
Founded	7 November 1973
Dissolved	26 January 2008
Split from	Social Democrats
Headquarters	Omøgade 8, 2. sal; 2100 København Ø
Ideology	Centrism; Social democracy; Liberal conservatism
Political position	Centre
European Parliament group	European People's Party (1984-1994)
Colours	Purple
Election symbol
	D
Website
	www.centrumdemokraterne.dk
	Politics of Denmark; Political parties; Elections;

The Centre Democrats (Danish: Centrum-Demokraterne, CD) were a Danish political party.

History

The party was formed in 1973^[5] by Erhard Jakobsen, a former MP and mayor of Gladsaxe, as a centrist splinter group from the Danish Social Democrats.^[6] It participated in both centre-right governments (1982–1988) and centre-left governments (1993–1996).

In the 2001 election, it lost its parliamentary representation, a severe setback for the party. In the 2005 election, it got 33,635 votes (1% of votes nationwide). It also ran in several municipalities in the Danish municipal election in November 2005. It also ran in simultaneous elections to the new Regional Councils, except in Region Midtjylland, where a local party official forgot to hand in the required number of voters' signatures before the deadline closed.^[7]

On 26 January 2008, an extraordinary party conference decided to dissolve the party by 1 February 2008.^[8]

Party leaders

1973–1989: Erhard Jakobsen
1989–2005: Mimi Jakobsen
2005–2007: Bjarne Møgelhøj
2007–2008: Ben Haddou

Election results

Parliament (Folketing)

Date	Votes			Seats
Date	#	%	± pp	#	±
1973	236.784	7.8%	+7.8	14 / 179	New
1975	66.316	2.2%	-5.6	4 / 179	10
1977	200.347	6.4%	+4.2	11 / 179	7
1979	102.132	3.2%	-3.2	6 / 179	5
1981	258.522	8.3%	+5.1	15 / 179	9
1984	154.553	4.6%	-3.7	8 / 179	7
1987	161.070	4.8%	+0.2	9 / 179	1
1988	155.464	4.7%	-0.1	9 / 179	0
1990	165.556	5.1%	+0.4	9 / 179	0
1994	94.496	2.8%	-2.3	5 / 179	4
1998	146.802	4.3%	+1.5	8 / 179	3
2001	61.031	1.8%	-2.5	0 / 179	8
2005	33.880	1.0%	-0.8	0 / 179	0
2007	Did not run.

Municipal elections

Date	Seats
Date	#	±
2001	2 / 4,647	0
2005	0 / 2,522	2

Regional elections

Date	Votes	Seats
Date	Votes	#	±
2001	24,914	3 / 374	0
2005	4,987	0 / 205	3

European Parliament elections

Date	Votes			Seats
Date	#	%	± pp	#	±
1979	107.790	6.1%	+6.1	1 / 15	New
1984	131.984	6.6%	+0.5	1 / 15	0
1989	142.190	8.0%	+1.4	2 / 16	1
1994	18.365	0.9%	-7.1	0 / 16	2
1999	68.717	3.5%	+2.6	0 / 16	0
2004	Did not run.

Notes

^ Previously used M

References

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^ [1] Archived May 2, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
^ jp.dk - CD nedlægger sig selv