Parliament voices by n/a

Denmark will likely soon have an election. While the Social Democrat lead government technically still has a year to decide on a date, one of the supporting parties has declared that if an election is not announced before the 4’th of October, they will force an election through a vote of confidence. In the meantime half of a right wing/nationalist party has split into two with a former center/liberal parliament member who was kicked out of her party after being found guilty of knowingly issuing an illegal instruction to the immigration office.

I set out to visualize how different parties agree or disagree with each other before the expected election using public data from the parliament on how members vote using mostly heatmaps, in order to get a picture of possible government constellations.

For non-danish readers, here’s a very quick simplified rundown of the parties:
While the danish parliament includes members from 19 parties (including 2 from Greenland, 2 from the Faroe Islands and a handful of independent MPs), the parliament is usually split into “red block” (center/left-wing) and “blue block” (center/right-wing). If a single party cannot get 90 seats (50% of the votes), then they need support from other parties in order to form a government.

English translated site: https://leonora.app/folketingsstemmer/en

The original title is a wordplay based on the fact that the danish word for vote and voice is the same.