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2021 Scoverne federal election

August 31, 2021 (2021-08-31)
All 318 seats of the Rigsdagen 160 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader Current seats LFP Ine-Linda Nesby 111 SAP Armela Viram Srimathi 89 Radicals Melkolm Jørn Højkirke 47 A–G89 Clara Brøndum 22 Frem Jimmy Bruun 21 Agrarforbund Lars Jan Torbjørn Skauge 15 Left Kathrin Bendixen 13
Incumbent Premier File:Erna Solberg 19062020-1.jpg Ine-Linda Nesby LFP

The 2021 Scoverne federal election will be held on August 31, 2021, to elect all 318 members of the Rigsdagen, and indirectly the next Premier of Scovern.

Background

In the 2017 Scoverne federal election, the SAP, who were seeking re-election under leader Sebastian Bertelsen, returned a historically low result in the wake of the 2017-18 Scoverne tax scandal, which alienated a lot of the party's vote. The main beneficiaries of this vote were the Radicals, whose socially liberal administration under Melkolm Jørn Højkirke took much of the progressive vote from the SAP, especially in urban areas.

In cities such as Sirnes-Tarberg, which still held a large left-wing labour movement, the SAP vote dissipated to both the Left Party, who equalled the SAP in seats in the city, and Frem, whose populist and anti-corruption rhetoric as well as an explicit focus on local issues in the city scored them a large seat boost.

The Radicals entered government with Ine-Linda Nesby's LFP under a coalition agreement in 2017. Governing in a notably more liberal way than the LFP's predecessor government, it achieved many progressive and liberal reforms, mainly pushed by the Radicals, including gender self-identification and the legalisation of recreational marijuana. The government partially drew the ire of the LFP's more conservative factions, some of which defected to Frem. The government, while technically a minority government, entered an informal confidence and supply agreement with Agrarforbund after the defections in 2018. For most of Nesby's tenure, the government has held 158 of 318 seats in the legislature, just two short of a majority.

Electoral system

Elections in Scovern are conducted using open-list proportional representation with the Boeri method in 38 constituencies across the nation. Seat numbers vary by constituency. 250 seats are directly elected, with an additional 68 leveling seats distributed using a national list vote. The levelling seats aim to make the composition of the Rigsdagen more proportional to vote counts.

The threshold for election is 4%, so parties represented in the Rigsdagen always carry at least 13 seats.

Elections are always held every four years, regardless of snap elections.

Political parties

Name			Ideology	Position	Leader	2017 result
						Votes (%)	Seats
	LFP	Liberal People's Party Liberale Folkspartiet	Liberal conservatism	Centre-right	Ine-Linda Nesby	34.87%	114 / 318
	SAP	Social Labour Party Social Arbejderpartiet	Social democracy Democratic socialism	Centre-left	Armela Viram Srimathi	27.77%	89 / 318
	Rad.	Radicals Radikale	Progressivism Social liberalism	Centre	Melkolm Jørn Højkirke	14.95%	47 / 318
	A-G89	The Alternative–Greens '89 Alternativet–Grønne'89	Green politics Eco-socialism	Centre-left to left-wing	Clara Brøndum	6.95%	22 / 318
	F	Frem Frem	National conservatism Right-wing populism	Right-wing	Jimmy Bruun	5.68%	18 / 318
	Af	Agrarian League Agrarforbund	Agrarianism	Centre	Lars Jan Torbjørn Skauge	4.74%	15 / 318
	VP	Left Party Venstreparti	Socialism Soft Eucloscepticism	Left-wing	Kathrin Bendixen	4.09%	13 / 318