See also Left Socialist Party

Left Socialist Party

Vänstersocialistiska Partiet was a political party in Sweden that existed between 1940 and 1963.Albin Ström was a leftwing Social Democrat from Göteborg that broke out of the Social Democratic Party in 1934. With him followed thousands of other Social Democrats from the West Coast-region...

 (Sweden), Left Socialist Party (Belgium)

Left Socialist Party (Belgium)

The Left Socialist Party is a political party in Belgium without parliamentary representation. It is the Belgian section of the Committee for a Workers' International, a Trotskyist International.It was formed in 1992 as 'Militant Links' and fights for the right of the workers and the people in...

 and Left Socialist-Revolutionaries

Left Socialist-Revolutionaries

In 1917, Russia the Socialist-Revolutionary Party split between those who supported the Provisional Government, established after the February Revolution, and those who supported the Bolsheviks who favoured a communist insurrection....

 (Russia).

Left Socialists , a political party

Political party

A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...

 in Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

. VS works on what it calls a 'undogmatic revolutionary and Marxist basis'.

It was formed in 1967 as a split from the Socialist People's Party

Socialist People's Party (Denmark)

The Socialist People's Party is a green and socialist political party in Denmark.-1959–69:The SF was founded on 15 February 1959 by Aksel Larsen, a former leader of the Communist Party of Denmark and CIA agent. Larsen was removed from the ranks of the DKP for his criticism over the Soviet...

 (SF). VS was represented by the letter "Y" on the electoral ballots. VS members of parliament were respected and are well remembered for their principled positions and their striking personalities. The VS is most remembered for its part in the anti-nuclear movement that led to the Danish government banning nuclear energy and for its ambitious energy proposals. From 1984 to 1992 VS had a youth wing, Venstresocialisternes Ungdom.

In 1989 the Left Socialists founded the Red-Green Alliance

Red-Green Alliance (Denmark)

The Red-Green Alliance is a socialist political party in Denmark.- History :The party was formed in 1989 as an electoral alliance by three left-wing parties, Left Socialists , Communist Party of Denmark and Socialist Workers Party...

 with the Communist Party of Denmark

Communist Party of Denmark

Communist Party of Denmark is a communist political party in Denmark which was founded as Venstresocialistiske Parti in 1919. VSP was a split from the Danish Social Democratic Party. The party assumed its present name in 1920...

 and Socialist Workers Party

Socialist Workers Party (Denmark)

Socialist Workers Party , a Trotskyist political party in Denmark. SAP is the Danish section of the Fourth International, and was founded in 1980 as a continuation of Revolutionære Socialisters Forbund - Revolutionary Socialists' League....

 to contest in elections. At its last congress in 1998 the Left Socialists transformed itself from a party to an association. Since then, VS concentrates most of its work towards building of the Red-Green Alliance. It still publishes Solidaritet (Solidarity) and maintains a website, but except for that it has little activity of its own.

Election results

Election	Seats	Percent
1968 Danish parliamentary election, 1968 Parliamentary elections were held in Denmark on 23 January 1968. The Social Democratic Party remained the largest in the Folketing, with 62 of the 179 seats. Voter turnout was 89.3% in Denmark proper, 56.6% in the Faroe Islands and 56.3% in Greenland....	4	2.0%
1971 Danish parliamentary election, 1971 Parliamentary elections were held in Denmark on 21 September 1971 and in the Faroe Islands on 5 October. The Social Democratic Party remained the largest in the Folketing, with 70 of the 179 seats...	0	1.6%
1973 Danish parliamentary election, 1973 Parliamentary elections were held in Denmark on 4 December 1973 and in the Faroe Islands on 13 December. It has since been referred to as the Landslide Election , as five new or previously unrepresented parties won seats, and more than half the members of the parliament were replaced...	0	1.5%
1975 Danish parliamentary election, 1975 Parliamentary elections were held in Denmark on 9 January 1975. The result was a victory for the Social Democratic Party, who won 53 of the 179 seats. Voter turnout was 88.2% in Denmark proper, 56.1% in the Faroe Islands and 68.7% in Greenland.-Results:...	4	2.1%
1977 Danish parliamentary election, 1977 Parliamentary elections were held in Denmark on 15 February 1977. The Social Democratic Party remained the largest in the Folketing, with 65 of the 179 seats. Voter turnout was 88.7% in Denmark proper, 62.9% in the Faroe Islands and 70.0% in Greenland....	5	2.7%
1979 Danish parliamentary election, 1979 Parliamentary elections were held in Denmark on 23 October 1979. The Social Democratic Party remained the largest in the Folketing, with 68 of the 179 seats. Voter turnout was 85.6% in Denmark proper, 65.4% in the Faroe Islands and 50.3% in Greenland....	6	3.7%
1981 Danish parliamentary election, 1981 Parliamentary elections were held in Denmark on 8 December 1981. The Social Democratic Party remained the largest in the Folketing, with 59 of the 179 seats. Voter turnout was 83.3% in Denmark proper, 55.4% in the Faroe Islands and 61.0% in Greenland....	5	2.7%
1984 Danish parliamentary election, 1984 Parliamentary elections were held in Denmark on 10 January 1981, after the opposition voted against the government's state budget bill. Although the Social Democratic Party remained the largest in the Folketing with 56 of the 179 seats, the Conservative People's Party achieved its best-ever result,...	5	2.7%
1987 Danish parliamentary election, 1987 Parliamentary elections were held in Denmark on 8 September 1987. Although the Social Democratic Party remained the largest in the Folketing with 54 of the 179 seats, the Conservative People's Party-led coalition government was able to continue. Voter turnout was 86.7% in Denmark proper, 68.9% in...	0	1.4%
1988 Danish parliamentary election, 1988 Parliamentary elections were held in Denmark on 10 May 1988, just seven months after the last elections. Prime Minister Poul Schlüter chose to call for an election after the Conservative People's Party-led government fell short of a majority in a foreign policy issue after they failed to come to an...	0	0.6%