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What are 'tillægsmandater' in the Danish electoral system?
Answer: levelling seats allocated to ensure national proportionality in the Folketing — Of the 179 seats, 40 are tillægsmandater — supplementary seats distributed to correct disproportionalities in the constituency results.
- A mandatory voting fines
- B parliamentary committee seats
- C reserve seats for Greenland and the Faroe Islands
- D levelling seats allocated to ensure national proportionality in the Folketing ✓
Of the 179 seats, 40 are tillægsmandater — supplementary seats distributed to correct disproportionalities in the constituency results.