Referendum or popular consultation

Greenland self-government referendum, 2008

Voters backed the introduction of self-government by 75.5% of votes cast.

The vote

Jurisdiction
Greenland
Legal character
ConsultativeDescribed by the Danish Prime Minister’s Office as a guiding referendum and by Nuttall as non-binding on both parliaments.[1][2] The question wording has not yet been retrieved from an official source.
Geographical scope
Greenland
Reported results[1]. Percentages: not calculated — no compatible denominator was reported.
OptionVotesOfficial %Calculated %
For the introduction of self-government Not reported 75.5% Not reported
Against Not reported 23.6% Not reported
Valid votes
Not reported
Invalid votes
Not reported
Blank votes
Not reported
Total ballots cast
Not reported
Registered electorate
Not reported
Turnout
Not reported

The percentages are shares of votes cast as reported by the Danish Prime Minister’s Office; vote counts, electorate and turnout have not been retrieved from an official source and are left blank.

What happened

The Danish government describes the vote as a guiding referendum in which 75.5% of votes cast were for self-government and 23.6% against.[1] It was not binding on either parliament and was not a vote on independence itself.[2]

Sources for this page

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  1. 1.

    Claim: In a guiding referendum on 25 November 2008, 75.5% of votes cast were for introducing self-government and 23.6% against.

    • Statsministeriet (Prime Minister’s Office, Denmark), Greenland (Statsministeriet) link, paragraph on the 2008 referendum. Government perspective or primary official source Source record
  2. 2.

    Claim: Nuttall notes that the 2008 referendum was not binding on the Greenlandic or Danish parliaments. Attributed to Mark Nuttall (2008)

    • Nuttall, Mark, Self-Rule in Greenland: Towards the World’s First Independent Inuit State?, Indigenous Affairs (International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, 2008) link, p. 65. Source record

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