Inuit Ataqatigiit
| Community of the People Inuit Ataqatigiit |
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| Party logo | |
| Leader | Sara Olsvig[1] |
| Founded | 1976 |
| Headquarters | Nuuk, Sermersooq, Greenland |
| Youth wing | Inuit Ataqatigiit Inuusuttaat |
| Ideology | Greenlandic independence[2][3] Left-wing nationalism Democratic socialism[3][4] |
| Political position | Left-wing[5] |
| Nordic affiliation | Nordic Green Left Alliance |
| Colours | Red and white |
| Landsting |
11 / 31
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| Folketing (Greenland seats) |
1 / 2
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| Website | |
| http://www.ia.gl/ | |
| Politics of Greenland Political parties Elections |
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Inuit Ataqatigiit (Greenlandic for "Community of the People") is a left-wing separatist political party in Greenland.[6][7] The party, founded in 1976, was born out of the increased youth radicalism in Denmark during the 1970s. It strives to make Greenland an independent state.[8]
Inuit Ataqatigiit is represented in the Folketing (the Danish parliament) by Aaja Chemnitz Larsen. Sara Olsvig, its current president, replaced Kuupik Kleist as president in 2014. In the Danish 2007 and 2011 parliamentary elections, it retained one of Greenland's two seats in the 179-seat Folketing.
Inuit Ataqatigiit made a major electoral breakthrough in the 2009 Greenlandic parliamentary election. Making gains from the 2005 Greenlandic parliamentary election, it doubled its total number of seats in the Parliament from 7 to 14 seats out of 31 – just two seats short of a majority – and nearly doubled its total vote share from 22.4% to 43.7%. It supplanted both its coalition partners, shifting the Forward party from first to second and the Democrats party from second to third.[6][8] At the 2014 elections the party had 11 members in the Greenlandic parliament.[9]
Formerly a left-wing socialist party, it has developed towards supporting privatisation and market economy. It believes that an independent Greenland should be competitive.[10]
Contents
Election results
Parliament of Greenland (Inatsiartut)
| Election year | # of overall votes |
% of overall vote |
# of overall seats won |
± |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 813 | 4.4 (#4) |
0 / 21
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New |
| 1983 | 2,612 | 10.6 (#3) |
2 / 26
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 2 |
| 1984 | 2,732 | 12.1 (#3) |
3 / 25
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1 |
| 1987 | 3,823 | 15.3 (#3) |
3 / 26
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 0 |
| 1991 | 4,848 | 19.4 (#3) |
5 / 27
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2 |
| 1995 | 5,180 | 20.3 (#3) |
6 / 31
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1 |
| 1999 | 6,214 | 22.1 (#3) |
7 / 31
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1 |
| 2002 | 7,244 | 25.3 (#2) |
8 / 31
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1 |
| 2005 | 6,517 | 22.6 (#3) |
7 / 31
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 1 |
| 2009 | 12,457 | 43.7 (#1) |
14 / 31
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7 |
| 2013 | 10,374 | 34.4 (#2) |
11 / 31
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3 |
| 2014 | 9,783 | 33.2 (#2) |
11 / 31
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0 |
Parliament of Denmark (Folketinget)*
| Election year | # of overall votes |
% of overall vote |
% of Greenlandic vote |
# of overall seats won |
# of Greenlandic seats won |
± |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 2,972 | 13.9 (#3) |
0 / 179
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0 / 2
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New | |
| 1987 | 2,001 | 12.5 (#3) |
0 / 179
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0 / 2
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0 |
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| 1988 | 3,628 | 17.3 (#3) |
0 / 179
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0 / 2
|
0 |
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| 1990 | 3,281 | 17.0 (#3) |
0 / 179
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0 / 2
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0 |
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| 1998 | 4,988 | 21.4 (#3) |
0 / 179
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0 / 2
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0 |
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| 2001 | 7,172 | 30.8 (#1) |
1 / 179
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1 / 2
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1 |
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| 2005 | 5,774 | 25.5 (#2) |
1 / 179
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1 / 2
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0 |
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| 2007 | 8,068 | 32.5 (#1) (Tied with the Siumut party) |
1 / 179
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1 / 2
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0 |
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| 2011 | 9,780 | 42.7 (#1) |
1 / 179
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1 / 2
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0 |
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| 2015 | 7,904 | 38.5 (#1) |
1 / 179
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1 / 2
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0 |
- In the Danish general election, 1994, an independent won a seat in the Danish Parliament, but the Inuit Ataqatigiit party didn't seem to contest that particular election.
References
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