1963 Greenlandic Provincial Council election

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28 June 1963 (1963-06-28)

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All 16 seats in the Provincial Council (plus compensatory seats)

Turnout

54.05%

Party	Seats	+/–
Independents	16	0

This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

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Provincial Council elections were held in Greenland on 28 June 1963. Independents won all 16 seats.

Electoral system

Members of the Provincial Council were elected by first-past-the-post voting in 16 single-member constituencies. Political parties or lists were entitled to compensatory seats if they received more than one-sixteenth of the valid votes cast (6.25%).

Results


Party		Votes	%	Seats
	Independents			16
Total				16

Valid votes		7,996	97.51
Invalid/blank votes		204	2.49
Total votes		8,200	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		15,170	54.05
Source: Atuagagdliutit, Danmarks Statistik

Elected members

Constituency	Elected member
Aasiaat	Hans Lynge
Angmagssalik	Jørgen Borchersen [de]
Attu	Lars Ostermann [de]
Ilulissat	Ricard Petersen [de]
Ittoqqortoormiit	Magtikalaat Arqe [de]
Maniitsoq	Alibak Josefsen [de]
Narsaq	Erik Egede [de]
Nuuk	Peter K. S. Heilmann [de]
Paamiut	Anthon Petersen [de]
Qaqortoq	Oluf Høegh [de]
Qullissat	Andreas Nielsen [de]
Sisimiut	Jørgen C. F. Olsen [de]
Tasiusaq	Jørgen Poulsen [de]
Thule	Peter Jensen [de]
Upernavik	Knud Kristiansen [de]
Uummannaq	Elisabeth Johansen
Source: Kjœr Sørensen

Aftermath

Ricard Petersen [de] and Magtikalaat Arqe [de] were unable to attend sessions in May 1965, with Marius Sivertsen [de] and Sivert Petersen [de] acting as substitutes; Petersen acted as a substitute for Arqe again in March 1966. Jørgen Borchersen [de] was replaced by Harald Ignatiussen [de] for sessions in autumn 1966.^[1]

References

^ Axel Kjœr Sørensen (2007) Denmark-Greenland in the twentieth Century p176

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