Btw, denmark have just had a general election and will now be rulled by commies

[Martinus]

For national parliament elections thats fairly normal, if a little higher than average

We are very democratic

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We could make it a capital crime not to vote and we still would not get 80%+ turnout.

AFAIK, Denmark has proportional elections with no minimum threshold of entry, meaning every vote counts. Could be that this correlates positively with the turnout - on the other hand, when many voters feel unrepresented (because their candidates/parties have no chance - which is often the case in majority systems, or systems like Poland with a relatively high entry threshold), this may affect the turnout. Just a thought.

[DGuller]

87.7% voter turnout

Wow.

Seriously, that's fucking high.

Pfft.  Ukraine regularly manages triple digit voter turnouts.

[Valdemar]

For national parliament elections thats fairly normal, if a little higher than average

We are very democratic

V

We could make it a capital crime not to vote and we still would not get 80%+ turnout.

AFAIK, Denmark has proportional elections with no minimum threshold of entry, meaning every vote counts. Could be that this correlates positively with the turnout - on the other hand, when many voters feel unrepresented (because their candidates/parties have no chance - which is often the case in majority systems, or systems like Poland with a relatively high entry threshold), this may affect the turnout. Just a thought.

2% threshold. But yes every vote counts. The "surplus" votes in a given electorate are distributed evenly. Only votes for parties not getting in might be lost. However, only one party had that happen this time with less than 0.8% of the votes... Go Kristendemokraterne

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[Martinus]

Poland has a 5% threshold for parties and 7% for coalitions of parties, but we also use the d'Hondt method of proportional vote counting, which favours big parties, whereas (according to wikipedia) you guys use the Saint Lague method which is more equal.

Edit: Never mind. It seems you use d'Hondt method too.

[The Brain]

I wish more countries would use the don't method.

[Martinus]

I wish more countries would use the don't method.

D'Hondt give me that Lague.