South Schleswig Voters' Association

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South Schleswig Voters' Association German: Südschleswigscher Wählerverband Danish: Sydslesvigsk Vælgerforening North Frisian: Söödschlaswiksche Wäälerferbånd
Abbreviation	SSW
Chairman	Christian Dirschauer
Vice Chairmen	Sybilla Lena Nitsch, Svend Wippich
National Secretary	Martin Lorenzen
Founded	30 June 1948 (1948-06-30)
Split from	South Schleswig Association
Headquarters	Norderstraße 76 24939 Flensburg
Newspaper	Stimme des Nordens
Youth wing	Youth in the SSW
Membership (2020)	3,216[1]
Ideology	Regionalism Danish minority interests Frisian minority interests
European affiliation	European Free Alliance
Colours	Blue   Yellow
Bundestag (Schleswig-Holstein seats)	1 / 35
Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein	4 / 69
Kiel City Council	4 / 49
Flensburg City Council	11 / 43
Party flag
Website
www.ssw.de/en/
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The South Schleswig Voters' Association^{[nb 1]} (German: Südschleswigscher Wählerverband, SSW; Danish: Sydslesvigsk Vælgerforening, SSV) is a regionalist political party in Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany. The party represents the Danish and Frisian minorities of the state.^[2][3]

As a party representing a national minority, the SSW declines to identify itself with a scale of left–right politics but models its policies on the Nordic model, which often means favouring a strong welfare state, while favouring a more free-market labour policy than the German social market economy model.^[4] In 2011 it was defined as socially liberal by author José Magone.^[4] The SSW is represented in the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein and several regional and municipal councils. The party contested federal elections in Germany until 1961, before returning in 2021,^[5] where it obtained one seat.

As a party for the national Danish minority in Southern Schleswig, the SSW is not subject to the general requirement of passing a 5% vote threshold to gain proportional seats in either the state parliament (Landtag) or the federal German parliament (Bundestag).^[2] In the most recent 2022 state election, the SSW received 5.7% of the votes and four seats. In the 2021 federal elections, the SSW stood in a federal election for the first time since 1961; the official final result gave them one seat, making Stefan Seidler a Member of Parliament, their first such member since the 1953 federal elections.^[6]

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