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1979 European Parliament election in Denmark

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 25, 2024
Entity authorityQ3722230 ↗
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European Parliament elections were held in Denmark between 7 and 10 June 1979 to elect the 15 Danish members of the European Parliament. Elections were held separately in Greenland to elect one Greenlandic member.

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“1979 European Parliament election in Denmark” enters the record as open-knowledge reference entry. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what European, Parliament and election can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around European, Parliament and election.
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“1979 European Parliament election in Denmark” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, European, Parliament and election provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 25, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q3722230. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1979.

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This entry incorporates text from “1979 European Parliament election in Denmark” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.