Scandinavian Political Studies, Bind 2 (New Series) (1979) 2Errata:In the article by Palle Svensson in SPS
2:1 (1979), one sentence was A few years later, the Socialist Peoples Party, in 1964, proposed lowering the voting age to 18 years. This initiative had no immediate result. The age suffrage qualification was discussed again in 1968-69. With a view to preserve Scandinavian uniformity, the bourgeois coalition government proposed the voting age should be lowered to 20 years. Meanwhile, when the Social Democrats agreed to lower the voting age to 18 years a majority emerged in the Folketing for this change in the voting age. In the following referendum, however, a large majority rejected the bill: the turnout was 63.6 per cent and 49.8 per cent of the eligible voters voted for rejection. |