Schleswig Party

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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, 1935 and 1939.^[2][3]

The party did not run in the 1943 or 1945 elections, but returned to contest the 1947 elections,^[4] 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.^[5]

Leaders

• Johannes Schmidt (1920–35)
• Hans Christian Jepsen (1983–91)
• Peter Bieling (1991–99)
• Gerhard Mammen (1999–2010)
• Marit Jessen Rüdiger (2010–12)
• Carsten Leth Schmidt (2012–2022)
• Rainer Naujeck (2022–)^[6]

Election results

Folketing

Election	Votes			Seats
	#	%	± pp	#	±
1920 (Sep)	7,505	0.6%	New	1 / 149	New
1924	7,715	0.6%	0.0	1 / 149	0
1926	10,422	0.8%	+0.2	1 / 149	0
1929	9,787	0.7%	–0.1	1 / 149	0
1932	9,868	0.6%	–0.1	1 / 149	0
1935	12,617	0.8%	+0.2	1 / 149	0
1939	15,016	0.9%	+0.1	1 / 149	0
1943–1945	Did not run
1947	7,464	0.4%	+0.4	0 / 150	0
1950	6,406	0.3%	–0.1	0 / 151	0
1953 (Apr)	8,438	0.4%	+0.1	0 / 151	0
1953 (Sep)	9,721	0.5%	+0.1	1 / 179	1
1957	9,202	0.4%	–0.1	1 / 179	0
1960	9,058	0.4%	0.0	1 / 179	0
1964	9,274	0.4%	0.0	0 / 179	1
1966	Did not run
1968	6,831	0.2%	+0.2	0 / 179	0
1971	6,743	0.2%	0.0	0 / 179	0
1973–	Did not run

Landsting

Local elections

Municipal elections Election Seats # ± 1922 56 / 10,750 1925 64 / 11,329 8 1929 70 / 11,403 6 1933 72 / 11,425 2 1937 88 / 11,371 16 1943 1946 1950 45 / 11,499 1954 52 / 11,505 7 1958 50 / 11,529 2 1962 44 / 11,414 6 1966 42 / 10,005 2 1970 20 / 4,677 22 1974 16 / 4,735 4 1978 14 / 4,759 2 1981 12 / 4,769 2 1985 14 / 4,773 2 1989 9 / 4,737 5 1993 9 / 4,703 0 1997 8 / 4,647 1 2001 7 / 4,685 1 2005 4 / 2,522 3 2009 6 / 2,468 2 2013 9 / 2,444 3 2017 10 / 2,432 1 2021 10 / 2,436 0

Regional elections Date Votes Seats # ± 1935 4,737 6 / 299 1943 6 / 299 0 1946 1 / 299 5 1950 3,123 2 / 299 1 1954 3,912 3 / 299 1 1958 4,069 3 / 303 0 1962 3,860 2 / 301 1 1966 3,837 3 / 303 1 1970 7,501 1 / 366 2 1974 6,454 2 / 370 1 1978 6,508 1 / 370 1 1981 6,285 1 / 370 0 1985 5,593 1 / 374 0 1989 4,877 0 / 374 1 1993 5,115 1 / 374 1 1997 4,538 1 / 374 0 2001 4,417 1 / 374 0 2005-2013 Did not run 2017 5,267 0 / 205 0 2021 Did not run

Mayors Year Seats No. ± 2005 0 / 98 0 2009 0 / 98 0 2013 0 / 98 0 2017 0 / 98 0 2021 1 / 98 1

References

External links

• Party website