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Rigsdagen
Denmark
Coat of arms or logo
Type
Type

Bicameral
Houses
Folketing
Landstinget
History
Founded 5 June 1849 (1849-06-05)
Disbanded 5 June 1953 (1953-06-05)
Succeeded by Folketing
Leadership
Prime Minister of Denmark

Erik Eriksen
Structure
Seats 225 voting members

  • 76 Landsting

  • 149 Folketing


Danish Landsting election 1953.svg
Landsting political groups



  •      Social Democrats (33)


  •      Social Liberal Party (8)


  •      Faroe Islands (1)


  •      Justice Party of Denmark (1)

  •      Venstre - Liberal Party (22)

  •      Conservative People's Party (13)


Danish Folketing election, 1953.svg
Folketing political groups



  •      Social Democrats (61)


  •      Social Liberal Party (13)


  •      Justice Party of Denmark (9)


  •      Communist Party (7)

  •      Venstre - Liberal Party (33)

  •      Conservative People's Party (26)


Elections
Landsting first election
Danish Landsting election, 1849
Folketing first election
Danish Folketing election, 1849
Landsting last election
Danish Landsting election, 1953
Folketing last election
Danish Folketing election, 1953
Meeting place

Copenhagen, Denmark

Rigsdagen (Danish pronunciation: [ˈʁisˌdæːˀən]) was the name of the national legislature of Denmark from 1849 to 1953.


Rigsdagen was Denmark's first parliament, and it was incorporated in the Constitution of 1849. It was a bicameral legislature, consisting of two houses, the Folketing and the Landsting. The distinction between the two houses was not always clear, as they had equal power. In 1953, a new constitution was approved by referendum and adopted, with the result that Rigsdagen and the Landsting were eliminated in favor of a unicameral legislature under the name of the Folketing. Rigsdagen, like today's Folketing, was located in Christiansborg Palace in the centre of Copenhagen.


Membership in Rigsdagen was limited to certain sectors of society – women were not allowed to join, and neither were about a quarter of all men over 30, mostly due to their condition as servants or welfare recipients.


The name is a cognate of the names of several legislatures in other Germanic countries, such as the Reichstag in Germany, the Riksdag in Sweden, or the Riksdag in Finland. (For a discussion of the traditional Germanic councils that gave root to bodies such as these, see the article on Ting-style councils.)



See also



  • Folketing

  • Ting

  • Danish politics

  • Government of Denmark




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